The Middle East has been thrown into war after terrorist organization Hamas launched a horrifying attack on Israel Saturday that has since left over 900 Israeli citizens dead.
When the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor, the country joined World War II and ultimately ended that global conflict by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan. When the U.S. was struck by hijacked airplanes on 9/11, our forces invaded Afghanistan, which had harbored the terrorists, and a decade later killed Osama bin Laden.
am not going to argue that Bibi Netyanyahu’s government hasn’t made mistakes, or that ordinary Palestinians living in dirt-poor Gaza don’t have legitimate grievances, but the sheer brutality of the Hamas assault, the publicizing of gruesome scenes and the celebration of murdered Israelis should be nauseating to any civilized person. The carefully planned massacre of 200 young people at a music festival.
How, then, can The New York Times continue to describe the attackers as militants? Would the media use such a euphemism if, say, assassins killed that many people at a concert in Nashville? How, for that matter, could Antony Blinken have tweeted that while speaking with Turkey, he urged 'advocacy for a cease-fire and the release of all hostages held by Hamas immediately.' A cease-fire by the country that was attacked just days ago? 'Utter cowardice.
The West has given substantial amounts of aid to Gaza, including more than $1 billion from Qatar in the last decade alone. As Tom Friedman observes, such funding could have been spent on schools, infrastructure and other efforts to improve the economy. Instead, much of it has gone to building tunnels and the 3,000 rockets that Hamas has fired at the Jewish state in recent days.
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