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@Anton_Brakhage Protesting college students now direct their ire at Israel and the U.S. instead of calling out Iran's role in Gaza. Iran has deployed Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and its elite Revolutionary Guard in a sustained effort to undermine Israel, Saudi Arabia and peace in the Middle East.
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American-born student demonstrators - especially those who are neither Palestinian nor Israeli - should step all the way back and examine the larger context of the tragedies unfolding in Israel and Gaza. Their hissy fits, flags, keffiyehs and tents in response to the horrors of this war are useless.
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While protesters demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the Hamas terrorists who launched this war last year, hide out in their underground bunkers, do nothing to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians, stall peace negotiations, post hostage videos and reap the propaganda benefits of these events.
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Many students, including those here in America for higher education, enjoy the luxury of adopting a pacifist or antiwar stance only because they live in a wealthy democratic nation. Most haven't known war, nor lost friends in battle, nor witnessed the destruction of their cities as in, say, Ukraine.
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Since the draft ended after the Viet Nam War, young people who may be about the same age as college-bound students, now enter military service as volunteers. They may join out of economic necessity, to finance an education, out of family tradition, or from a sense of patriotic duty as after 9/11/.
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I doubt young Americans in college or the military know much about British and Ottoman rule, the Shoah, the World Wars, the Nakba, the diaspora of Jews and Arabs from Palestine, the birth of Israel in 1948, her wars with neighbors, terror attacks and failed diplomacy to achieve a two-state solution.
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Unlike students in El Salvador, Colombia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, American students have not had to be concerned with conscription. Our military has incentivized men and women to put their lives on the line for us in Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, or on bases around the world.
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Students who protest with Palestinian flags, anti-Semitic signs and chants that America defund Israel, a vital U.S. ally, don't enjoy my support. I view them as having been radicalized by Hamas media, not just by the death and destruction caused in Gaza by the Israeli counteroffensive and siege.
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Bashing the efforts of President Biden, diplomats, military personnel and intelligence officials who are collaborating with other international leaders to strike a deal with Hamas and Netanyahu, gets them no brownie points. They are working to prevent World War III and there's no room for amateurs.
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