Israel has committed nearly every act outlined in Article II of the Genocide Convention, while employing rhetoric strongly implying genocidal intent. For example, Netanyahu’s 10/28 address in which he makes notable reference to God’s injunction to the Hebrews to utterly destroy the Amalekites down to the last woman, child and infant, a sentiment echoed in the words of his ministers like Amichai Eliyahu’s suggestion to wipe Gaza off the map with an atom bomb, and numerous references to the Palestinians in Gaza as “human animals.”
Relevant to the genocide argument is that prior to the current assault, Gaza, had become "hell on earth, as a result of a prolonged siege (since 2007) and three devastating Israeli wars”, rooting the current atrocities in Gaza in a broader context of oppression and racism that has long gone beyond the justification of self defense. Now with over 90,000 victims dead, missing, and wounded and two million displaced, there is no mistaking the massacre as random collateral damage. “One cannot destroy over 350,000 homes with ineffectual warning, assault and invade hospitals and schools crammed with refugees, and not intend to maximize civilian casualties. If the wanton murder of tens of thousands of innocent women and children in Gaza (the latter representing the largest casualty group to date) doesn’t rise to the level of genocide, one begins to wonder what Israel could ever do to qualify as genocidal. Indeed, my concern is that by refusing to name the actions in Gaza as genocidal, we implicitly contribute to the idea that Israel is immune to the charge- that somehow the historical trauma of the Holocaust makes Israel forever impervious to charges of genocidal aggression. It also sets a dangerous precedent for the US. If we do not condemn Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal, and see an immediate ceasefire imposed before the last of Gaza falls to starvation and disease, we lose what little moral standing we have in declaring any other conflict in the world to be genocidal.
I appreciate your care and astute observations Ashley... and I'm sure we're reaching for the same goal here. I have revised the piece to more accurately reflect my thinking. This is not a unemotional topic for me, given the number of years in which I've interacted with all sides. I think you're focused on "something needs to be done now" -- with which I completely agree (see past posts) , and in that frame of mind seeing in my argument something that's standing in the way or excusing the lack of action, which is really, the opposite of what I'm arguing.
I stand by my assertion that emotion in this situation, as much as we all have it, is not what's going to create a solution. The Israelis and the Palestinians aren't going to solve this problem by themselves -- the United States and the other parties to the conflict -- and signatories to past and future peace accords, need to do step in decisively, before this does turn into a genocide. Inserting the word "genocide" here NOW -- unfortunately, and it may soon be applicable -- is not going to help. And it may hurt, as Biden -- as others have pointed out -- has a narrow window in which to speak to the Israeli people (see previous posts), about the bleakness of their future looks like if they blindly follow their government, and don't trust the international community and the United States specifically, to do what's best for them. The more you throw "genocide" in the face of the Israeli people -- who are still inhabiting the world of 10/7 -- the less likely they will be to cooperate. The word encourages the opposite confidence in the Palestinians.
Wow someone has completely bought into Palestinian propaganda.
So the Arabs were always so lovely to the Jews until we came to Israel, is that it? Forget some article about the conflict, you good sir should read the Koran. Did you know that Mohammed slaughtered and displaced 3 Jewish tribes because they refused to convert? Look up the Khai Bar. By the way, the Palestinians sing about that slaughter whenever they succeed in killing Jewish civilians in terror attacks. No wonder Hitler was called the new Mohammed during his time (Jung - not a Jew - mentions it in his book about the collective unconscious). No wonder that after the state of Israel was formed the number of Jews remaining in Arab countries was laughable. They left everything behind and fled the treatment they received. Anyone who loves Mohammed hates Jews - this was part of his teaching.
Oh, and those displaced Palestinians? You forgot to mention how the UN offered them their own state in 47 but, surprise surprise, they preferred to fight us for the whole thing. They are a pawn of the Arab countries that surround us and I pity them, but not as much as I want my children to grow up without the fear of getting on a bus because it might explode.
You’ve never lived with Arabs, and it shows. You are a spectator, thinking because you read articles you know. But you don’t know what it feels like to live in fear of extreme Islam. Of baby-killing. I was for peace but I draw the line at killing babies. If they wanted peace, they wouldn’t do that.
If you want to read more about the war from an Israeli perspective, visit my substack https://adidvir.substack.com/ Or you can continue to vilify Israel without ever hearing our side. That too is an option.
