Issues & Insights "Israel’s descent into tragedy at the hands of Hamas reveals America’s descent into idiocy at the hands of the Left. Every anti-Semitic outrage, all the Hamas apologists, each excuse for terrorism — together they reveal that we are not confronting just terrorism alone but an absolutist ideology. The left has prepared the ground in which Hamas and its supporters have sown their hate, and America is witnessing its flowering.
"As the aftermath of October 7th continues unfolding, we see mounting examples of leftist arguments defending it. The latest lunacy occurred on Nov. 23 when Sky News’ Kay Burley interviewed Israeli spokesman Eylon Levy about the exchange of 150 Hamas prisoners for 50 Israeli hostages. Burley stated: “I was speaking to a hostage negotiator this morning…. and he made the comparison between the numbers and the fact that does Israel not think Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives?”
"Shocked temporarily speechless, Levy recovered: “It is outrageous to suggest that the fact that we are willing to release prisoners who are convicted of terrorism offenses, more of them than we are getting our own innocent children back, somehow suggests that we don’t care about Palestinian lives? Really, that’s a disgusting accusation.”
"Assuredly “disgusting,” the accusation is also disturbing in its revelation of the shallowness to which the left has spiraled this discussion’s descent. Deconstructing the accusation shows that there is no debate — and cannot be one — with the left.
"First, it was Hamas that created this vile market for the exchanging of human beings. Hamas abducted 240 innocent Israeli civilians and did so for the clear purpose of doing what it is doing now: obtaining the release of its captured terrorists. And without captured terrorists, there would be no one to exchange Hamas’ hostages for. So, Hamas created both sides of this transaction.
"Second, the inequality in this exchange is also of Hamas’ making. From a moral standpoint, Hamas sent in terrorists and took out innocent civilians. From any civilized moral perspective, there is no equivalency here. The transactional inequality is therefore inherent: the innocent for the guilty, the unsuspecting for the premeditated. " . . .
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