by Robert M. Traxler

A Gallup poll conducted Feb. 1, 2023, found that 49% of Democrats support the “Palestinians” and 38% support Israel. The numbers seem hard to believe, so I double checked it.

The logical question is why? Well, if we think it over, the current politically correct mortal sin is “White Privilege,” and Israelis are stereotyped as white and rich. Given that, the politically correct god preaches they must hate Israel, and Israelis cannot be victims.

It doesn’t pass the common sense test, no, but who cares? Babies with their throats slit and decapitated, entire families murdered in their homes, mothers zip tied to their children and set on fire while still alive are not victims. Hate can blind a true believer. 

Now the poll cited is before the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, so today the numbers would be different; however, the underlying hatred for Israel is still there and will return when it is allowed. The politically correct influencers in our media and education system are starting to allow that hate to return and it is being more open as every day passes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played our President like a flute. The Israeli Defense Force took its time, the time necessary to prepare the battlefield and properly train and equip its reserve forces, not charging into Gaza in force, a sound tactical course of action. Our President and media are saying that the delay was a humanitarian move to allow noncombatants to clear out of the battle area in Gaza and trade hostages for time.  

If, and it is a big if, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has an effective blockade of northern Gaza, the Hamas forces are getting weaker and the IDF is getting stronger. The amount of logistics it takes to maintain the terrorist force in Gaza is huge; the Hamas forces cannot eat rocket propelled grenades (RPG-7) or wipe their butts with a Qassam rocket; they cannot grow food or harvest food in the city, so every day they consume supplies they cannot replace and grow weaker. 

The atrocities of Oct. 7 are fading in our minds and are being forgotten by our mostly pro-Hamas/Palestinian, anti-Israel media and among some in academia. The fate of the Palestinian people is replacing the atrocities of Hamas against Israel as predicted in this column, let’s hope that the IDF does not bow to American popular opinion and attack Gaza en masse to placate the American progressive movement and end the battle prematurely.  

The big question is, will Islamic states like Iran or Yemen or even Egypt join in the war when Israel goes into Gaza? Most of Hamas are Sunni Muslims of the Wahhabi faction, and a pending treaty between mostly Sunni Saudi Arabia and Israel has the majority of the members of Hamas who are radical believers very angry. 

The pro-Hamas students protesting in our nation need to look at the Hamas founding documents that will not accept peace with Israel or with any Jews still in the Mid-East. Wahhabi Muslims would stone or beat the young women protesting for them in our nation for not being properly attired and for being in public without a male relative as a chaperone.

White privileged themselves, American protesters somehow forget the people they are protesting are themselves. The Wahhabis are not inclusive, nor believers in equality. Indeed, they would murder or punish LBGTQ++ folks without a second thought. The Wahhabis do not believe in equality for women or darn near any politically correct concept, but the protesters don’t care about the facts, it is about politically correct feelings and white hate.

It is interesting that the progressives will say we need to give land back to the native folks who were living in it first. OK, the Jews were in the Middle East some 2000 years before the Muslim religion was formed by Mohammed. Christians were in the area nearly 630 years before the Muslim religion was formed. The history and timeline do not matter. What matters is the self-hate we find in the “educated elite” attending and teaching in our colleges and universities. 

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) operation in Gaza will be long and bloody; however, time favors Israel. My opinion.