Palestine as a Political Football Is Separate Issue From Hamas’s Evil Intent: Jewish Expert

‘Hamas’s mission is dead Jews—its charter says dead Jews, not dead Israelis.’

Israeli army soldiers patrol at an undisclosed position in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on Oct. 15, 2023. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images

As war ravages on in Israel, one Jewish expert is attributing the misguided actions of those protesting for Palestine to an inability to separate Palestine’s political past from the genocidal motive behind Hamas.

Senior Rabbi Steve Leder of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles told The Epoch Times that many judging the conflict—whether inside the Hollywood bubble or outside of it—are “conflating” it, or as he described it, “treating two separate problems as if it’s one challenge” when surmising the situation.