"Of course, it isn't about the facts when it comes to the left. It never is. In this case, it's also feeding their anti-Israel bent. If they cared about the people in Gaza, they should care about how Hamas oppresses them. But they don't."
"We hear it constantly from the left, and it's one of their huge talking points this election season: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
"Yet they never seem to think about the logic of what they are saying, and why that's complete poppycock. Of course, because like everything else with the left, it isn't about whether there's any logic or reality to the latest "outrage" they are protesting - it's always and only about moving things further to the left.
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"But it's something when a New York Times columnist lays down a little reality to blow up the left's arguments, as our sister site Townhall reported. Bret Stephens wrecked the left on the Fifth Column podcast.
. . . "Stephens pointed out how Israel was a nuclear power, with which they could simply wipe everyone out. If they were trying to commit genocide, why did they distribute polio vaccines, why do they distribute food, why do they drop leaflets warning people to get out of an area when they are going to take on Hamas there?
"Stephens drew the comparison to other wars, and how other wars were not treated in the same way as Israel's war in response to being attacked on October 7 has been. Hamas killed more than 1,000 people, raped people, then took more than 200 hostages. It was a brutal attack. It's one thing to talk about whether a tactic or action is justifiable or might be excessive in response. But equating it with "genocide," i.e., the targeted effort to wipe out a people, is nonsensical. A war isn't "genocide" because people die; otherwise, every war is a genocide.
"Then there's the comparison to what Iran did to its protesters in January, massacring somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 people. The regime killed those people deliberately to terrorize the population, to stop them from raising their voices. Where are the calls of "genocide" over that?" . . . More...
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