Statement on Hamas Attacks
The past 11 days has shown the world the horror of terrorism and barbarism. Videos of executions. Young people butchered while attending events for peace. The premeditated murder of civilians. Arson of neighborhoods. The highest death toll of Jews since the Holocaust.
University Presidents remind us that Israel has forced Palestinians to live in an ‘open air prison.’ The news reports that Israel is massacring civilians by bombing mosques, hospitals, and schools. As an attorney I live in the world of nuance. However, I see no nuance in this situation.
Moore Legal Counsel, PLLC. recognizes the unequivocal right of the Jewish people and the State of Israel to exist. Further, we recognize the right of all peaceable people to defend themselves.
Hamas is the unchallenged political and military authority of the Palestinian territories. Hamas is financed and supported by Iran. Both Hamas and Iran openly and repeatedly call for the destruction of Israel and the murder of all Jews.
It may be hard for Americans to understand the world overseas. The USA is committed to a separation of civilian and military. We are governed by civilians. The military is ‘kept’ in bases set apart from daily society. In contrast, Hamas has spent years committed to integration. Not the integration of diverse peoples, but of infrastructure. Hospitals are military headquarters. Mosques are weapons depots. Schools are missile platforms.
There is no nuance to these decisions – Hamas has spent years building the infrastructure of human shields.
Hamas have witnessed the culture of victim-hood here in America and built an infrastructure that allows them at every turn to play the victim. This is not a secret. It is not hidden. Yet, University Presidents and faculty have not only tolerated but pushed malleable students to provoke youthful rage at ‘hospital bombed’ while openly minimizing ‘babies killed,’ ‘youths murdered at a party’, and ‘women raped.’
It is a travesty that “educators” have fomented students to support those who, days earlier, happily murdered and raped their colleagues.
However, this is the logical outcropping of years of educational rot. University Presidents have encouraged activism in the name of tolerance. 15 years ago, I walked into the University of Oklahoma when Pres. Obama was seeking election. My freshman history professor divided the class into those “who support a black man in the Whitehouse” and “republicans.” As a sophomore, my Arabic professor stated, “The only reason any of you should be in this class is to be good Muslim. I hope all others fail.” That professor spent the semester tormenting the one Jewish student in the course.
When I attended the Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law the school replaced an upstanding practically minded legal scholar of an interim dean with an individual dedicated to promoting equity and tolerance. That new more ‘tolerant’ dean refused at graduation to even shake the hands of those with whom she disagreed on politics. It is no surprise she departed the law school having left it a shambles.
These were little things. Petty displays from petty people. However, the educational culture that allowed and propagated these displays logically yields greater rot. From a low-level professor to an angry dean is a growth. The leadership of major universities publishing all but support for terrorists is yet another growth.
There is no nuance to this – filth festers, unless stopped. Terrorists will not calm themselves. Universities will not reverse course without cause.
In the last week business leaders have asked for names of those who support the terrorists so they can avoid hiring them. I understand why: either those individuals are maliciously deviant or too stupid to avoid being easily misled – think of the business implications of such decision making skills.
Both Oklahoma and Penn State, my alma maters, have labored to produce mealy mouthed statements because they are afraid to simply say, “Evil looms, it has wrought death, and death will be the price to purge it.”
If Universities are too afraid to speak truth of evil. Then I am unafraid to stop all donations effective immediately.
As long as Moore Legal Counsel, PLLC is my law firm - we recognize the truth that evil exists. Evil visited Israel. It is unfortunate the costs needed to restore peace. We pray for the rapid end to the violence.
Best Regards,
Jonathan Moore
Managing Attorney, Moore Legal Counsel, PLLC.
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