Last Friday I arrived back in the U.S. for two months of speaking engagements, media interviews, and meetings with Evangelical leaders and lay people.
Over the past week I’ve been in Washington, D.C., Indianapolis, and here in Virginia Beach explaining to Christians what’s been happening in Israel, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories since October 7th.
And what’s been happening just in recent days, what it all means, and why it matters.
One of the most urgent questions I’m answering is this: Why are so many world leaders and voices in the so-called “mainstream” media condemning Israel for last Saturday's successful operation to rescue four hostages?
Immediately after the rescue, Hamas’ “health ministry” in Gaza told international reporters that more than 270 innocent Palestinian civilians had been killed, and more than 700 wounded.
Most of the media quickly ran with the story, parroting Hamas' messaging and accusing Israel of “massacring” Palestinians.
While the Israeli Defense Forces agreed that Palestinians had been killed, IDF spokesmen argued that the vast majority of them were Hamas terrorists who had been holding the four Israelis hostage, as well as those who had been guarding the apartment buildings and neighborhoods in the Nuseirat refugee camps where the hostages had been held, and those terrorists who had engaged IDF forces with heavy machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
The IDF also revealed that Palestinian civilians who had been aiding and abetting the Hamas efforts in Nuseirat and resisting the IDF rescue operation were killed.
This included a Palestinian journalist working with Al Jazeera whose apartment was being used to hide and hold three Israeli hostages.
Hamas should never have taken innocent Israeli civilians hostage on October 7th.
Hamas should never have held Israeli civilians captive for eight months.
Hamas should never have held Israeli civilian hostages in private homes, in private neighborhoods, surrounded by Palestinian civilians (including women, children, and babies) that Hamas was purposefully using as human shields.
What's more, when the IDF came to rescue our people, hundreds of Hamas terrorists chose to start a massive firefight in those civilian neighborhoods knowing they were putting everyone at risk.
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