Cheap Seats 2023 By Rich Trzupek

Five Little Letters - 12/06

By Rich Trzupek
  Five little letters spell trouble for Democrats in the coming national election cycle. Those letters are not T-R-U-M-P, but are rather H-A-M-A-S. Modern progressives can find unified and essentially unqualified support on the Democrat side of the aisle on a number of issues near and dear to liberal hearts. They’re not going to be so fortunate on this issue.
  That’s a good thing. Not just because a split in the opposition party works to the advantage of the party I usually support, but because it brings at least some Democrats back toward the middle while isolating the far-left idealogues and their ruinous delusions.
  The split is perhaps best evidenced by the following four words that I never expected to enter into my keyboard: great work John Fetterman. The Pennsylvania Senator has been outspoken and unapologetic, condemning Hamas for taking children hostage and demanding their return. Keep that up Senator and I may have to start wearing a hoodie to work myself.
  At another time, with another group, Hamas’ attempts to hide their barbarity beyond a moderate sounding message might have worked. The “Ceasefire Now” theme has certainly attracted a good deal of attention from hardline antisemites and many of the educated idiots roaming America’s institutions of higher learning, but it’s nowhere near the kind of tidal wave support one needs to affect public policy or action. It is, at best, a ripple on the pond of public opinion. A large ripple to be sure, and an annoyance, but of little practical value to Hamas’ and Iran’s ultimate goal: destroying the state of Israel.
  There is a reason why Palestinian people are allowed to live peacefully in autonomously controlled areas within the state of Israel, but are not granted those same kind of rights in neighboring Arab nations like Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The difference has nothing to do with the ethnicity or faith of the Palestinian people, it is entirely about the corruption and bigotry that infects their public leaders in the form of Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. Just as being a German in 1933 did not automatically make one a Nazi, nor does being Palestinian in 2023 make Palestinian individuals – whether drinking the latest flavor of intolerant Kool-Aid or not – the modern-day equivalent of those fascist thugs. Those who deceive and use others are far more evil than those they successfully manipulate.
  Why don’t neighboring Arab states allow Palestinian migration into their lands? Because they are well aware that such migration will never be peaceful, so long as racist radicals and fundamentalist extremists in Iran are calling the shots. Back in the late seventies/early eighties Lebanon tried to bridge that gap, accepting Palestinian migrants en masse. It seemed a natural fit, Lebanon was, up to that point, the most cosmopolitan state in the Middle East. Christians and Muslims coexisted and thrived.
  Then came the Palestinian migration and the rise of Hezbollah. All hell broke out because Palestinian leaders did not consider Lebanon a refuge, they looked at it as an opportunity. Specially, an opportunity to make a statement, and if that necessitates (in their mind) blowing crap up – including over two hundred American Marines there to try and keep the peace – well, that’s fortune of war, ain’t it.
  There should be no doubt that Palestinian leaders and their Iranian puppet-masters have no interest in peace for the sake of peace. They are only interested in actions that will pave the way for the eradication of the state of Israel and its people. If crashing across the border killing, raping, beheading and kidnapping serves that cause one day, so be it. If whining to try to get a ceasefire because the IDF is kicking your ass the next day, that’s the smart play in those circumstances.
  Israel’s neighbors, Syria, Jordan and Egypt understand the rules of the game as well as anyone. They realize that if they let Palestinians to settle in their country en masse, chaos would quickly follow, just as it did in Lebanon. Thugs and bullies don’t know reason. They only understand force, threats and manipulation. And brothers and sisters, Hamas has that game plan nailed down.
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