I Stand With Israel
By Steve Hunley
The Left in this country, along with its allies in the corporate media, has made the Middle East all about Palestine, blithely ignoring the horror of October 7 and the deliberate and savage rape and murders of citizens from infants to the elderly. In any society, the willful mass killing of its citizenry is an act of war. Almost to a person, those Leftist stick puppets whine about the people of Gaza and their suffering at the hands of Israel while pretending no Israeli citizens had been slaughtered while attending a dance. No, for the Left, the Israelis are white and oppressors; therefore, the rape of little girls and women is not only acceptable, but what they deserve. So, too, apparently, is the brutal murder of babies and the elderly merely a dose of justice in the eyes of today’s new antisemites. While the Leftists in this country shriek and wail about our democracy being at risk, or that we are tottering on the edge of authoritarianism, or perhaps a takeover by fascists, and Nazis, they embrace the same racial philosophy of the Nazis, who attempted to literally exterminate Jews. Nor do they give a hoot about democracy. They thought it was just hunky dory to remove the nominee of their party who had gone through the process and won the popular vote in every primary, only to boot him from the ticket and select a woman who never received a single delegate vote for president as their nominee. The nomination of Kamala Harris was more like something out of the Politburo than an American political party, which bothered the Left not at all. It was pretty much the opposite of an exercise in democracy. The same Leftists who shrilly squall that our democracy is under assault are the very same people who wanted to arbitrarily remove the nominee of the Republican Party from state ballots, after having done their best to put him in prison. The same people who loudly cry about our democracy are the very same people who demand others be cancelled, their lives ruined, for saying anything they don’t like. They also demand that all of us worship their false idols of equity, diversity, and inclusion, which, like most everything else they praise, is in truth, none of the above. Nor do these people believe in the right of free speech, at least not for others. Any divergence from their own false gods of DEI, gender identity politics and the like is not to be tolerated. It is as far from democracy as a lie is from the truth.
The Guardian, if not another Leftist news outlet, then certainly a Left-leaning publication, recently reported that support for Israel is at an all-time low since YouGov began conducting surveys. It found only a fifth of respondents in six different Western European countries had a favorable opinion of Israel. Germany, France and Denmark had very negative viewpoints of Israel, as did Italy and Spain. Only in the United Kingdom was it somewhat higher. A more truthful statement would have been it is the least favorable view of the Jewish people since Adolf Hitler occupied most of Europe.
Certainly, it is difficult not to feel sorry for the people of Gaza, but we get what we vote for, just as the people of Gaza did when they elected a government led by Hamas. Who can truly be surprised that terror comes to those who practice it and export it to others?
When war comes due to the policies of a government, the people suffer accordingly, just as the Germans did under Hitler, the Italians under Mussolini, and the Japanese under their feudal warlords. The losses, sadly, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima numbered in the hundreds of thousands of civilian men, women and children. What President Harry Truman had to decide was whether to drop the bombs and have the Japanese sue for peace or likely lose one million American lives in the process of actually invading Japan. Truman chose to think of Americans first.
When Hamas deliberately targeted the lives of infants, women and children, they drew a bloody response from Israel. It was not unwarranted by any means. The Left propaganda cries over the lives of the people of Gaza without once being critical of the cowardly leaders who literally use their people as a shield to protect themselves. The same leaders siphon off the humanitarian aid sent for its own people, only to burrow into the ground and buy weapons. They hide in bunkers built beneath hospitals and schools, knowing Western democracies are unlikely to bomb innocents, something that has never stopped them. It is tragic that civilian lives are lost, but the truth is these cowards who lead Hamas are nothing but terrorist thugs who literally delight in inflicting pain and suffering on Jews and Christians and dealing in death. If they are not rooted out, even more innocent lives would be lost.
Like those who cry crocodile tears for democracy yet hate it in practice and action, their tears for the civilians are insincere and contrived. The terrorists struck and hit hard, raping little girls and women, killing infants and civilians in the most brutal ways imaginable, then slithered back into their holes with hostages, many of whom died from abuse. The same people who cried a river for the civilians of Gaza never shed a tear for the civilians in Israel for the very same reason the Nazis were able to gas, shoot and kill children, women and men, the very young and the very old, because they were Jews. The Holocaust remains the greatest hate crime in the history of the world. Murder condoned by politics has been the practice of every tyrant who has climbed to the top over the bodies of innocent people everywhere.
Let there be no mistake by anyone who reads this newspaper: I still stand with Israel.
