Media fallacy: Moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas
For a lot of people, their priority is not Western notions of freedom: It is adherence to fundamentalist interpretation of Koranic law.
The surprise attack on Israel by the extremist terror group Hamas killed over 1,200 Israelis and wounded over 4,000 more, making it the worst terror attack on the Jewish nation in it’s 75-year history. (Photo: Hatem Moussa/Associated Press)
A society that loses its moral compass and believes there is nuance and complexity to people beheading babies is not a society that is destined to live. That kind of society cannot withstand any sort of pressure at all; it collapses inward at the first sign of conflict.
CNN and MSNBC interviews showed people asserting there was moral equivalence between Israelis and the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered families in their homes and decapitated babies.
Oh, the sophistication, the nuance. Don't you see the shades of gray?
The media are disgusting. Some of them seek truth. Some of them occasionally stumble upon it even if they're not seeking it — blind hogs finding an ear of corn every now and then. But then you have the motivated actors who are more interested in their own pseudo-sophistication and moral equivalence than anything else.
Terrorism is, by definition, an act of atrocity that involves civilians. If you hide behind a civilian, you are the person responsible for the death of that civilian. And that's what Hamas does. Hamas literally located its military headquarters in the basement of a hospital.
This is what they are. They locate their headquarters in mosques. They hide weapons caches in churches and mosques so that if Israel has to blow those things up, then they can claim it is some sort of human rights violation.
This is what they do. They understand how the Western press plays this garbage. They understand the Western press pretends there is some sort of moral equivalence between a Hamas terrorist riding into a kibbutz and beheading a child and Israel attempting to minimize civilian casualties on the Gaza Strip and failing because Hamas is hiding behind children.
Woke American college students are spreading Hamas propaganda for the terrorists. Fox News Lawrence Jones, a Fox & Friends co-anchor, interviewed students at NYU Friday demonstrating in support of Palestine. The little willfully ignorant twerps claimed the reports of Hamas beheading childrfen had been retracted. They haven’t. There is proof. There is video. These little fools need to be sat down in front of a television set and fortced to watch them.
Hamas is to blame for both sides of those civilian casualties. Hamas is actively encouraging people not to move from these areas. Israel has called off uncounted strikes over the last 30 years because there are civilians in the area.
When Israel bombs Gaza, video shows secondary explosions. Secondary explosions only emerge if there's a weapons cache underneath the buildings Israel hits. The secondary explosions are a result of those hidden weapons caches exploding. I is a deliberate tactic of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad in an effort to discourage defensive attacks by Israel.
Israel has tried to hand control of the Gaza Strip over to Egypt. Egypt wasn’t interested. Israel has tried to hand over control of Palestinian Arab areas in Judea and Samaria to Jordan. Jordan said, “Hell, no.”
As more video emerges from the Hamas pogrom, Israel responds; a second front threatens in Lebanon and the international community remains paralyzed by moral relativism.
Let’s talk about how all this happened.
It happened because we in the West don’t understand our enemies. They know that and they exploit that.
In 2004, President George W. Bush gave an address at the United Nations in which he said one of the most naive things any president has ever said: “When it comes to the desire for liberty and justice, there is no clash of civilizations. People everywhere are capable of freedom and worthy of freedom. The desire for freedom resides in every human heart.”
That was idiocy then and it is idiocy now. It is simply not true. People have many different priorities. For a lot of people, their priority is not Western notions of freedom: It is adherence to fundamentalist interpretation of Koranic law.
For many, their priority isn’t economic development. The sole intent and purpose of Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad is the murder of Jews across the world. But this peculiar Western belief system — that everyone wants freedom — has led the West down two separate and equally stupid paths.
Path number one, which we saw over the course of the last 25 years, was nation-building.
That’s what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq. The West fooled itself into believing that tribal peoples with different priorities really, really wanted iPhones and sexual liberation, and that if we offered those things, they would welcome us with open arms, Instead of pursuing a realistic foreign policy designed to protect America’s interests, we built roads, bridges and an economic structure that these nations cannot sustain.
We created a utopian world of our own making. We failed.
Yet we continue to pursue that path today. We continue to act as though it is Israel’s job to build up the infrastructure in Gaza or provide them water and power, even while Hamas murders babies in their cribs and puts its own civilians in harm’s way. That is insane. It is a policy that will also fail.
