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Nobody familiar with Max’s background as an apologist for Islam will have been surprised by his appalling behavior since October 7. On October 11 and again on December 6, he wrote long articles in which he professed to debunk claims that Hamas had beheaded babies on October 7. It was roughly equivalent to a neo-Nazi arguing that only 5.8 million Jews, not six million, were murdered in the Holocaust; from the tone of these pieces you’d think that Sid’s scion had definitively proven the utter innocence of Hamas and the absolute perfidy of Israel.
On October 27, Max wrote that on October 7, “the Israeli military killed its own citizens as they fought to neutralize Palestinian gunmen.” This claim, of course, isn’t hard to believe: members of Hamas had entered Israeli homes in order to murder the residents. That’s where they were: in Israeli homes. If Israel wanted to kill the enemy, it only makes sense for it to target those homes. And it wouldn’t be surprising that some Israelis, as a result, died as a tragic consequence of friendly fire. For Max, this is apparently a black mark against the Israelis. No, it’s what happens in war. And who started this war? Who’s responsible for any friendly-fire deaths? Max’s buddies in Hamas (to whom he refers, note well, not as terrorists or murderers but as “gunmen”).