As Israel’s sons say goodbye to their families and grind into action in Gaza once more, so depleted is Hamas that there is a chance that the Jewish state might actually win this time. Cue howls of outrage from the Left, which long ago threw in its lot with the jihadis.
While the tanks roll into Khan Younis, the Lineker classes and their faceless digital denizens mobilise to do their level best to block an Israeli victory.
True, Eurovision was a glimmer in the dark. To see Yuval Raphael, an amateur singer who had survived the Hamas massacre by playing dead under a pile of bodies for eight hours, come second in the competition and first in the public vote, was a moving sign that all may not be lost.
Of course, public voters self-selected and could cast up to 20 ballots, favouring motivated campaigners. Nonetheless, this triumph over a frenzy of hatred felt like an uprising against the Israelophobia of the elites.
In the scheme of things, however, this was but a blip in a graph of hostility towards the Jewish state that reached unprecedented highs some time ago.
In an interview on Sunday, British surgeon Tom Potokar, who is working in Gaza, compared Israel’s campaign to the killing fields of Cambodia, when more than a million people were systematically murdered by the Khmer Rouge in the late Seventies. So depraved were those massacres that troops would drink from human gallbladders.
These activists have jumped the shark. To compare Pol Pot’s genocide to the just campaign in Gaza, where great efforts have been made to protect civilian lives, which have been claimed only unintentionally – as is tragically the case in every war ever fought by a democracy – could only be described as propaganda.
Simply the question of numbers speaks volumes. Let us, for a moment, take the jihadis of Hamas at their word when they tell us that 62,000 people have been killed, the majority of whom were, by some sinister Jewish magic, women and children. How does that compare to the million who perished under Pol Pot?
The Cambodian communists were analogue génocidaires, carrying out their butchery with hammers, knives and axes. By contrast, if Israel’s powerful army really did intend to wipe out two million Gazans, thereby saving its young men the trouble of going to war, it could have done so from the air in a matter of hours.
As Israel’s sons say goodbye to their families and grind into action in Gaza once more, so depleted is Hamas that there is a chance that the Jewish state might actually win this time. Cue howls of outrage from the Left, which long ago threw in its lot with the jihadis.
While the tanks roll into Khan Younis, the Lineker classes and their faceless digital denizens mobilise to do their level best to block an Israeli victory.
True, Eurovision was a glimmer in the dark. To see Yuval Raphael, an amateur singer who had survived the Hamas massacre by playing dead under a pile of bodies for eight hours, come second in the competition and first in the public vote, was a moving sign that all may not be lost.
Of course, public voters self-selected and could cast up to 20 ballots, favouring motivated campaigners. Nonetheless, this triumph over a frenzy of hatred felt like an uprising against the Israelophobia of the elites.
In the scheme of things, however, this was but a blip in a graph of hostility towards the Jewish state that reached unprecedented highs some time ago.
In an interview on Sunday, British surgeon Tom Potokar, who is working in Gaza, compared Israel’s campaign to the killing fields of Cambodia, when more than a million people were systematically murdered by the Khmer Rouge in the late Seventies. So depraved were those massacres that troops would drink from human gallbladders.
These activists have jumped the shark. To compare Pol Pot’s genocide to the just campaign in Gaza, where great efforts have been made to protect civilian lives, which have been claimed only unintentionally – as is tragically the case in every war ever fought by a democracy – could only be described as propaganda.
Simply the question of numbers speaks volumes. Let us, for a moment, take the jihadis of Hamas at their word when they tell us that 62,000 people have been killed, the majority of whom were, by some sinister Jewish magic, women and children. How does that compare to the million who perished under Pol Pot?
The Cambodian communists were analogue génocidaires, carrying out their butchery with hammers, knives and axes. By contrast, if Israel’s powerful army really did intend to wipe out two million Gazans, thereby saving its young men the trouble of going to war, it could have done so from the air in a matter of hours.