What To Believe About This War
... and those beheadings
This headline from The New York Times, a former newspaper, caught my attention at the weekend …
“It’s impossible to know what to believe in this hideous war?”
Really? The New York Times is going with that?
I’m not saying Israel is perfect, but come on.
The overwhelming evidence of Hamas attacking innocent Jews - murdering, torturing, raping, burning and beheading - makes it pretty easy to know what to believe about this war.
And yet, the equivocations continue.
None worse than this tweet from Eric Levitz who writes for New York Magazine. He tweeted …
“Last night, I asserted that this report indicated that babies were beheaded. This was an overstatement. I should have said that the report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading, but which does not prove them.”
I think, like Eric, we all hate it when someone’s head just inadvertently falls off without explanation.
Ah yes, that mysterious SIMHS (Sudden Infant Missing Head Syndrome). It’s a thing. you know.
Eric’s tweet is one of the most horrifying examples of passive voice I have ever heard.
Who removed the babies heads?
Was it spontaneous?
Were the babies themselves responsible?
How can we solve this complete mystery?
Don’t ask The New York Times. They’ll look at the headless bodies shrug, “It’s impossible to know what to believe about this hideous war. Maybe they were born without heads, who knows?”
Eric doubled down, tweeting this ‘clarification’ …
“The verb behead has multiple definitions, and is sometimes used to mean decapitate; the report indicates that Hamas did behead babies in that sense.
“But the term can also connote a form of execution using a knife, and we do not have confirmation of beheading in this sense.”
When you are scrambling to redefine the word “behead” in order to argue that perhaps baby-killing terrorists are not quite as bad as everyone imagines, you have reached a low point indeed.
And yet, I fear Western culture is not done digging itself into a hole of moral equivocation just yet. Buckle up.
'The mercy of the wicked is cruel.'
By their words they expose their hearts.
James it seems that anti-Semites cannot bear to stand in defence of Israel 🇮🇱 even in the face of such unprovoked atrocity and barbarism on Jewish babies children and adults. Try all they can with disbelief even in the face of evidence or semantics, it will not change the reality of the horror perpetrated.