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By JOSH HAMMER
The Israel Defense Forces' much-anticipated ground invasion of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has not yet commenced, but the world's attention has already begun to shift away from the single bloodiest and most catastrophic slaughter of the Jewish people since the defeat of Nazi Germany 78 years ago.
The Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom, which featured the indiscriminate mass murder of babies in their cribs, whole civilian families shot dead execution-style, countless teenage girls raped, and roughly 200 more civilians taken hostage back to Gaza's subterranean terror tunnels, was so barbaric that U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who previously commanded the war on ISIS, described what he saw while visiting Israel as "worse than ISIS."
Yet, while Jew-haters, conspiracists, jihad sympathizers and certain libertarians meticulously debated for a week whether the Jewish children slaughtered en masse in southern Israel were decapitated or "merely" tied up and burned alive, ultimately requiring the Israeli government to release grisly corroborative photos, the Western world immediately sided with Hamas propaganda -- no questions asked! -- when news broke this week of a deadly rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza.
The New York Times and countless other useful idiot jihadist mouthpieces quickly put out defamatory headlines accusing Israel of striking the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, killing 500. Thus far, very few of these Hamas propagandists have issued meaningful editorial corrections.
But the corporate media are not the only shameful actors here. U.S. House of Representatives' "Hamas Caucus" Chair Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) continues to peddle the abhorrent lie that Israel intentionally bombed the hospital. We now know not only that that is false; we also know it is (thankfully) untrue that the hospital itself was hit.
Let's call this what it is: 21st-century blood libel. It is vile and condemnable.
If Israel is to finish the job in Gaza, it is imperative that this absurd cycle not repeat itself.
Today's Nazis, an Islamist Reich hellbent on global Jewish genocide beyond the massacre it just successfully perpetrated, must be defeated by any means necessary. Furthermore, as the world recently saw when Hamas apparently began bombing its own roadways to prevent Gazans from fleeing toward Egypt, cynically preferring to keep its people trapped in Gaza as cannon fodder, Hamas bears full responsibility for all civilian deaths in Gaza.
More to the point: Did the United States get bogged down in this sort of global public relations fight, following the 1942 Doolittle Raid, the first bombing of the Japanese mainland after Pearl Harbor? Did the Allied powers get dragged into a public relation fight with Hitler, following the 1945 bombing of Dresden?
H.L. Mencken famously said that "democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." In Gaza, Hamas was popularly elected and remains overwhelmingly popular.
War is messy. And when a genocidal death cult strikes a free nation, that free nation can only have one legitimate military goal: the enemy's unconditional surrender.
No matter how much pressure Biden applies, and no matter how nasty the public relations battle gets, let's pray Netanyahu and his war cabinet remember that.