(OPINION) Different assessments of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine

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The hostility, bias and hateful anti-Semitism expressed toward Israel and Jews in demonstrations on college campuses are alarming, dangerous and inexplicable.

The protesters demonstrated a lack of knowledge about the history of the Jewish people, who settled in Israel centuries before the Muslims, and revealed ignorance about the Holocaust in World War II.

In addition to hatred and ignorance, the hostility is also fueled by jealousy because Israel, with its advanced technology and stability, has made the desert bloom.

Israel is literally fighting for its survival, a situation that deserves the oft-used phrase “existential threat.”

Critics of Israel and its military victories over the terrorist Hamas in Gaza – including Biden’s Secretary of State Blinken, whose administration wants to limit military aid to the Middle East’s only democracy – are calling on Israel’s leadership to limit its war effort and adhere to the suicidal egalitarian concept of “proportionality”; the idea that it must limit its response to the power of its genocidal attackers.

One of the ostensible goals of the proportionality doctrine is to protect “innocent” civilians in Gaza. American Thinker columnist Warren Beatty has traced the historical origins of this premise in World War II, drawing on classical historian Victor Davis Hanson. Beatty cited an interview by Sharona Mazalian with Douglas Murray, who pondered the related question: “Should Israel limit itself to raping women and killing noncombatant women, elderly victims and babies?”

Beatty quoted Andrew McCarthy, who wrote: “The chatter about proportionality comes from anti-Western leftists who are always ready to justify jihadist barbarism, which knows no bounds in its tactics.”

Beatty concludes with this advice to Israel: “Regardless of what the Biden administration and the rest of the world says, take action, proportionality does not matter.”

Leftists who advocate doing everything for peace do not apply their intercultural ecumenism to the war in Ukraine between Russian dictator Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky. This war must continue forever, at any cost.

A global peace summit that recently concluded in Switzerland did not include any Russian representatives, but insisted that Russia cede Crimean territory before peace talks could begin. Ukraine was excluded, and there was no discussion of whether Ukraine would cede territory occupied by Russian troops. China’s support for Russia and its ideas on peace talks were ignored.

Breitbart’s Kurt Zindulka concluded, “In addition, the Biden administration has signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement with Ukraine in which the United States commits to continue providing weapons and military training for at least the next decade.”

Some observers questioned the legality and constitutionality of this long-term commitment, which would prevent a future president from changing his policies.

Breitbart political reporter Wendell Husebo cited Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia’s criticism of an alleged political capitulation to Zelensky’s war. Green blamed Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson for allowing Biden’s legislative program to “make Ukraine great again” to pass, Green claimed.

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