If you thought the idiotic bile, the bizarre rationalizations, the insane whataboutism of the left about the Hamas massacre of Israelis had run its course – think again.
None other than Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist hero, joined the chat.
In a dizzying statement full of obscurity and gross omissions on Wednesday, Sanders demanded that Israel’s response to the terrorist massacre be controlled.
He accuses the Jewish state of a ‘war crime’ and ‘serious violation of international law’ by cutting off its supply of food, water and power to Gaza. ‘Children and innocent people do not deserve to be punished,’ he writes.
Of course they don’t, Senator. And Israel does not target civilians either.
But what is so strange about his statement is that he doesn’t say much about the Israelis who were killed indiscriminately.
There are none of the credible reports of children beheaded by Hamas barbarians, women raped and burned to death, threats to execute hostages, including the defenseless elderly, young festival-goers and the disabled.
If you thought the idiotic bile, the bizarre rationalizations, the insane whataboutism of the left about the Hamas massacre of Israelis had run its course – think again. None other than Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist hero, joined the chat. In a statement, Sanders demanded that Israel’s response to the terrorist massacre be controlled.
There is little recognition of the undeniable mass slaughter of Jews.
This is outrageous. Sanders accuses Israel of ‘war crimes’ but soft-pedals on Hamas?
What needs to be shouted – loud and clear by all – is these terrorists can never allowed to walk this earth again. But in Sanders’s nauseatingly careful prose, he doesn’t even come close to saying that.
President Joe Biden expressed an unequivocal condemnation of these barbarians. Why can’t he?
This moment calls for moral clarity – not confusion, reservations and obfuscation.
Now it might be easy to dismiss the scribblings of a wild-haired, 82-year-old Soviet sympathizer from Vermont as the ramblings of a fringe lunatic. But Sanders is no backbencher.
He won nearly 30 percent of Democratic voters in the 2020 primaries. In 2016, he came even closer, with nearly 45 percent of the vote against Hillary Clinton.
Sanders is the face of angry left-wing progressivism and America must now recognize that much of that movement is viciously anti-Israel and possibly worse.
Look no further than Sunday’s rally of the Democratic Socialists of America in New York’s Times Square.
Holding signs reading ‘When people are occupied, resistance is justified’, they marched through the streets of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world.
One protester waved a swastika displayed on his smartphone.
Until this week, six Democratic members of Congress were DSA members. So far only one has resigned from the organization and that is their most prominent member, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortes, took two whole days to condemn this disgusting display of hate.
But is she now also going to retire from the DSA?
Sanders is the face of angry left-wing progressivism and America must now recognize that much of that movement is viciously anti-Israel and possibly worse. Look no further than Sunday’s rally of the Democratic Socialists of America in New York’s Times Square. One protester waved a swastika displayed on his smartphone.
Until this week, six Democratic members of Congress were DSA members. So far only one has resigned from the organization and that is their most prominent member, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortes, took two whole days to condemn this disgusting display of hate. But is she now also going to retire from the DSA?
Check out the social media posts from the Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter on Tuesday.
They tweeted an image of a soldier parachuting with a message of support for the Palestinians – an obvious reference to the killing of 260 innocent people at the Nova music festival on Saturday, after armed Hamas terrorists flew in from across the border has.
Pure filth also pours forth from the most elite American universities.
At Harvard, 31 student groups signed an outrageous statement holding Israel ‘fully responsible for all unfolding violence’, while similar sentiments were expressed at Columbia, the University of Virginia and other so-called institutions of higher learning.
How did we get to this point where the most educated stare in the face of evil and somehow fail to see it?
The college students who condemn Trump supporters and everyday conservatives as Nazis will not condemn the actual murderers of Jews.
Is this what the progressive movement has become?
To turn on television is to witness the unbelievable: Liberal American news anchors and guests defending terrorists.
Barely before the bodies went cold, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria invited a Hamas apologist on his Sunday show to spout incredible lies, completely unchallenged.
‘Hamas mainly attacked military institutions, military installations,’ said the flak for rapists and kidnappers, ‘and most of the people they arrested and took as prisoners of war are military people. I do not accept (they attack) any citizen.’
How ridiculous, insultingly untrue.
That interview remains on Zakaria’s Twitter feed today.
Also witness the social media posts from the Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter on Tuesday. They tweeted an image of a soldier parachuting with a message of support for the Palestinians – an obvious reference to the killing of 260 innocent people at the Nova music festival on Saturday, after armed Hamas terrorists flew in from across the border has.
The New York Times refers to Hamas savages in its copy as “fighters” or “militants.”
The cowardly Gray Lady cannot bring herself to call those who carried out possibly the most horrific terrorist attack in history what they clearly are – terrorists.
Meanwhile, MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin took things a bit further, arguing Monday that the brutal killings were the fault of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because he ran a “Jewish supremacy” government.
It was so bad on the Lefty news channel that Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League, who spends most of his time attacking Republicans, lashed out live on MSNBC.
“Who writes these scripts – Hamas?” he asked: ‘If we say it was an escalation, that it was bound to happen, I’m sorry, it was a carnage.’
Again and again – we have heard the rationalizations.
Only when the gruesome details – the beheadings, the infanticide – became too horrific to ignore did some of the anti-Israel fanatics move off their talking points and admit the terrible truth.
But not all.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was followed through the corridors of Congress by journalists on Wednesday and peppered with questions.
‘Congresswoman, Hamas terrorists cut off babies’ heads and burned children alive. Do you support Israel’s rights to defend themselves against this brutality?’ asked a reporter.
Silence.
“You can’t comment on Hamas terrorists chopping off babies’ heads?”
Silence.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was followed through the corridors of Congress by journalists on Wednesday and peppered with questions. ‘Congresswoman, Hamas terrorists cut off babies’ heads and burned children alive. Do you support Israel’s rights to defend themselves against this brutality?’ asked a reporter. Silence. “You can’t comment on Hamas terrorists chopping off babies’ heads?” Silence.
‘Congresswoman, do you have a comment about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies’ heads? Don’t you have anything to say about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies’ heads?’
Tlaib – clearly uncomfortable – kept walking.
But the answer should have been simple: I condemn Hamas. They must be destroyed.
Why couldn’t she say that? Why can’t they all say that?
There is evil in this world, even when it is perpetrated by those the Left considers victims of capitalism or Western progress or colonialism. Anyone who can’t or won’t call it for what it is has no place in our public discourse.
Hamas wants one thing – to exterminate Jews.
Anyone who tries to rationalize or overlook their atrocities belongs in the dustbin of history with the Nazis.
This is so serious. It’s so scary.