Secretary of State Antony Blinken contends that Hamas would gain no \u201cgreater\u201d victory \u201cthan allowing its brutality\u200d to send us down a path of terrorism and\u200b nihilism. We must not let it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can hear echoes of Barack Obama\u2019s insufferable moral equivalencies imbued in that statement.<\/p>\n

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The contention is a not-so-subtle warning to Israel, who will almost surely enter Gaza and try\u200c to\u200b dismantle the Hamas terror state \u2014 which has \u2062been indirectly and directly funded not only\u200d by Iran, the European Union, and the United Nations but also by \u2063the Obama and Biden administrations.<\/p>\n
The \u200cinsinuation, of course, is that Israel needs to \u200btemper its inclination to engage in \u201cterrorism and nihilism.\u201d It is\u2064 a blood libel.<\/p>\n
It is not \u201cterrorism\u201d to seek justice for the pregnant woman\u200c who had her baby cut from her body or the elderly couple who \u200dwas burned alive. And eliminating those\u200b who \u200bcommitted Nazi-like \u2062atrocities against your \u2062citizens\u200c is no more nihilistic than tracking down Eichmann or demanding Emperor Hirohito unconditionally\u2063 surrender.<\/p>\n
Yet, only days after the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust,\u200c Biden was\u2063 already lecturing<\/a> \u200cBenjamin Netanyahu on how \u201cdemocracies like Israel and\u200c the \u2063United States are \u200dstronger and \u2063more\u2064 secure when we act according to the rule of law.\u201d The insinuation, again, is that there is something nefarious about winning a war against \u2062those who massacre your citizens.<\/p>\n
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Israel \u200ddoesn\u2019t target civilians, \u2063as Blinken, busy\u2063 placating the progressives who now infest Washington and academia, knows well. Many Israeli soldiers have died because the nation avoids civilian casualties \u2013 \u2063even as Hamas diligently<\/a> places their weapons and themselves behind women and children.<\/p>\n
Then again, the \u200didea Hamas\u2019s greatest victory would be Israelis exacting revenge is \u2062itself the\u2064 kind of self-satisfying gibberish\u2062 that might impress a crowd\u2064 at the Aspen Ideas Festival or readers of Tom Friedman columns.<\/p>\n
Hamas\u2019 greatest victory is killing and terrorizing as many Jews as possible. We know this because \u2063Islamists tell us this all the time. Why is this confusing? \u201cThere is \u2062no solution for the Palestinian \u200cproblem except by Jihad\u201d are the words literally written into the group\u2019s charter.<\/p>\n
And\u200c Hamas is quite popular in both Gaza and the\u200c West Bank. Islamic fundamentalism is popular.<\/p>\n
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\u201cLook, what happened in Gaza, in my \u200cview, \u200bis Hamas and the extreme elements of Hamas don\u2019t represent all \u2062the Palestinian people,\u201d Joe Biden said<\/a> the other day. This\u2063 is the \u200c\u201creligion of\u200c peace\u201d canard, begun by \u200cGeorge W. Bush and widely promulgated by Obama all over again.<\/p>\n
When our former president declared<\/a> that the \u201cfuture must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,\u201d he wasn\u2019t\u200c joking. Every time Islamists committed acts of terror, the Obama administration would turn the conversation towards \u201cIslamophobia,\u201d a neologism that conflates tolerance of individuals and groups (Muslims) with tolerance\u200c of\u2063 a belief \u2064system (Islam).<\/p>\n
This rhetoric is not \u200donly meant \u2062to cloud reality but to chill speech and create\u200d immunity\u2063 for the many progressive \u201c anti-Zionis<\/a>ts<\/a>\u201d on the left.<\/p>\n
The\u200d modern Democrats have taken up this dishonest framing with gusto. When a reporter asked\u200d White House\u2064 press secretary\u200c Karine Jean-Pierre this week if the president was concerned about rising anti-Semitism \u2014 you know, because of \u200cthe Jew-hating protests that have broken out across the country \u2014 she responded<\/a> by saying there were no \u201ccredible threats\u201d and then pivoted the claims that \u201cMuslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number\u200c of hate-fueled attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n
She did this twice. Not only is it a gross deflection, it is a lie. According to the FBI, hate crimes against<\/a> Jews represent over \u200b50 percent of all religion-related hate crimes<\/a>, while hate crimes against Muslims \u2062are under 10 percent. <\/p>\n
But Obama\u2019s \u2062most corrosive legacy\u200d is foreign policy. Democrats have \u200dbecome obsessed\u200d with turning Iran into a regional counterweight to Israel while also restarting a \u201cpeace process\u201d that \u200dwould surely create a Muslim Brotherhood-led terror state on Israel\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n
Before\u200b Israel could even identify all the \u2063bodies of their citizens, Biden was already yammering on<\/a> about the \u201cdignity\u201d and \u201cself-determination\u201d in places where \u201cself-determination\u201d manifested in the creation of a Jihadist terror state.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump \u200dnixed this\u2063 strategy, punishing Iran and circumventing\u200c Hamas\/PLO in \u2062peace negotiations with Gulf states. \u2063That success\u2064 was shattered when the Obama retreads entered the White House again and \u200d began<\/a> opening up billions to\u200c Iran and sending Hamas and Fatah hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n
