Israel is slaughtering unarmed men! Israel is killing women and children! Israel is butchering babies! It's time for the world to condemn this genocidal nation!
As I wrote in my last column, things are falling into place just as scripted by Hamas. The terrorist organization recruits and sends its young men on suicide missions. Israel responds with the expected force. The media reports the events along anti-Israel lines. Then the nations of the world rise up to condemn evil Israel.
I previously cited Aaron Klein and Melanie Phillips, both of whom pointed out how the secular media plays right into Hamas's hands. Since then, David Friedman, our ambassador to Israel, also weighed in, dubbing the protests and the ensuing casualties "a public relations event."
He said, "If I could give a word of advice to the media, if they purport to care so much about the Palestinian cause: this coverage of Palestinians running to the fence, burning tires — it's the fuel or the lubricant for further malign behavior."
He added, "there's a reason why Hamas sends impressionable kids to the front, telling them that the border is safe to cross. They want them to be killed or injured, to make the front page of the paper."
That is the satanic and cynical strategy of Hamas.
Alan Dershowitz made similar comments, claiming that when the media reports in such "a biased manner," that "incentivizes and encourages Hamas."
According to Chelsea Handler (on Tuesday), "Nikki Haley is on tv talking about Hamas being responsible for the Palestinians protesting yesterday. These people had no weapons. They had tires to burn. There was a dead baby. While Netanyahu celebrates."
Bette Midler tweeted (specifically targeting President Trump), "Fifty-two people die in protest over moving American Embassy to Jerusalem. Thanks, a--hole! Your uninformed and demented actions have consequences! Don't you get it? Those people had families too!"
Michael Ian Black was more succinct: "Two *thousand* wounded. This is a massacre."
Did I say that things were playing out just as Hamas scripted?
Again, as I emphasized in my last column, I grieve over this loss of life as well, regardless of who is ultimately responsible for it. And I do not claim that Israel is perfect in all her actions.
But this is a story we've read before. We know the plot. We know the players. We know how the story ends: Israel is a genocidal monster that must be stopped!
Is it any coincidence that all this is taking place at the same time we relocated our embassy to Jerusalem? Is it any coincidence that Zechariah, writing more than 2,500 years ago, described how all the nations would unite to attack Jerusalem? (See Zechariah 12 and 14. This could speak of all surrounding nations, of a coalition of nations worldwide, or literally, of every nation.)
The plot thickens. (For a lucid, pro-Israel statement by Bret Stephens, published in the New York Times, no less, see here.)
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