When Jihadists Kill ‘Civilians’

For Hamas and its supporters, who are far more numerous than the Biden administration would have us believe, death is not a tragedy. It is a strategy.

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants participate in an anti-Israel military parade marking the 36th anniversary of the movement’s foundation in Gaza City, October 4, 2023.

Mohammed Salem/Reuters

The Muslim Brotherhood echo chamber in the media-Democrat complex is tacitly, grudgingly amending its headlines. Progressives on Capitol Hill are sticking by their libels, but the New York Times’ screaming homepage banner, “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say,” is finally gone, replaced by a banner reading “In Passionate Speech, Biden Embraces Israel as Protests Rage Over Gaza Blast.”

Translation: Now that Israel can’t credibly be blamed for firing the rocket that hit the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, the question of who did it no longer matters to the defenders of jihadists and their sharia-supremacist masters. They move on now to the regional tumult that they blame on the “Gaza Blast” (as if it happened spontaneously) rather than on their reckless coverage of the explosion, which was apparently caused by a makeshift rocket — one of the countless that frequently malfunction — fired by Hamas’s confederate, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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