Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan hasn’t just taken the mask off; he’s taunting those who were ever fooled by it.
While the civilized world is celebrating the peace deal between Israel and Hamas brokered by President Donald Trump, Hasan is worried about it.
Why? Because Hamas is set to give away its leverage, which happens to exist in the form of Jewish lives.
“I said yesterday that my biggest fear was that Israel uses this deal to get back their remaining hostages and then restarts the bombing and genocide,” tweeted Hasan on X Thursday. “And here is the Israeli financial minister confirming that is exactly what he wants.”
The Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, is a disreputable figure to be sure. But he didn’t call for a restart to “the bombing and genocide.” He said that he felt ” a tremendous responsibility” to strive for the “true eradication of Hamas and the genuine disarmament of Gaza.”
Moreover, Smotrich clearly isn’t in the driver’s seat of the Israeli government. In the same post touted by Hasan, he revealed that he had voted against the deal that had been agreed to by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rubber-stamped by a majority of his Cabinet.
But all that’s beside the point. Mehdi Hasan, a self-professed champion of human rights, is mourning the fact that innocent hostages ripped from their homes more than two years ago are being returned to their loved ones.
Because now the terrorists who took them have no leverage.
Attuned observers know that this disgusting sentiment is well within character for Hasan.
After all, this is the same man who, in the aftermath of Hamas’s ghastly October 7 attack, objected to then-President Joe Biden’s comparison of Hamas with Russia, instead submitting that the real comparison was between aggressor (Russia) and victim (Israel).
The same man who, within days of the attack, was whining about the Israeli government’s prioritization of Hamas’ annihilation.
The same man who took paychecks from a modern slave state and terror sponsor.
The same man who compared non-Muslims to “animals.”
The same man who lumped homosexuals in with pedophiles and sexual deviants.
And the same man who manages to find common ground with the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Candace Owens, at least when it comes to, you guessed it, the Jews.
“Today I have retweeted Candace Owens and MTG. And now I am retweeting Matt Gaetz. What’s happening to the world? I plan to go home and take a very long shower,” mused Hasan about the anti-Semitic commentator, conspiratorial congresswoman, and, ironically enough, sexual deviant he finds himself in league with on Wednesday, one day after the second anniversary of the October 7 attack.
“All the worst people have come together to celebrate their Jew hatred, which they now feel free to advertise and cash in on,” observed The Free Press’s Peter Savodnik. “That’s what’s happening.”
Indeed, and all of Hasan’s other far-left views, not to mention his decency, are subordinated to his hatred of the state of Israel and its inhabitants. Hasan is so blinded by his myopia — and has gotten away with it for so long — that he finds himself openly fretting over Hamas’ loss of “leverage.”
And thereby admitting whose lives he values, and whose he does not.
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