"We expected Hamas to try to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate when they did." We also expected the IDF to kill civilians in their typical ferocious, vengeful manner, as they are trained, ordered, and exalted to do. We didn't expect Gaza to become the single most dangerous place in the world to be a child. We didn't expe…
"We expected Hamas to try to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate when they did." We also expected the IDF to kill civilians in their typical ferocious, vengeful manner, as they are trained, ordered, and exalted to do. We didn't expect Gaza to become the single most dangerous place in the world to be a child. We didn't expect tens of thousands of children and babies to be murdered, ripped apart, mutilated, burned alive, left without limbs, parents, food, medicine, water or hope. What Hamas did on Oct 7th is a brutal crime. What has happened since is clearly, demonstrably, grotesquely, an ongoing genocide. It's not even debatable any longer. The innocents are paying the price for the wicked. To deny it is willful ignorance. It's cruelty of the first order. It is an unforgivable sin.
Bari Weiss and the other contributors write a series of thoughtful, sophisticated analyses (look at Ferguson's recent piece, for instance) and all you can offer is a tired expression of moral equivalence. Suffice it to say, that when a terrorist organization spends billions of dollars on military hardware rather than infrastructure to support its peoples' social and economic development, and then attacks a sovereign state across undisputed national borders, deploying the most heinous tactics of rape, disfigurement, and indiscriminate killing of children, women (civilians), all while hiding amongst and beneath their own citizens, the response is going to necessarily result in some very bad outcomes for those who started it.
The innocents are paying the price for the wicked HAMAS, who cares nothing for its own people, only for its soulless, evil goal to eliminate the Jewish people. To deny or ignore THAT is willful ignorance.
"We expected Hamas to try to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate when they did." We also expected the IDF to kill civilians in their typical ferocious, vengeful manner, as they are trained, ordered, and exalted to do. We didn't expect Gaza to become the single most dangerous place in the world to be a child. We didn't expect tens of thousands of children and babies to be murdered, ripped apart, mutilated, burned alive, left without limbs, parents, food, medicine, water or hope. What Hamas did on Oct 7th is a brutal crime. What has happened since is clearly, demonstrably, grotesquely, an ongoing genocide. It's not even debatable any longer. The innocents are paying the price for the wicked. To deny it is willful ignorance. It's cruelty of the first order. It is an unforgivable sin.
Bari Weiss and the other contributors write a series of thoughtful, sophisticated analyses (look at Ferguson's recent piece, for instance) and all you can offer is a tired expression of moral equivalence. Suffice it to say, that when a terrorist organization spends billions of dollars on military hardware rather than infrastructure to support its peoples' social and economic development, and then attacks a sovereign state across undisputed national borders, deploying the most heinous tactics of rape, disfigurement, and indiscriminate killing of children, women (civilians), all while hiding amongst and beneath their own citizens, the response is going to necessarily result in some very bad outcomes for those who started it.
The innocents are paying the price for the wicked HAMAS, who cares nothing for its own people, only for its soulless, evil goal to eliminate the Jewish people. To deny or ignore THAT is willful ignorance.