Like the climate crazies who think zero emissions is proper, liberals & the indoctrinated PC types think that war should result in no deaths -- except that of Jews.
I'm never surprised by this any more. Look at our idiot Vice President, who had to mention the "innocent lives lost in Gaza" while ostensibly celebrating the hostage rescues. Is that like the "innocent Germans" who had no idea a Holocaust had taken place in their backyard?
Brendan O'Neill has one of his great pieces over at Spiked-Online: The racism of never blaming Hamas for anything. Following the rescue of four Israeli hostages, it is time the Western left gave Hamas some credit for its evil.
"So rescuing hostages is a war crime now. A ‘grave, grave war crime’, in fact. That’s according to the Guardian’s Owen Jones who is outraged that IDF troops used a humanitarian truck to sneak into the town of Nuseirat where they rescued four of their hostages from the clutches of Hamas and its local heavies. Kenneth Roth, formerly of Human Rights Watch, is also fuming over the IDF’s Trojan Horse antics, reminding Israel that it has a legal duty ‘not to disguise soldiers as civilians’. These people are nuts. What do they expect the IDF to do? Knock on the doors of the fascists holding their compatriots and say: ‘Can we have our Jews back, please?’
"There is frothing anger online over Israel’s rescue operation in Nuseirat. It is bloody proof of Israeli deceit, people are saying. From the ‘war crime’ of troops wearing civilian disguise to the subsequent streetfighting and airstrikes that caused many civilian deaths, this was a wicked massacre, says the anti-Israel set. They’re in agreement with Hamas, which has accused Israel of carrying out a ‘complex war crime’ in Nuseirat. Just one thing is missing from all this boiling commentary: any acknowledgement whatsoever of Hamas’s responsibility for bringing this hellish situation about. When is Hamas going to get some credit for its evil?
"From what we know, the raid of Nuseirat seems to have been a difficult, daring strike. It was given the name ‘Seeds of Summer’. It had been planned in great detail, with the IDF even building mock-ups of the two apartment buildings they believed the four hostages were being held in, in order that they might train for all eventualities. It is reported that the special forces were disguised as displaced Gazans. They told locals they were moving into the apartment buildings. But once inside they started their op, taking out the men who were guarding the hostages and taking the hostages to freedom.
"When Hamas clocked what was happening it fired on the IDF troops, reportedly with AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades, explosive devices and mortar rounds. A battle ensued. Israeli airstrikes were called in. And many died. Fewer than a hundred, according to Israel; more than 250 according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.
"All the fingers are being pointed at Israel. Not only by the usual suspects of the Israelophobic ‘left’ but by the mainstream media, too. ‘An Israeli operation rescues four hostages and kills scores of Palestinians’, said CNN’s headline. The BBC all but made itself an outpost of Hamas propaganda with its early headline on the raid. ‘Gaza health ministry says Israeli hostage rescue killed 274 Palestinians’, it announced to the millions who peruse the BBC for their news. Here was the public broadcaster splashing not with the liberation of four Jews from the captivity of a racist terror group, but with Hamas’s self-serving claim that Israel, and Israel alone, caused the civilian deaths in Nuseirat.
"The political class stooped even lower. There is ‘outrage’ in European political circles over this latest ‘massacre’ in Gaza, reports the Guardian. The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, called it ‘another massacre of civilians’. Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, said the Nuseirat raid is proof of Israel’s ‘genocidal intent’. She accused Israel of killing ‘at least 200 Palestinians, including children’, all while ‘perfidiously hiding in an aid truck’. This was ‘humanitarian camouflage’ for genocide, she thundered.
"We really are living in an era of moral inversion. Every day there is a sinister twisting of the truth to suit the ideological prejudices of those who loathe Israel. Hamas hides the hostages it seized from the Nova music festival in a densely populated civilian area, and yet it’s Israel that is accused of being ‘perfidious’. Hamas purposely puts its Jewish victims among the women and children of a crowded refugee camp, and yet it’s Israel that is accused of wearing a ‘humanitarian camouflage’. Hamas was founded with the express intention of murdering Jews, an intention it gave brute force to on 7 October with its slaughter of a thousand Israelis, and yet it’s Israel that is damned as ‘genocidal’. The racist hostage-takers are reimagined as victims, the liberators of the hostages as criminals. It is one Kafkaesque lie after another.
"Where is Hamas in all the political rage over what happened in Nuseirat? It has been invisibilised, scrubbed from the narrative so that the blame might be heaped on Israel alone. Hamas merits not one mention in Francesca Albanese’s angry doggerel. Does she not know that Hamas started the Battle of Nuseirat, by firing its lethal weaponry at the IDF from amid the civilian hordes? Or perhaps she doesn’t care? You have to go beyond the headlines about Israel ‘killing 274 Palestinians’ to discover that the IDF came ‘under heavy fire’ and ‘fought intense gun battles’ with Hamas militants. To describe an army’s response to the bullets and missiles of terrorists as ‘genocidal’ is an unconscionable manipulation of language for cynical political ends."
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The New York Post has an editorial with a similar theme:
If you love life, celebrate Israel’s amazing hostage rescue
"Israel, it turns out, can’t even rescue innocents without Hamas’ cheerleaders and useful idiots in the West erupting in outrage.
"The war against Hamas, prompted by the horrors of Oct. 7, has seen much darkness. But finally, a ray of light broke through.
"A daring rescue mission took back four hostages whom the Islamist killers had seized at the Nova music festival: Noa Argamani, Almog Meir, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv.
"The raid showed the hallmarks for which Israeli military and intelligence actions are deservedly famous: unthinkable bravery, unfathomable skill, bone-deep resolution.
"And as with Yoni Netanyahu in the equally heroic and daring rescue of Israeli hostages at Entebbe airport in 1976, the leader of this mission sacrificed his own life for those of his fellow citizens — Arnon Zamora, may his memory be a blessing.
"In a sane world, the rescue would have been cause for global celebration: the deliverance of captives from the hands of monstrous Islamist killers.
"Instead?
"Outrage from United Nations and European Union functionaries that Israel dared to act at all — because Palestinians died in the course of the rescue.
"Gaza’s Health Ministry, a proven fount of lies, claims 274 deaths, but there’s ample reason to distrust these figures.
"Yet pro-Hamas journalists at the Washington Post, the Associated Press, the BBC and elsewhere took the Jewish state to task in their headlines and reporting, implying that Jewish lives aren’t quite worth enough to command the last full measure of devotion from their fellow countrymen.
"Leftist terror-lovers on X went even further, with some absurdly stating that if they’d been taken by Hamas, they wouldn’t even want to be rescued if it meant civilian casualties.
"Even Vice President Kamala Harris in a Saturday speech spent more time “mourning” the deaths of those Palestinians than she did rejoicing over the rescue.
"This moral fog has persisted since Israel began to fight back against a group proudly and publicly devoted to its destruction and the mass murder of its citizens.
"So let’s be clear.
"Hamas, and Hamas alone, bears responsibility for these civilian deaths.
"The group hid the hostages in Gaza’s Nuseirat market area precisely to ensure this outcome; anyone arguing that such deaths are a stain on Israel is doing the work of would-be genocidaires.
"The rescue should and must be celebrated among everyone who loves life more than death. "
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Well, that leaves out must of the Jew-haters in the words, including the collaborators & appeasers in the White House, the sympathizers on college campuses, the liberal media, the United Nations, and every terrorist group,
They won't celebrate until every Jewish person is dead and Israel has been destroyed.
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