(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - You can judge a person by which side they're taking in the clash between Israel and the neo-fascists of Hamas. Much of the media coverage leaves one with the wholly post-truth impression that the IDF is raiding Gaza City for sport. Or for land. Or in further, feverish pursuit of its curiously unsuccessful "genocide" of the Palestinian people. The other side in the battle - Hamas's army of apocalyptic Jew-haters - has been virtually invisibilized. It's as bizarre as if newspapers had reported on the Battle of Raqqa without mentioning ISIS, or the Battle of Berlin without ever saying the word "Nazi." It's a kind of wartime censorship to erase the side that started the war in the first place. A UN commission of inquiry reported that Israel is committing genocide. Its proof? That "Israeli security forces were aware that their military operations since 7 October 2023 would cause the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza." By this infantile definition - basically, your military action caused casualties - every war in history has been a genocide. If you tell only one side in an existential war to cease fire, then you're objectively aligning with the other side. When I hear the opinion-forming classes squawk "Stop Israel," they've decided, however witlessly, that the security of the Jewish nation is of less moral worth than the deranged ambitions of Hamas. This is a battle between the army of a democratic nation and a terrorist militia that loathes the infidel West as much as it does the Jews. Pick a side.
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