Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Tears for Hamas’s Captive Population

 National Review

[Congresschild] "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has devoted much of her attention in the days that followed the worst massacre of Jews in nearly 80 years to the plight of Hamas’s captive population in the Gaza Strip. Beyond the Israelis and Western citizens who are now the explicit hostages of Hamas, the civilians who are implicitly hostage to its brutal rule have suffered the unfortunate consequences of their regime’s attack on civilization. Today, with mere hours remaining before Israel invades the Strip with the likely intention of defanging Hamas once and for all, Ocasio-Cortez demanded that Israel refrain from defending itself and its citizens:

Any person can see that ordering 1+ million people to move in under 24 hours is not possible. It is unacceptable.

The UN has already deemed the order “impossible” without “devastating humanitarian consequences.”

Humanity is at stake. Nearly half are children. We must halt this https://t.co/DRMGjJfZZI

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 13, 2023

"Ocasio-Cortez’s sympathies are misplaced. Israel has not put Gaza’s civilian population in the line of fire. Hamas has. It has done so for decades, primarily to elicit exactly this naïve response from Western observers who know or care little about the bestial tactics this terrorist organization employs." . . .

She belongs in some campus student union spouting empty platitudes, not in the halls of Congress. TD

AOC Is Pro-Jihad and Doesn’t Know It - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   "I admire Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ability to wiggle. Not in any kind of sensual sense; I mean ideological wiggling, and her ideas are about as sensual as hitting your finger with a hammer. She moves from one borderline to another, from the United States’ to Israel’s, and, having the opportunity to choose between at least two sides, she always manages to lean toward the side of crime. But this time she has gone the extra mile, and I’m not just saying that because she has gone all the way to Israel but because her latest speech might even seem too radical — even to Mohammed Deif, the Hamas terrorist leader. After all, Deif said on Saturday that the day to “end the last occupation on Earth” had come, while AOC, in her apparent condemnation of last Saturday’s attack, managed to mention in the same sentence “Hamas’s horrifying attacks” and the “grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation.' ” . . .