Lies and the Jews—they both have four letters.

One of the misrepresentations of the left and the moron right is that it is verboten to criticize Israel. All criticism of Israel is wrongly construed as antisemitism, and thus, one is muzzled from saying a word about the Jewish state. Nothing could be further from the truth. Israelis spend all day complaining about every aspect of their country: the leadership stinks, the politicians are crooked, the IDF isn’t fighting its wars right, life here is wildly expensive, and flights for the past few years of war have cost a fortune.

Obviously, nobody is prevented from criticizing Israel, Jews, Zionism, or AIPAC. The problem, as noted by others, is that whatever claims are made seem only to be directed towards the Jews. Israel is committing genocide! Such a claim was put forth before the IDF even began to respond to the October 7th massacre. Tucker Carlson tried to sound extra-serious as he intoned that in the future, “holocaust museums” will have to add a new wing for “Gaza”. There was no genocide in Gaza, by any metric. Did civilians die? Yes. Did children and women die? Yes. But when General Curtis LeMay burned down a quarter of Tokyo and his British counterpart, Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris, flattened Hamburg, nobody suggested the tens of thousands of civilians killed were part of some “holocaust”. It was war, and victory in war involves destroying your enemy’s ability to fight you. You can blow up his ball-bearing factories or kill enough of his people that he no longer wants to fight. Only when the Jews kill civilians as part of a campaign to destroy terrorists is there a genocide. Apparently, 70 percent of those killed by the IDF in Gaza were combatants. That would be like a modern baseball player batting .400 from April through the World Series. I still don’t agree with Israel's warning prior to the attack. But the lawyers in the Israeli army are........

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