Hugo Gurdon is the editor-in-chief of the Washington Examiner. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Hill and previously served as an editor and reporter at the Daily Telegraph of London and the National Post of Canada. His writing has also appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal (Europe), Financial Times, and the Guardian.
Left-wing Democrats held a Capitol Hill press conference this week to demand a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. The usual suspects from the"Squad," extremist defenders of Hamas who itch with every fiber of their being — like the terrorists they support — to see Israel wiped off the map, now want peace.
A ceasefire now would be an unambiguous win for Hamas, for it would demonstrate that they could remain in power to kill again even after perpetrating enormities that sickened all decent people. Calling for a ceasefire now is, as the Babylon Bee joked, as if Emperor Hirohito suggested an end to fighting the day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Absurd and insulting.
This too was an evasion. It is Hamas who keeps Palestinians in harm’s way. Israel warns everyone to get out and has fulfilled all its obligations under the rules of war. It’s not reporters or Israel that is happy with mass death; it is Hamas. Its leaders don’t deny it. They boast of it. Omar and her buddies try to increase death and injury when the casualties will be Jews and only start bleating that all lives matter when the killers are being hunted down and are in danger of annihilation by wholly justified defensive and strategic retributive Israeli action.
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