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The great
@VDHanson tackles the issue of right-wing antisemitism from the Buchananite Paleocons (Tucker Carlson, Dave Smith, etc) and their “I’m just anti-Israel” position
“Pat Buchanan made the counter argument that he was anti-Israel but not anti-Jewish, but then you know, like Mersheimer and all those guys, when they say that, then they cite examples that are always Jewish examples. And so there is this matter of selectivity. You can say, I'm not anti-Jewish, but I'm anti-Israel because of the occupation, okay?
And then they say I don't like the idea of refugees and ‘genocide’. So then you have to say, you're really angry about the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus for 50 years, and the ethnically cleansing of every Greek in Northern Cyprus.
And you're very upset about what's going on in Nigeria, where there's been over 2 million ethnically cleansed Christians that are refugees, and probably 100,000 that were killed.
Or you're really angry about the Christian Armenians that were just ethnically cleansed from the corridor in Azerbaijan, 100,000 of them.
But when they don't do that, and they only focus on Israel, then you have to ask, why are you focusing on the Jews and not the Turks, or the Azerbaijanis, etc., or Boko Harsm
Because in magnitude and certitude, that's a much clearer case. And then when you talk about genocide, as they do, so if somebody comes into your country and kills 1,200 people and murders them, and then they, with the help of civilians, which I think it's pretty clear there were hundreds, if not thousands, who tagged along, and then they run back and the architects of that, can I say, I can't say genocide because it wasn't a whole people, but mass murder, then they flee to subterranean labyrinths, tunnels, and their entries and exits are strategically placed under mosque, schools, and hospitals. And then, what is the IDF supposed to do?
Well, we have cases in history. What was the United States supposed to do before D-Day, when there was over 250,000 Germans, and they occupied all of the major rail transport centers in France, and you were going to invade there, and they occupied all of the major office buildings and infrastructure? Well, I can tell you what we did.
We bombed, and we killed over 70,000 French people, much more than the Israelis killed Gazans, and we justified it. We said, that's called collateral damage, and we tried to avoid it, but we did it. Well, what did the US Marine Corps do in Okinawa when the Japanese were deeply embedded in caves, and they were popping up out of caves with one man, and killing Marines, including my namesake, Victor Hanson? What did they do? I can tell you what they did.
They killed every single Japanese soldier, except for about 6,000 out of over 150,000, and there was a lot of collateral damage.
I happened to see Fallujah after the Marines took it, and it looked like a moonscape. What were those poor Marines supposed to do when Al-Qaeda had taken over the city of Fallujah, and they had to go door to door? When they had all sorts of booby traps. What were they supposed to do? What I’m getting at is they were supposed to do what the Israelis did.
All they had to do, all Israel said is, give us back the hostages, and please turn over the architects of the mass murder on October 7th. Had they done that, had they turned over the hostages and given back the planners, they would’ve never had to go into Gaza.
So the reason I'm bringing all of this up, when you say you attribute all these horrific things to the Israelis, and then you either provide no context or you completely and deliberately neglect specific examples of comparison all over the world where there is even more clear-cut violence than Israel used in Gaza, then the question arises, why?
Why are you doing this? Why are you fixating only on Israel and the Jews?”
Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words Podcast
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