Such a shocker.
@KatiePavlich I know you don't care about actual facts, but that's not at all what i said. read the transcript…
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 4, 2014
Ok, let’s take a look at it. Newsbusters posted the transcript here. This is the comment by Hill to which Pavlich is referring:
I think, though, the challenge is, because if you look at the Iron Dome in isolation, then yes, Ross, I agree with you 100% because the Iron Dome is exclusively a defensive mechanism, but what the Iron Dome does is it also takes away all of Hamas’s military leverage which is very different than say, 10 years ago or 15 years in other wars like Lebanon, et cetera. As a result, it serves a defensive purpose but de facto serves an offensive purpose. It allows Israel to essentially assault and siege Gaza without any retribution or response on the other side. So again, to some extent, they are not just funding defense, they are funding an offensive war and ultimately an occupation. That for me, is the problem.
So in a nutshell (emphasis on “nut”), Hill is saying that since Iron Dome helps Israel defend itself more efficiently, they have the resources available to root out Hamas terrorists in Gaza without those terrorists being able to retaliate effectively…and that’s a problem for him.
He said pretty much exactly what Katie Pavlich said he did.
@KatiePavlich My PROBLEM is that we didn't make any peace demands from Israel in exchange for Iron Dome funding…
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 4, 2014
Peace demands?
Making “peace demands” upon the nation who is under attack can only make sense in the rat’s maze of a left wing college professor’s mind. If we give you the means to stop rocket attacks, you have to promise not to try and stop terrorists from firing rockets at you, mmmkay?
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We’ll give you a helmet as long as you agree to just sit there while people brain you with a crowbar.
The faculty lounge applauds this brilliant solution.
@KatiePavlich as i said, the request for funding defense military technology is "QUITE REASONABLE". but it must come with demands…
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 4, 2014
@KatiePavlich and i didn't complain about Hamas' lack of leverage. I pointed it out in the service of a bigger point about the US' role…
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2014
It’s very simple, to Marc Lamont Hill, the sentence,”That for me, is a problem,” means something entirely different than to any other English speaker.
@KatiePavlich The only way we can stop the killing of innocents on both sides is if the US intervenes. We have leverage.. that's the point.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2014
Marc’s flailing becomes much easier to understand once you recognize that he begins by jumping to the ideological conclusion that Israel is morally equivalent to its terrorist enemies and it is therefore wrong for Israel to have a military advantage over them. The rest is just failed attempts at rationalizing that false belief.
@KatiePavlich I don't want Hamas to have weapons. I want MODERATES to create peace in the region. But i also want the killing to stop.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2014
So does Israel. Hamas does not.
Whose more extreme @marclamonthill? The Israelis or Hamas?
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 5, 2014
*crickets*
You realize the entire reason Iron Dome funding exists is to stop rockets from Gaza, right? No rockets = no problem @marclamonthill
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 5, 2014
*chirp chirp*
Here's a good peace plan: tell Hamas to stop firing rockets into Israel, then an Iron Dome isn't needed @marclamonthill
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 5, 2014
*no response*
What exactly should we demand from Israel in their fight against terrorist organziation Hamas @marclamonthill?
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 5, 2014
*…*
Right? Please name a "moderate" Hamas member @marclamonthill cc: @RichardRSmithJr
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 5, 2014
@KatiePavlich @RichardRSmithJr I'm not calling Hamas moderate. I'm saying there are moderate organizations that could prevail….
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2014
@KatiePavlich @RichardRSmithJr you're so committed to framing me as Team Hamas that you're not hearing me…
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2014
Oh don't worry, I hear you. You think it's a problem that Israel has a military advantage against Hamas with the Iron Dome @marclamonthill
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 5, 2014
@KatiePavlich no i don't think the advantage is the problem. i see our failure to broker peace as the problem.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2014
“That for me, is a problem.”
@KatiePavlich it's clear you're not trying to actually have a conversation. I bid you peace… good night
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2014
No, it's just clear you won't condemn Hamas for firing rockets at Israel. No rockets = no problem. Ciao. @marclamonthill
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 5, 2014
Ciao.
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