The Jews Face a Double Standard

Marvin Hier writes about how The Jews Face a Double Standard
Why doesn’t Israel have the same right to self-defense as other nations? (emphasis added)

Red Cross officials are all over the Gaza crisis, describing it as a full-blown humanitarian nightmare. Where were they during the seven months when tens of thousands of Israeli families could not sleep for fear of a rocket attack? Where were their trauma experts to decry that humanitarian crisis?

There have been hundreds of articles and reports written from the Erez border crossing falsely accusing Israel of blocking humanitarian supplies from reaching beleaguered Palestinians in Gaza. (In fact, over 520 truck loads of humanitarian aid have been delivered through Israeli crossings since the beginning of the Israeli counterattack.) But how many news articles, NGO reports and special U.N. commissions have investigated Hamas’s policy of deliberately placing rocket launchers near schools, mosques and homes in order to use innocent Palestinians as human shields?

Worst of all are the calls for cease-fire:

And then there are the clarion calls for a cease-fire. These words, which come so easily, have proven to be a recipe for disaster. Hamas uses the cease-fire as a time-out to rearm and smuggle even more deadly weapons so the next time, instead of hitting Sderot and Ashkelon, they can target Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

The pattern is always the same. Following a cease-fire brought on by international pressure, there will be a call for a massive infusion of funds to help Palestinians recover from the devastation of the Israeli attack. The world will respond eagerly, handing over hundreds of millions of dollars. To whom does this money go? To Hamas, the same terrorist group that brought disaster to the Palestinians in the first place.

The world seems to have forgotten that at the end of World War II, President Harry Truman initiated the Marshall Plan, investing vast sums to rebuild Germany. But he did so only with the clear understanding that the money would build a new kind of Germany — not a Fourth Reich that would continue the policies of Adolf Hitler. Yet that is precisely what the world will be doing if we once again entrust funds to Hamas terrorists and their Iranian puppet masters.

Hier’s article is spot-on, and also is Spanish journalist Pilar Rahola, whose article La lucha por la libertad The struggle for freedom I mentioned in this morning’s podcast:

¿Por qué no vemos manifestaciones en París, o en Londres, o en Barcelona en contra de las dictaduras islámicas? ¿Por qué no lo hacen contra la dictadura birmana? ¿Por qué no hay manifestaciones, en contra de la esclavitud de millones de mujeres, que viven sin ningún amparo legal? ¿Por qué no se manifiestan en contra del uso de niños bombas, en los conflictos donde el Islam está implicado? ¿Por qué no ha liderado nunca la lucha a favor de las víctimas de la terrible dictadura islámica de Sudan? ¿Por qué nunca se ha conmovido por las víctimas de los actos de terrorismo en Israel? ¿Por qué no considera la lucha contra el fanatismo islámico, una de sus causas principales? ¿Por qué no defiende el derecho de Israel a defenderse y a existir? ¿Por qué confunde la defensa de la causa palestina, con la justificación del terrorismo palestino? Y la pregunta del millón, ¿por qué la izquierda europea, y globalmente toda la izquierda, solo está obsesionada en luchar contra dos de las democracias más sólidas del planeta, Estados Unidos e Israel, y no contra las peores dictaduras? Las dos democracias más sólidas, y las que han sufrido los atentados más sangrantes del terrorismo mundial. Y la izquierda no está preocupada por ello. Y finalmente, el concepto de compromiso con la libertad. Oigo esa expresión en todos los foros propalestinos europeos. ‘¡Estamos a favor de la libertad de los pueblos!’, dicen con ardor. No es cierto. Nunca les ha preocupado la libertad de los ciudadanos de Siria, de Irán, del Yemen, de Sudan, etc… Y nunca les ha preocupado la libertad destruida de los palestinos que viven bajo el extremismo islámico de Hamás. Solo les preocupa usar el concepto de libertad palestina, como misil contra la libertad israelí.
(my translation:)
Why don’t we see demonstrations in Paris, London or Barcelona against the Islamist dictatorships? Or against the Burma dictatorship? How come there are no demonstrations against the slaving of millions of women who have no legal recourse? Why are there no demonstrators protesting the use of child bombers, in conflicts where Islam is involved? How come there’s no leadership supporting the victims of the terrible Islamic dictatorship in Iran? How come there’s no sympathy for the victims of terrorism in Israel? Why is there no regard for the struggle against Islamist fanaticism, one of its root causes? How come no one defends the right of Israel to exist, and to defend itself? How come people confuse defending the Palestinian cause with justifying Palestinian terrorism? And the million dollar question, how come the European left, and the left around the world, is only obsessed with fighting against the two most solid democracies in the planet, the United States and Israel, and not against the worst dictatorships? The two strongest democracies, which are the ones which have suffered the bloodiest attacks of world terrorism. And the left isn’t bothered by that. And finally, the concept of commitment to liberty. I hear that phrase in all the European pro-Palestinian forums. “We’re in favor of the people’s freedom!”, they say fervently. Not true. They have never worried about the freedom of the citizens of Syria, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, etc. And they have never worried about the crushed freedom of the Palestinians who live under Hamas’s Islamic extremism. They only care about using the concept of Palestinian freedom as a missile against Israel’s freedom.

Very true indeed: Take a look at the goings-on in front of the Israeli embassy in Caracas today: Is this hatred?

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