Australia / Israel and Jewish Affairs Council May 30, 2025
Yes, conditions in Gaza are dire. But Hamas has been clear that allowing civilians to suffer in order to win international sympathy is part of its plan.

The United Nations, instead of confronting this reality, only fuels it with its complicity.

It recently rejected a joint U.S.–Israel initiative to deliver humanitarian aid directly to civilians, claiming it “contravenes humanitarian principles”, although this aid is already being delivered!

Yet its old, preferred methods have only led to
1. Hamas stealing aid for its fighters on a massive scale
2. and selling it at extortionate prices to pay for its military needs.

Meanwhile, U.N. officials make outlandish, unverified claims — like the assertion that 14,000 babies would die within 48 hours if aid wasn’t delivered — a baseless and inflammatory fabrication.

The West has lost its moral compass. October 7 — the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — has already faded from international memory.
The world’s attention has shifted from the atrocity that sparked this war to the discomfort of having to watch Israel fight it.

But Israel doesn’t have the luxury of forgetting
1. Not when its citizens are still in captivity.
2. Not when rockets and missiles still fall.
3. Not when every Israeli family, and Jews around the world, feels the impact of this war personally.

Instead of one-sidedly chastising Israel, the world should be asking:
How and Why does Hamas still have money for weapons but not for food? Missiles but not medicine?

Once again, the world has shown its inability — or unwillingness — to recognise evil. And instead of pressuring the perpetrators it targets the one democracy with no choice but to confront it head-on. Because if Hamas remains in power, the next war is not just possible, it’s inevitable.