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Leftists considered independence from Western powers to be progressive, but it led to Muslim totalitarianism. Something similar happened in Cuba in 1959, when Fidel Castro pushed Cuba into the orbit of the Soviet socialist atheist empire.
During these days of Hamas attacks, a couple of defenders of “the Palestinian cause,” Igal and Cindy Flash, were murdered in their home by the terrorists. I imagine that they must have shouted at the barrels of their executioners’ weapons, “We are with you, we support you, we feel your pain!” But anti-Semitic fanaticism does not tend to listen.
The communicator Irving Gatell, referring to the unfortunate event, highlighted the tragedy of being a “pro-Palestinian” Jew and discovering at the moment of being murdered that, because you are Jewish, they will not forgive you. “To Hamas and those weeds, you were just a useful fool. It is not a war against Zionism or ‘the occupation.’ It is against the Jewish people and against the West.”
The do-gooders bit the dust again, due to the weight of their own shortsightedness. Those who want to appear to have supposed intellectual superiority by labeling victims instead of aggressors as guilty do not even draw lessons from that. These “butists,” the fans of “but,” use this rhetoric to be politically correct, to pretend that they care about what any decent person does, and then they deploy another “but” that morally annuls the first.
Castro’s totalitarianism, feminism, LGBT activists, and white supremacists all agree on the same line of thought. It has become impossible to distinguish any of these groups of actors only by their arguments.
A feminist activist on Facebook said she condemned Hamas terrorism, but in response to the announcement that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would launch an offensive against terrorist positions, she argued that the Jewish state was not the good guy in the conflicts in the Middle East, because it systematically violated the human rights of the Palestinian population.
Almost identically, the official statement from the Cuban dictatorship justified Hamas because “for 75 years the Palestinian people have faced, in an unequal struggle, the growing hostility of the Israeli State ... violating the basic rights of human beings.”
A Cuban LGBT activist on Facebook said that leaving Gaza without electricity or water was a crime against humanity. The racist network Black Lives Matter issued its support, as it has done since 2015, for Hamas terrorism.
In Latin America, while the majority of governments condemned the jihadist attack, the socialist heads of state justified the actions of Hamas, which cost the lives of 250 young people at a music festival for peace in the Negev desert.
“If I had lived in Germany in 1933, I would have fought alongside the Jews and if I had lived in Palestine in 1948, I would have fought on the Palestinian side,” said Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday on X after the surprise attack against Israel. Petro flooded X with his reflections on the conflict and sparked a controversy with the Israeli ambassador. The final statement of the former guerrilla and Colombian president was to “invite” the Jewish representative to leave Israel.
On Sunday, October 9, the Colombian Foreign Ministry released a statement in which it “vehemently condemned terrorism and attacks against civilians.” The next day, the statement was modified, and a new version was released in which the word “terrorism” was not mentioned.
Venezuela also did not condemn the Hamas attacks and advocated for a “genuine negotiation” between Israel and Palestine to end the violence in the Gaza Strip.
Nothing like a bad cause to unite socialists, even above their incidental disagreements or attempts to distance themselves from the violence. Institutions such as the Foundation for the Analysis of Ethnic and Social Conflict have exposed the Nazi origins of the Palestinian movement. Exterminating Jews has always been the cause of this Arab group.
It is not strange that the feminists and LGBT Left, almost entirely, justify the murder of civilians during what they call a “decolonization process.” First, because Israel represents a portion of the West — tradition, equality before the law, religious freedom — in the region with the fewest democracies per square kilometer.
The Jewish dead are of little value to a world that is increasingly moving away from Christianity and embracing relativism and paganism. Nobody cares except the State of Israel, which was born in 1948 and has fought more wars than any other nation for its survival, with the promise that massacres against Jews would not happen again or at least would not be answered by silence.
While Hamas told Gaza residents not to leave their homes after the IDF warned civilians to evacuate, Israel has spent decades building shelters and the technological miracle of the Iron Dome to protect its civilians, 20% of whom are Arab.
While Israel’s soldiers stand in front of their women and children, Hamas uses its women and children as a shield, prohibits its citizens from leaving the theater of operations, or attacks the convoys of Palestinians who love their lives more than the promise of the jihadist kingdom.
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