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Source: https://www.thefp.com/p/bari-weiss-dark-tunnels-and-moral
Moral Confusion in the West on the Gaza War
(Free Press) Bari Weiss - Six innocent Israelis were murdered by Hamas terrorists who stole them nearly a year ago. The chaos Hamas ushered in on Oct. 7 with the mass rape, abduction, torture, and slaughter that marked the start of Iran's multifront war against Israel exposed a moral confusion in the West. We read headlines describing these six Israelis as having "died" in Gaza. We are told that those defending their murderous captors "have a point." The foundational principle of our civilization is that every human life has dignity. It is this very principle that Hamas and its barbaric ilk are trying to turn on its head. Many will rightly point out that Americans should be especially outraged because one of those murdered, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was an American citizen. But it's not just that one of Iran's terror proxies murdered an American citizen. It's that he and all of those murdered by Hamas are on the front lines of a wider war that America is already part of - whether we like it or not. In other words: This is not only about Israel. It is about the reality that those who burn Israeli flags burn them alongside American ones. Hersh, and those executed beside him, were killed by Iran, a country now in league with China and Russia, that calls for death to America in the same breath it calls for the destruction of Israel. Statements of sorrow from the leaders of the Free World are insufficient. The message to terrorists and those who support them should be that the defenders of civilization will defeat them. No matter the cost.