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Murdered Hostages and Cheerleaders for Hamas
Frontpagemagazine ^ | September 10, 2024 | Hugh Fitzgerald

Posted on 09/11/2024 6:47:12 AM PDT by SJackson

Some harsh words for the West's Jew-haters.

As the six murdered hostages are being buried in Israel, Brendan O’Neill has some furious words for Western antisemites who have been cheerleading their murderers in Hamas. He rounds on them here: “The deaths of these hostages shame the Western conscience,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, September 1, 2024:

…Now this is resistance. Unprepared, unarmed, these six young people did what they could to resist the anti-Semitic savagery of the invading army from Gaza. They repelled its grenades, rescued some of its intended targets, tended to the victims of its racist sadism. They didn’t ask for war, they didn’t expect war, they didn’t deserve war. But when it came, brutishly intruding on their kibbutzim and parties, they took action that helped to minimise the Jewish people’s suffering. It is a testament to Western radicals’ swirling moral disarray and their detachment from civilisational values that they referred to the racist invaders of Israel as the ‘resistance’, and the Jewish heroes who fought back as ‘colonisers’.

Here’s the only question that matters right now: are Jewish lives worth fighting for? Some of us think they are. Others, from the top of politics to the frenzied anti-Semites on the streets, seem to think otherwise. It is tempting to see the West’s moral disorder over Israel-Hamas as a consequence of that old problem, ‘the sleep of reason’, the sleep of our conscience. But in truth, the West’s conscience has been wide awake, and excitable, and noisy, and it has sided not with kidnapped Jews, but with their kidnappers. Let us hope the memory of the six slain will be a blessing – and let us hope their deaths will be a lesson for a West that seems utterly morally lost.

Brendan O’Neill is enraged at the “morally lost” in the West who have chosen to sympathize not with the six murdered Israelis, but with the Hamas killers who murdered them, just as for the last eleven months of the war in Gaza, so many in the increasingly antisemitic West have expressed their support not for the embattled Jewish state, but for those who would, if they could, wipe that state off the face of the earth. His savage indignation is exactly what is called for.


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1 posted on 09/11/2024 6:47:12 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
2 posted on 09/11/2024 6:50:10 AM PDT by SJackson (Lot of people put my grandpa through hell, and he’s still standing, Kai Trump)
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To: SJackson

These squatters should be given an ultimatum... Either become an Israeli citizen, or go back to where you came from?

Lots of Islamist Arabs are already Israeli citizens... They chose to become part of a democratically elected government. These squatters, instead prefer to hate Jews and squat on land that doesn’t belong to them. They were nomads and akin to tribes based in Egypt, Syria and Jordon... They should return to those states and live there where they belong.


3 posted on 09/11/2024 7:16:39 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: SJackson

BTTT


4 posted on 09/11/2024 8:35:55 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: SJackson

As we remember 9/11, it is important to consider that the US is 34 times larger population, so the 1200 that were murdered viciously and without Mercy on October 7th equates to 44,000 plus in Israel. The US lost 3000 on September 11, 2001. It will one year in October for Israel’s 9/11.


5 posted on 09/11/2024 10:36:52 AM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: SJackson

I’m glad I’m on your ping list, thanks for all your articles.


6 posted on 09/11/2024 2:41:34 PM PDT by blu (Bagster's ping on the side)
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