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civilians Hamas put in danger in the first place) through various means before attacking a military target. The paragraph quoted above does not state which party in the conflict is violating the “rules of war.” While Hamas spends millions of dollars to dig tunnels in civilian areas to attack Israel 3 and puts Palestinian civilians (whom Hamas purports to represent) in the line of fire, Israel builds shelters for its people. While Hamas brags about its use of human shields, 4 Israel makes conscious attempts to abide by the rules of war to protect civilians.
    In this book we have taken great pains to explain exactly how groups like Hamas and ISIS systematically violate the law of war in a depraved effort to create maximum human suffering. I would say that we have pulled no punches, graphically describing exactly how evil these enemies are. But though we want the reader to know the truth, the whole truth is simply too much for most people to bear. It is too graphic to print, to describe fully.
    Veterans of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as well asthe IDF’s veterans of conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon—will carry with them sights and experiences they can never forget. These memories will haunt them for a lifetime. They have witnessed evil as great as any the world has ever seen. They have witnessed evil acts from enemies that would re-create Auschwitz and Dachau if they could, from enemies who have openly declared war not just on Israel, but on the Jewish people themselves.
    The fact that millions across the world support those enemies over Israel and the United States, even going to great lengths to strengthen terrorists and weaken the IDF and the U.S. military, demonstrates that the spirit of murder and collaboration that haunted much of Europe under Nazi occupation has not disappeared. It has only morphed into the preening high-mindedness of leftist “thought.”
    History rightly looks at Neville Chamberlain and other appeasers of Hitler’s Germany as instruments of death and disaster. Today’s appeasers are not morally better and are indeed often much worse. After all, when Chamberlain appeased Hitler, Germany’s leader had not yet unleashed his murderous armies across Europe. When the U.N., Red Cross, and—sadly—even our own American president and State Department appease jihad, they do so with eyes wide open, fully aware of the evil they empower.
    They should hang their heads in shame.

CHAPTER ELEVEN
OPPOSE, DON’T APPEASE
THE WAY FORWARD AGAINST JIHAD
    H ow many times do we have to learn the same lessons? Evil cannot be appeased, and the effort to do so leads invariably to death and heartbreak.
    Don’t believe me? Ask the Jewish people.
    The history of World War II is by now too well known to repeat. A Europe that was desperate to avoid repeating the horrors of World War I (then known as the Great War and the War to end all Wars) refused to believe that Hitler presented an existential threat to peace and democracy, preferring to believe he could be negotiated with, boxed in, and contained.
    Right the historical wrongs, grant him the territorial gains he demanded, and there would be “peace in our time.” But instead of the promised peace, there was death on a scale the world had never seen.
    And no one suffered more than the Jews.
    Fast-forward just a few years to 1948. The world, shocked by the Holocaust, finally facilitated the immigration of anever-larger number of Jews to their ancestral homeland, Israel. There the Jewish people could carve out their own state, protect themselves from genocide, and—finally—have a land to call home.
    But then the world washed its hands of the problem, largely leaving the Jews of Israel to fend for themselves when, just three years after the end of World War II, Arab armies massed to destroy the brand-new Jewish state. As the young Israeli state fought armies equipped with modern weapons with the scraps they