Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Pro-Hamas Crowds will Soon Have a Rendezvous with Reality - The accounting they're about to face.
Front Page Magazine ^ | 15 Apr, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/15/2024 5:25:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber

For over six months, the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests have accelerated, and now are predictably incendiary and violent.

Recently, they have jumped the shark with unapologetic chants of “Death to America”. Or so a cheering crowd in Michigan chanted in homage to the late king of all Western-hostage-takers, the murderous Ayatollah Khomeini. And the huckster speaker revved them up by quoting Malcolm X that America is “one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this Earth.” (Does such a condemnation of fellow Americans presage mass reverse migration of unhappy Middle Easterners back to the West Bank, Gaza, and Iran?)

The more these demonstrators shut down major bridges at commute hour, defaced iconic government monuments and cemeteries, disrupted Easter and Christmas services (try that with mosques at Ramadan), broke into the Capitol and congressional chambers (no January 6-like penalties to come?), and hunted down Jewish students, the bolder they became.

Apparently, the demonstrators were convinced that they were either exempt under the woke aegis, or too precious in Joe Biden’s Michigan electoral calculus, or too useful to campuses as rich full-tuition-paying foreign students on gold-plated student visas.

But everything and everyone have limits. They have now crossed them, and are about to face an accounting, and for a variety of reasons.

1) News is leaking out that Hamas may have for some time been bluffing about a ceasefire for hostages. Given Hamas has suddenly announced that they cannot meet the conditions of the proposed ceasefire, since not all the forty women and sick and elderly men taken hostage are still alive.

If true, then their months of bartering and “negotiating” were a likely sham, and their earlier claims that three hostages were collateral damage of Israeli strikes become more dubious.

Why would they kill their escape route?

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: ceasefire; domesticenemies; hamas; leftism; vdh; victordavishanson
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last

1 posted on 04/15/2024 5:25:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Will any democRAT voters change their minds with all of the Pedo-Joe pandering to muslims?


2 posted on 04/15/2024 5:25:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: texas booster

VDH Ping


3 posted on 04/15/2024 5:25:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Assuming that Israel deals...sternly and effectively...with Hamas and Iran before the Rat Party convention that convention will make 1968 look like a picnic in the park by comparison.

It would be lots of fun to watch!

4 posted on 04/15/2024 5:29:25 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Some might...and at least some voters who lean Rat might stay home,vote for RFK,JR,or even vote for DJT.


5 posted on 04/15/2024 5:31:33 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

When will Jews wake up and stop supplying HALF the total contributions to the Democrat Party which plainly hates them?


6 posted on 04/15/2024 5:42:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

BTTT


7 posted on 04/15/2024 5:44:37 AM PDT by nopardons
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

Palestinians are brownish and poor and thus automatically heroes in the eyes of liberals.


8 posted on 04/15/2024 5:56:17 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

BTTT


9 posted on 04/15/2024 5:56:23 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FLT-bird
When will Jews wake up and stop supplying HALF the total contributions to the Democrat Party which plainly hates them?

Excerpt from the Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/24/why-most-american-jews-vote-for-democrats-explained/

"When, however, the Republican party reached out to white Protestant evangelicals, who eventually came to constitute the party’s base, Jews reacted negatively because they perceived a threat to the liberal regime. Evangelicals, with their “God talk,” insistence on a “Christian America,” and general willingness to deny fundamental liberties to some minorities on religious grounds, struck many American Jews as a fundamental danger to core values of the polity."

10 posted on 04/15/2024 6:09:12 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: JesusIsLord

American Jews had been voting overwhelmingly Democrat long before that. As usual with WAPO, what they write is ridiculous BS.


11 posted on 04/15/2024 6:13:36 AM PDT by FLT-bird
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: FLT-bird

“When will Jews wake up”

I believe the issue is the secular Jews’ religion is communism /socialism. Their religion is stronger/more important than their race.


12 posted on 04/15/2024 6:36:47 AM PDT by alternatives? (`)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Birds of a feather flock together.
It is very clear that Hamas and its sympathizers share the same trend of violence.
13 posted on 04/15/2024 6:38:31 AM PDT by californian by choice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

The Muslims are celebrating that they have conquered our country. And, it was done with the cooperation and assistance of our political leaders. They can speak and chant “Death to America” and do as they wish with no repercussions or punishment for assaults, thefts, or other crimes. Meanwhile, any who speak against them are ostracized and suffer serious repercussions, including criminal charges and legal punishments.

I see few signs that anything is changing for the good.


