PEOPLE LOVE DEAD PALESTINIANS
AND NO ONE LOVES THEM MORE THAN THE SO-CALLED “PRO-PALESTINIANS.” WHY DOESN’T ANYONE SEE THE PROBLEM HERE?
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Typical.
Small clusters of the most hideous people in Canada (and almost certainly larger clusters elsewhere in the world, Canadians being so notoriously nice and all) are celebrating October 7 this weekend.
Chris Selley sums up the problem in today’s National Post. People barely deserving of the term have scheduled celebratory “teach-ins” about “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” (what decent people call the October 7 terror attacks) and are holding celebratory rallies across the country (and, as I said, certainly bigger and even more celebratory ones in less-nice countries).
According to Selley in today’s Post, the Israeli government says 17,000 people have been killed in Gaza. My research says the Israeli government hasn’t released an official number but unofficially acknowledges 20,000 to 30,000 deaths. The Hamas-run, ahem, “Ministry of Health” says about 42,000 have died.
Activists who haven’t opened a dictionary declare “GENOCIDE!” (Because, I think, in a truly sick projection, if we can convince ourselves that the Jews are perpetrating genocide, humanitarians can sleep a little better at night knowing that our grandparents snoozed through the Holocaust. Just a theory. But anyways.)
In fact, of course, in the most challenging geography for a moral army to operate, the Israel Defence Forces, according to experts, has minimized civilian casualties to rates about commensurate with comparable conflicts (insofar as any war can be compared with another). Of course, these activists, in 1944, would have called for a ceasefire based on “disproportionate” German versus British dead.
Meanwhile, overseas activists and feverish commentators imply that every one of these dead is an innocent civilian. They love to use the term “women and children,” a term that, in times of war, is generally synonymous with “civilians” or “innocent casualties.” That term doesn’t apply here like that. It ignores Hamas’s widespread use of child combatants and the systemic inculcation of suicidal terrorist inspiration in women and, especially, girls. They also wail lamentations about “reporters,” “UN workers” and other do-gooders killed by malevolent Zionists — and their dirges don’t take a break even when the dead in UN vests and carrying press credentials are found to be active terrorists engaging in war crimes. Never mind that part.
So it’s challenging. Any accounting of human deaths is by definition grotesque. A child is born innocent, with boundless potential. That any one of them grows up to be killed in war is always a tragedy. What happens between birth and death, though, matters. And Palestinian governments and society have, for generations, done their best to ensure that a good chunk of those babies will grow into terrorists, raised to kill and be killed because fighting the Zionists, however fruitlessly, is more important than life itself. (Yeah, yeah, yeah. This paragraph reeks of that old saw “Life is cheap for those people.” Do you know anything about Palestinian society? But anyways.)
Dara Horn wrote a book with the provocative title People Love Dead Jews. It is a challenging and innovative look at the world’s approach to Jewish history and current events, purporting that (I summarize crudely) the world venerates Jews who go like sheep to the slaughter. Jews who fight back, not so much.
Something parallel is happening right now with the world’s approach to Palestinians.
It’s different, though. It’s kind of inverted in that the world seems to love Palestinians who go not like sheep to the slaughter but go like the slaughterer to the sheep. I’m pretty sure there’s some deep socio-psychological shit going on in which activists around the world find some solace in Jews (in the October 7 narrative) returning to their historically appropriate condition as sheep, as opposed to their condition (in the post-October 8 narrative) as lions who refuse to see their people murdered without consequences.
Arguing over who are the sheep and who are the lions clouds the bigger picture. Guilt for every single death — Israel, Palestinian (and every other individual whose life was taken because they were Jew-adjacent on October 7) — rests on the shoulders of those who started this war a year ago. That’s where culpability lies.
You wouldn’t know that from listening to some of the leading voices “for Palestine” in Canada these days.
Get this:
At the time when Hamas was claiming 30,000 had been killed in Gaza, the New Democratic Party’s foreign affairs critic in Parliament stood up in the House and deplored the dying — who doesn’t? — but added a crucial adjective.
“More than 30,000 innocent civilians have been killed in Gaza,” she said.
Wait. What?
Uncritically gobbling down the Hamas-fed numbers, McPherson goes further than even the blood-soaked terrorists do, asserting that every last one of them was an innocent civilian.
One can’t help wondering who McPherson thinks is perpetrating the terror emanating from Gaza.
Innocent civilians, presumably.
Hyperbole, hysteria and hyperventilation are rampant in Canada’s left-wing party. Just one of the many notable other examples of NDP massacres of morality was when Vancouver MP Don Davies accused Israel of specifically picking off the Palestinian intelligentsia.
Comments like these should not only get them laughed out of polite society, they should be drummed out of Parliament by their constituents. But neither has faced much backlash for their despicable comments.
In the fever swamps of the “pro-Palestinian” movement, neither Palestinians nor Israelis tend to be actual human beings. They are avatars onto which activists project their disordered ideas about race, nationalism, religion, inequality and pretty much everything they can’t figure out through rational processes. (Antisemitism has always provided a master key to unlock the unanswerable questions. Anti-Zionism plays that role now. In neither case does it make any sense.)
With this dehumanized approach to both Palestinians and Israelis, the higher the number of dead on both sides, the better for the Falastinian fanatics fantasy football hobbyists. At the winning weekly matchups, the inevitable lopsided “victory” of dead Palestinians over dead Israelis is cause not for mourning but for celebration by the keffiyeh-clad clods we’ll see Monday night hailing October 7.
As the invitation to one of these events declares: “Al-Aqsa Flood set the stage for a liberated Palestine, from the river to the sea, once and for all.”
Did it, though?
Of course it didn’t. It set the stage for continued war and devastation. It set the stage for (depending on who you ask) 17,000 dead Palestinians or fire-breathing leviathans gorging on billions of Palestinian babies. (I embroider but only just.)
And, in the eyes of overseas “pro-Palestinians,” that, in itself, is victory.
It’s not, of course. It’s the reason tens of thousands of Palestinians are dead.
But to these activists: same same. Dead Israelis? We win. Dead Palestinians? They lose.
Doesn’t anyone see the problem?
I appreciate your consistent writing on the subject of the degree to which the Western left has fully embraced the cause of the Islamist monsters. It is certainly enough to drive anyone normal insane to try to make sense of all this. The only thing we need to understand about the left is as follows:
1. It hates Western Civilization
2. Any entity that opposes Western Civilization is not just an ally but to be revered and worshipped.
3. The Jews are the symbol of Western Civilization so they are worthy of death.
Now this attitude once belonged to extremists and is now seeping into the "acceptable" left. The "acceptable" left often pretends to not hate the West and to not wish death on the Jews. But the mask is slipping.
Re celebrations, in my town on the Hudson River, a local restauranteur is offering a so-called fund-raising dinner in support of Gazans tomorrow, October 6. It's been advertised in local papers and on Event Brite. It was originally scheduled for Oct. 7, which made it even more obvious that the dinner is really meant to be a celebration. I don't know why the date changed. To be less obvious? One can attract more customers on a Sunday? Thanks for another good piece.