When Hamas started the current war with Israel with the infamous Oct. 7 massacre, they knew the world would soon forget about horrid stories of terrorists killing babies and raping Jewish women, instead focusing on Israel’s supposed war crimes in its mission to wipe out the terrorist group.
Which is why it’s disappointing to see Westerners falling for Hamas’ PR ploy.
In an April 2 article for The American Conservative titled, “The GOP’s Bibi-Backing Could Backfire,” Scott McConnell criticizes Republicans’ support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and praises Sen. Chuck Schumer’s recent criticism of the Jewish state’s leader. McConnell’s article — which is just a proxy for all such arguments — sadly shows how many have come to accept the erroneous view of Israel in general, and Netanyahu specifically, as bloodthirsty and genocidal.
McConnell downplays hatred of Israel by trying to paint a difference between Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority (PA), which rules over the West Bank. He correctly sees Hamas as a terrorist group but views the PA as a moderate regime that genuinely seeks peace but has supposedly been consistently undermined by Israel.
He asserts that “an accurate reading of record shows that the blame does not, contrary to Washington conventional wisdom and Israeli propaganda, lie exclusively with [Palestinian leader Yasser] Arafat and his successors.”
What McConnell fails to mention is that Arafat rejected a historic peace deal in 2000 made by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who offered to create a Palestinian
