by Alan M. Dershowitz
What will happen if Hamas is allowed to win
this war? If Hamas is permitted to accomplish what it intended by its mass
murders, kidnappings and rapes? If the victims of these atrocities — the people
of Israel and all countries fighting terrorism — lose? If the prospects for
peace in the region and the Free World are seriously damaged? If the
relationship between the US and Israel, and the loss of faith in the US as the
guarantor of freedom, continues to be fractured?
Instead, the Biden administration may be
rewarding Palestinian terrorists by unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian
State, which will, of course, soon become militarized.
The anti-Israel left-wingers are not going to
vote for Trump, who is more pro-Israel than Biden. Nor are they likely to stay
home on Election Day and help Trump. Centrist voters, on the other hand, are
likely to vote against Biden if they think he is beholden to the Squad or other
anti-American woke extremists.
As important as are the domestic electoral
implications of Biden's weakening support for Israel, the international
implications are far more consequential. The world will be a far less safe
place if Israel is prevented from defeating Hamas and dismantling its military
capabilities.
Israel is doing everything reasonable to
decrease civilian casualties, while Hamas tries to increase them on both sides.
American policy should be to help Israel defeat Hamas and prevent the
recurrence and spread of its terrorism against civilians, rather than to help
Hamas secure a victory by tying Israel's hands.
So, unless the Biden administration changes
course and encourages Israel to achieve its legitimate military goal of
defeating Hamas, terrorism will win and civilization will lose.
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