Moral Equivalency

 

Assigning responsibility

After the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7^th, many on the left have sought ways to justify the heinous actions of Hamas. There has also been a concerted effort to delineate that somehow the Palestinians and Hamas are separate and disparate entities. That the Palestinians are simply innocent of any responsibility for the actions of Hamas. That the Israeli response is not proportionate with the October 7^th attacks and far more Palestinian civilians have died than Israelis. Some have attempted to justify the inhuman and sadistic actions of Hamas as an appropriate response to an occupying force that has withheld the basic needs of the Palestinians through force and intimidation. If you repeat a lie often enough it does not become truth even though many actually are convinced that these are facts.

Israeli forces are accused of committing war crimes when it has been Hamas that repeatedly commits acts of violence that target innocent civilians. As with leftists, accuse your enemy of what you are doing, to create confusion and conceal the evidence of your own guilt. The fact of the matter is that the war crimes are committed by only one side, the radicalized Islamists like Hamas. Raping and pillaging not only went out of style in the Middle Ages, civilized societies outlawed that behavior in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. Islamists, never the ones to submit to Western laws and culture, commit atrocities at will. Liberals that like to hurl accusations of “toxic masculinity” and “rape culture” need to look no further than those who practice the religion of peace. In Europe, open borders and unfettered immigration have led to an exponential increase in sexual assaults, predominantly committed by Middle Eastern immigrant men. One wonders what the Quran has to say about this.

The left has difficulty condemning Hamas's barbarisms, but there is little compunction in turning the blame to Israel. The massacre of Jews by Hamas confirms that these barbarians are evil personified, inhuman animals, and unredeemable. The parable of the wheat and weeds tells that the weeds should be allowed to grow with the wheat, but in this instance leaving the weeds in the field will ruin the entire crop. These animals must be excised like the cancer that they are or else it will spread and kill the host. We may lose some of the wheat, but the vast majority of the crop will be saved. If Hamas survives, they will again kill those that they deem their enemies, and that is most of the Western world. Appeasement will only allow these monsters to repeat their crimes, over and over.

“Also their American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us. The American people are the one who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us. This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.” Osama bin Laden.

Leftists cite these words by the former leader of Al Qaida that “justified” the attack of 9-11. Leftists call out the imperialist US government for stealing the lands of the native Americans. Leftists call out the US for colonialism, systemic racism, and any ism or phobia you can imagine. Based upon these leftist screeds, we can extrapolate that the Palestinian people bear the responsibility for the actions of their army, Hamas. Since the Palestinian people have allowed Hamas to militarize everything from their Mosques to their playgrounds, they bear culpability. So many of the Palestinian people support the actions of Hamas and have no interest in peace, only the destruction of Israel and Jews, they are just as guilty of war crimes as is Hamas. Collateral damage and civilian casualties, though regrettable, is a fact of war. Hamas started the war and Israel will fight until the threat is eliminated. That means the destruction of every last member of Hamas, including the Hamas leadership hiding in safe havens like Qatar and Bahrain. That is the only way Israel can exist in relative safety.