VDH: How Will the World React to Gaza?

It is a very dangerous thing for a country to be an ally of a fickle America when it is run by the Left, as Israel knows all too well.

by Victor Davis Hanson
October 12, 2023

Hamas has always repelled most of the civilized world. But the world was either too scared or too woke to say just that.

But now Hamas’s premodern violations of all human norms have relieved most nations of any pretense of having to support it—at least for now. “Necklacing” and “baby burning” were its most recent contributions to its standard terrorist repertoire of hostage-taking, raping, beheading, and executions.

Most people will now hope Hamas gets what it deserves, while elites offer empty platitudes about “ending the cycle of violence” and “proportionality”.

As for the “world community” of the UN, the Davos crowd, the universities, the BLM fraudsters, and the DEI mafia endorsing what Hamas has done—they just indict themselves all the more, and slowly commit reputational suicide.

And whatever an NGO, a UN commissioner, an international court, or an American foundation preaches to Israel, it is worth nothing, and they themselves know that, and mor…