National Review senior writer Noah Rothman, on today’s edition of The Editors, said that the “elite media” reaction to the dramatic rescue of Israeli hostages has been “pathological.”

“If you were to describe these circumstances to the average person who is not steeped in and indoctrinated in postmodern theory,” Rothman said, “you wouldn’t have any disagreement over the virtue of the operation that Israel engaged in.”

Rothman pointed out, “You tell somebody that they’re hiding civilians in population centers illegally, abusing them, and they [the IDF] conducted this daring raid to get them out because Hamas is holding them hostage only to secure a cease-fire on terms favorable to them.”

The average person, Rothman argued, would say, “‘Israel has every right to do this.’ And then we hear from the American political class up to and including the administration itself saying that this is why we need a cease-fire. How dare they! That is exactly what Hamas seeks. . . .

“The level of disregard for common sense . . . the ability by human beings to connect the dots here and get to a logical outcome . . . represents a profound intellectual commitment to a kind of obtuseness, a denseness, a stupidity that I find hard to describe.”

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