Thank you so much for this piece. I live in Israel, and it kills me that everyone is blaming us and not Hamas. They targeted women children and babies. The atrocities they committed were worse than any pogrom the Jews suffered in Europe. 1200 people died, the vast majority civilians and many, many people of every age were kidnapped. A ten month old baby taken with his four year old brother, as a mother I can’t even think about this family without crying.
All this, by the way, during a ceasefire (not that they’ve ever EVER honored any ceasefire). Their statement says they want all Jews dead. They do not want a Palestinian state. They want all of Israel. Look it up.
But sad as all this is, the world’s response has made me even sadder. I am heartbroken no one seems to understand our side. What is happening in Gaza is horrible beyond belief, but the blame rests solely with Hamas. I am shocked that nobody understands this.
Every morning we wake up to more dead soldiers. Israel has a mandatory draft because from the very first moment this country was GIVEN to us by the international community ( yes given, because when Jews don’t have a country there is no one to protect us from dying by the millions) the Arabs have been attacking us from all sides. They have never recognized our right to be here. Only when we took their land in war did we have something to barter with (Sinai for peace with Egypt, for example).
But people don’t bother to acquaint themselves with these historical facts. They see crying children and Israeli warplanes and look for the easy answer. Sure, Jews are colonizers. Right. Genocide. Not funny. Comparing us to Nazis. Sure, because Jews beheaded German babies or kidnapped them. Right.
This is the world siding with extreme Islam, rather than people who really do want peace. Ask Hamas if they want peace. Ask the Palestinians, who voted them into power (they could have chosen the more secular PLO, though that wouldn’t have helped the Jews much, they want us dead too) but they chose the most extreme version of Islam available, and now, with the help of people calling the war genocide because it’s just so easy to understand that way, extreme Islam is succeeding. One day the wokes will wake up to a world in which women have no rights and queers are tossed off rooftops, and it will be all their fault. After Hamas is done with us, they’re moving onto all of you.
Thanks for your mail Adi - I will read your substack. This is my personal opinion: 1.) 10/7 was horrific, and indeed, one would hope it would be clearer to more people that Hamas almost certainly made it so horrific down to the last gruesome detail -- in order to bait Israel into killing Palestinian civilians (which with a Netanyahu government was almost a sure thing), so it (Israel) would become a pariah in the world's eyes as it pursued an elusive fix. But It's been demonstrated over and over again that killing in these circumstances aggravates extremism, it doesn't get rid of it. American (still hasn't) learned this the hard way. and 2.) if Israel wanted to turn the tide on Hamas, it should have, among other things, kept its eye on accelerating the peace agreement with Saudi and the rest of the Arab states, who (at least privately) have their own issues with Iran and the Palestinian leadership, rather than seeking an elusive fix at the cost of 30k and counting lives, most of which are innocents, victims of both Hamas and Israel. One simply cannot blame babies and pregnant mothers for Hamas, even if Palestinian public narrowly elected Hamas in 2006. None of which can end well for Israel. But Netanyahu is not one for subtleties, and like Hamas, doesn't put Israel's best interest, or those of the hostages, first. And I, for one, do think that that latter is a moral obligation of the his government, as it too enabled Hamas. And at the end of the day, the winner from all of this chaos and death is unequivocally Iran and its proxies (which include Hamas). Israel now has to face that worsening situation, along with many angry Arab states, whose leaders were otherwise were pro-normalization. This is why people in great pain, should be open to help from those who can see more clearly.
There's so much in here to unpack, but it boils down to a lot of Hasbara talking points which obfuscate the facts. In the end, it's another "Israel is the victim" post which makes it seem the history of this conflict started on October 7th.
The fact is that the pogroms and the Holocaust were caused by Europeans. They are the ones who historically persecuted the Jews in the last few hundred years. They are the ones who created the concept of blood libel and stoked antisemitism. So how is it that a Jewish state was not created in Germany post WWII? Why did the Arabs get to be displaced when they did nothing to the Jews? Muslims, Christians, and Jews cohabitated in Palestine without issue before the surge of Jewish immigration. But with Zionism, Jews murdered thousands of Palestinians and displaced 750,000 after 1948. That started the process.
