It is so telling to see the incredible voice of truth Ritchie Torres calling out the Beinart’s hypocrisy & self-loathing. Here’s a hard truth for Beinart: when Hamas savages lay their hands on a Jew or another “heretic”, they won’t care about your views. Your groveling will not save you from their evil. To them, whether you like it or not, you’re nothing but a Jew.
The narrative that Israel is deliberately targeting children for bombing and starvation is a dangerous lie and libel. Shame on Peter Beinart for repeating it. The IDF soldiers fighting in the war are not monsters. These are young men and women who were leading normal lives until their worlds were upended on October 7th, when Hamas murdered, maimed, mutilated, raped, tortured, burned, butchered, and abducted their family, friends, and fellow Israelis in an act of terror that you sanitize as “resistance.” Villainizing a people who simply seek security from mass murder is its own form of profanity.