Victor Davis Hanson explains that the Mideast’s so-called “cycle of violence” is really a “two step” in which the MSM is complicit:
We all now know the familiar Gaza two-step. The Israeli Defense Forces respond to Hamas rockets with air strikes against terrorist leaders or small-rocket factories. Hamas makes certain both these targets are intermingled with civilians in the hopes of televised collateral damage.
Hamas counts on the usual sympathetic European and Middle Eastern media coverage. Terrorists deliberately trying to murder Israeli civilians are seen as the moral equivalents of Israeli soldiers trying to target combatants who use civilians as shields. To the extent that the IDF kills more of the terrorists than Hamas kills Israeli civilians, sympathy goes to the “refugees” of Gaza.
Related reading: A “Seamless Continuum” of Violence
