All over major cities in the world, people are putting up posters of the roughly 240 men, women and children who were taken captive from Israel by the Palestinian political-terrorist group Hamas. While people may walk past a posting of a lost dog, Palestinian supporters become enraged at seeing the signs of captive Israelis.

The reason is NOT because the Arab-Israeli conflict is complex. A complicated situation could still have people on each side see the basic humanity of the other, and appreciate that the kidnapping of civilians is an atrocious war crime.

Jihadi anti-Israel activists don’t think that the hostages are innocent because they view all of Israel as an illegal European colonial enterprise. Other anti-Israel activists understand that the basic strategy of Hamas relies on global opinion. Sympathy for Jews undercuts Palestinian defenses.

Israel invests significant intellectual and monetary capital in preventative defenses. It has bomb shelters in public space and homes. It uses its ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense system and built security barriers around Gaza and the West Bank to stop or slow the advance of Palestinian Arab terrorists. It blockaded the terrorist safe haven of Gaza to slow the shipment of weaponry.

Hamas, which rules Gaza, has not invested in any preventative defense system. It uses concrete for tunnels for its soldiers rather than bunkers for civilians. It uses its school system to educate Arabs that Jews are the enemy rather than develop scientific skills.

Hamas’s defenses completely rely on REACTIVE measures, such as world condemnation about Israeli attacks, and relying on Israel’s morality to not strike killers hiding amongst civilians and under hospitals.

Anti-Israel activists do not want people to remember the October 7 barbarity and only to focus on the current situation in Gaza. In doing so, they hope to flip the narrative of cause-and-effect, and make Israel the aggressor.

The presence of kidnapped posters for pro-Israel activists and decent people is a call to bring innocent civilians home. For anti-Israel activists, it prevents the world from defending Gazans and reminds everyone of the heinous barbarity of the Palestinians’ elected representative body.

Related articles:

Cause and Effect: Making Gaza

The World Ignores Peaceful Dying Refugees And Obsesses Over Murdering Synthetic Refugees

The Disproportionate Defenses of Israel and the Palestinian Authority

Pray for a Lack of “Proportionately” in Numbers. There will never be an Equivalence of Intent.

Palestinian Inversion Of Facts Based On Refusal To Coexist

Gazans Have Always Wanted To Kill Jews Inside Of Israel

Fun With Cause-and-Effect: Gaza Border Protests