You can always count on Democrats to take the side of terrorist supporters over Israel, even the supposedly sensible Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA).
Israel arrested members of deranged left-wing activist Greta Thunberg‘s boat convoy, which claimed to have been trying to get aid to Gaza and break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Arrested as part of this harebrained, antisemitic scheme (the activists wail about a “genocide” and peddle Hamas talking points) was an American, David Adler.
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Khanna is now threatening Israel and demanding that Adler be released. In a social media post addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Khanna said, “There is a red line with the American people. Don’t mess with our citizens. Release David Adler now.” In another post, Khanna made it clear that he thinks the real victims of the war started by Hamas when it massacred 1,200 Israeli civilians are Thunberg and the women and children in Gaza whom Netanyahu, oh so surely, must be torturing.
Khanna presumes to speak for Americans on this matter, but allow me to offer an alternative perspective: Many of us think Americans who commit crimes abroad should face consequences for their actions. This is not Russia sending an American to a gulag over drug offenses to use as a hostage in a prisoner exchange. Adler tried to break through a military blockade in Israel’s war against a genocidal terrorist regime in order to deliver aid that the terrorist regime would inevitably steal. He did so based on propaganda from that terrorist regime, which starves its own people and then blames Israel for it.
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Khanna is doing this, painting Netanyahu as the real villain of this conflict while using his initial condemnation of Hamas as a political cudgel against people who view this conflict with any sort of moral clarity. Khanna continues to view this as a conflict where both sides are at fault, responding to anyone rightfully putting the blame entirely on Hamas by whining about Netanyahu. Meanwhile, he wants to reward Palestinian terrorism by recognizing a Palestinian state, which he said is “an idea whose time has come” after Palestinians massacred 1,200 civilians and took a few dozen hostages, including Americans.
Using Netanyahu as a scapegoat, Khanna is deliberately undermining the moral justification for Israel’s cause by pretending there is some equivalence between Israel and Hamas. There is not. Hamas must surrender or be destroyed. There should be no state for “Palestine” until the Palestinians prove they can go at least one generation without supporting or enabling terrorists. And no, we should not be threatening Israel for arresting an American who, acting on Hamas propaganda, inserted himself into the middle of the war.