Gabe Mate, Trauma Expert Fueling Trauma; Justifying Hamas Atrocities

 This is yet another of a long line of people that help fuel the conflict between Arabs and Israelis with narratives meant to incite hate and to demonize Israelis, and at the same time either omit the truth or are untruthful. 

Before Israel became a state in 1948, and after Israel became a state, there were numerous massacres and atrocities committed against Jews living in pre-Israel British controlled Palestine, and against Jews living in Arab majority countries across the middle east and North Africa. The expulsions, massacres, land thefts, murders, rapes,and ethnic cleanings of the Jews of the middle east and North Africa are consistently omitted from the anti-Israel crowd. 

More Jews were driven out from Arab majority lands and forced to flee to Israel than the number of Arabs, now called Palestinian, that fled from the new state of Israel in 1948 when Israel was attacked by multiple Arab armies, including Arabs inside of Israel itself, that were hell bent on completely destroying the new found state and raping and murdering its Jewish population. Arab nations told Arabs to flee from the new state of Israel so that they could bomb Israel at will and exterminate its Jewish population without harming Arabs.

The Jews from the middle east and North Africa and their descendants are the majority population of Israel. How their experience continues to be ignored and omitted speaks volumes regarding racism, hate, and dishonest political narratives.

Gabe Mate and the many of his ilk use one sided narratives to excuse or justify atrocities. If only the Jews from the middle east and North Africa had his platform, and could make their story told that people like Gabe Mate omit.

Regarding October 7, Gabe Mate said that he does not justify Hamas and Islamic Jihad atrocities, and then proceeds to justify Hamas and Islamic Jihad atrocities by arguing for an understanding of the history and context (as seen from his point of view) that drove Hamas and Islamic Jihad to commit their October 7 atrocities. No ethical, sane human being alive needs historical context or any context to understand that men and teenagers must never rape girls, children, women, men, as Hamas and Islamic Jihad did on October 7. It is not necessary to understand historical context to know that men, women and teenagers must never murder, burn alive, behead, mutilate, kidnap, torture and commit these atrocities and the other atrocities that Hamas and Islamic Jihad committed on Oct 7, 2023. 

Contrary to why Gabe Mate and others of his ilk believe Hamas and Islamic Jihad committed atrocities, which regardless of any reason given is never justifiable or excusable, the fact remains that Hamas and Islamic Jihad brainwashed an entire generation into believing Jews must be raped, brutalized, and murdered in the worse ways possible. No matter what anyone, educated or not declares, raping, sodomizing, brutalizing, murdering, beheading, burning alive, mutilating, torturing,is never justified.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad wasted billions of dollars building underground terror tunnels, from which they launched attacks against civilians in Israel, and from which they hide below ground, using the civilians above ground in Gaza as their human shields. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have made it known that they seek genocide against Jews, and their actions on October 7 show that when they get their hands on civilians in Israel, they rape, murder, behead, burn alive, mutilate, kidnap. 

This trauma expert, if he has the guts and decency, must meet with surviving victims and witnesses to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad atrocities, if any of them can stomach being around him, and put their suffering over his demonize Israel agenda.