The Unhinged Among Us

American Greatness ^ | November 30, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Heartlander]

Is the pro-Hamas crowd ignorant of Middle East history?

October 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation.

During peace and holiday, invading Hamas gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated some 1,200 Israelis. The vast majority were unarmed women, children, infants, and the elderly.

The cowardly murderers proudly filmed their atrocities and then fled back to Gaza—to cheers from the Gaza street.

Before Israel even retaliated, the mass murdering of Jews earned praise from the Middle East, the international hard left, and especially the faculty and students of elite Western campuses.

When the Israeli Defense Forces struck back, the killers dispersed to the safety of their multibillion-dollar subterranean cities. The cowardly elite architects of the mass murder fled to Arab sanctuaries in Lebanon and Qatar.

From its headquarters burrowed below hospitals, mosques, and schools, Hamas bartered hostages for a reprieve from the IDF and the release of its own convicted terrorists in Israeli jails.

Hamas shot any of its own supporters who refused to shield Hamas gunmen.

It continued launching rockets at Israeli civilian centers. It serially lied about its casualties, expropriating intended relief food and fuel for its underground tunnel city of killers.

Abroad, Hamas supporters also emulated the methods of the pro-Nazi demonstrators in Western cities of the 1930s. Unlike their pro-Israel critics, the pro-Hamas demonstrators in the U.S. and Europe turned violent.

They took over and defaced private and public property. They chanted genocidal anti-Semitic slogans calling for erasure of the nation of Israel.

They interrupted shoppers, blocked highways, attacked businesses, and swarmed bridges. They assaulted police.

The majority wore masks to hide their identities in the fashion of anti-semitic Klansmen.

Why did the doctrinaire left, the youth of the Democratic Party, and the campuses outdo each other in their anti-semitic venom toward Israel?

For the first time in their lives, many of the ignorant protestors...

[wny]

the world will never run out of useful idiots...

[Lurker]

Many, if not most, of them are indeed ignorant. But facts alone won’t cure that. What these people want is nothing less than the complete destruction of western Judeo-Christian society.

They’re going after Israel and the Jews first because they’re smaller in number. Once the Jews are gone they’ll come after the Christians. Some of them already are. They’re shutting down Christmas tree lightings and no one is doing one damned thing to stop them.

“First the Saturday people. Then the Sunday people.”

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[Liz]

AND THIS----Hamas has said it will attack Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a population of 467,875, it is the economic and technological center of the country.

Tel Aviv is the country’s second-most-populous city, after Jerusalem; if not, Tel Aviv is the most populous city, ahead of West Jerusalem. Tel Aviv is home to most of Israel’s foreign embassies.

It is ranked 57th in the 2022 Global Financial Centres Index. Tel Aviv has the third- or fourth-largest economy and the largest economy per capita in the Middle East.

The city currently has the highest cost of living in the world. Tel Aviv receives over 2.5 million international visitors annually.[15][16] A “party capital” in the Middle East, it has a lively nightlife and 24-hour culture.[17][18] The city is gay-friendly, with a large LGBT community.[19] Tel Aviv is home to Tel Aviv University, the largest university in the country with more than 30,000 students.

[Dan in Wichita]

VDH asks "Is the pro-Hamas crowd ignorant of Middle East history?"

Yes they are. They are ignorant of many things, which makes them very dangerous to this nation's survival.

[Dixie Yooper]

If all the former American universities weren’t so addicted to Arab oil money over the past decades, their students and most of their graduates wouldn’t have an opinion on anything going on in the middle east.

[mac_truck]

They are ignorant of many things, which makes them very dangerous to this nation's survival.

Meh...At least the pro-Palestinian protesters aren't excluding the Democrats from their ire. They got that part right.

[DeplorablePaul]

The Palestinian sympathizers are terrorists. Right now they are planning Oct 7 attacks on America. After watching the town counsel debate a pro Hamas resolution, apparently Oakland is now our version of Gaza. The enemy is amongst us.

[pas]

Ignorant of all history.

[Noumenon]

KTF KTA