We've gone from "you can't be not-racist, you must be anti-racist" to "as long as the antisemitic slogan didn't come out of my mouth, you can't fault me for marching with people who chanted it."
Not only does Israel have a right to exist, it will continue existing independent of anything America does.
It has a strong economy, nuclear weapons, the strongest cyberwarfare capabilities on earth, and I'm sure it would easily turn to China or Russia for weapons should our relationship falter. Jews have been surviving since the Assyrian Exile, and they would survive this.
But, I also agree with Bernie Sanders. According to WSJ, Gaza has been destroyed more than Dresden at this point. Literally no city has been more destroyed in modern warfare. In my view, funding Ukraine is a far higher national security priority - and I do not support funding military aid for destroying Gaza further.
But, if you care about dignity for Palestinian civilians, we should start from a place of realism. This idea that Israel will stop existing if America decides to abandon them is magical thinking. We should help lead an international coalition to rebuild Gaza and support a Palestinian government whose focus is the humanitarian crisis, not more terror.
Notice: Not a single one of the armed Hamas terrorists in the footage is in military uniform. If they are killed, the world will blame Israel for “killing civilians.”
Also, this is the first time I see what happens after Hamas terrorists fire on Israeli tanks. In Hamas Aljazeera propaganda footage, pic is always frozen in the middle of the blast, never showing what happens next ( apparently nothing).
This is sheer sophistry. Muslims came from Arabia in the 7th century to invade, conquer, and colonize virtually the whole Middle East. Today, as a result, there are 55 Muslim nations and 21 Arab countries — not one of which the left seeks to decolonize.
As for historic Palestine, 77% of the territory has been a Muslim Arab country devoid of Jews — (Trans)Jordan — since 1921. Israel is the one modest sliver of land ruled by its indigenous people, the Jews, who had been living there for centuries before the Muslim Arabs showed up.
The left doesn't care about "decolonizing" Palestine or anywhere else in the Middle East. If it did, it would be marching in the streets and demonstrating on campuses to restore Kurdistan to the Kurds, Morocco & Algeria to the Berbers, and Egypt to the Copts. No — the only left-wing priority in the region is to strip Jewish sovereignty from the only bit of territory where Jews have ever been sovereign.
Jew-hatred always finds a larger cause to latch onto. In medieval times, antisemites used Christianity as a pretext. In the 20th century, they dressed up their bigotry as racial hygiene. Today their hatred of Jews masquerades as decolonization. In the end it always comes to the same thing: Jews cannot live on the same terms as other people. There is only one Jewish country on earth, but for the likes of Malcolm Harris and his left-wing friends, that is one Jewish country too many.
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