And over the years, Israelis have illegally settled more Palestinian land, stolen more homes, destroyed the Palestinian economy, and destroyed any autonomy for an entire people. Thousands of Palestinian women and children are currently in Israeli administrative detention with no timeline for release. Did you know that? It's not that it's right, but you shouldn't be surprised that there's a violent reaction to the illegal occupation and oppression of a captive population who are unable to move or emigrate without Israeli permission. Israelis wouldn't stand for a life like that and would fight it tooth and nail.
But now, let's talk about Hamas. Hamas was supported by the Likud party in order to prevent a two-state solution from eventuating. Remember that an Israeli settler murdered your own Prime Minister because he attempted to make peace and provide Palestinians their own state. Netanyahu wanted to undermine any chance of that happening and supported any disruption to the secular PLO government. Hamas was that tool.
Hamas was allowed to exist because it delegitimized the possibility of an autonomous Palestine. It provided ample excuses to embargo, occupy and regulate Gaza into the concentration camp that it became. Yet, Israel allowed funding from Qatar to reach them and support that government. Most Palestinians themselves didn't want Hamas to represent them any more, but they were beholden to them by force and fear.
And then, October 7th happened. This was after multiple intelligence failures on the part of the IDF and the Israeli government. Despite multiple internal reports from Israel spotter soldiers at the Gaza border and warnings from Egyptian intelligence. Yes, it was horrific for the civilian casualties, but it served the purpose to mobilize Israel into a justified wholesale slaughter of a basically unarmed captive population, which was 50% children, children who had nothing to do with the election of Hamas that happened 18 years prior.
Those people you talk about who were killed and taken hostage, all those feelings you have, imagine that on a scale of thousands. Doctors, teachers, lawyers, students, journalists, large families with granparents and children - each with a story, people who loved them, cherished them, cared for them all slaughtered by US bombs and drones provided to your government. As of January that was 65000 tonnes of bombs dropped on Gaza including 2000 pound bombs which destroyed entire buildings.
Your people call Palestinians non-humans and animals and make up stories about how they beheaded babies (fake news), how they rape and kill Israelis, but there's nothing about the babies killed by the IDF (in incubators no less), the repeated reports of the rapes of Palestinian girls, and the pictures and videos of IDF soldiers taking and wearing women's underwear and rejoicing at the destruction and murder of people who are more Semitic than many of the people who have settled in your country.
Even if Palestinians wanted all Israelis dead, they don't have the means to carry out a genocide. However, Israel has the fourth largest and highly sophisticated military in the world with US military hardware and ordinance. Even though they may not technically be carrying out the specific definition of genocide, they are using their means to inflict maximum damage, death, destruction and trauma on a population without any defenses. These are war crimes and crimes against humanity. A massacre. An extermination campaign. Punishable offences by international law.
You said, "This is the world siding with extreme Islam." That shows the ignorance that you are trying to perpetuate. Palestinians are not all Muslim. But that's part of the narrative, that the world is aligning themselves with terrorists. But actually, by calling for a cease fire, the world is trying to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe of mass starvation and death by disease. It has nothing to do with Hamas.
You should want a cease fire as well, because if Israel succeeds in allowing such an event, then I can guarantee you a genuine charge of genocide will be levied, which will make all Israelis "genocide supporters." And your country will never be the same after that.
You have been deceived and programmed and weaponized by your own country to parrot your talking points in order to be "reasonable" as the Hasbara doctrine encourages you to be. But you are supporting a government who is destroying what it means to be Jewish and threatening the safety and security of Jews worldwide. Israel doesn't want peace, it wasn't security through force. That means no peace for everyone else. Maintaining an apartheid state can only be done through force, not through real peace.
And you say that Hamas will be the reason why "wokes" will wake up to a world where women have no rights and queers are being thrown from the rooftops (a childish simplification), but we don't need Hamas for that. The Christian nationalists are already doing that for us at home - LOL
You think Hamas is a threat to the world, but it's your government that's the real threat becase it actually has the means to inflict maximum damage with your nuclear and conventional arsenal, active lobbies suppressing free speech in western democracies, and eroding national sovreignty by using the legal system to punish any BDS efforts by regular citizens. Your fear mongering and ignorance is a symptom which you should be genuinesly concerned about.
Maybe you should study the facts. You may learn a thing or two in the process and understand why people are sympathetic to Palestinians.
I can appreciate the point you are making, even if I think the term tragically applies.
