Some Voices From The D-MSM (Democratic Mainstream Media Complex)

 Here is David Myers' (Professor of Jewish history at UCLA) Op-Ed in the 10/9/23 Los Angeles Times.  "The Palestinians do not pose a serious threat to the existence of Israel, but they can inflict grave damage on the Israeli body and psyche.  They are not going to disappear.  Nor are they going to surrender their claims to self-determination.  And they are not going to give up the fight against Israel's dehumanizing occupation of 56 years."  He goes on to state that Israel "cannot batter Palestinians into submission."

Notice the deft sleight of hand by subtly interchanging "Palestinians" for "Hamas."  Hamas does need to disappear.  There can be no peace when they have only one goal - the killing of all the Jews and thus the elimination of Israel.  This attack by Hamas was different from all prior ones.  Israel must make Hamas disappear, for the good of Israel, for the good of the people of Gaza, and for the overall good of the Middle East.  

Allow me to remind Professor Myers that Israel vacated Gaza in 2005.  Hamas then won the election in 2006.  Hamas has allowed no further elections.  Hamas could have built a thriving civil society, with the assistance of Israel and the US and some of the Arab countries.  Instead, since 2006 they have non-stop sent missiles and rockets flying into Israel.  

Here is a news article in the 10/26/23 New York Times, on page 8.  In the first paragraph we are told:  "Fuel shortages in the Gaza Strip have grown so dire that the U.N. agency that has helped feed, school and shelter Palestinians there for decades said Wednesday that it might have to start shutting down operations."  The U.N. agency referred to is UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.  

Do not expect anyone at the New York Times to ask why, of the millions of displaced persons (refugees) from around the world following WWII, only the Arabs of Palestine are still referred to as "refugees."  Do not expect anyone at the New York Times to ask why the UN has a special agency just for the Arabs who were displaced.  And definitely do not expect anyone at that paper to ask why the duly elected government (Hamas) has not been taking care of their people - the people of Gaza - since they were elected in 2006.  (Answer:  they spend all their money on armaments and cement and wiring in order to build miles and miles of tunnels into Israel, all with the goal of killing as many Jews as possible.  Much of the food and electrical power goes to Hamas fighters.)

In the 10/22/23 New York Times is this Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman:  "Israel Is About to Make a Terrible Mistake."  Here is Friedman's plan:  "We can help, we can even insist, that our Arab and European allies work to create a more effective, less corrupt and more legitimate Palestinian Authority in the West Bank that, after some transition in Gaza, could help govern there as well.  But not without a fundamental change in Israeli policy toward the authority and the Jewish settlers."  Notice the burden of doing something is always put on Israel.

Mahmoud Abbas was elected President of the PA in 2005, for a four year term.  But his term got extended "indefinitely."  Clearly, there is a problem with both Hamas and the PA.  What "transition" in Gaza?  Friedman talks about getting rid of the Hamas leadership.  It requires more than that.  All of their military infrastructure must be destroyed.  All of the Hamas armaments - missiles, rockets, mortars, machine guns, etc. - must be destroyed or confiscated.  Friedman says the US "can even insist" that our Arab and European allies work to create a better government for the Palestinians.  Yes, because the Arab governments all have such a positive record of creating free and democratic societies.  And the Europeans?  They probably think that Hamas can be persuaded to be a reliably peaceful entity.

Here is Nicholas Kristof in the 10/12/23 New York Times:  "...I'm appalled by the sympathy that some Americans and Europeans have shown for a misogynist and repressive terror organization like Hamas.  If you care about human rights, you want to see Hamas eliminated."  Yes!  He got that right.  But then he followed up with:  "Yet dismantling terrorist organizations can be harder than it looks, and can raise troubling moral questions about collateral damage."  And this is where Kristof is completely wrong.  

Turn to the next post for some voices from the conservative media, and a further discussion as to how these D-MSM commentators are getting it wrong.