NEW YORK – Nicholas Kristof, a commentator in The New York
Times has argued that the crisis in the Middle East poses a complex test for
humanity, saying there was no easy remedy.
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“In this test, we in the West are not in a good position,”
he wrote.
“Accepting the widespread bombing of Gaza and the impending
ground invasion suggests that Palestinian children are the least important
victims, as they are devalued due to their association with the Hamas movement
and its terrorist history.”
Kristof, who has traveled to Tel Aviv and witnessed slogans
written on walls like "Destroy Hamas," notes that Israeli sentiments
have been shattered due to Hamas' attack on October 7 and its kidnappings.
He then goes on to talk about the United States, which
speaks a lot about principles, "but I fear that President Biden may have
embedded a hierarchical sequence of human life in official American policy. He
expressed anger at the Hamas massacres against Jews, as he should, but
struggled to be as clear about the value of Palestinian lives. It is not always
clear whether he stands in perfect alignment with Israel as a state or with its
long-term incumbent Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who poses a long-term
obstacle to peace."
Kristof questions the meaning of the U.S. administration's
call to get an additional $14 billion in aid to Israel and the simultaneous
call to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
“The defensive weapons for the Iron Dome system may make
sense, but practically, is the idea that we will help pay for the
humanitarians' costs to mop up the blood partially caused by our weapons?”
The column signifies changing perspectives in the United
States as the carnage from Israel's war on Gaza reached unprecedented
levels.
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