By Robert Williams, GATESTONE 8 May 2024
A Hamas weapons cache discovered by Israel Defense Force soldiers in the Gaza Strip, in December 2023. (Image source: IDF)
- The Chinese are imposing a kind of sanction on us. They don’t officially declare it, but they are delaying shipments to Israel…. In electronic products, there are tens of thousands of components, but if even one component doesn’t arrive, we cannot deliver the product.” — Unnamed senior figure in a factory, Ynet, December 24, 2023.
- Also immensely disturbing is that “massive” amounts of advanced Chinese military equipment were found in Gaza by the IDF during its military operations there.
- “[I]f you set up systems with technology for critical infrastructure, like electricity, energy, water, transport, these are tied to one another. One can be used to bring the other down.” — Harel Manshari, Head of Cyber at the Holon Institute of Technology and research fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, JNS, January 8, 2024.
- China recently hosted delegations from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah faction, ostensibly to facilitate “unity” between the two factions, all the while pretending to be a neutral mediator interested in peace in the region.
Is the enemy, already inside Israel’s gates, also inside the US?
The Iranian-orchestrated Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 — which resulted in mass rapes, the murders of 1,200 men, women, children and infants; taking more than 250 hostages and firing thousands of rockets at Israeli towns and cities — has shown that China, which Israel might have thought was an ally, turned out to be, sadly, more of an enemy.
China refused to condemn Hamas and its terrorist invasion of Israel, choosing instead to condemn Israel just a week after the massacre and before Israel had even launched its ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s actions in Gaza have gone “beyond the scope of self-defense” and the Israeli government must “cease its collective punishment of the people of Gaza,” China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on October 15.
In contrast to earlier conflicts between Hamas and Israel, China has now openly embraced Hamas.
On March 17, in Qatar, Chinese diplomat Wang Kejian met Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and said:
The United States is being invaded by the people who hate us — with the promotion and active assistance of our own government. I pray that God destroy the people who are doing this.
China us playing the same old game as always. Come along with big bucks, insert large amounts of observation equipment (not to say spying equipment) and grab all the know how they can.
It is up to Israel to put a check on all this activity and make sure they don’t steal the royal jewels. If that means stopping Chinese activities in Israel, the that’s the way to go. They are obviously not ready to commit themselves because they need moslem oil for their “development country status” ecconomy, and this while committing genocide on their own Moslem population. These wannabe friends are no better than the rest.
I seem to remember already commemting on this here. The Hamas have committed a serious crime and they have to be punished appropriately just like you and me. If the Pali population willingly shields them, they are complicit and deserve whatever they get. If they are being coerced to shield the Hamas they may be able to get away. Obviously, since they survived thr first order to move out of the line of fire, they may believe that they were lucky but luck should not be tested too often.
By the way, punishment is related to self-defense but only as a method to teach the perpetrator not to do it again. If he pays the ultimate price, it is still his fault.