{"id":7829,"date":"2014-07-18T16:52:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/18\/the-truth-about-gaza\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:52:34","slug":"the-truth-about-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/18\/the-truth-about-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To deliberately wage war so that your own people can be telegenically killed is indeed moral and tactical insanity. But it rests on a very rational premise: Given the Orwellian state of the world\u2019s treatment of Israel (see: the U.N.\u2019s grotesque Human Rights Council), fueled by a mix of classic anti-Semitism, near-total historical ignorance, and reflexive sympathy for the ostensible Third World underdog, these eruptions featuring Palestinian casualties ultimately undermine support for Israel\u2019s legitimacy and right to self-defense.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a world of such Kafkaesque ethical inversions, Hamas\u2019 depravity begins to make sense. This is a world in which the Munich massacre is a movie and the murder of Klinghoffer is an opera \u2014 both deeply sympathetic to the killers. This is a world in which the U.N. ignores humanity\u2019s worst war criminals while incessantly condemning Israel, a state warred upon for 66 years which nonetheless goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid harming the very innocents its enemies use as shields.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s to the Israelis\u2019 credit that amid all this madness they haven\u2019t lost their moral scruples. Or their nerve. Those outside the region have the minimum obligation, therefore, to expose the madness and speak the truth. Rarely has it been so blindingly clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Excerpt: To deliberately wage war so that your own people can be telegenically killed is indeed moral and tactical insanity. But it rests on a very rational premise: Given the Orwellian state of the world\u2019s treatment of Israel (see: the U.N.\u2019s grotesque Human Rights Council), fueled by a mix of classic anti-Semitism, near-total historical ignorance, … Continue reading “The Truth About Gaza”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}