Unwilling to tell right from wrong, the left-leaning media gives Palestinian terrorists a free pass

When good people refuse silence, it makes a world of difference. Our sages have taught us that our freedom can never be taken for granted, and that the scales of justice are often so evenly weighted between good and bad that even a feather on one side of the scale or another can alter our world. Today, for those of us who fight to defend democracy, we are called to action to protect our way of life against savagery.

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Many of those who say they fight for human rights, who stand up for women’s rights, for gay rights and for the rights offered by the constitutions of liberal democracy are undermining the fundamental values held sacred in the West.

Last week, in the Toronto Star, for instance, one columnist wrote a scathing condemnation of former prime minister Stephen Harper’s visit to Israel and his denunciation of Hamas: “Harper’s ahistorical and disingenuous framing … reflects the extent to which what we’re witnessing from the powerful is an attempt to promote a simplistic viewpoint of ‘good and bad.’”

Where I come from, there is, in fact, a simplistic view of right and wrong, sacred and profane, as well as good and bad. Hamas murdering innocent children and shooting them in the back is bad. Hamas raping and mutilating women, that’s bad. Hamas kidnapping people is bad. There are no ifs, ands or buts.

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