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.
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)
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