Ed Morrissey:
Israel isn’t ‘radicalizing’ anyone in this operation. Gaza has become a nest of genocidal radicals, and the only solution left to them is to destroy its command and control and force Gazans to reckon with their own choices. As Murray argues, that’s precisely what Britain and the West did with Germany and Japan. No one was arguing that Allied air strikes and ground operations in Germany were creating new Nazis, and Nazi Germany actually did have some anti-Nazi efforts before and during the war. Gaza has had no analogue to that dissent in the last 17 years, at all.
In short, or even at length, Murray rebuts practically every tongue-clucker in the West that turned a blind eye to Hamas’ 17-year rocket bombardment on Israeli civilian centers and numerous attacks culminating in the October 7 massacre, and who now wring their hands over “collective punishment.” This is not “punishment” — this is war, a war cheered by Gazans and conducted for nearly two decades by Hamas. The Israelis are putting an end to this war the same way that the Allies put an end to the Nazis — by defeating their enemy utterly.
# posted by Ranger @ 6:56 PM
