The Left's Normalization of Evil

I was reading Kathy's essay at Comments from Left Field yesterday, which is a response to Michael Yon's "How Can the World Be Blind to Israel’s Existential Threats?"

My first inclination was to write a post rebutting her main argument. But there really wasn't one. Kathy doesn't respond to Yon's case for Israel. She scourges him for standing up for freedom and right while elevating Hamas terrorists to the level of beknighted freedom figthers. I've debated and denounced these horrendous leftists before. Kathy might as well have been storming the hallways of hotels in Mumbai, killing the innocents, and it would have been days before the media began to focus on the true intent of death and destruction - the murder of the Jews. People like this elevate evil above the standards of democracy and freedom. It's hard sometimes to continuously, endless, debunk and repudiate this godless insanity, but it needs to be done.

Thank goodness then that Judea Pearl keeps up the good fight. This week is the seventh year since the death of his son Daniel, and it's a world that the former Wall Street Journal reporter would barely recognize:

Those around the world who mourned for Danny in 2002 genuinely hoped that Danny's murder would be a turning point in the history of man's inhumanity to man, and that the targeting of innocents to transmit political messages would quickly become, like slavery and human sacrifice, an embarrassing relic of a bygone era.

But somehow, barbarism, often cloaked in the language of "resistance," has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words "war on terror" cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil.

The entire essay is must reading.

Professor Pearl offers one explanation for the normalization of evil: the glorification of leftist indocrination of America's college campuses.

I'll have more later ...