For the benefit of other readers of this blog who share my contempt for extremists of the right and left, here is a quote from a recent article in The Atlantic by Simon S. Montefiore, supporting the policy goal of a peaceful two state political structure in Israel/Palestine:
"Whatever the enormous complexities and challenges of bringing a…
For the benefit of other readers of this blog who share my contempt for extremists of the right and left, here is a quote from a recent article in The Atlantic by Simon S. Montefiore, supporting the policy goal of a peaceful two state political structure in Israel/Palestine:
"Whatever the enormous complexities and challenges of bringing about this future, one truth should be obvious among decent people: killing 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 200, including scores of civilians, was deeply wrong. The Hamas attack resembled a medieval Mongol raid for slaughter and human trophies—except it was recorded in real time and published to social media. Yet since October 7, Western academics, students, artists, and activists have denied, excused, or even celebrated the murders by a terrorist sect that proclaims an anti-Jewish genocidal program. Some of this is happening out in the open, some behind the masks of humanitarianism and justice, and some in code, most famously “from the river to the sea,” a chilling phrase that implicitly endorses the killing or deportation of the 9 million Israelis. It seems odd that one has to say: Killing civilians, old people, even babies, is always wrong. But today say it one must."
As bad as the January 6 insurrection supported by Trump was, at least it was not deliberately targeted against innocent civilians. And Biden/ Harris's weak border enforcement policy has probably resulted in more deaths and misery than Trump's allegedly "inhumane" response to that invasion.
For the benefit of other readers of this blog who share my contempt for extremists of the right and left, here is a quote from a recent article in The Atlantic by Simon S. Montefiore, supporting the policy goal of a peaceful two state political structure in Israel/Palestine:
"Whatever the enormous complexities and challenges of bringing about this future, one truth should be obvious among decent people: killing 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 200, including scores of civilians, was deeply wrong. The Hamas attack resembled a medieval Mongol raid for slaughter and human trophies—except it was recorded in real time and published to social media. Yet since October 7, Western academics, students, artists, and activists have denied, excused, or even celebrated the murders by a terrorist sect that proclaims an anti-Jewish genocidal program. Some of this is happening out in the open, some behind the masks of humanitarianism and justice, and some in code, most famously “from the river to the sea,” a chilling phrase that implicitly endorses the killing or deportation of the 9 million Israelis. It seems odd that one has to say: Killing civilians, old people, even babies, is always wrong. But today say it one must."
As bad as the January 6 insurrection supported by Trump was, at least it was not deliberately targeted against innocent civilians. And Biden/ Harris's weak border enforcement policy has probably resulted in more deaths and misery than Trump's allegedly "inhumane" response to that invasion.