The atrocities that occurred on Oct. 7 in Israel must spur our revulsion, but they must equally spur our reevaluation of the mindset that now defends them. The anti-Semitic protests and attacks — especially on our college campuses — are not the result of what is happening in Israel; they are the result of America standing silent while the Left has defined reason into oblivion and education into indoctrination.
"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.
"Finally, Hamas created the ratio of the exchange. On a moral weighting, the correct ratio would have been 240 Israeli hostages for nothing. These people should never have been taken in the first place; once taken, they should have been returned.". . .
Chris Cuomo After Watching Footage Of October 7 Hamas Massacre: “They enjoyed mutilating” (legalinsurrection.com) “If an enemy wanted to make sure that Israel would come for them, the message would be to take children, women, innocents and more, tie them up and burn them alive. Just like the Holocaust…. I now know that is exactly the message Hamas sent, on purpose, at scale. I was not aware of that before. They did it methodically. You hear it in the voices, the commands, the ease and excitement of finding and mutilating victims.” . . .
"Cuomo’s assessment is an insight into why Israel is driving as hard as it is to destroy Hamas completely. This is not, as Cuomo notes, tit-for-tat. This is an existential battle for survival against an implacable and inhumane enemy." . . .
Leaving CNN has been good for Mr. Cuomo's intelligence. TD
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