Political Observer comments.
Aug 05, 2025
Headline: Opinion
David French
Israel Must Open Its Eyes
Aug. 3, 2025
Political Observer povides a running comentary on Mr. French’s long Zionist Apologetic
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I think it’s fair to describe me as a Christian Zionist. I believe in the necessity of the Jewish people to have their own safe, secure homeland. And while I have never thought Israel was perfect (far from it), I have seen the antisemitism and genocidal intent animating its enemies in the Middle East, including Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
Editor Mr. Frenches self-reports
I think it’s fair to describe me as a Christian Zionist. I believe in the necessity of the Jewish people to have their own safe, secure homeland. And while I have never thought Israel was perfect (far from it), I have seen the antisemitism and genocidal intent animating its enemies in the Middle East, including Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
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I can see the extraordinary antisemitism and bias in the larger international community. When a United Nations that includes North Korea, Syria, Russia and China condemns Israel more than any other nation in the world (by far), you know that the Jewish state is being singled out.
Editor: Antisemitism is the tool of first and last resort of the Christian Zionist?
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I’m also a veteran of the Iraq war who served as judge advocate for an armored cavalry regiment during the surge in Iraq in 2007 and 2008. Before I became a journalist, I was part of a legal team that defended Israel from war crime accusations after Operation Cast Lead, the Gaza war of 2008 and 2009.
Editor Mr French offers more to the reader, more of his particular politics! ‘I was part of a legal team that defended Israel from war crime accusations after Operation Cast Lead, the Gaza war of 2008 and 2009.’
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I know that Israel had the right under international law to destroy Hamas’s military and to remove Hamas from power after the massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7. In other words, Israel had the right to respond to a terrorist force like Hamas the way the United States and its allies responded to a terrorist force like ISIS after ISIS launched its terrorist campaign across the Middle East and across Europe.
Editor: Mr French offers more of his politics, or just name it political fellow traveling. Not to speak of more carefilly managed political conformity, a recurring leitmotif !
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So, yes, I consider myself a friend of Israel. But now its friends need to stage an intervention. The Israeli government has gone too far. It has engineered a staggering humanitarian crisis, and that crisis is both a moral atrocity and a long-term threat to Israel itself.
Editor: Mr. French So, yes, I consider myself a friend of Israel, with a caveat !
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Civilian casualties were inevitable when Israel responded to Hamas, but the suffering of Palestinian civilians is far beyond the bounds of military necessity. The people of Gaza, already grieving the loss of thousands of children, now face a famine — and children once again will bear the brunt of the pain.
Editor:Mr. French provides more hand wringing, equivocation etc.
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If you’re skeptical of this claim (and I know many supporters of Israel are), consider two factors — the numbers and the timing. As The Times documented in an article on Friday, the amount of aid flowing into Gaza has sharply diminished.
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Before Israel ended its cease-fire with Hamas and blocked aid shipments in March, the amount of aid entering Gaza had soared to well over 200,000 tons per month. Then it dropped to virtually nothing, and even after Israel lifted its blockade in May, the amount of aid flowing into Gaza was a small fraction of what it had been.
Editor: Mr. French can’t quite seem to come to terms with enforced famine: Christian Zionism is elastic in its many permutations and self willed forgetting!
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Compounding the problem, the method of distributing what little aid is available requires thousands of Palestinians to travel long distances, which imposes an extreme hardship on the most vulnerable people — the very old, the very sick and the very young. Palestinians also have to cross military lines, which creates its own risk of violence as thousands upon thousands of hungry civilians encounter heavily armed soldiers who are on high alert.
Editor: Mr. French never reaches the point of realizing that the Famine, was a tool of Genocide practised Netanyahu and his cadre!
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In Iraq, I participated in humanitarian missions that involved far fewer people, and I can tell you that these missions can be remarkably tense. It takes extreme discipline to keep the peace. Consequently, even as the amount of aid has diminished, the number of violent incidents during aid distribution has skyrocketed. Hundreds of Palestinians in search of food have been killed, many of them by Israeli soldiers.
Editor: Mr. French seems always to be almost upon the point of realization, though carefully checked by his political conformity?
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Editor: Reader some times I lose all patience with Mr. French and will simply highlight certain portions of his commentary!
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So there is less aid, and it’s harder and more dangerous to obtain.
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The decrease in aid would be dreadful on its own, but what makes it incalculably worse is the timing. Israel’s aid blockade came after a year and a half of war, when Hamas is decimated, Gaza’s government is largely dismantled and chaos reigns.
Editor:Hand-Wringing!
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The dominant power in Gaza is Israel, not Hamas, and Israel, not Hamas, is the only entity with both the power to control aid distribution and the ability to obtain and distribute aid in the Gaza Strip. There is no way for Gazans to feed themselves. They are utterly dependent on Israel, and Israel removed the United Nations from the aid distribution network without replacing it with an effective alternative.
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Anyone who has spent time fighting Al Qaeda or ISIS or Hamas knows that those groups think civilian suffering advances their cause. They don’t burrow into cities and wear civilian clothes and hide behind hospitals and mosques simply to conceal themselves; they do so knowing that any military response will also kill civilians. They want the world to see images of civilian death and suffering.