My retort would be Mark Levene’s article “Gaza 2023: Words Matter, Lives Matter More” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2301866
Israel has committed nearly every act outlined in Article II of the Genocide Convention, while employing rhetoric strongly implying genocidal intent. For example, Netanyahu’s 10/28 address in which he makes notable reference to God’s injunction to the Hebrews to utterly destroy the Amalekites down to the last woman, child and infant, a sentiment echoed in the words of his ministers like Amichai Eliyahu’s suggestion to wipe Gaza off the map with an atom bomb, and numerous references to the Palestinians in Gaza as “human animals.”
Relevant to the genocide argument is that prior to the current assault, Gaza, had become "hell on earth, as a result of a prolonged siege (since 2007) and three devastating Israeli wars”, rooting the current atrocities in Gaza in a broader context of oppression and racism that has long gone beyond the justification of self defense. Now with over 90,000 victims dead, missing, and wounded and two million displaced, there is no mistaking the massacre as random collateral damage. “One cannot destroy over 350,000 homes with ineffectual warning, assault and invade hospitals and schools crammed with refugees, and not intend to maximize civilian casualties. If the wanton murder of tens of thousands of innocent women and children in Gaza (the latter representing the largest casualty group to date) doesn’t rise to the level of genocide, one begins to wonder what Israel could ever do to qualify as genocidal. Indeed, my concern is that by refusing to name the actions in Gaza as genocidal, we implicitly contribute to the idea that Israel is immune to the charge- that somehow the historical trauma of the Holocaust makes Israel forever impervious to charges of genocidal aggression. It also sets a dangerous precedent for the US. If we do not condemn Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal, and see an immediate ceasefire imposed before the last of Gaza falls to starvation and disease, we lose what little moral standing we have in declaring any other conflict in the world to be genocidal.
I appreciate your care and astute observations Ashley... and I'm sure we're reaching for the same goal here. I have revised the piece to more accurately reflect my thinking. This is not a unemotional topic for me, given the number of years in which I've interacted with all sides. I think you're focused on "something needs to be done now" -- with which I completely agree (see past posts) , and in that frame of mind seeing in my argument something that's standing in the way or excusing the lack of action, which is really, the opposite of what I'm arguing.
I stand by my assertion that emotion in this situation, as much as we all have it, is not what's going to create a solution. The Israelis and the Palestinians aren't going to solve this problem by themselves -- the United States and the other parties to the conflict -- and signatories to past and future peace accords, need to do step in decisively, before this does turn into a genocide. Inserting the word "genocide" here NOW -- unfortunately, and it may soon be applicable -- is not going to help. And it may hurt, as Biden -- as others have pointed out -- has a narrow window in which to speak to the Israeli people (see previous posts), about the bleakness of their future looks like if they blindly follow their government, and don't trust the international community and the United States specifically, to do what's best for them. The more you throw "genocide" in the face of the Israeli people -- who are still inhabiting the world of 10/7 -- the less likely they will be to cooperate. The word encourages the opposite confidence in the Palestinians.
This! So much this.
Wow someone has completely bought into Palestinian propaganda.
So the Arabs were always so lovely to the Jews until we came to Israel, is that it? Forget some article about the conflict, you good sir should read the Koran. Did you know that Mohammed slaughtered and displaced 3 Jewish tribes because they refused to convert? Look up the Khai Bar. By the way, the Palestinians sing about that slaughter whenever they succeed in killing Jewish civilians in terror attacks. No wonder Hitler was called the new Mohammed during his time (Jung - not a Jew - mentions it in his book about the collective unconscious). No wonder that after the state of Israel was formed the number of Jews remaining in Arab countries was laughable. They left everything behind and fled the treatment they received. Anyone who loves Mohammed hates Jews - this was part of his teaching.
Oh, and those displaced Palestinians? You forgot to mention how the UN offered them their own state in 47 but, surprise surprise, they preferred to fight us for the whole thing. They are a pawn of the Arab countries that surround us and I pity them, but not as much as I want my children to grow up without the fear of getting on a bus because it might explode.
You’ve never lived with Arabs, and it shows. You are a spectator, thinking because you read articles you know. But you don’t know what it feels like to live in fear of extreme Islam. Of baby-killing. I was for peace but I draw the line at killing babies. If they wanted peace, they wouldn’t do that.
If you want to read more about the war from an Israeli perspective, visit my substack https://adidvir.substack.com/ Or you can continue to vilify Israel without ever hearing our side. That too is an option.