Path number two was the path of willful ignorance: If we all have the same priorities, we can negotiate with anyone and everyone. Everyone is reasonable. Everyone wants the same thing, even if circumstances get a little out of hand from time to time.
Even if a couple of weeks a year rockets fly from Gaza into Tel Aviv, that’s just the frustration of reasonable people with reasonable priorities. It is just all a “cycle of violence.”
This path also leads to failure and mass death and lulls the West, including Israel, into a false sense of security.
Senior Hamas official Ali Baraka explained, in detail on Russian television, the lie that so many Americans fell for.
He said on Russia Today TV this week that in the past couple of years, Hamas had adopted a rational approach, did not enter into any war, and did not join the Islamic Jihad in its recent battle. But all of this was Hamas’ strategy in preparing for attack.
“Of course, we made them think that Hamas was busy with governing Gaza, and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians [in Gaza] and has abandoned the resistance altogether. All the while under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack,” he said.
Right from the outset, he says it was a lie. They never cared about the 2.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. This is the game they play: Your belief that they care. So when Israel strikes at Hamas’ targets and hits civilians that Hamas is deliberately putting in the way, then it is Israel’s fault. After all, what kind of human beings wouldn’t care if their own babies are getting killed?
Israel lulled itself into a sense of complacency about this. Sure, Hamas launched a few rockets every so often, mostly just to prove to their own people they were still in the terrorism business. But in reality, both the U.S. and Israel told each other, Hamas wants to be a normal governing power.
Every bit of money that flowed into Gaza over the course of the last 20 years was used by Hamas for purposes of murdering Jews. They demonstrate each and every year they don’t care about their own people. Their highest aspiration is the death of Jews and Israel.
They assume that you are sophisticated, that you know better than they do what they are thinking and saying. They say it right to your face. They say it directly to your face. And then you think, “No, no, it can’t be. It must be the Israelis’ fault somehow."
A senior Hamas official explains just how the terror group pulled off one of the worst terror attacks in history. The Israelis form a unity government to wipe Hamas from the map and the legacy media begin to blame Israel for the massacre.
Baraka said, “I hear the Israelis are known to love life. We, on the other hand, sacrifice ourselves. We consider our dead to be martyrs. The thing any Palestinian desires most is to be martyred for the sake of Allah, defending his land.”
That is not just a line for media consumption. It is the core belief of the entire radical Islamic fundamentalist world: Islamic Jihad. Hezbollah. Hamas. Iran.
In traditional Western thought, the way you care about your kids is not by killing them. And the way you care about your citizens is not by putting them directly in the line of an airstrike so you can sit underground waiting to kill Jews.
But they don’t think like we do. That’s the whole point. They know you won’t believe them. They can say it directly to their own people. They can say it clearly on TV over and over.
And you still won’t believe them.
That’s how stupid they think you are.
The West is so stupid that we believe, in the end, this can all be negotiated awaya peace treaty signed and, arm in arm, Jew and Arab will march together into a new future in which they don’t kill one another.
You won’t believe their plainly spoken jihadist beliefs say because they will boggle your mind. But you will believe that the Jews are the bad guys. That’s what the radical Arab world is counting on, that you will believe the Jews are the bad guys, even after the Jews get slaughtered in their beds.
None of this conversation was happening after 9/11. You know what happens after you kill 3,000 Americans? You know what happens? We flatten you.
But when Israel has its borders permeated by terrorists who murder nearl;y 1,300 Jews — the equivalent of roughly 47,000 Americans — people say, “Those Jews, man, you know, they really have to be a little more careful, those Jews.”
What is going to take place is a bunch of people who express tremendous sympathy for the 1,300 dead Jews in Israel. They’re going to express sympathy for the parents of the burned babies. They’re going to express sympathy for the husbands of the raped wives and the kidnapped. They’re going to express sympathy for a people under attack and threatened with annihilation.
Then the entire narrative is going to shift because Israel is going to do what it has to do in order to stop Hamas from ever being a threat to its citizenry again, It will do what any normal nation so threatened would do. Woke idiots will condemn them for it.
They cannot listen. Israel must press forward. They must kill the murdering, cowardly terrorists so the Jewish nation can survive. Hamas and other Shi’a radicals are today’s equivalent of Nazi Germany. They only way to defeat them is to destroy them.
So be it.
Perfect. Thank you.
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