After news broke of the successful raid by Israeli Defense Forces to free four hostages being held by Hamas militants in Gaza, a full 8 months after the Iran-backed terror attack violated a ceasefire with Israel and terrorized civilian communities there, I was bracing for it.
I knew that despite the successful outcome, and heartwarming reunions with loved ones, there would be a cacophony of condemnation incoming for Israel, all from rape apologists and terror sympathizers everywhere.
First came Jeff Bezos' Washington Post:
However much you think you despise The Washington Post and mock its descent into worthlessness, it's not enough. There are few media entities in the world more worthy of your contempt. That their propaganda is echoed by thousands only makes their war on reality even more infuriating. For instance:
I get why someone would be skeptical that this Abdullah Omar is a real person, and not some parody account established by Israeli propaganda teams to make the Gazans look demented. But he's as real as the Washington Post, and apparently just as detached from reality.
Let's make this simple, shall we?
Don't take innocent people hostage.
If you take innocent people hostage, don't house them in civilian homes.
If you do house them in civilian homes, don't pretend like you're aghast when civilians are caught in the crossfire when the innocent people are rescued.
This isn't hard.
Imagine believing that you have a right to take and keep hostages with impunity.
Imagine believing that any attempt to rescue those hostages is an unjust violation of international rules of warfare.
Imagine attempting to play the victim when those participating in the holding of hostages are killed in the rescue mission.
Imagine thinking the international community should rally behind you and your side over the death of civilians that you and your side have hidden behind and used as human shields.
There's no honor, no decency, no nobility in any of that. Nor is there any moral sense to it.
But decades of Jew-hating propaganda, originating in the minds of Islamo-fascist Middle-Eastern dictators, and pouring from the lips of their proxies at the United Nations, has thoroughly dulled the sensibilities and conditioned the inane reactions of more than a few observers.
Moreover, the foolishness may not be as pronounced among Western leaders like our own administration, but the ethical backwardness and confusion is evident here too. From the New York Post Sunday:
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan denied that the US provided direct military assistance during Israel's operation that rescued four hostages from the Nuseirat refugee camp Saturday.
'One thing I can say is that there were no US forces, no US boots on the ground involved in this operation. We did not participate militarily in this operation,' Sullivan told CNN's "State of the Union" in a pre-taped interview for Sunday.
Indeed we did not participate, as President Biden continues doing a political two-step, hoping to keep his Jewish donors on board his campaign, while also raking in the Sharia-loving Muslim demographic in key swing states like Michigan. That could explain why the (at last count) 8 Americans still held hostage by Hamas remain in captivity.
If reports are true and the number of civilians lost in Israel's raid is anywhere between 50-200 (previous death tolls reported by Palestinian sources have repeatedly been proven exaggerated), that is a tragic number. It never needed to happen, but Hamas views innocent life as expendable in the cause of killing all the Jews.
That's why it defies reason, common sense, and rationality to blame the loss of those lives on anyone or any group except the maniacs still holding hostages in the first place.
