What Is the Purpose for Moral Equivalence?

Leftists use moral equivalence to make evil look comparable to good, and they are working to make the Hamas terrorists’ massacre of Israelis equal to the Israeli attempt to rid the world of the terrorists. Dennis Prager wrote about moral equivalence in The Daily Signal.

Moral equivalence has two purposes. One is to enable the morally confused to hide their confusion. The other is to enable the immoral to hide their immorality.

Here are two examples as applied to the Israeli-Arab conflict:

One is the assertion we hear regarding the latest Israel-Hamas war by members of the Western Left, by Muslim supporters of the Palestinians and even by a few individuals on the Right: “Palestinian babies are as precious as Israeli babies.”

Professor Cornel West, a lifelong progressive running for president as a Democrat: “As I have said for the past 50 years, a precious Palestinian child has the same value as a precious Israeli child.”

David Cronin, an editor at Electronic Intifada, a large pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel website:

 “Palestinian babies are just as precious as my new daughter.”

A second example is to avoid condemning Hamas for the wars they start by instead condemning the “cycle of violence.”

Prager then analyzed his two statements. No one has ever said that the lives of Palestinian children are less precious than Israeli children. He continued by saying that the statement is a “meaningless” statement that is “a nice-sounding way to attack Israel and its supporters.” He then made a great comparison: What if America had made the same type of comparison between American children and children in Japan or Germany? Would America have dropped bombs on Japan or Germany and ended the Nazi aggression?

The fact is that most Americans living during World War II would have recognized such statements as pro-Japanese or pro-German. The reason that “America, Britain, and Canada dropped bombs on Germany” and that “America dropped bombs on Japan” was to stop the war and to save lives. Germany and Japan were attacking Allied Nations. We had no other choice than to drop bombs on them.

Israel is fighting the Hamas terrorist by land, sea, and air because they have no other choice. If they do not destroy the terrorists and their organization, the terrorists will attack Israel once again as soon as they can regroup.

The fact is that there would be peace in Israel if the terrorists and Palestinian people wanted peace with Israel. Instead of peace, they want all Jews dead. They are evil!