The New Consensus against Hostage Rescues

If Israel can’t even bring home its own without international condemnation, the world is truly upside-down.

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Demonstrators hold smoke flares outside the White House during an anti-Israel protest in Washington, D.C., June 8, 2024.

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Israel pulled off a hostage rescue that deserves to go down in the annals of extraordinarily daring, highly successful military operations, yet it is being condemned for it.

The secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council denounced the “heinous and terrorist crime that targeted defenseless innocents with brutality,” while Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon have decried Israel’s alleged criminal tactics. U.N. special rapporteurs have weighed in with typically strong denunciations of the Jewish state.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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