Thread by @CarolineGlick

1/Good morning. And a very good morning indeed, for the people of Gaza.
These photos were taken this morning at the Tel Sultan Distribution Center in Gaza by American relief workers. What do you see? Do you see fear in the eyes of Gazans receiving aid?
No, you see glee. You see gratitude and relief.

2/That is because these people have nothing to fear. The American relief workers operating the site, and the IDF forces securing the distribution center are there to help them. And they know it. And they are happy and relieved.
There are no Hamas terrorist there pointing rifles at them and forcing them to pay for aid they were supposed to receive for free.

3/As these people were safely receiving the aid this morning, as they did yesterday, Hamas was trying to propagate yet another blood libel accusing our soldiers of shooting at the civilians at the food distribution centers.
And why wouldn’t they?
It worked so well yesterday, after all. Yesterday morning, Hamas disseminated its slanderous claim that Israel killed 31 people at an aid distribution center. And by the time the IDF finished its investigation into the allegations and was able to definitively deny them, the slander had been the top story by nearly every major news outlet in the U.S. and Europe for nearly a day.
Here are a few of the most breathless accounts.

4/So Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Fund safely provide aid free of charge. The Gazans receive it with relief and glee. Hamas propagates a blood libel falsely accusing Israel of murdering aid recipients in cold blood and CNN, BBC, Sky News, NBC and their comrades all breathlessly disseminate the blood libel immediately and without question.
Why? Because they want to.
And in the evening, a Hamas wannabe in Boulder, CO repeats the blood libel he saw on CNN and torches a group of Jews gathered in the park. They were in the park yesterday, as they are every week, to remind their fellow citizens of the plight of Hamas’s most suffering victims – the Israelis Has been holding hostage for more than 600 days.
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5/CNN, which immediately published Hamas’s blood libel, did everything it could to hide the truth about the Boulder story. The headline hid that the victims were Jews targeted for being Jews by a terrorist who supports Hamas.

6/Today is Shavuot. And as an Orthodox Jew, I am supposed to be offline and in synagogue. But I see a direct connection between the slanders that Hamas is propagating and the media is disseminating, and the terrorist attacks in Boulder, in Washington, in Paris and in Israel. And I felt it was necessary to get these photos out, so they truth could have a chance to contend with the lies, even on the holiday.

7/Were I in synagogue, as I had planned to be, I would be listening to the reading of the Book of Ruth. You should read it. It is a book about compassion, and charity. Ruth was a Moabite woman. She married a Jew from Judea named Macholon, who, together with his family, moved from where I live, Efrat, to Moab because there was a famine. Ruth’s husband, brother in law and father in law all died. Rather than return to her parents’ house, she stayed with her mother in law, Naomi, who decided to go back to Judea. Ruth, who loved Naomi, chose to join Naomi’s people, the Jewish people and build an uncertain future in a strange land.
When Ruth and Naomi returned to Judea, no one mocked them. And no one was mean to Ruth, who looked so different from everyone. They treated her with respect and compassion even though she was clearly a daughter of Moab, which was Judea’s traditional enemy.
To ward off starvation, Ruth went to gather wheat from the field of Naomi’s distant relative Boaz. Boaz treated Ruth with compassion first. And later with love, as they married. Their son Oved was the father of Yishai, whose son David became King David, and whose progeny, we believe, will be the messiah.
In other words, Ruth’s act of compassion towards Naomi, and the compassion that the townspeople and Boaz showed Ruth, the stranger, and Naomi, the widow brought forth the Messiah and the promise of ultimate redemption.
Today, the People of the Book, the people who gave the concept of compassion to humanity, and exercise it in Gaza, are being subjected to a worldwide campaign of demonization, dehumanization and delegitimization that is literally endangering Jews around the world.
Those who stand against Israel stand for mercilessness. For murder. For hostage taking. Those who stand with Israel stand for compassion and mercy and humanity. It is as simple as that.
Chag sameach.