The left’s Big Lies about Israel keep growing bigger — as do the ugly consequences.
The latest: Rep. Gregory Meeks’ bid to place a “hold” on a $2.8 billion sale of US bombs to the Jewish state.
“The Trump administration’s proposed sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs . . . raises grave, unresolved concerns about how these munitions could be used in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon,” huffed Meeks; it’s empty virtue-signaling, since he can’t actually stop the sale.
These are weapons needed to destroy underground tunnels and bunkers; withholding them helps sustain Hamas and Hezbollah, though Meeks claims he backs Israel’s right to defend itself from the terrorists.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) likewise opposed the sale, claiming preposterously that “US weapons are being used to perpetrate a genocide.”
It’s all nonsense: Israel has never — never — used bombs indiscriminately or where it believed major civilian casualties were likely, let alone to “perpetrate a genocide.”
And there’s no legitimate fear it ever would.
These charges fit with a slew of whoppers in a new film, “NAZA” (an acronym for the Hebrew words for “collateral damage”), that the Israel Defense Forces used AI to identify targets in Gaza and carried out strikes knowing they’d mostly kill civilians.
Contrary to the vicious smears, the IDF never leaves targeting decisions to AI, nor would it proceed with a strike if it expected a high civilian-casualty rate.
What makes these lies especially heinous is that the precise opposite is true: Israel goes to lengths to avoid civilian casualties.
Even as Hamas tries to maximize them by using them as human shields.
Urban warfare expert John Spencer, who’s studied the war in Gaza, reports that Jerusalem has “implemented more civilian harm mitigation measures than any military in history.”
That includes not just calling off strikes and diverting missiles mid-flight rather than skirt the rules of war, but also informing civilians in advance of an attack by phone and leaflets, using pinpoint targeting and more.
And it doesn’t just avoid casualties; IDF soldiers have actually risked their lives to protect civilians — from Hamas.
The military has also opted for ground attacks rather than airstrikes to avoid civilian casualties, even though it knew it would lose its own soldiers by doing so.
Of course, the charge of genocide goes way beyond lies like those in “NAZA.”
Along with Jayapal, countless lefties — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Brad Lander, Rashida Tlaib and on and on — fling the term with abandon.
Never mind that Israel could have wiped out Gaza’s population if it wanted to, nor that it’s provided food and medicine to the strip instead.
Or that Gaza’s population has grown 50% in the past 20 years, and didn’t shrink even at the height of the “genocide.”
Adolf Hitler defined the “Big Lie” as a fabrication so wild that people would believe it, not realizing anyone would “distort the truth so infamously.”
He pretended Jews used the technique; in reality it was central to the Nazis’ anti-Jewish propaganda.
How telling that it’s now deployed on a global scale against Israel.
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