What I don’t get is why liberals back Hamas? Except the Jewish libs of course. Is it just hatred for the Jews?
There is a thread nearby that answers that question —
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4196997/posts
Less than 3 minutes. Basically, no one likes the Palestinians, no one protested when we fought ISIS, no one was outraged when Arabs killed Arabs in Iraq or Syria. None of that stuff really registers with anyone on the international stage. BUT if the Jews are involved, people come out of the woodwork to side with the other people. Because a whole lot of people just hate the Jews. It’s been true for centuries. The people who “support the Palestinians” do not, in fact, support the Palestinians. They just hate Jews.
“What I don’t get is why liberals back Hamas?”
It’s simple. Liberals (leftists really) despise anything good and embrace everything evil.
A good deal of it is the leftist tendency to hold the civilized to an impossible standard and hold the barbarian to no standard at all.
You find the same thing when it comes to dropping Atomic Bombs on Imperial Japan. They throw a little cry fest about it every August but they never seem to remember that these were the people who were lining up civilians and having contests to see who could chop off the most heads in a minute.
Hamas p.r. has successfully mapped the Israeli state onto a Marxist model that says it is “colonialism,” and colonialism is the worst thing western Marxists can think of.
I don’t think the left (other than Arabs!) hates Jews, but they hate that they, as Americans, are supporting with cash a country that they think is doing something bad.
This is a helpful framing if you want to argue with one of them, because calling them anti-Semites won’t work, but finding all the ways in which the state of Israel is not a colonial power, is helpful.
If one looks at the last two thousand years of history suspicion and hatred of Jews is a constant. If it was their insularity and “oddness” alone then why haven’t other such exclusive ethnicities/religions been treated as horribly? I was brought up to admire them, have worked in a company where I was one of just two gentiles and was treated like family, and cannot fathom the knee jerk hatred. I can despise Leftists who might coincidentally be Jewish, but not because they’re Jews. There is something strange and disease like in antisemitism.
They’re backing anything the right disagrees with. They’re not ‘for Hamas’. They’re just full of leftist propaganda about the Israeli “apartheid” and the “Palestinian genocide”, or “stolen lands”....etc. etc.
I’d argue 90% of those waving Palestinian flags couldn’t care less about Palestinians, they just hate Jews and Israel.
The left is just evil at this point, grounded in nothing, where chaos against any civil norms rule. Israel is the only Democracy in the entire region - so it must be torn down.
Yes. Rabidly so