Yaakov Katz
Jerusalem Post, Feb. 16, 2024
“The West was more obsessed with the people who might or might not have been killed in Gaza – depends if you want to believe Hamas – as opposed to the question of why two Israelis were being held there in the first place.”
Imagine that in 2017, toward the end of the nine-month war to topple ISIS in Mosul as the terrorist group was on the ropes, someone called on the United States and its allies to stop their offensive and not enter Bab at Tawb, one of the Iraqi city’s main neighborhoods.
Does anyone really think the US would have listened?
Now, imagine that in 2014 America had the possibility of launching a commando mission to save journalist James Foley before ISIS killed him. Does anyone really think that the US media would have focused more on the clashes that erupted around the building where Foley was being held, than on the rescue of a US citizen from the clutches of death?
Here is another question: Imagine that a week after 9/11, as America was bombing the Tora Bora cave complex on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, “al-Qaeda Health Ministry” would have put out a statement claiming that the US military had bombed a hospital killing hundreds of innocent civilians.
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