Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:44 PM PDT
While
furious mobs of leftists draped in Keffiyahs and corn syrup were shrieking
about Gaza in the public squares of every major city, ISIS was continuing its
genocidal advance on Baghdad. In the last 24 hours, the Yazidis, a non-Muslim
minority, fled ISIS to a mountaintop where their
children are dying of thirst.
The stark reality of their plight, caught between thirst and a
genocidal army, is in sharp contrast to the phony claims made about Gaza
where truckloads of
goods continue passing from Israel during wartime, where the malls have
iPhones and the five star
hotels offer cakes so
tall they can
only be cut from a crane.
The dead Yazidi children won’t inspire any protests or much in
the way of outrage. The hysterical rallies for Gaza won’t suddenly turn into
anti-ISIS rallies. If any of the angry white hipsters with dead baby posters
are asked about it, they will offer some variation on, “It’s Bush’s fault” or
“It’s Tony Blair’s fault.”
And they had been out there in the early part of the century
denouncing any move to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The dead children gassed by Saddam,
along with the children in his prisons, were unfortunately created less equal
than the photogenic, oddly blonde children of Gaza’s Hamaswood.
Anna, a two-year-old girl whose feet
were crushed by Saddam’s torturers, never mattered to
them. It isn’t the children that they
care about, not the dying Yazidi children in Iraq, the tortured children in Saddam
Hussein’sprisons, or even the dead children of Gaza, used as
human shields by Hamas in life and then brandished at rallies after their
deaths as cardboard propaganda shields by furious Marxists.
When they thought that Israel had bombed a playground
near the al-Shati refugee camp killing nine children, they
went into murderous paroxysm of outrage. When it turned out that a misfired
Hamas rocket was responsible, they fell silent.
They have equally little interest in the 3-year-old
Gazan girl killed by a Hamas rocket in the early days of the
war.
The same thing had happened in 2012 when a dead 11-month old
baby, formerly an iconic front page photo, vanished into obscurity once the
death turned out to have been caused by
a Hamas rocket. The same thing happened to Hadil al-Haddad, a
2-year-old girl in Gaza, who went from iconic
photo to yesterday’s news once it turned out that a Hamas rocket
had been responsible for her death.
However the photos of those dead and wounded children, along
with the dead children of Syria and perhaps soon the dead children of the
Yazidi, will go on showing up at spitefully angry anti-Israel rallies.
If they genuinely cared about children, they would be at least
as outraged, moved and pained by the death of a child at the hands of Saddam
Hussein, as they were by ISIS terrorists dying at the hands of American and
British soldiers. Instead dead Iraqi children inspired apathy and dead Al
Qaeda outrage.
If it was the children that they cared about, then the death of
an Israeli child or a Muslim child at the hands of Hamas would matter as much
to them as the ones on the bloody placards they now brandish.
But they don’t and they never did.
They don’t love children or anyone else for that matter. They
only hate. The dead children are only pieces of photographic paper to them
which they use to shamelessly assault their ideological enemies.
Once Israel pulled out of Gaza, a report by the UN Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs found a striking increase in the amount of
internal violence as the majority of deaths were now being
caused by clan feuds.
During 2007’s battles between Israel and Hamas, as many
Palestinian Arab children died in clan feuds as they did in Israeli air
strikes. And unlike air strikes, children killed in clan feuds aren’t
accidents.
The dirty little secret is that while Palestinian identity is as
phony as a three dollar bill, clan identity is a powerful and defining force.
Furthermore it is often hard to tell whether Hamas and Fatah terrorists are
aligned with a movement because of personal belief or because their clan is
aligned with a movement.
Hamas and Fatah aren’t just ideologies. They are also large
extended clan families which fight over land, honor and economic
control.
The origins of Israel’s struggle with terrorism go back to the
roots of the al-Husayni clan which arrived in Jerusalem after the Crusades
and has been trying to control the city and everything else ever since.
Prominent members and associates of the clan include Hitler’s
Mufti, Hajj Amin
al-Husayni, and Yasser Arafat.
(Arafat however was more directly associated with the Al-Qudwas, a clan which
extends from Iraq to Egypt. Both clans considered themselves to be a sort of
titled aristocracy, yet another fact which makes their post-colonial
posturing as oppressed peoples ridiculously hypocritical and laughable.)
Muslim children being killed in clan feuds between huge families
whose local branches claim to be the leaders of the Palestinian people even
as they fight with equal ferocity for control over Syria and Iraq is not a
subject that any of the placard wavers are interested in. Open that door a
crack and their whole self-righteous campaign collapses into incoherent
bleating as they struggle to justify the primacy of one terrorist group over
another based on the claims of descent from Mohammed by its leading
clans.
There are stories that are simply not told.
When UN inspector and anti-war activist Scott Ritter visited
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, he encountered
a prison which, in his own words, “appeared to be a prison for
children — toddlers up to pre-adolescents — whose only crime was to be the
offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of
Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene.”
Ritter refused to discuss it any further, “because what I saw
was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war
with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace.”
Scott
Ritter, who was later arrested for soliciting underage girls on the internet,
wasn’t waging peace. No more than the placard wavers in London, Sydney and
Montreal are waging peace. He was fighting to keep Saddam Hussein power. And
he was willing to sacrifice a prison full of children to do that.
He was willing to sacrifice little girls like Anna, who had her
feet crushed in a torture chamber, to keep Saddam Hussein in power. Ritter
was willing to do it because he had the same morals as Saddam.
That is the same attitude that the placard wavers have toward
the children of Gaza, of Iraq and of countless other places. They use them to
wage war in the name of peace when they come in handy.
And when they die of Hamas rockets and clan feuds, when they are
killed by ISIS and the entire murderous alphabet soup of Islamic terrorism,
they drop them like yesterday’s garbage.
For Hamas and its supporters screaming “Free Gaza” at the top of
their lungs, children, dead or alive, are just another propaganda weapon in
the arsenal of terrorist theocracy.
They are eager and willing to let Hamas go on killing Jewish and
Muslim children in the name of its war.
(A version of
this article originally appeared at Front Page Magazine)
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger
and a Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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