“Hamas must release all hostages, lay down its arms, and have no future in the governance of Gaza.”
These statements were made by US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, respectively, following the murder of six Israeli hostages by their Hamas captors. They represent a shift in rhetoric from both leaders in the face of the latest of Hamas’ endless atrocities.
In the immediate aftermath of the October 7 massacre, the US and other Western nations stood by Israel and supported the goal of eliminating the threat posed by Hamas and ensuring that no massacre like the slaughter of 1,200 people on the Jewish holy day of Simchat Torah ever happens again. But over time, this moral clarity faded, and statements like the above gave way to moral equivocation and demands for a ceasefire that would only allow Hamas to prepare for its next attempt to massacre thousands of Jews.
Joe Biden did not kill American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin. He did not kill Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Ori Danino, Almog Sarusi, or Alexander Lobanov. They were not killed by Benjamin Netanyahu either. Any leader who is in office when such atrocities are committed against their citizens bears a certain level of responsibility for not preventing them, but the blood of the murdered is on the hands of their executioners, the butchers of Hamas, their leader Yahya Sinwar, and their master Ali Khamenei. READ MORE
