By Peter Fernandez

On April 3rd, Vermont Independent Congressman Bernie Sanders told the world Israel “needs to stop killing innocent people.” Of course, he follows the official anti-American & Israeli parade so popularly trafficked by his Marxist handlers, the left wing.  If he was just not too cool for church and shul and didn’t despise organized religion, Comrade Bernie, who honeymooned in Moscow, might have said, “Protesters mustn’t rely on the internet’s low information/ high emotion content created by hateful propagandists who blame the Jewish state for a war it didn’t initiate and ignore the many sins of Hamas. 

“Why on Earth would the Middle East’s most modern and efficient army intentionally attack Spanish Chef Joses Andres’ World Central Kitchen food trucks?” Or he could also have said, “Consider that this logistics blunder happened in an active war zone inside the fog of war at night. The Israeli army didn’t claim Hamas media malfeasance this time, which is telling. Still, it’s not like their criminal enemy doesn’t possess a cowardly history of  hiding behind tots on tricycles and bleeting baby carriages, so why not food trucks?”

Last October 17th, the Gaza Health Ministry claimed that an Israel rocket or bomb deliberately struck the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, causing the deaths of 700 people. Without hesitation, the international media ran these unconfirmed reports. Why? Israel is a polarizing, high-interest subject, and peddling lies and alarmism is what America & Israel-hating editors, “journalists,”  and protesters do. 

After days of investigation, the United States Division of National Intelligence and the security/surveillance teams of France, the UK, Canada, and Israel concluded that the deaths were caused by an errant rocket launched by Hamas ally, Palestine Islamic Jihad.  The Western investigators finally placed these accidental deaths at between 100-300, and not 700. Hyperbole is an ancient propaganda gimmick practiced by the Arabs and Arabists since the dawning of Islam in 0610 ACE. 

According to a December 27th NY Times article, fifteen percent of Hamas rockets intended for Israel misfire and land in Gaza. See:Hamas and Other Militants Are Firing Rockets Into Israel Every Day. Yet the world media doesn’t pounce upon Hamas when their rockets kill Palestinians.

Andres said that his World Charity Kitchen food trucks were purposely targeted since his organization had clear communication with the Israeli military and knew of their exact location. Regarding the April 2nd incident in Gaza, he argued that the IDF targeted his trucks “systematically, car by car. This was over 1.5, 1.8 kilometers, with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top, in the roof, a very colorful logo that we are obviously very proud of. It was “very clear who we are and what we do.” 

Although Chef Andres is not a trained expert in military logistics and forensics,  his emotion-charged words have been voraciously devoured by gluttonous haters of Israel. “This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place,” he cited.

According to  Europa News and the Jewish Telegraph Agency, the Israel military has discharged two of its commanding officers responsible for the area’s security. In an April 3rd AP article, IDF Rear Admiral Daniel called it a tragedy. “It’s a serious event that we are responsible for, and it shouldn’t have happened. And we will make sure that it won’t happen again.” 

A military investigation led by a retired Israeli general uncovered two significant areas of wrongdoing. The officers were negligent for failing to alert troops that cars, not aid trucks, were transporting charity workers from warehouse food distribution points. As a result, the automobiles were misidentified as terrorist transports since Hamas members regularly use cars.

However, according to Scott Paul, a spokesperson for Oxfam, the international charity, Israel is guilty of war crimes. “This is tragic, but it is not an anomaly. The killing of aid workers in Gaza has been systematic.” 

It was easy to find on the Microsoft Copilot search engine the number of aid workers allegedly killed by Israel since October 7th. But a search for aid workers killed by Hamas was tellingly inconclusive: “As for the number of aid workers killed by Hamas,” wrote the online source, “the available information does not provide a direct breakdown.”  Hamas controls all information allowed by the Gaza Health Ministry. Hence, whatever is available to Western consumers is sketchy. It appears that Microsoft also plays the same game. 

In Alan Dershowitz’s latest book, The War Against the Jews (How to End Hamas Barbarism), he appraises the world’s game-changing zeitgeist toward Israel since October 7th: “The world (once) understood that when nations attack other nations, the result will always be civilian deaths. Israel takes greater precautions than any other country in the history of the world in trying to minimize civilian deaths among civilians. Yet they are condemned for more than any other nation in history. The double standard, too,  reflects bias and is relevant to judging the comparative morality of nations at war.”

Hamas spokesman Abu Oebida stated that Hamas intends to make Israel “taste new ways of death,” yet “The international community has clearly shown that it is happy to let Hamas have the opportunity,” writes historian Andrew Roberts, co-author with General David Petraeus, of Conflict: A Military History of the Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine. “Having dehumaniized Jews after decades of officially-organized anti-Semitic propaganda to children as young as four,” writes Roberts, “it visited death upon them in more vile, sadistic and depraved ways than can possibly be imagined.”

Hamas’ function and goal is the destruction of both Israel and the Jews. Lengthy ceasefires? Benny Gantz, a former Israel Defense Forces chief of the general staff and deputy prime minister, explains, “You don’t send the fire brigade to put out 80 percent of the fire.”

Bernie Sanders, like so many of his blue-hued fans, is blinded by Hamas’  heavyweight winning propaganda war against the featherweight of political fiction, Israel.

The author is a children’s book author and Vermont resident.