Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has devoted much of her attention in the days that followed the worst massacre of Jews in nearly 80 years to the plight of Hamas’s captive population in the Gaza Strip. Beyond the Israelis and Western citizens who are now the explicit hostages of Hamas, the civilians who are implicitly hostage to its brutal rule have suffered the unfortunate consequences of their regime’s attack on civilization. Today, with mere hours remaining before Israel invades the Strip with the likely intention of defanging Hamas once and for all, Ocasio-Cortez demanded that Israel refrain from defending itself and its citizens:
Ocasio-Cortez’s sympathies are misplaced. Israel has not put Gaza’s civilian population in the line of fire. Hamas has. It has done so for decades, primarily to elicit exactly this naïve response from Western observers who know or care little about the bestial tactics this terrorist organization employs.
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