14 posted on 04/15/2024 6:43:35 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Such a reckoning will be a long time in coming.

Obama is pro-Hamas and so is the Donk party, the globalists and the Euros and the American and European establishment media. They’ll run cover for the Jew killers from now until Doomsday They still push the Russia collusion fable, the Charleston fable, the rape fable and they’ll always push the Jews Deserve What’s Coming fable.


15 posted on 04/15/2024 6:43:50 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

No worries. The Democrat-funded Israeli far-left will rescue Hamas.


16 posted on 04/15/2024 6:45:02 AM PDT by montag813
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

The rest of the article:

Why would they kill their escape route?

To hide their torturing and raping of the kidnapped? In furor at their own-self-inflicted dilemmas? Sick hatred of Jews?

Who knows? But, if true, this may remind the gullible West that it cannot trust anything the lying Hamas says: that the ultimate fate of the hostages did not depend on the Israeli entrance into Gaza, given that Hamas had either already killed many of the remaining kidnapped, or had planned to do so under any circumstances.

2) For the first time since the ‘60s, universities are facing protests that they genuinely fear. College presidents are starting to realize that if they continue to allow the pro-Hamas violent demonstrators to make a mockery of campus rules and laws, they soon will have no campus at all. And the mob then will determine who can and cannot speak with impunity. Administrators’ tolerance of overt anti-Semitism and violence against Jews is turning American campuses into something like late-1930s German universities.

3) Yet at Vanderbilt and Pomona we for the first time are witnessing a return to administrative sanity, marked by suspensions and exemptions. And the reactions of those held accountable confirm how pathetic these bullies are. They prove eager to resort to violence and crash into lecture halls, only suddenly to become fragile and terrified for their beautiful career plans endangered by a modicum of accountability. Expect more universities to be encouraged by just how well deterrence can work against woke thuggery.

4) Joe Biden’s pandering in Michigan is reaching the point of obscenity and if continued will be counter-productive. For each Muslim-American voter he thinks he can keep by abandoning Israel and protecting the agendas of the October 7 killers and kidnappers, he is going to lose two voters appalled that fellow-Americans in Michigan are now calling for death to America. Biden is so confident of the Jewish-American vote and donor class that he is now siding with those calling for the absolute destruction of the Jewish state and everyone inside. Is he convinced that his Jewish base is permanently in tune with Chuck Schumer—or will it finally have had enough?

5) The old myth that being anti-Israel had nothing to do with being anti-Semitic is now exposed for the lie it mostly always was. The pro-Hamas crowd makes no distinction, and certainly not on campus, where the more educated the protestor, the more likely he is to harass Jews first, and ask questions later if at all about whether his targets support Israel. The new myth that being pro-Gaza has nothing to do with being pro-Hamas is equally exposed as a lie by the chants of “from the River to the Sea” and calls for a return to the pre-1947 borders—in other words, the Hamas charter of destroying Israel.

6) Do these protestors who scream “Genocide Joe” really see an alternative in November? Because the more they show America who they are and what their values and agenda intend, the more they make it clear why we need to reexamine every aspect of immigration, junk DEI and substitute required civic education, and undertake a complete reappraisal of higher education.

The latter would revisit current tax-exempt endowment income, government subsidized student loans, massive unaudited federal grants, the huge number of foreign students, and their exemption from federal oversight.

It is long past time to overhaul the student visa programs, replete with rapid cancellations of visas and deportations for those who come to study but end up breaking our laws.

In sum, the more brazen the pro-Hamas crowd and the more they reveal the cravenness of the Biden administration, the more they may ensure their rendezvous with Donald Trump in 2025.


17 posted on 04/15/2024 6:47:48 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
LET'S GET THE TRUTH OUT THERE!! Historical and biblical truth - The “Palestinian refugees” are neither Palestinian nor refugees.

Here are the facts!

https://www.frontpagemag.com/__trashed-14/

18 posted on 04/15/2024 8:00:41 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
"MUSLIMS" ....A mass of people who carry a "holy" book that says to murder all Jews and Christians who won't bow to their prophet.

And now we're flooding them into our country and even putting them into our government!

Can American citizens be more stupid or are we trying to destroy ourselves ???

That first Muslim president Obama said he "had a plan for America" .... and it was not for our good!

19 posted on 04/15/2024 8:01:30 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Most Democrat voters fall into two groups.
Group 1. These people will vote democrat ALWAYS because they want control of a new socialist US government.
Group 2. These are morons with no ability to think. They just want free stuff.


20 posted on 04/15/2024 8:23:49 AM PDT by Agatsu77
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson