Heed M. Gessen of the New York Times, and vote for Trump!

I did not know it before, but now one M. Gessen, a newly-appointed New York Times’ columnist, enlightened me: the American supporters of Hamas endure “existential pain, the unbearable burden of living, … with the daily fear for loved ones [in Gaza], [with] a sense of alienation from a world that seems indifferent to 2,000-pound bombs and to the infliction of starvation.”

I also learned that the war in Gaza is, in M. Gessen’s view, “Israel’s war” and “a genocide.” So, what am I to deduce from M Gessen’s assertion that “Harris Middle East policy would be infinitely preferable to a Trump one?”

I assume from the fact that M. writes for the New York Times that M. has some inside information — and knows the outline of Harris’ intended policy. In M.’s telling it would boil down to — to quote M.’s hopes — “gradually turn[ing] away from [America’s] decades-long policy of unconditional military, political and economic support of Israel.”

Which naturally raises a question: if the enemies of Israel like M. and the “uncommitted” see hope in Harris, shouldn’t friends of Israel turn to the opposite candidate? If those whose “sense of themselves as moral beings” make them think, along with M., that elimination of Hamas is tantamount to “genocide” have their candidate in Harris, than how should those who think that after October 7 the elimination of Hamas is necessary for the prevention of genocide — the genocide of Israelis that is still the dream of the still-surviving Hamasers, PA-ers, ayatollahs, Hezbullahs, and their idolatrous Islamist ilk in Iraq and Syria and Yemen — plus their fellow-travellers here in the US, the “useful idiots” as Netanyahu called them in his recent speech in Congress (which Harris chose to skip) — the scribblers like M., the campus “protesters,” the Michigan’s “uncommitted” — should vote?

The answer is easy — and is obvious even to M.: “If Trump is elected, Israel will almost certainly be even more emboldened.”

Which provides the answer to how Israel’s supporters, and those opposed to Islamist terrorism and the spread of Islamism the world over should vote. If you don’t want to take my word for it, take M. Gessen’s — and come November, vote for Trump!