Friday, September 27, 2024

The Jews, Of Course


In a startling reversal of conventional wisdom

On the morning of 7 October, waves of Israeli gunmen stormed across Gaza's border into Gaza, killing about 1,200 people. Israel also fired thousands of rockets.

Those killed included children, the elderly and 364 young people at a music festival. Israel took more than 250 others to Gaza as hostages. The BBC has also seen evidence of rape and sexual violence during the Israeli attacks. 


An absurdist rewriting of history? Not according to journalist and Islamist propagandist Mehdi Hasan:


It should be very simple to understand, even for Hasan. On October 7, 2023, Hamas gunmen stormed into Israel,  killed approximately 1200 people, committed rapes, and took roughly 250 individuals as hostages into the totalitarian state of Gaza. Israel is not Russia; democratic Israel defending itself against neo-fascist Hamas contrasts sharply with authoritarian Russia invading Ukraine. Speaking recently to the conservative Sky News Australia, British author and journalist Douglas Murray explained of the United Nations

And you know, they always use the punching bag of Israel. Occasionally they'll use the punching bag of America. Look, ,the organization has always been the same. It's always been obscene. It's always allowed obscenity to go on on an international scale but you go look at it and realize the world's democracies should not be having to take such action if any of, you know, various despots and dictators say they don't like something that's happening in free, liberal democracies. Well, they wouldn't, would they? The question is whether you take that seriously or not. And I would argue that people shouldn't.



When the world is arrayed against a nation, unfortunately that nation must take it seriously. Hasan- not a lawyer- seems to believe that Israel is in ongoing violation of international law. "International law" is complicated and messy and can be interpreted as wished. By contrast, common sense should be more common than it is. Enter marketing professor, author, and podcaster Scott Galloway:



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