If you glanced at your push notifications or scrolled through verified Twitter over the weekend, you likely saw reports granting equal treatment to the nation of Israel and terrorists with Hamas in the Gaza Strip who launched some 700 rockets targeting southern Israel in less than 48 hours.
How would you respond if 700 rockets were fired at you by your neighbors?
This is what we did: pic.twitter.com/s9wJyLx5Pl— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 6, 2019
The BBC ran a story describing the situation as a “Gaza conflict” and CNN published articles with headlines — “Israel defense forces strike dozens of targets in Gaza” — that could lead an uninformed reader to believe, based solely on headlines, that the Jewish state acted unprovoked.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has a history of making anti-Semitic statements, drew a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas in a tweet posted Sunday, describing the “humanitarian crisis in Gaza” as “unsustainable.”
How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends?
The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable. Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 5, 2019
Responding to the way the situation was characterized, conservative commentator and author Ben Shapiro rebuked those who seemingly use Israel as a political tool, taking issue with attacks on Jewish people in some situations (like at the synagogue shooting in California), but shifting their positions when the attacks are carried out by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
After facing intense firing from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) strategically targeted more than 350 “terrorist leaders and operatives” and “terrorist buildings,” according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The double standard, as well as the obtuse reporting about the situation in Israel, reveals a “lack of seriousness about Jew-hatred,” Shapiro argued:
If you consider it morally abhorrent for a white supremacist terrorist to target Jews for death, you should consider Hamas and Islamic Jihad the same way. Yet many do not, which certainly speaks to their lack of seriousness about Jew-hatred.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 5, 2019
Spare me the crocodile tears about Chabad of Poway or Tree of Life if you’re now making excuses for Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 5, 2019
Then he talks about the miracle of a plane with a Jewish star flying over Berlin. The whole plane breaks out into song: “The whole world is a very narrow bridge and the important thing is not to be afraid.” pic.twitter.com/oo2wspuZ2E
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 5, 2019
Anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism. It always was and it always will be. And those who provide cover for it are complicit in it.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 5, 2019
Proving they are not acting in good faith, not long after agreeing to a cease-fire with Israel, which lifted restrictions for civilians as a result of the agreement, Hamas sent an arson balloon into the Jewish nation.
The conflict over the weekend marked the deadliest since 2014. The Israeli government has confirmed four deaths and the Palestinian Health Ministry is claiming at least 23 Palestinians have died.
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Date published: 10/05/2019
Written by: Tré Goins-Phillips
Feature image: Rich Polk/Getty Images
Article source: www.faithwire.com
