Full Court Press

There are a couple of issues that I feel the need to reiterate, and possibly strengthen. 

As I wrote in my last post (Fed Up), getting the civilians out of Gaza is imperative. There is no better — no other — way to maximize their safety and provide them with sustenance. In the last week, Mark Levin and Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus made mention of the lack of willingness of other countries to accept civilians from Gaza. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pointed out how no other army in history has done for the enemy’s civilian population what Israel has done in this war for the civilians of Gaza. This is not nearly enough. It needs to become a talking point. There are two points that I think need to be stressed.

First, making Israel responsible for the safety and welfare of Gazans is actually an antisemitic position. The countries calling us out to do more, to end the war, to cut a deal — essentially, to surrender — are all signatories to the working definition of antisemitism set out by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). As I have noted previously, according to the IHRA, a double standard applied to Israel not applied to any other nation is a form of antisemitism.  Just as the call for “the two-state solution” is antisemitic, so too is the demand that Israel fight around, and provide for, a civilian population kept there by Hamas for protection antisemitic. 

What I find very hard to understand is why no one is pressing this argument. We are blessed with articulate and passionate advocates for our cause, both Jewish and otherwise. With all due respect — and I do mean all due respect — to Col. Conricus, Mr. Levin, Caroline Glick, Melanie Philips, Douglas Murry, Ruthie Blum. Hillel Fuld, Yoseph Haddad, Michael Rappaport, Charlie Kirk, Konstantin Kisin,  Ben Shapiro, Ari Fleisher, and any of the others with their own platform or access to others’, I implore you to make this issue a prime focus. I urge my loyal reader(s) to make this issue a prime focus. If you publish comments on other people’s posts, make this a prime focus; if you have connections or contacts with people listed here, or others, push them to make this a prime focus.

The second point on this is to remind people that when the civil war in Syria broke out in 2011, a lot of countries took in refugees. Some, like Lebanon and Turkey, were right there; others, not so close. The U.S. took in about 8.500, Austria took in over 50,000, France took in over 19,000, Canada took in 70,000, and Germany took in more than half a million. Fifty-odd countries stepped up to get those civilians out of that war zone. More recently, 1.2 million Ukrainians ran to Germany, almost a million to Poland, a quarter million to England, almost that many to Spain – well, you get the picture. This is what civilians do when armed conflicts begin — they flee. All the sanctimonious world leaders, pundits and podcasters crying for the safety of the Gazans that cannot come up with a rational reason why the civilians should not be evacuated, should be held accountable as nothing more than Jew haters. And that includes the Jews among them. 

With the expanded military operations in Gaza on the horizon, this is of vital importance for its success, and the safety of our soldiers and hostages. Do not hesitate or hold back.