By Left's Own Standards, Israel Has Moral 'High Ground'

Last week the host of CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch” appeared on a sister network and professed confusion about the widespread support for Gaza terrorists.

“Israel seems to be on trial, which I don’t understand,” he told MSNBC host Nicole Wallace. “People say ‘ceasefire,’ and none of us want violence. But there was a ceasefire on October 6.”

The next day all that changed.

“We know what happened October 7th, beheading, raping, every inhumane thing that you can do, ripping babies out of mother’s wombs.”

Wallace agreed, “Eight and a half hours of sustained violence against a civilian population.”

Deutsch reasoned that “their only mission is to eliminate Israel, eliminate all Jews.”

He then addressed the hatred that has spilled over to U.S. college campuses.

“This is what was on the Cornell bulletin board last night, ‘If you see a Jewish person on campus follow them home and slit their throats. Rats need to be eliminated from Cornell.’ Another one, ‘If you see another Jew on campus, if you see a pig, male Jew, I will stab you and slit your throat. If I see another pig female Jew, I will drag you away and rape you and throw you off a cliff.’ And it goes on and on and on.”

Comedian Mikey Greenblatt illustrated the ignorance of today’s college students by posting a video last week asking them to sign a petition “to help Hamas free Palestine.” Everyone was eager until he listed the “terms and conditions” of signing.

They had to agree to Hamas’ terms, which included:

• All non-Muslims in the world must be slaughtered
• Homosexuals must be either imprisoned or executed
• The spread of radical jihad and destruction of the West
• Banning women from showing their knees or hair, playing sports, or traveling without a man’s permission
• Support a terrorist group the beheads babies and rapes women

No one signed.

Palestinian supporters always distinguish Hamas terrorists from Palestine, yet no other Arab nation will accept Palestinian refugees. Republican Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas explained why in a YouTube video.

The short answer is that they’ve had problems with Palestinians before. He explained:

• Kuwait kicked out 300,000 Palestinians in 1991 for supporting Iraq’s invasion of that country.
• In 1970, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, operating in Jordan, violently called for overthrowing the Jordanian monarchy. The Jordanian military eventually drove the Palestinians out of the country.
• They moved on to Lebanon, leading to one of the bloodiest civil wars in Middle East history.

Add to that Palestinians keep electing Hamas terrorists to represent their interests.

The Hebrew Bible traces Israel’s origins to Abraham, whose grandson, Jacob, was renamed “Israel” by God.

King David ruled Israel around 1000 BC, and his son, King Solomon, is believed to have built the first temple in Jerusalem. After that it was invaded by the Assyrians, and later Babylonians conquered Jerusalem.

In later years it was conquered and ruled by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Fatimids, Turks, Crusaders, Egyptians, and Islamists.

For 200 years It was part of the Ottoman Empire. Then, in 1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour submitted a letter of intent supporting the establishment of a Jewish homeland in what was then called Palestine.

In 1918 at the end of World War I, Great Britain assumed control over Palestine, and four years later the League of Nations approved the Balfour Declaration and the British mandate over the country, a move opposed by Arab nations.

In 1947, a year after the end of World War II, Israel became an independent state.

How many times have we heard leftists cry that we stole land from Native Americans and Mexico, and that we should give it back?

Using their own standards, that’s all the British did with Israel — they returned to its original, rightful owner — the descendants of Abraham and Isaac, King David and King Solomon. And as the only true democracy in the Middle East, Israel welcomes Jews, Christians and Muslims to live, work, run for office and pray.

One day after Hamas invaded Israel, Nuseir Yassin, who described himself as “A Palestinian kid born inside Israel,” posted his “Personal Thoughts” on social media.

He explained that since he was 12 he thought of himself as “Palestinian first. Israeli second. But after recent events, I started to think. And think. And think. And then my thoughts turned to anger,” especially after he realized Hamas had killed more than 40 Arabs whose only crime was living in Israel.

He concluded, “So from today forward, I view myself as an ‘Israeli-Palestinian.’ Israeli first. Palestinian second. Sometimes it takes a shock like this to see so clearly.”

If a Palestinian kid living in Israel can figure that out, why can’t a pampered student at a fancy Ivy League university?