Hamath

Eylon Levy is an official spokesman for the Government of Israel. A graduate of both the University of Oxford and Cambridge University, he became widely known following in interview with Sky News regarding the exchange of 50 Hamas-held Israeli civilian hostages for 150 convicted Palestinian offenders in Israeli prisons. The interviewer repeated the terms of the exchange — 50 hostages for 150 criminals – and then questioned whether this 3-for-1 ratio meant that each Israeli life was being valued by Israel as equivalent to three Palestinian lives. With an incredulous raise of his eyebrows, Levy proceeded to expose the idiocy of this proposition – of course Israel would agree to exchanging prisoners for hostages on a one-for-one basis, but we’re talking about Hamas here.

This was Levy’s
introduction to
Hamath. Given the
ridiculous attempt to
paint Israel as callously
devaluing Palestinian
lives described above,
Levy recognized that
two can play that game.
In a series of online
posts, Levy presented
his own version of
“Hamas Maths” to help
explain Israel’s position
to the world. In his first
lesson (see http://tinyurl.com/2vt8v6yk), he diagrams a
Hamas tunnel 2.5 miles in length and 50 meters
underground, noting that it was built with concrete
donated for building houses and schools, and then
calculates that “2.5 miles times 50 meters = 0
condemnations from the United Nations.” In Hamas
Maths Lesson #2 (see http://tinyurl.com/27b5udk2), he
notes that if Hamas has x weapons in schools, y tunnel
shafts in mosques, z command centers in hospitals, a
RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) in children’s
bedrooms, b rocket launchers inside universities, and c
military shafts
inside UN
facilities, that
equals zero UN
condemnations,
while the blame
ascribed to Israel
is infinity!
While Eylon
Levy’s Hamas
Maths lessons use
humor to point out
the hypocrisy of
the litany of
charges against
Israel that have
been brought to bear in the United Nations and the
media, there are deadly serious examples where
correctly “doing the Hamath” can completely refute
such accusations.
Perhaps the most common complaint regarding Israel’s
conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza, made by
United States government officials in addition to Israelbashers
around the world, is that Israel is
indiscriminately killing Palestinians. Simply put, Israel
is accused of not distinguishing between Palestinian
civilians and Hamas fighters during military
operations. Indeed, the word “indiscriminate” is defined
as “done at random or without careful judgment.” The
implication is that there is no distinction being made
between Palestinian civilians and Hamas fighters. Both
share the same chance of being killed in Israeli attacks
on Gaza. Of course, it is the strategic choice of Hamas
to embed their fighters and terror infrastructure inside
the civilian population (see Hamas Maths Lesson #2
above), but nonetheless the indiscriminate killing
charge has persisted since Israel launched military
operations in response to the Hamas pogrom of October
7. But is it really true that civilians in Gaza and Hamas
terrorists face the same chance of death

Eylon Levy is an official spokesman for the Government
of Israel. A graduate of both the University of Oxford
and Cambridge University, he became widely known
following in interview with Sky News regarding the
exchange of 50 Hamas-held Israeli civilian hostages for
150 convicted Palestinian offenders in Israeli prisons.
The interviewer repeated the terms of the exchange —
50 hostages for 150 criminals – and then questioned
whether this 3-for-1 ratio meant that each Israeli life
was being valued by Israel as equivalent to three
Palestinian lives. With an incredulous raise of his
eyebrows, Levy proceeded to expose the idiocy of this
proposition – of course Israel would agree to exchanging
prisoners for hostages on a one-for-one basis, but we’re
talking about Hamas
here.
This was Levy’s
introduction to
Hamath. Given the
ridiculous attempt to
paint Israel as callously
devaluing Palestinian
lives described above,
Levy recognized that
two can play that game.
In a series of online
posts, Levy presented
his own version of
“Hamas Maths” to help
explain Israel’s position
to the world. In his first
lesson (see http://tinyurl.com/2vt8v6yk), he diagrams a
Hamas tunnel 2.5 miles in length and 50 meters
underground, noting that it was built with concrete
donated for building houses and schools, and then
calculates that “2.5 miles times 50 meters = 0
condemnations from the United Nations.” In Hamas
Maths Lesson #2 (see http://tinyurl.com/27b5udk2), he
notes that if Hamas has x weapons in schools, y tunnel
shafts in mosques, z command centers in hospitals, a
RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) in children’s
bedrooms, b rocket launchers inside universities, and c
military shafts
inside UN
facilities, that
equals zero UN
condemnations,
while the blame
ascribed to Israel
is infinity!
While Eylon
Levy’s Hamas
Maths lessons use
humor to point out
the hypocrisy of
the litany of
charges against
Israel that have
been brought to bear in the United Nations and the
media, there are deadly serious examples where
correctly “doing the Hamath” can completely refute
such accusations.
Perhaps the most common complaint regarding Israel’s
conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza, made by
United States government officials in addition to Israelbashers
around the world, is that Israel is
indiscriminately killing Palestinians. Simply put, Israel
is accused of not distinguishing between Palestinian
civilians and Hamas fighters during military
operations. Indeed, the word “indiscriminate” is defined
as “done at random or without careful judgment.” The
implication is that there is no distinction being made
between Palestinian civilians and Hamas fighters. Both
share the same chance of being killed in Israeli attacks
on Gaza. Of course, it is the strategic choice of Hamas
to embed their fighters and terror infrastructure inside
the civilian population (see Hamas Maths Lesson #2
above), but nonetheless the indiscriminate killing
charge has persisted since Israel launched military
operations in response to the Hamas pogrom of October
7. But is it really true that civilians in Gaza and Hamas
terrorists face the same chance of death