Who's ready for Fareed Zakaria's take on Israel's brutal bombing campaign in Gaza? I, for one, was sick of the whole idea of a "proportionate response" by Israel after Hamas terrorists raped and murdered over a thousand civilians on October 7. What's a proportionate response to being ambushed and slaughtered?
Zakaria seems to think Israel will have to answer for its actions "in the heat of its anger" after October 7. In the heat of anger? Israel waited a couple of weeks before starting its ground campaign against Hamas so that Palestinians could evacuate. In the heat of anger, Gaza would have been a sheet of glass on October 8.
CNN, why do you employ this guy?
Israel will one day have to ask itself whether it acted appropriately in the heat of its anger and sorrow after Oct. 7. Friends of Israel should help it ask those questions now, so that it does not look back on this episode with shame and regret.
— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) January 15, 2024
My take: pic.twitter.com/KPnc9OQ6lC
Israel is not going to look back with shame and regret. Has Hamas expressed shame and regret for starting a war they can't win? They could always surrender and give back the hostages.
Seriously, what did Hamas expect to happen after October 7? The world, including Zakari, apparently thinks Israel should have just "absorbed" the casualties.
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The Biden administration is already "quietly working" to get Israel to tone it down in Gaza and wrap up its war before the election.
You don’t have any harsh words for Hamas or Palestinians who have supported & voted for them?
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) January 15, 2024
Not one word?
Go f*** yourself, N*zi apologist.
— David Steinberg (@realDSteinberg) January 15, 2024
Am Yisrael Chai!
Get lost.
— JWF (@JammieWF) January 15, 2024
Fareed Zakaria will one day have to ask himself whether minimizing Hamas' actions on October 7th was worth his soul.https://t.co/211K7C2MrP
— Extremely Careless (@Shanghaibeast) January 15, 2024
If it was proportional than it wasn’t aggressive enough.
— Matrillon🧌 (@thejewishtroll) January 15, 2024
The whole point is to change their incentives to do it again and it means to make them pay higher than they were willing to. In other words, not proportional
You clearly dont understand the situation on the ground. Israelis have never been more united. They were shaken to the core. Never again means something.
— Jon Kamali (@therealjonka) January 15, 2024
What exactly is proportional to raping and beheading, still holding innocent people hostage, and celebrating in the streets?
— Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) January 15, 2024
One never hears these kind of condescending smug lectures directed at other nations at times of conflict.
— MAK (@ChavaProduction) January 15, 2024
Narrator-Israel acted appropriately. Right now, Hamas should consider itself lucky that “Palestine” still exists.
— Kent Moore (@kentrmoore) January 15, 2024
Oh, and a quick end to the war that Hamas started could’ve been quickly ended with Hamas surrendering.
Zakari is concern-trolling for Israel, fearing that they'll look back at this "with shame and regret," instead of appealing to Hamas to surrender and return the hostages. Israel does not need to feel shame about anything.
This take is shameful, though. And so is CNN for airing it.
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