I think you should read this: https://www.curbed.com/article/gaza-israel-urban-fabric-destruction-domicide-urbicide.html
Thank you so much for this piece. I live in Israel, and it kills me that everyone is blaming us and not Hamas. They targeted women children and babies. The atrocities they committed were worse than any pogrom the Jews suffered in Europe. 1200 people died, the vast majority civilians and many, many people of every age were kidnapped. A ten month old baby taken with his four year old brother, as a mother I can’t even think about this family without crying.
All this, by the way, during a ceasefire (not that they’ve ever EVER honored any ceasefire). Their statement says they want all Jews dead. They do not want a Palestinian state. They want all of Israel. Look it up.
But sad as all this is, the world’s response has made me even sadder. I am heartbroken no one seems to understand our side. What is happening in Gaza is horrible beyond belief, but the blame rests solely with Hamas. I am shocked that nobody understands this.
Every morning we wake up to more dead soldiers. Israel has a mandatory draft because from the very first moment this country was GIVEN to us by the international community ( yes given, because when Jews don’t have a country there is no one to protect us from dying by the millions) the Arabs have been attacking us from all sides. They have never recognized our right to be here. Only when we took their land in war did we have something to barter with (Sinai for peace with Egypt, for example).
But people don’t bother to acquaint themselves with these historical facts. They see crying children and Israeli warplanes and look for the easy answer. Sure, Jews are colonizers. Right. Genocide. Not funny. Comparing us to Nazis. Sure, because Jews beheaded German babies or kidnapped them. Right.
This is the world siding with extreme Islam, rather than people who really do want peace. Ask Hamas if they want peace. Ask the Palestinians, who voted them into power (they could have chosen the more secular PLO, though that wouldn’t have helped the Jews much, they want us dead too) but they chose the most extreme version of Islam available, and now, with the help of people calling the war genocide because it’s just so easy to understand that way, extreme Islam is succeeding. One day the wokes will wake up to a world in which women have no rights and queers are tossed off rooftops, and it will be all their fault. After Hamas is done with us, they’re moving onto all of you.
Thanks for your mail Adi - I will read your substack. This is my personal opinion: 1.) 10/7 was horrific, and indeed, one would hope it would be clearer to more people that Hamas almost certainly made it so horrific down to the last gruesome detail -- in order to bait Israel into killing Palestinian civilians (which with a Netanyahu government was almost a sure thing), so it (Israel) would become a pariah in the world's eyes as it pursued an elusive fix. But It's been demonstrated over and over again that killing in these circumstances aggravates extremism, it doesn't get rid of it. American (still hasn't) learned this the hard way. and 2.) if Israel wanted to turn the tide on Hamas, it should have, among other things, kept its eye on accelerating the peace agreement with Saudi and the rest of the Arab states, who (at least privately) have their own issues with Iran and the Palestinian leadership, rather than seeking an elusive fix at the cost of 30k and counting lives, most of which are innocents, victims of both Hamas and Israel. One simply cannot blame babies and pregnant mothers for Hamas, even if Palestinian public narrowly elected Hamas in 2006. None of which can end well for Israel. But Netanyahu is not one for subtleties, and like Hamas, doesn't put Israel's best interest, or those of the hostages, first. And I, for one, do think that that latter is a moral obligation of the his government, as it too enabled Hamas. And at the end of the day, the winner from all of this chaos and death is unequivocally Iran and its proxies (which include Hamas). Israel now has to face that worsening situation, along with many angry Arab states, whose leaders were otherwise were pro-normalization. This is why people in great pain, should be open to help from those who can see more clearly.
There's so much in here to unpack, but it boils down to a lot of Hasbara talking points which obfuscate the facts. In the end, it's another "Israel is the victim" post which makes it seem the history of this conflict started on October 7th.
The fact is that the pogroms and the Holocaust were caused by Europeans. They are the ones who historically persecuted the Jews in the last few hundred years. They are the ones who created the concept of blood libel and stoked antisemitism. So how is it that a Jewish state was not created in Germany post WWII? Why did the Arabs get to be displaced when they did nothing to the Jews? Muslims, Christians, and Jews cohabitated in Palestine without issue before the surge of Jewish immigration. But with Zionism, Jews murdered thousands of Palestinians and displaced 750,000 after 1948. That started the process.
