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| Victor Davis Hanson - Our Post-Hamas Wreckage |
| 2023-10-17 |
| [American Greatness] As Hamas goes, so with it go many of the following related Western pretensions. THE PASSIONS OF 9/11, REDUX It has been 22 years since we saw crowds throughout the Middle East celebrating the murder of 3,000 civilians—and since newspapers had daily "idiot watch" notices of American intellectuals defending radical Islamist mass murderers. And now the madness is back again, and we are witnessing the recrudescence of normalizing radical Islamic terrorists abroad. I suppose the theory is that no one in America cares much about radical Islamists foaming at the mouth, whether abroad or here. And the result is that they are empowered and their defense of murder is growing—yet its hubris will earn an almost-certain response, an anger slowly but insidiously growing at radical Islam. A MIDDLE EAST POLICY IN RUINS The current Biden appeasement of Iran and gift of billions of dollars in aggregate to the West Bank and Gaza are now, by bipartisan consensus, unsustainable. The only supporters of that lethal madness left are the embarrassments of BLM, the Squad, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the campus crowd. Their collective hatred of Jews and Israelis was manifested in their delight over the post mortem mutilations of murdered women and children. And why—even before Israel had responded with air attacks—were leftists and Islamists suddenly celebrating the news of the executions of more than 1,200 Jews? It was instinctual, a Pavlovian response. Even some leftist Democrats were shocked by their own constituents, whom they had created. Biden still might cling to his past destructive Middle East policies (and I expect him to restrict the Israelis within days after they begin to go in full force into Gaza), but the idea of continuing aid to the West Bank and Gaza or of "normalizing" relations with theocratic Iran will now be rightly seen as a suicidal delusion. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 ..true. However, certain funding can make a tectonic shift from subsidizing the neo-communists in the States to populist candidates in the coming election. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-10-17 07:55 |
| #4 Well, Israel can't outbid petro-Arabs when it comes to deposits in Hunter's offshore accounts. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-17 05:37 |
| #3 I expect him to restrict the Israelis within days after they begin to go in full force into Gaza Hints will be dropped during Biden's Wednesday visit. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-10-17 03:52 |
| #2 Rasmussen: America agrees. Eradicate Hamas |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-17 03:33 |
| #1 Moral Equivalence Means Either Moral Confusion or Hatred of |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-17 03:26 |