The Fourth Estate's Hamas Blindspot

In the clearest moral test in a generation, much of the U.S. media are failing. And not just by a little — they are failing spectacularly.

On Oct. 7, the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas murdered an estimated 1,400 Israelis, many of whom were civilians, and kidnapped nearly 250 others to use as hostages. From the air, land, and sea, Hamas terrorists targeted men, women, children, infants, and the elderly.

Some Israelis were shot. Some were burned to death. Some were killed with explosives. Some were tortured and maimed. Some were raped and then murdered. The list of atrocities, many of which have been confirmed independent of Israeli officials, goes on and on.

Israel has since responded with military force, vowing to root out and destroy Hamas.

In this specific moment, when Israel is responding militarily to the greatest single-day slaughter of Jews since Adolf Hitler’s suicide, the question of who committed evil and who is justified could not be any clearer. Indeed, it is rare that a story as clear-cut as this falls into one’s lap.