And over the years, Israelis have illegally settled more Palestinian land, stolen more homes, destroyed the Palestinian economy, and destroyed any autonomy for an entire people. Thousands of Palestinian women and children are currently in Israeli administrative detention with no timeline for release. Did you know that? It's not that it's right, but you shouldn't be surprised that there's a violent reaction to the illegal occupation and oppression of a captive population who are unable to move or emigrate without Israeli permission. Israelis wouldn't stand for a life like that and would fight it tooth and nail.
But now, let's talk about Hamas. Hamas was supported by the Likud party in order to prevent a two-state solution from eventuating. Remember that an Israeli settler murdered your own Prime Minister because he attempted to make peace and provide Palestinians their own state. Netanyahu wanted to undermine any chance of that happening and supported any disruption to the secular PLO government. Hamas was that tool.
Hamas was allowed to exist because it delegitimized the possibility of an autonomous Palestine. It provided ample excuses to embargo, occupy and regulate Gaza into the concentration camp that it became. Yet, Israel allowed funding from Qatar to reach them and support that government. Most Palestinians themselves didn't want Hamas to represent them any more, but they were beholden to them by force and fear.
And then, October 7th happened. This was after multiple intelligence failures on the part of the IDF and the Israeli government. Despite multiple internal reports from Israel spotter soldiers at the Gaza border and warnings from Egyptian intelligence. Yes, it was horrific for the civilian casualties, but it served the purpose to mobilize Israel into a justified wholesale slaughter of a basically unarmed captive population, which was 50% children, children who had nothing to do with the election of Hamas that happened 18 years prior.
Those people you talk about who were killed and taken hostage, all those feelings you have, imagine that on a scale of thousands. Doctors, teachers, lawyers, students, journalists, large families with granparents and children - each with a story, people who loved them, cherished them, cared for them all slaughtered by US bombs and drones provided to your government. As of January that was 65000 tonnes of bombs dropped on Gaza including 2000 pound bombs which destroyed entire buildings.
Your people call Palestinians non-humans and animals and make up stories about how they beheaded babies (fake news), how they rape and kill Israelis, but there's nothing about the babies killed by the IDF (in incubators no less), the repeated reports of the rapes of Palestinian girls, and the pictures and videos of IDF soldiers taking and wearing women's underwear and rejoicing at the destruction and murder of people who are more Semitic than many of the people who have settled in your country.
Even if Palestinians wanted all Israelis dead, they don't have the means to carry out a genocide. However, Israel has the fourth largest and highly sophisticated military in the world with US military hardware and ordinance. Even though they may not technically be carrying out the specific definition of genocide, they are using their means to inflict maximum damage, death, destruction and trauma on a population without any defenses. These are war crimes and crimes against humanity. A massacre. An extermination campaign. Punishable offences by international law.
You said, "This is the world siding with extreme Islam." That shows the ignorance that you are trying to perpetuate. Palestinians are not all Muslim. But that's part of the narrative, that the world is aligning themselves with terrorists. But actually, by calling for a cease fire, the world is trying to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe of mass starvation and death by disease. It has nothing to do with Hamas.
You should want a cease fire as well, because if Israel succeeds in allowing such an event, then I can guarantee you a genuine charge of genocide will be levied, which will make all Israelis "genocide supporters." And your country will never be the same after that.
You have been deceived and programmed and weaponized by your own country to parrot your talking points in order to be "reasonable" as the Hasbara doctrine encourages you to be. But you are supporting a government who is destroying what it means to be Jewish and threatening the safety and security of Jews worldwide. Israel doesn't want peace, it wasn't security through force. That means no peace for everyone else. Maintaining an apartheid state can only be done through force, not through real peace.
And you say that Hamas will be the reason why "wokes" will wake up to a world where women have no rights and queers are being thrown from the rooftops (a childish simplification), but we don't need Hamas for that. The Christian nationalists are already doing that for us at home - LOL
You think Hamas is a threat to the world, but it's your government that's the real threat becase it actually has the means to inflict maximum damage with your nuclear and conventional arsenal, active lobbies suppressing free speech in western democracies, and eroding national sovreignty by using the legal system to punish any BDS efforts by regular citizens. Your fear mongering and ignorance is a symptom which you should be genuinesly concerned about.
Maybe you should study the facts. You may learn a thing or two in the process and understand why people are sympathetic to Palestinians.