About those innocent Palestinian civilians: There may be fewer than you think.
Among the heart-breaking scenes from the Middle-East are video reports showing civilian casualties of the current war. In the West, we cringe at those images, especially the ones showing small children — dead, grievously wounded, or orphaned.
In Gaza, there seems to be little reciprocity of sympathy. Newsmax reports that more than seventy percent of Gazans approve of the October 7 attack on Israel, in which more than 1,200 Israelis were killed, many by unspeakable torture. More than eighty percent deny that the atrocities were committed, even after watching the videos sadistically, and boastfully, recorded by the terrorists themselves. This reminds us of the self-contradiction that might be stated as “We did not commit the crimes, and we are glad that we did.”
This is a case of not cognitive dissonance, but rather moral depravity. It is lethal hypocrisy. In seeking to justify acts of evil, the evildoers soon discover that neither have they justification for them, nor do they need it.
Antisemites declare that every Jew should be killed. The rest of us do not have that same genocidal fervor toward Palestinians. While antisemites insist that there are no innocent Jews, sane people recognize that some Palestinians are indeed innocent of terrorism. I recall a news item from years ago in which a Palestinian immigrant to the U.S. explained his reason for leaving his homeland: the people there are crazy, he said, and worse, they demand that all Palestinians join with them in their insanity. We do not want that for our children. We want them to live.
Unfortunately, the crazies in Gaza are in the majority. There is no limit to their depravity. Even as Hamas’s policies impoverish the Palestinians, and worse, result in making rubble of their homes, and result in the deaths of their children
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