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The U.S. Media's Moral Blindness over Hamas Is Showing
(The Hill) Becket Adams - In the clearest moral test in a generation, much of the U.S. media is failing spectacularly. On Oct. 7, the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas murdered an estimated 1,400 Israelis, many of whom were civilians, and kidnapped nearly 250 others to use as hostages. Israel has since responded with military force, vowing to root out and destroy Hamas. In this specific moment, when Israel is responding militarily to the greatest single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, the question of who committed evil and who is justified could not be any clearer. Yet despite the universally shared principle that murder and terrorism are wrong, many journalists and editors appear to be morally confused. A combination of "both-sides-ism" and kid-gloves treatment for Hamas terrorists is not just morally repugnant; it's absurd. It wasn't so long ago that many of these same journalists laid out, in explicit detail, why it's so dangerous to say there are "very fine people on both sides." There is a key difference between Israel's military-state struggle for self-preservation against armed enemies and Hamas' wanton, intentional massacre of helpless civilians. For anyone with a moral compass, there is nothing that could ever excuse or even explain the deliberate, targeted atrocities.