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There is something surreal, even sick, about the current Gazan war.
Throughout European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle Eastern immigrants and students and radical leftists chant nonstop, “Free Palestine from the River to the Sea.”
More recently, they are also yelling, “Israel, you can’t hide; we caught you in genocide.”
Consider the hypocrisy of that dual messaging.
Hamas and its supporters are openly and eagerly calling for the genocidal end of Israel by wiping it out from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Yet, at the same time, they also claim it is Israel that is committing genocide — the very current self-described agenda of Hamas and its expatriate community of devotees!
The war has become crazier still.
Hamas and its megaphones abroad also blast Israel daily for retaliating for the October 7 butchery of some 1,400 Israeli infants, children, women, and the elderly.
They further demand Israel must be selective in its airborne targeting of the Hamas killers, who burrow beneath hospitals and mosques while using civilians as shields.
Hamas takes for granted that a supposedly heartless Israel nevertheless will be reluctant to strike the Hamas terrorists when and if civilians surround them.
Indeed, Gazans are put in more danger by Hamas than they would otherwise be by the Israel Defense Forces.
Yet the world accepts that Israel itself would never employ such a ruse of using civilians to shield its cities from indiscriminately fired Hamas missiles.
The world further knows that if Israel ever employed such a barbaric tactic, Israeli civilian shields would attract — not deter — Hamas rockets.
Hamas’s apologists insist that Israel warn in advance civilians to keep clear of Israeli bombs.
Yet at the same time, daily Hamas launches rockets into Israel. And no one in the international community lectures Hamas first to drop leaflets or text Israeli civilians that Hamas rockets are on their way into their vicinity.
Instead, the only purpose of Hamas rockets is to indiscriminately strike and kill Israeli civilians.
So the real issue is not about the principle of civilian deaths — given Israel is damned when it tries to avoid noncombatants and Hamas is cheered on when it deliberately targets them.
Instead, the asymmetry is explained by the efficacy of the Israeli response and impotence of Hamas rocketry.
In other words, Hamas cannot stop the IDF from hitting its targets, while Israel can knock down far more Hamas rockets.
And so Israel is being blamed for being too effective — or “disproportionate”– in its bombing, and Hamas is rewarded for being too ineffective in its rocketing.
There are other sick paradoxes in this war.
Hamas started the conflict by sending death squads of 2,000 killers into Israel at a time of peace to surprise murder more than 1,000 Israeli civilians.
There was no precivilizational, unspeakable atrocity that the butchers did not commit — torture, beheading, rape, mutilation, and necrophilia.
The terrorists were followed into Israel by a multitude of opportunistic Gaza civilians, who in turn joined in the violence and looting.
Back in Gaza crowds reviled and tried to harm Israeli captives bound as hostages to trade for jailed terrorists in Israel.
In sum, the population that once elected Hamas into power, and cheered on its bloodletting — as long as there was yet no Israeli response — now claims to have no connection at all with Hamas. Yet the world assumes correctly that the people of Israel are inseparable from its military.
The surreal paradoxes of this war still do not end there.
In its mass murdering spree of October 7, Hamas butchered more than 30 American citizens, and perhaps another 13 still are unaccounted for — and are likely hostages inside the tunnels of Hamas in Gaza.
Yet the Biden administration has not forced Hamas to return kidnapped Americans, much less responded to its killing of U.S. citizens.
Why then despite all the rhetoric of solidarity, is the United States constantly pressuring Israel to be measured in its retaliation against the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, pressure that will only make things easier on Hamas?
Why are we seeking to restrain those who are trying to destroy the killers of Americans, and indirectly aiding those who murdered them?
And why is the global elite community siding with the murderous aggressors and not those seeking justice for the murdered?
Lots of reasons.
There are 500 million Arabs in the world, and nearly 2 billion Muslims — but only 9 or so million Israelis.
Nearly 50 percent of the world’s oil reserves are found in the Muslim Middle East.
Westerners, like tiny Israel, are considered too rich and powerful, while non-Westerners are romanticized as blameless, victimized underdogs.
But the best way of understanding this sick war is that Israelis are Jews and the ancient plague of antisemitism is again sweeping the globe.
The Jew haters who seem to be all over the place now are our warning signal of the sickness of our elite institutions and of the approach of World War Three.
As a nation, the U.S. does not make much anymore, we will not do well at a large war. We are in the absurd position of having to hope that Israel will save us. And our leaders are so arrogant and ignorant as to try to tell Israel how to do it.
Let’s pray for Israel.
Well, when the American people were stupid enough to (allegedly) elect a dim, corrupt, dishonest, unprincipled, career politician, obviously in some sort of mental decline, whose closest associates complained of his lack of wisdom, judgment, and ability (except to eff things up) and who couldn’t be bothered to campaign letting our media to do it for him, what else can one expect?
I’m sorry, Mr. VDH, but the sad truth is that it’s not really about any of that. If Israel was located in Antarctica, a significant number of the world’s population would demand its extinction and the destruction of the Jewish people. Assholes need an outlet for the hate that is eating them up inside, and the Jews, with their otherworldly history of accomplishment and moral excellence, provide the perfect target. Perhaps Israel and the Jews’ greatest service to humanity is in helping identify who these assholes are, whether Nazis, communists, Muslims, or diversity students on America’s college campuses
The displaced anger of abused children. Hitler was an abused child.
Many are deceived about who they are voting for and what they really represent. No wonder society and the whole world is on meltdown. Delusion…..We can do business with antisemtic nations who hate us, and change their attitudes.
I once read that the only reason why Jews & Israel are hated so much, is that
they gave the world a moral code to live by.
Absolutely.
I first read a view like this from Caroline Glick.
I think that Dennis Prager originated the idea.
Many have been saying that the people of Palestine should be taking a long hard look at the Hamas leaders who are worth billions of dollars, and yet the Palestinian people live in poverty. Corruption is at its height in most governments now.
Hell is bottomless. The nadir of evi that was Nazi Germany has spun further downward. The desire to extinguish the most ancient of historic races burns deep with the human soul, and the demons that have evolved in us still burn bright.
The Biblical dictate of those who bless the Jews will be blessed is based in the truth of human nature. Those that can accept the other contained within their societies are blessed with the treasures of the unknown that only the stranger who has delved strange depths can provide.
And those who cannot accept the stranger, the smallest of peoples among us, will find no acceptance among themselves, ultimately.
We are all the Other from the others point of view. A world that does not accept the Jew devolves into ever devolving spirals of mistrust that have no bottom likewise.
It is a truly evil age we are entering into, where the compassionate bind us ,as if logic, common sense, and consequence were mere social constructs that can be believed away, hippies who think that you can still buy a city and a world for the price of love beads.
The only solution to militant fascism is a miltary one. Hamas will be erased. The ovens still burn as the alternative to victory.