Conn Carroll is the commentary editor for the Washington Examiner. He served as a communications director in the U.S. Senate for seven years before returning to journalism. He is a graduate of the Antonin Scalia Law School and lives in northern Virginia with his wife and three children. You can follow him @conncarroll.
It can be disorientating at first. Despite all the images of dead grandparents, mothers, and children, despite the eyewitness testimony of concertgoers describing how Hamas murdered and raped their friends right in front of them, Palestinians still go on live television and claim with a straight face that Hamas is not killing civilians.
“No, they are not,” Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria after Zakaria said Hamas was targeting “women, children, grandmothers.”“Isn’t that classic terrorism? They are not fighting the Israeli government. They are fighting ordinary people,” Zakaria pressed.
There is no evidence that anyone at the music festival had a gun or burned a city in the West Bank, but the rest of his statement is the clarifying answer: Palestinians consider everyone of Jewish descent living in Israel to be a “settler” who is fair game for immediate execution. It doesn’t matter if he or she is an unarmed musician, an elderly grandmother, or a newborn baby.
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