In the early 1990s, a dialogue was held between Henry Kissinger and Fouad Ajami, moderated by Dan Rather. (Ajami was a Lebanese-born university professor who often appeared as a talking head on TV as an expert on the Middle East.)
This from frontpagemag.com.
At one point during the dialogue, Prof. Ajami noted that when Saddam Hussein used nerve gas on his own people, the UN said nothing. But when Israel uses tear gas, it draws international rebuke.
The double standard is the same today, except worse. Much worse.
Israel experiences the most horrific bloodbath in any one day since the Holocaust, with details too sickening to repeat yet again, and who gets blamed? Israel!
In the words of the infamous document signed by 31 student groups at Harvard:
We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.
What sense does this make? Truly, whether the border was left unguarded intentionally or not, the leadership of the people who were murdered, slaughtered, butchered, incinerated, and raped did not perform the atrocities. Hamas performed the atrocities.
And since the Hamas atrocities? Israel has dropped more than one million leaflets throughout Gaza City, urging the civilians to flee to the south. Israel has made tens of thousands of phone calls—yes, calls to individuals on their phones—as well as having sent out tens of thousands of text messages, saying:
We’re going to bomb your neighborhood. Please get out so you can be safe.
Hamas, in contrast, urges their people to stay, blocks them from leaving, puts up roadblocks to stop them and allegedly confiscates car keys and even shoots their own people dead.
Hamas leadership…makes clear they welcome the death of their people.
In short, Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza while Hamas seeks to maximize civilian casualties there.
But Israel is guilty of killing Gazans? Israel is to blame for this war?
As expressed by Brendan O’Neill on the Spiked website:
So let me get this right. If Israel bombs Hamas targets in Gaza, it is recklessly endangering civilian life. But if it gives civilians fair warning to move away from certain areas, it is engaging in ethnic cleansing. If it drops bombs in built-up suburbs, it is committing a war crime. But if it advises civilians to leave those built-up suburbs before the bombs come, it is also committing a war crime. If it attacks northern Gaza, that’s genocide. Yet when it tells the civilians of northern Gaza to leave first, that’s ‘forced transfer’, which is to say: genocide.
This is a double standard of the caliber of the communist/globalist crime syndicate of America’s two-tiered System of In-Justice, and the Obama Regime arming the Federal Government against Conservatism.
Everything Israel does is a war crime. Everything. Killing civilians—war crime. Trying not to kill civilians—war crime. Bombing populated areas—war crime. Giving a population time to leave before dropping bombs—war crime. The surrealism of these screams of ‘genocide!’ every time an Israeli soldier so much as picks up his gun was brought home by two headlines in the Independent last week, published just 10 hours apart.
Israel is engaged in ‘collective punishment in Gaza’, claimed the first. ‘Israel accused of “trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza Strip” as one million ordered to evacuate’, said the second.
But of course. Israel is always to blame.
That’s because the spirit that animates the demonizing of Israel is the same spirit that animates Jew-hatred in general.
Jews are hated for being rich and for being poor.
Jews are hated for being powerful (they’re trying to take over the world) and for being weak (those miserable, wretched Jews).
Jews are hated for being religious (they think they’re better than us) and for being secular (they’re trying to fit in as if they were just like us).
Jew are hated by Communists and by Fascists.
Jews are hated when they are victims and when they are victors.
Jews are hated for not fighting back (why did they go as sheep to the slaughter under the Nazis?) and for fighting back (they’re guilty of ethnic cleansing and genocide!).
Jews are hated when they are in exile (there’s a reason they’ve been expelled from so many countries) and when they’re in their homeland (they are evil occupiers who don’t belong there).
Jews are hated by Black supremacists and White supremacists.
And Jew-hatred has a strong tradition in both Christianity and Islam.
It’s always those dirty Jews/Zionists!
And lest you think this is just a matter of rhetoric—a matter of mere words—consider the following:
The very same day Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old, Jewish, pro-Israel protester was struck on the head by a pro-Palestinian protester and died as a result of his injuries an article titled, Wake Up World Before Jewish Blood is Shed In Your Country, was posted.
This is why We the People must not remain silent at such a critical time in Jewish history, American history, and world history.
This unequal, unfair, unethical demonizing of Israel and the Jewish people must be confronted and exposed, especially because the nation will continue to face existential threats.
Which side are you on?
