Nicholas Kristof Is Vulgar

I have written in the past about the foolish views of liberal Nicholas Kristof about Israel. His idealized view of Palestinian Arabs are disconnected from reality and leads him to propose stupid plans for the Israeli-Muslim Arab Conflict.

It’s worse than that.

Kristof’s latest opinion pieces, “Our Beloved Gaza Is Gone”, showcases why his views are vulgar and promote antisemitic jihadists.

Rather than quote the popular Hamas leadership of Gaza which seeks the destruction of Israel or cite the polls of Gazans who want to kill Jewish Israeli civilians, Kristof quotes a “linguistic scholar” in Gaza who wants peace, as if this voice has any power or influence or represents Gaza in any way.

Yet Kristof started the first five paragraphs as well as the headline from this powerless, minority view. He ends with a quote “pray for us”, asking his readers to side with Gazans, to side with antisemitic genocidal jihadists.

When Kristof moved on from his angelic mask to the political-terrorist group Hamas, he whitewashed the entire episode. Lost was the brutal murder and raping of 1,200 people and Israel and seizure of 250 hostages, initiating a full scale war with Israel. Instead the pivot from “horrific atrocities in October 2023” – making the brutal war seem historic and momentary – turned immediately in the same sentence to “didn’t empower Palestinians but left them in misery.” Even though Palestinians initiated and supported the war, they were flipped to the victims.

And Kristof lies that Israel launched a war in response to the attack. The ruling authority of Gaza started the war, no one else. The “tens of thousands” of Palestinians killed is because of Palestinians, not Israel.

Kristof piled onto his fake telling of history that “Americans enabled this killing” by providing Israel the means to defend itself and bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice. He inverts morality and justice by claiming that it’s the people who want to slaughter civilians in their beds as needing protection.

When Kristof mentions Yahya Sinwar, he’s not described as a genocidal murderers who launched the October 7 massacre but only that he was “killed by Israel in October,” seemingly another victim of Israel’s war machine.

And amid all this distortion, Kristof places himself as the dove who bemoans “sustainable peace in the Middle East seems no closer,” as he simply refuses to acknowledge that Gazans want to see Israel destroyed.

Kristof then says that Israel and Hamas are much the same. Both engage in “dehumanization.” Both don’t care about children. For Kristof, the most liberal democracy in the entire Middle East is no different than genocidal jihadists who are intent on killing as many Jews as possible. The Israeli declaration of independence and system of laws calling for equality and peace are somehow no different than the Hamas Charter which calls for the annihilation of Jews.

With his jaundiced view, Kristof once again calls America to pressure Israel rather than the United Nations and the Arab world to coral the Palestinians. And he concludes that he didn’t really say everything he just did, and that Israel and Hamas aren’t really equivalent.

Doves pretend that Palestinian Arabs do not want to kill Jews and destroy Israel and demand that Israel accept whatever punishment and demands that the Arabs have. They do this while claiming they hold the moral high ground, even as they demand that Israel pay the full price of their largess.

{Reposted from the author's blog}