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Israel's Stunning Blow Against Hamas's Fascists

(Spectator-UK) Brendan O'Neill - Imagine if, following an Allied raid on Nazi positions, the newspapers the next day told us about nothing but the civilian casualties. No mention of the fascists who were killed. Instead, just pained commentary on the suffering of the innocents who tragically found themselves swept up in this act of war. We would think that strange, right? Well, that's how I feel perusing the coverage of Israel's resumption of its military crusade against Hamas. You could be forgiven for thinking this is a blindly barbarous assault in which only the guiltless have perished. It's not true. In reality, Israel appears to have landed a brilliant blow on the new fascism, taking out some of Gaza's most nefarious radical Islamists who played key roles in the armies of antisemites that subjected the Jews of Israel to such horrors on 7 October 2023. The removal of Hamas's de facto prime minister, its security chief, its top domestic bruiser and other commanders represents the decapitation of this racist movement that poses such a threat to the Jewish nation and to civilization itself. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a deranged Sunni Islamist army devoted to the destruction of Israel, also confirmed that its military spokesman was killed. PIJ gleefully took part in 7 October's carnival of violence. Yet we're left with the impression that Israel has only killed innocents, and only intended to. When it comes to the Jewish State and its fight against the Islamist armies that surround it, we're fed an infantile morality tale in which Israel is a genocidal maniac and Gaza an unimpeachably blameless land peopled entirely by innocents. The truth of war - a war Hamas started - is buried by a furious and sometimes pornographic obsession with civilian suffering. We are actively discouraged from coolly discussing Hamas's culpability, the question of Jewish security, and the idea of a "just war."
2025-03-23 00:00:00
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