On Israel and Hamas: Who Is Entitled to Self-Defense?
The Left’s answer: Only the instigators of the conflict and their supporters.
by Jed Babbin
May 23, 2021, 11:46 PM
The brief war between Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip and Israel is now under an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement that will last as long as it takes for Hamas to rearm. While that war went on, as well as in its aftermath in the United States, there has been a resurgence of the world’s oldest hatred, anti-Semitism, evidenced by a reported 200 incidents around the nation.
We — and the Israelis — are used to the international media’s narrative about Israel being the aggressor when they clearly are not. But the recent plague of anti-Semitic incidents in this country is something new and, as we will see in a moment, the direct result of governors and mayors in Democratic states and cities refusing to enforce the law for nearly a year.
As I wrote in The American Spectator last week, the war between Israel and Hamas is changing Israel in some unusual and damaging ways. The growing willingness of Arab Israelis to riot and assault Jews indicates a greatly damaging shift in their belief in democracy.
There is the usual caterwauling among the media, aiming to not only delegitimize Israel but also deny it the right of self-defense. One such article in Newsweek labeled Israel the aggressor, peddling the usual Palestinian tripe, saying that Israel started the war by being better armed thanks to U.S. aid and falsely accusing the Israelis of bombing Gaza Strip hospitals. It conveniently overlooks the fact that Hamas attacked Israel with rockets and missiles to start the war.
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