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May 14, 2021

Israel Wants to Protect Civilians on Both Sides. Hamas Wants Civilians on Both Sides to Die

The dangers of moral equivalency.

While Hamas rained hundreds of rockets at Israeli cities, and Arab mobs beat Jews in the streets, the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau appeared to draw an equivalence between Hamas’s “absolutely unacceptable” attacks and the Jewish state’s “settlements and the evictions of Palestinians.” Terry Glavin exposes the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of this sort of attempt at evenhandedness:

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May 14, 2021

  1. Hamas Is Winning the War for Palestinian, and Israeli Arab, Hearts and Minds

    Fighting for al-Aqsa, again.

  2. An Update on Israel’s Latest Battle

    The regional, American, and Israeli contexts.

  3. Israel Wants to Protect Civilians on Both Sides. Hamas Wants Civilians on Both Sides to Die

    The dangers of moral equivalency.

  4. The New American Jewish Political Divide

    The Orthodox live near hipsters but vote like Mormons.

  5. A Short History of Kugel

    An example of Sephardi-Ashkenazi synthesis?