Who's Afraid of Hamas?

Yesterday was a great day for Israel and a great day for America. To mark the occasion Hamas decided to invade Israel. It chose to sacrifice the lives of its subjects in order to rain on the Israeli parade and to gin up the outrage among more cowardly Western political and media elites. Hamas was not going to invade Israel. It was allowed, however, to invade the international media, to counterpoint the picture of comity in Jerusalem with images of its own form of suicidal terrorism.

To its credit, the Trump administration declared that Israel had the right to defend itself and that Hamas was solely to blame for the carnage that it had engineered. It's called speaking truth to power. 

Who’s afraid of Hamas? Not the Trump administration. We note that whenever the Trump administration does something that makes the Obama administration look like a failure, the media and the Western European intelligentsia immediately suggests that something very bad is going to happen. It’s a coward’s thought, suggesting that Trump is being foolish where Obama and Bush and Clinton had been wise. And yet, is it foolish to stand up to terrorism, to refuse to bow before a threat? Or is it courage? Did it cross anyone’s mind that the Palestinian territories have been a laboratory for terrorism and that the only way to stop the terrorism is to stand firmly against it, to refuse to blame it on Israel and the West.

Didn’t the Obama administration run policy on the premise that America's sins against Islam, its Islamophobia was causing Islamist terrorism? Isn't that why Obama apologized for American, denounced America's sins and expressed the greatest respect for Islam? Funny thing, many of the world's Muslim countries saw the pathetic spectacle and decided that Obama was weak and untrustworthy.

Didn’t the Obama administration believe that the Israeli occupation had caused Palestinian terrorism? Didn’t other administrations act as though such were the case? Haven’t successive American presidents tried to play honest broker between a legitimate government and a terrorist state? Hasn’t this policy emboldened terrorists around the world?

Obviously, the leaders of Western European governments, quaking in their boots over the threat posed by the Muslims in their midst were quick to denounce Israel. One expected as much from New York Times columnists like Nicholas Kristof and Michelle Goldberg. One was not disappointed Even the Israeli leftist publication Haaretz came out against Trump and Netanyahu. You will not be surprised to learn that no Congressional Democrats attended the Jerusalem ceremony.That's none, as in zero.

Think about it: the degenerate Hamas regime sacrifices the lives of its subjects for nothing… and the media, even Jews, blame Israel and Donald Trump.

As for Hamas, it was doing what it knows how to do. It was sacrificing human lives in the pursuit of a lost cause. It does not know how to run a government. It does not know how to provide prosperity for its people. It knows only how to manipulate their emotions and to turn them into martyrs. It does it because that’s all it knows how to do. 

True enough, Western European countries seem not to have gotten the message. Many leftist Jews seem not to have gotten the message. They should be thankful that Netanyahu and Trump have.