Joy Tinged with Dread
Edan Alexander’s Release
Edan Alexander’s release should engender unmitigated joy. After 584 days of starvation and torture, being shackled, both hand and foot, his reunion with his family certainly brought tears of relief. But the meaning behind his release brings only dread.
After a few months in power, Trump seems to have swerved in his foreign policy, adopting isolationist tactics. He is veering away from the hawkish members of his government who would attack The Islamic Republic of Iran, financially or physically, and is instead negotiating with the Iranian regime. He’s no longer the friend to Israel of his first term in office, who tore up the JCPOA.
As an isolationist, Trump is content to let Israel follow its own path, as if Israel’s goals were completely divorced from American needs. This scheme is only reasonable if the open threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood to the entire west is ignored. The Muslim Brotherhood, financed in large measure by Qatar’s petro wealth, is open about their aim to create a worldwide caliphate governed by sharia law. Yet Qatar, the main supporter of Hamas, The Muslim Brotherhood’s army, is suddenly being cast in a new light by legacy media.
On CBC this morning, a political scientist said Qatar wants to gift a luxury plane to Trump in order to signify its move toward the west. Qatar has long played both sides of the game, attempting to promote itself as a friend of the west while broadcasting anti-Western, antisemitic, antizionist propaganda on Al Jazeera.
CBC and NPR repeatedly referred to Qatar as the successful negotiators of the deal between Hamas and the US to release Edan Alexander. It is willful blindness that casts the Qataris as moderates moving toward the west rather than financers of Islamist terrorism. They gave billions to Hamas. They donated $6.3 billion American universities in order to fund chairs that would propagate a false antisemitic narrative of Israel as a white settler colonial state. It is not surprising that the campuses that accepted the most foreign funding have the greatest problem with antisemitism.
Trump‘s visit to Qatar and omission of a visit to Israel, demanding that Alexander meet with him and the Emir in Doha was frightening. Thankfully, Alexander’s poor health and his doctors protected him, saying that he was not medically stable to leave hospital. He certainly looked unwell, having difficulty walking upon his release. What kind administration forces a young man kidnapped as a teenager, starved and beaten for 19 months, to thank the financers of his torturers?
CBC blames Israel for not negotiating a peace deal with Hamas, who are openly genocidal. Hamas is an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. Giving up the destruction of Israel would be giving up its entire raison d’ệtre. The majority of Israeli citizens would end the war to get the hostages but with no fantasy of peace with Hamas in the future.
CBC and other media have repeatedly said there are some 20 hostages remaining but 58 is not 20. This deal only reveals that Israeli lives are worth less than Americans’. The Muslim Brotherhood’s is attempting to whittle away Israel‘s strength and legitimacy on every facet. Alexander was released five hours later than Hamas initially promised, causing great distress to his hundreds of friends and neighbours gathering in Tenafly, New Jersey since 5 a.m.
The media paints Alexander’s release as a gesture of goodwill, as usual taking Hamas at their word. A US hostage is released “for free” to signify that no Israeli parent should have faith in their own country, but must apply for alternate citizenship. It undermines Israel as a safe haven for Jews. Jews are prone to feeling a need for a plan B after the Holocaust. Millions of Jews perished for want of a second passport. Once Israel is destroyed, it will be far easier to kill all the remaining Jews and established a caliphate. That is the ethos of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, adopted by Qatar, openly broadcast, and yet entirely missed by our western media.
Our media, credulously accepting “news” from Qatar, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood miss the entire subtext of this frightening story. Trump, cutting Israel out of the negotiations for Alexander’s release, accepting a luxury plane from Qatar and negotiating with the Islamic regime, is hinting at abandoning Israel, ignoring that Islamists have declared war on both the little Satan and the Great Satan. The propaganda printed describing Hamas’ goodwill and Qatar’s move toward the west serve as sources of dread more than joy.