When massacring women and children is “resistance.”
Since October 7, there’s been an aggressive effort to rebrand Hamas terrorism as “armed resistance.”
Now, Peter Beinart, speaking at the Harvard Divinity School, which recognizes only one deity, Allah, had a curious term of art to describe the mass murder of Jews as “Palestinian armed resistance against civilians.”
Beinart returns to this term over and over again, describing the terrorist massacres of Jews as “Palestinian armed resistance against civilians.”
The premise of “resistance” is that at least in theory, the perpetrators are defending themselves against an attack. But what does “armed resistance against civilians” mean?
How are unarmed women and children the attackers? How is massacring them resistance rather than genocide?
The whole point of using the term “resistance” is to equate Islamic terrorists to the French Resistance fighting Nazis or the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto attacking the SS. Now “Resistance” has not only been rebranded to mean killing Jews, but massacring Jewish unarmed men, women and children just going about their lives..
“Resistance” has come to be indistinguishable from Nazism. In both terms it whitewashes the religiously and politically motivated massacres of Jews.
40 rounds says
Cowards, in essence
gravenimage says
+1
Hari Singh says
The Palestinians are Arabs. There’s been a 78 year long war between Israel and the Arabs call it what you want it’s a war. The Arabs have been fighting the Jews in the holy land since before 1948 they drove the Jews out of Hebron out of Jerusalem out of the West Bank And now the Jews have reconquered those areas .The Arabs want nothing less than a complete cleansing of Jews from Israel.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
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Yeah, before 1964, the world saw it as an Arab-Israeli conflict, and just looking at a map of an Arab empire from Morocco/Mauritania to Iraq and Syria to Somalia, it looked huge: Israel barely looked like an asterisk on that map, even if one included Judea, Samaria, Gaza, Golan & Sinai, none of which were yet part of Israel. Then come 1964, the Soviets came up w/ the most brilliant rebranding in history, where the Arabs of Judea, Samaria and Gaza were re-branded as “Palestinians”. Suddenly, Israel morphed from a David on the world map into a Goliath
No explanation on how
⮞ “Palestinians” were any different from the Arabs who still lived in Israel proper
⮞ They were different from Jordanians, Syrians or Egyptians
⮞ The PLO got to be the entity to represent these “Palestinians”
⮞ Why this “Palestinian” entity was allowed to claim all of Israel, not just Judea, Samaria and Gaza, in its territory
Now, some 147 countries in the world recognize this fictitious state
Hugh Fitzgerald says
And not just from Israel.
As for other Muslims, non-Arabs, in Southeast Asia, they want all of Bharat. As you, of course, Mr.Singh, well know.
gravenimage says
With all respect, the main point is not that they are Arabs, but that they are Muslims.
Wellington says
Quite Orwellian.
gravenimage says
+1
Rich says
Every world leader that is not of the Muslim indoctrination must (in a loud voice) that Muslims are in a world war against those who are not Muslim. Muslims (of every sect) will wage war and are ready to die for their beliefs. They’ve been warring for centuries and have been gaining ground by all means necessary!
somehistory says
The people with evil heart and evil intent, like to misuse words in order to confuse, to excuse, to get sympathy and support.
They have been doing this a long time. One notable example is with the murder of unborn babies. They don’t say ;;’murdering the unborn children,’ but use “terminate a pregnancy,” and “women’s reproductive healthcare”, along with calling the baby a “blob tissue” and even “tumor.”
Calling the massacre of tiny children, their parents and grandparents, along with young men and women, “resistance” is for the same *reason,” an evil attempt at deflection to keep the public in the dark about what they are doing to the defenseless innocent.
Devon Fremd says
Of course what is meant is that the existence of Israel is aggression against the native population of Palestine, because it was established on already inhabited territory, and every Israeli, soldier or civilian, is complicit in that aggression, and therefore a legitimate military target.
Things to forget: 1. By 1947 every Zionist settler in Palestine was living on land they owned legally because they had bought it from an Arab or Turkish landlord who was willing to sell it to them. If the locals didn’t like the Zionist project all they had to do was not sell the land. The whole thing would have been nipped in the bud in 1920. 2. Also by 1947 (the year the United Nations was given the task of making proposals about the future of the region) more than half of the Arabs living in Palestine were as recent immigrants to it as most of the Jews were. British management and Zionist enterprise had been developing the region for nearly thirty years, during most of which time Arabs from the surrounding countries, attracted by a now go-to place, flocked into it.
But no matter who wants you to forget it the thing no one should ever forget about this subject is what Bernard Lewis pointed out was making the Israel/Palestine impasse unique in the world: “Jews are involved”.
Alkflaeda says
There is also the fact that San Remo, which confirmed the Jewish right to a homeland, also established almost all of the Arab countries (I think Jordan was slightly later). So if Israel is illegitimate, so are UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and all the rest.
gravenimage says
Terrorism Gets Rebranded as ‘Armed Resistance Against Civilians’
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What is murdering peaceful civilians “resistance” against–save for their living in peace?
Westman says
“Attack every Jew”?? Isn’t this hate speech?
For some strange reason entities who make it their objective to “destroy the Jews” end up suffering a destruction in return. It’s the “kicking against the pricks” problem. It would be much better for Islam and its supporters, like Harvard, to find a way to work with all Jews, simply for their own wealth and security. Would Diety take down the educational systems?
The world gives Islam a historic legitimacy that a new belief system, which called for a similar destruction of a particular ethnicity, would never be allowed. Islam seems unaware that it can wear out its legitimacy in Europe and elsewhere. Which will first be completely aware of Islam’s true objectives, AI or the citizens? Would AI take action?
abu taleb says
Palestinian armed resistance against woman and child civilians. Must be a nice title.
Muhammad says, “they are from them”, so actually it is quite alright to kill, rape and torture infidel women and children.
skeptiker says
Solche Leute wie Peter Beinart muss der Staat mit allen Mitteln bekämpfen. Solche Leute sollten nie die Möglichkeit bekommen an Universitäten und Schulen zu unterrichten oder in Unternehmen und Parteien zu Macht und Einfluss gelangen. Die “Demokraten” sind wohl mittlerweile ein Sammelbecken für Israel- und Amerika Feinde geworden, die sogar ganz ungeniert mit ihrem Antisemitismus Wahlkampf betrieben haben.
jerry glenn says
Harvard surges in the national Islamopandering derby.
James Lincoln says
Muslims and leftists love euphemisms.
Walter Sieruk says
What that Hamas head said is within the doctrine of the Qur ‘an which makes no discernment between soldiers of the military and civilians. For example, the Qur’ an, in Surah 47:4 which instructs, “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike of their heads until you make great slaughter among them…”
The terrible harsh is that machineguns and missiles can make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can. As seen in those horrendous Hamas jihad terror/ mass -murders which occurred on October 7th 2023.
Likewise the also gives the instruction on Surah (9123. “O you believe ! Fight those of the disbeliever who are close to you , and let them find harshness in you..” Using either firearms, bombs, vehicle or knifes attacks in horrific jihad attacks as observed in London , Manchester. Paris and places is a way effective way of showing people who aren’t Muslim’s “Harshness”
In stipe of the facts some people still say that “Islam is a non-violent religion” The people who say that false statement need which is called a “reality check.”
Walter Sieruk says
Muslim terrorists jihad malicious murderous jihad violence will continue because of the basic root ideology of Islamic terrorists is based on the theology of Islam’s “holy book” the Qur ‘an. For the Qu ‘ran instructs in the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in, for example, 2:191. 5:33. 9:5, 111.123. 47:4. Therefore Islam is a false, dangerous and deadly religion.