Israel is not above criticism. Nobody is. 

And, despite my belief that Israel is doing what it must to defeat Hamas, rational criticism of Israel's tactics and/or strategy are perfectly OK in my book. Not every disagreement over such things is "antisemitism." 

But the truth is that very little of the criticism aimed at Israel is even remotely rational or motivated by anything but anti-Western or antisemitic hate, and I am sick and tired of it. And I am just as disturbed by the media's spreading of that propaganda with far too little skepticism. 

Words have meaning. Actions have context. Hamas is objectively evil. 

What got me going today has been the reaction to the awful mistake that Israel made in destroying a vehicle that contained aid workers. There is no disputing that what happened was a tragedy and that the Israeli military blew it big time, and the results were tragic. 

But the worldwide reaction has been absurd and vitriolic. An outpouring of grief is warranted, but outrage? Sorry, but that's ridiculous. 

Gaza is a war zone, and aid workers are at risk. Hamas has killed many of them without much of a peep from anybody, and the terrorists steal aid delivered by those at-risk aid workers on a regular basis. The difference is that the world is fine with barbarians committing atrocities; Israel is held responsible alone. 

Footage showing Hamas terrorists take control of aid trucks the moment they cross into Gaza 👇

They are accompanied by Red Cross and @UNRWA

pic.twitter.com/oqfrgIijEd

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) March 21, 2024

On his way out of Afghanistan Joe Biden's military struck at innocent men, women, and children despite there being no evidence that they were doing anything but loading water into a vehicle. Joe Biden went to the beach and left it to his military leaders to apologize. 

You launched a drone strike in Afghanistan that killed 10 innocent civilians. Tragic mistakes happen in war. Stop throwing Israel under the bus to appease your radical antisemitic pro-Hamas base. https://t.co/CHtRH9zx4Q

— Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 (@marcthiessen) April 3, 2024

The horrors in Gaza due to the war shouldn't be diminished, but neither should they be treated as if they were atrocities unparalleled in the history of war. Quite the opposite. This is what war looks like, and Hamas has the ability to stop the war today by surrendering. 

Calling for Israel to surrender instead is insane, and that is what people calling for the war to end really mean. Hamas started the war and Israel must end it. Israel's demand for unconditional surrender is exactly what the allies did in World War II, and for exactly the same reasons: some regimes must be destroyed. 

There are far greater tragedies being ignored around the world, including genuine, not invented famines. Nobody seems to care, because they don't fit The Narrative™. 

Despite the relentless anti-Israel propaganda, there’s no starvation in Gaza. Thousands (more than 17000) of trucks filled with humanitarian aid have entered the enclave – aid that Hamas terrorists are actively trying to prevent Gazans from receiving.

In an African nation,… pic.twitter.com/G5epVnWJyH

— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) March 21, 2024

Hamas has repeatedly made clear--including in words spoken aloud--that citizens of Gaza are human shields, and that they want the suffering to exist for propaganda purposes. 

It's working because so many are complicit. 

Remember when Jews at Harvard had to bring in their menorah every night at Hanukkah because the school couldn’t guarantee it wouldn’t be vandalized? This “apartheid wall” is on display now at Harvard yard, complete with quotes from terrorists, guarded 24/7 by school security. pic.twitter.com/IBAS0RmmxL

— Yael Bar tur 🎗️ (@yaelbt) April 3, 2024

Israel just had to liberate Al Shifa Hospital again because Hamas took it over again. The battle took weeks. If you look on Twitter, you will see little but an unending stream of videos claiming that Israel went in to shoot civilians and torture doctors. 

Which would have taken an hour, not weeks. In fact, the first person killed was a Hamas leader--Hamas officially mourned his death. And ironically, Hamas admits to fighting a battle there. It's just its propaganda allies who deny that anybody but civilians were there. 

Hamas is more open about its intentions than anybody but Israel. They want this war. They want the deaths. And they need their allies to spread lies, and they happily do so. 

All this can be summed up in the death statistics, which are cooked. But forget the raw numbers. We keep hearing that 30,000 Palestinian civilians are dead. 

If so, not a single Hamas fighter was among them since that same number is used as the death toll. 

Hamas, like ISIS, is open about the desire for an armageddon-like conflict. They are all-in on committing genocide and see civilian deaths as a good thing. They are martyrs. 

The war could be over tomorrow. Release the hostages. Surrender. Boom. Done. 

But Hamas' allies focus their ire on Israel. They often deny that Hamas has even done anything wrong. Because this is what decolonization means in reality.