Dennis Prager Show - Is The West Abandoning Israel?
Aired: 2024-07-31
Duration: 10:31


=== Hezbollah's Moral Equivalence (10:18) ===

[00:00:00]  The Nazis of our time, Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas, were at it again this past weekend.
[00:00:12]  The reaction of the West has been frightening.
[00:00:20]  One would think that you no more have to be Jewish to side with Israel than you have to be Catholic or Protestant to condemn what happened in France.
[00:00:35]  You would think people have a moral conscience working, whatever their religion or ethnicity.
[00:00:42]  But if you do think that, it's not always right.
[00:00:49]  Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group that controls southern Lebanon, said it had nothing to do with the deaths but claimed responsibility for other attacks in the area on Saturday.
[00:01:06]  So they didn't lob this bomb that was very powerful and made in Iran.
[00:01:14]  The reason Hezbollah has denied that they were involved in this massacre of children playing soccer is that they were not Jews.
[00:01:26]  We don't kill Arab children.
[00:01:29]  We only kill Jewish children.
[00:01:34]  But no, they killed them.
[00:01:37]  They murdered them.
[00:01:38]  They slaughtered them.
[00:01:42]  They claim responsibility for other attacks, however, including launching a Falak 1 rocket at an Israeli military site a few miles from the strike scene.
[00:01:54]  Israel's military said that an Iranian-made Falak One hit a soccer field.
[00:01:59]  By the way, billions and billions of dollars toward Iranian arms were given over by the Biden and Obama administrations.
[00:02:11]  These bombs were made in Iran and paid for by American money.
[00:02:15]  Just thought you...
[00:02:17]  By Democratic Party money, giving American money, to be precise.
[00:02:24]  People will be preoccupied with a comment made three years ago by J.D. Vance about women embracing their cats rather than having children.
[00:02:36]  That's what the preoccupation is with.
[00:02:39]  I'll give you a little of Ms. Harris's background later.
[00:02:48]  Israel military said an Iranian mate for Lock One hit a soccer field in Majdal Shams, a community of the Druze religious minority, and that it was launched from the vicinity of Cheba, a southern Lebanese village.
[00:03:16]  Let's see, killed 12 young people and 40 are injured here.
[00:03:23]  The kids, non-Jewish kids by the way, Arab kids, playing soccer, slaughtered by Hezbollah.
[00:03:34]  I have said all of my life that people do not recognize evil in their time, they only recognize evil afterwards.
[00:03:41]  This was the case with communism.
[00:03:44]  Now people are more willing to acknowledge how evil the Soviet Empire was, but when...
[00:03:50]  Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire.
[00:03:53]  The entire liberal world erupted.
[00:03:56]  It's condemned by 50 American newspapers.
[00:04:01]  Oh, it's not an evil empire of the Soviet Union.
[00:04:04]  Of course not.
[00:04:07]  Same with Hezbollah and Hamas, where you have scum, the lowest form of humanity, taking over colleges.
[00:04:20]  They go beyond morally equating Israel and Hamas.
[00:04:26]  They are pro-Hamas.
[00:04:30]  Yeah, that's quite something.
[00:04:33]  And Hezbollah, for that matter.
[00:04:37]  So, they slaughtered 12 kids.
[00:04:43]  And then they say it wasn't from us.
[00:04:45]  Everybody knows it was from them.
[00:04:47]  It's the same exact Iranian-made missile that was sent over the next day from Hezbollah in Lebanon.
[00:04:59]  But because it wasn't Jewish kids slaughtered, they denied that they did it.
[00:05:05]  They only want to slaughter Jewish kids.
[00:05:10]  And there are...
[00:05:11]  Any number of Jews who support them.
[00:05:13]  It is quite something.
[00:05:15]  I wrote a piece.
[00:05:16]  You should look it up.
[00:05:17]  It's called Sick Jews.
[00:05:21]  The White House National Security Council said Sunday that the United States' support for Israel's security is ironclad and unwavering against all the rod-backed threats, including Hezbollah.
[00:05:35]  Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that it was important to prevent the situation from escalating, quote, We're in conversations with the government of Israel, and again I emphasize its right to defend its citizens and our determination to make sure they're able to do that.
[00:05:51]  But we also don't want to see the conflict escalate.
[00:05:57]  Isn't that sort of denying the first part?
[00:06:00]  Of course you can defend yourself, but you can't escalate it.
[00:06:05]  Yes.
[00:06:06]  You should allow your children to be slaughtered.
[00:06:10]  Because if you respond, you're escalating.
[00:06:13]  But we're completely committed to you.
[00:06:16]  Anthony Blinken is not what we would call a giant.
[00:06:20]  In Majdal Shams Sunday, the community began burying the dead who ranged in age from 10 to 20 years old, while survivors fought for their lives in hospitals.
[00:06:31]  The strike injured around 40 people.
[00:06:35]  The rocket carried a 50-kilogram, or about 110-pound warhead, an unusually heavy payload.
[00:06:47]  Yes, and then they have a powerful editorial in the Wall Street Journal.
[00:06:56]  Weakness won't deter Hezbollah after its soccer field attack.
[00:07:04]  A strong show of US support for Israel would do far more to prevent a larger regional war.
[00:07:13]  Hezbollah's rocket attack on Saturday killed 12 children and wounded more on a soccer field in Israel's Golan Heights.
[00:07:21]  The response in the West has been weakness and a lack of resolve continuing the message of recent months that has led to the brink of a larger regional war.
[00:07:33]  Something different is needed to alter Hezbollah's calculus before Israel has no choice but to act.
[00:07:40]  The media seems stuck on the question of who fired the rocket.
[00:07:44]  Hezbollah first claimed, An attack in the area, but issued a denial when it came clear the dead children were Druze Arabs, not Jews.
[00:07:57]  I'm wondering if the New York Times has made that point, that Hezbollah denied that they had sent it when they found out it wasn't Jewish kids that they had murdered.
[00:08:09]  Yeah, I'd like to know how that was covered.
[00:08:13]  Israel identified the rocket as the Iran-made Fallak-1, quote, a model that is owned exclusively by Hezbollah.
[00:08:21]  Given that Hezbollah began firing on Israel on October 8th of the last year and has since shot more than 6,000 rockets and missiles, this isn't a murder mystery.
[00:08:37]  The European Union's foreign policy chief wouldn't name the attacker.
[00:08:42]  How's that for the EU? Wow.
[00:08:48]  Whose statement called for, quote, an independent international investigation and urged, quote, all parties to exercise utmost restraint and avoid further escalation.
[00:09:03]  And the Wall Street Journal writes, translation, we won't have Israel's back when it defends itself.
[00:09:10]  That's correct.
[00:09:12]  Vice President Kamala Harris didn't help deterrence on Thursday when she criticized Israel's prosecution of the war in Gaza after her meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
[00:09:27]  She was trying to appease the anti-Israel left in the Democratic Party.
[00:09:33]  But Israel's enemies in the Middle East hear a message of U.S. vacillation.
[00:09:40]  The earnest Mr. Blinken seemed not to appreciate that U.S. pressure for Israel restraint gives Hezbollah a green light to keep shooting, which makes it harder for Israel to avoid war.
[00:09:57]  On Sunday, Hezbollah launched more rockets.
[00:10:00]  In the end, but until the end comes, horrors take place.

=== Virtue Will Triumph (00:27) ===

[00:10:15]  Thanks.
[00:10:17]  In the end, virtue wins out.
[00:10:20]  The abandonment of virtue with regard to the non-support of Israel in the West will come to haunt it.