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By GEORGE BALL – The Middle East has been a powder keg for decades. Now that powder keg is smoldering. The largest pogrom of the 21st century and Israel’s increasingly bloody response to it do not auger well for the region or – if the keg explodes – the world.
Like the fog of war, the fog of unremembered history in a uniquely complex region has left many with half-understandings and half-baked opinions about the causes of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, its intractability, and possible solutions. But a few things are crystal clear.
There can be no justification for purposefully hunting and slaughtering 1,400 Israelis as if they were animals.
This is not really about Israeli policies. Hamas is committed to killing Jews wherever they are. https://www.adl.org/resources/news/hamas-their-own-words
And the university students who are supporting Hamas really should be spending their tuition dollars on other pursuits. Like computer games, social media apps, or a new tricycle. Instead of pretending to be critical thinkers.
Because Hamas is a proxy for Iran. The same Iran whose “morality police” killed 22 year-old Masha Amini for not wearing a head scarf, jailed thousands of those who protested that killing, and executed others for the crime of “enmity against God.”
The students who protest here would not last a minute in either Iran or Gaza if they protested there. And yet we see those same students – in their tens of thousands – marching for regimes that would deny them their basic human rights.
People can support whomever they want. At least, in democracies. But let us be clear. This is not a movement about issues. It is a movement of the mindless locked into a conclusion without reference to facts. Worse – in their intellectual stupor, these students are walking on Masha Amini’s grave and delegitimizing the continuing oppression and suffering of millions of Iranian women. While loudly proclaiming their direct (and indirect) support of groups for whom human rights is not even a tagline.
Yes, the Middle East is complicated. Unless you are a simpleton.
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