The Biden administration is \u200dteeming with \u2062Obama-era Iran and Muslim Brotherhood fans. Not only did \u200bsomeone like Rob Malley\u2063 \u2014\u200c rehired by Biden after leading Obama\u2019s giveaway \u2014 surround himself with real-life Iranian assets<\/a>, but he\u2019d \u200bmet at least twice with Hamas, once with Obama\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis administration is different from the previous administration,\u201d Hamas\u2019s \u2062deputy foreign minister and\u2062 New York Times columnist<\/a>, Ahmed\u2062 Yussuf, \u2062 said<\/a> at the time. \u201cWe \u200cbelieve Hamas\u2019s message is reaching its destination.\u201d<\/p>\n
Definitely.<\/p>\n
Even now, despite overwhelming ev<\/a>idence<\/a> of\u200d its involvement \u2063in the killing of not only 1,300 Jews, 30 of them Americans<\/em>,\u2062 the administration does everything \u2064it can to deny<\/a> Iran provided logistical and financial help \u200dthat killed 30 Americans.<\/p>\n
Like Obama, Biden offers just enough lip service about \u2064Israel\u2019s right \u2062to defend itself \u2062to placate Jewish donors and\u2063 voters. Every action of the president\u200d \u2013 even\u2064 his supposed \u2064morale-lifting trip<\/a> to the country\u2013is meant to inhibit \u200bIsrael from winning. Democrats are open to helping Israel defend itself but unopened to the prospect of destroying those who seek its end.<\/p>\n
Let me amend that. There \u2064are\u2063 plenty<\/a> of Democrats who want Israel destroyed and more every day.<\/p>\n
When Obama finally\u200c deigned to wade<\/a> in on the killing of Jews and Americans, he offered his usual perfunctory throat-clearing about Israel\u2019s right to exist before hitting\u2063 the\u2064 \u201cbut.\u201d \u2064The \u201cbut\u201d can \u200cbe\u200c summed up as so: the more Jews\u200b die, the more Jews have a responsibility to placate the Islamic world\u200d and give their enemies\u2063 a state.<\/p>\n
And apparently, \u200din many ways, the \u200dBiden administration concurs. <\/p>\n
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Does Secretary Blinken’s \u200dstatement imply that Israel needs to refrain from engaging in “terrorism and nihilism” while dismantling the \u2062Hamas terror \u200dstate?<\/h2>\n
Secretary of\u2064 State Antony Blinken’s recent statement that Hamas would gain no greater victory than allowing its brutality to \u2064lead us down a \u200dpath of terrorism and nihilism echoes the insufferable moral equivalencies of Barack Obama. This assertion serves as\u2064 a warning to Israel, implying that they need to temper their inclination\u200d to engage in\u2063 “terrorism and nihilism” \u200bwhile trying to dismantle the \u2063Hamas terror state. However, this assertion is nothing \u2064more than a blood libel.<\/p>\n
It is not terrorism to seek justice for innocent victims, such as a pregnant woman who had her baby cut from her body\u200b or an elderly\u200d couple \u2064who was burned alive. Eliminating those who commit Nazi-like atrocities against citizens\u2062 is not nihilistic but rather a justified response, much like \u200btracking down war criminals such as Eichmann or demanding \u2063the unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito.<\/p>\n
Yet, just days after the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, President\u200d Biden was \u200calready\u2064 lecturing Benjamin Netanyahu on how\u2063 democracies like Israel\u2062 and\u200b the\u200d United\u200b States are stronger and more secure \u200bwhen they act according to the rule of law. The insinuation here is that\u2063 there\u200b is something nefarious about \u2064winning a war against those who \u2063massacre your citizens.<\/p>\n
It is important to\u2064 recognize that Israel does not target civilians, as Secretary Blinken surely knows. Many Israeli soldiers\u2064 have died precisely because \u2063the nation \u2063goes to \u200dgreat lengths to avoid civilian casualties<\/a>, \u200deven as Hamas places\u200d their\u200d weapons and themselves behind women \u200cand children.<\/p>\n
The idea that Hamas’s greatest victory would be Israelis\u2064 exacting revenge\u2063 is nothing more than self-satisfying gibberish that might impress a crowd at a festival or readers of certain columnists. Hamas’s true victory lies in killing\u2062 and terrorizing as many Jews as possible, as they have consistently stated.\u2063 This is \u2063evident from the words literally written into the group’s charter: “There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.”<\/p>\n
Furthermore, it is worth noting \u2064that Hamas enjoys popularity both in Gaza and the West Bank, indicating a widespread support \u2062for Islamic fundamentalism in the region.<\/p>\n
President\u200b Biden recently stated that what \u2063happened in\u200d Gaza does not represent all Palestinian people,\u2064 emphasizing\u2064 the distinction between Hamas and extreme elements within the group. While this may be\u2064 true, it is important to remember that Hamas is a significant part of the Palestinian narrative and\u200d has a\u200c substantial following.<\/p>\n
In conclusion, Secretary Blinken’s warning to Israel, implying that they should \u200bavoid\u2063 engaging in \u200d”terrorism and nihilism,” is unjustified. Israel’s actions in seeking justice and defending its citizens against terrorist attacks are not acts of terrorism. \u200cHamas’s true victory\u200d lies \u2062in its ability to terrorize and kill as many Jews as possible. It is imperative to recognize this reality \u200dand support Israel’s right to defend itself against those who seek its destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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