Editor: Mr. French carefully follows the Party Line as this is again The New York Times: ‘Anyone who has spent time fighting Al Qaeda or ISIS or Hamas knows that those groups think civilian suffering advances their cause’ . Mr. French dons the soldiers’ garb?
Editor:
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So why is Israel giving Hamas what it wants?
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Hamas should lay down its arms. It should release every hostage. But Hamas’s war crimes — including its murders, its hostage taking and its concealment among civilians and civilian buildings — do not relieve Israel of its own moral and legal obligations.
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There has always been a better way to defeat Hamas, and no one knows this better than veterans of the Iraq war. We’ve watched Israel make the same mistakes we made early in the war, when we repeatedly attacked and destroyed terrorist cells but the terrorists always came back.
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We played a deadly and destructive version of Whac-a-Mole, reducing neighborhoods and streets to ruin, only to bomb the rubble weeks and months later when Al Qaeda returned. The only way to stop the cycle was to seize ground, hold it and protect and secure the civilian population until we could hand control over to local authorities.
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That approach has a double virtue. It’s not just kinder to civilians; it’s far more effective militarily. I’m not just saying this. Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of American forces in Iraq during the surge — when we turned the tide of the Iraq war in part by protecting the Iraqi population — has made this argument over and over and over again since Oct. 7.
Editor: Mr. French features the pussy-whipped Gen. David Petraeus!
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This is a moment of short-term strength and long-term vulnerability for Israel. Its triumphs in its fights with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran mean that its foes are militarily the weakest they’ve been in more than a generation. At the same time, however, European and American public support for Israel is in a state of collapse.
Editor: Mr. French does not qualify as competent! But like Friedman, Brooks and Stephens, as New York Times propaganda foot soldiers!
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A May YouGov poll found that public support for Israel in Western Europe was the lowest it had ever recorded. A July Gallup poll found that only 32 percent of Americans approved of Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
Editor: A resort to Polling as the measure of the Gaza Genocide: The New York Times knows it readerships!
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But don’t take collapsing support for Israel as proof that nations support Hamas. On Tuesday all 22 members of the Arab League and all 27 members of the European Union called on Hamas to disarm, release all remaining hostages and surrender control of Gaza. This was a vitally important step — a clear indication that key nations in the world utterly reject Hamas.
Editor: Mr. French offers the soothing political bath of ‘The Middle Way’ ?
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It matters when President Trump — the man who ordered U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities — describes what’s happening in Gaza as “real starvation” and says, “I told Israel maybe they have to do it a different way.”
Editor: Mr. French offers another ‘walk-on’ for that beguiling ‘Middle Way’!
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Israel’s defenders can rightfully complain that nations with far worse human rights violations receive far less scrutiny. Where are the protests, they ask, against North Korean gulags? Or against the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs? But again, Israel has moral responsibilities, regardless of Western hypocrisy, and it still needs those Western friends.
Editor: Mr. French offers a collection of Political Culprits, in the above! In sum Israel is not so bad? The only Democracy in the region merde!
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No nation — not even the United States — can thrive without allies, and Israel (despite its nuclear weapons) is far more vulnerable and dependent on international friendship than the United States or Britain or France. If Israel creates a lasting rift with its European allies and shatters the longstanding bipartisan American consensus on aiding Israel, then the long-term consequences could be grave.
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It’s easy to forget that it was President Barack Obama, a Democrat, who signed the largest-ever American military aid package with Israel — a $38 billion, 10-year deal that helped supply Israel with many of the weapons it has used in this war. It’s easy to forget that President Joe Biden, a Democrat, twice deployed American forces to help defend Israel from Iranian drone and missile attacks.
Editor: Mr. French offers Barack Obama and Joe Biden as exemplars of enlightened political support for the Zionist Fascist State. The whole of America’s Political Class is Owned by AIPAC!
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Is Israel better off if its alliance with America depends on whether a Republican is in the White House? Can it even count on Republican support in the long run? Putting aside for the moment the rise of antisemitism in the online right, “America First” has never been a concept hospitable to foreign aid or alliances.
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One of the most frustrating aspects of our political discourse is the expectation that once you’re identified on a side, you are somehow betraying your side if you speak up when it goes terribly wrong. Partisans are used to ignoring their opponents, but there might be a chance they will listen to their friends.
Editor: Mr. French self-presents as a ‘Truth Teller’ while he ignores the World Court and:
Ms. Francesca Albanese was appointed the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, by the Human Rights Council at its 49th session in March 2022 and has taken up her function as of 1 May 2022. Ms. Albanese is an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, as well as a Senior Advisor on Migration and Forced Displacement for a think-tank, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD). She has widely published on the legal situation in Israel and the State of Palestine and regularly teaches and lectures on international law and forced displacement at universities in Europe and the Arab region. Ms. Albanese has also worked as a human rights expert for the United Nations, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees.
Editor: Reader I’ve utterly lost patience with Mr. French and The New York Times!
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Israel’s friends must speak with one voice: End the famine in Gaza. Drop any talk of annexation. Protect the civilian population.
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Defeating Hamas does not require starving a single child.
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