On Qana & Dead Muslim Kids: The One Thing Muslims & Media Love More Than Dead Jewish Kids
By Debbie Schlussel
War is hell. People die. Some are innocent. Some are women and children. Some just so happen to be living right next to rocket and missile launchers aimed at women and children on the other side. And next to terrorist headquarters. In a Hezbollah stronghold too close for comfort to the Israeli border. And so, they die. That's what happens in war. It is nothing new.
Israel has known dead children for decades. Jews have known dead children for thousands of years. Over the centuries, many of these dead children were murdered by Islamists. A Muslim man deliberately goes into a Jewish center in Seattle and deliberately shoots innocent people because he wants to target Jews. He is a "lone gunman," a "disturbed, troubled" man. Not a big deal.
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But Israelis trying to defend their country from missile attacks and accidentally hit "innocent" supporters of Hezbollah and martyrs-in-development next door. And THEY are the monsters. For mainstream media "reporters," it is as if innocent children have never before been murdered. As if the children in Ma'alot in schoolbuses, slaughtered by Islamic terrorists never existed.
There is only thing that Muslims--and the media--seem to love more than dead Jewish children: ...
[Read the whole thing. It's important. H/T: MM]
Rewarding Depravity
Worse is always better for Hezbollah
Rich Lowry
All the world lamented the Israeli airstrike in Qana that killed dozens of innocent children. All the world, that is, except Hezbollah. The terror group angrily denounced the attack, vowing revenge, but surely it celebrated over the horrifying collateral damage: Every dead child was of priceless propaganda value.
It is for Qanas that Hezbollah conducts its operations among civilians in the first place. It hopes that Israeli attacks will cause civilian casualties so that the Jewish state’s offensive will be delegitimized. It thus depends on a perverse logic whereby a civilized military force attempting to avoid civilian casualties at the cost of the effectiveness of its own operations is considered barbaric and is pressured to end its campaign — and the world perversely reasons right along with it.
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