Blowback Over Rescue of Israeli Hostages Reflects Pervasive Bias in Favor of Palestinian Arab Cause

Every time Palestinians pay the price for acting out in some horrific, irrational, self-destructive, violent way, their defenders want to rewind history to a more convenient moment.

AP/Tomer Appelbaum
Freed hostage Almog Meir Jan, 21, at Ramat Gan, Israel, June 8, 2024. AP/Tomer Appelbaum

The reaction to the rescue of four Israeli hostages from Gaza is a microcosm of the past 70 years of this conflict. Every time Palestinians pay the price for acting out in some horrific, irrational, self-destructive, violent way, their defenders want to rewind history to a more convenient moment — this time to October 6, 2023.

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