Hanson once again trashs the Founding Father – Palestinian Analogy

In today’s NRO:

A little boilerplate exegesis usually follows, relating the Israelis to the similarly imperialistic and militarily preponderant British, the weak and idealistic Palestinians to American "freedom-fighters" circa 1776.

The analogy is not only false, but offensive as well to the American nation. The Revolutionary War — for all the romance of the Minute Men, Nathanael Greene, and the Swamp Fox's irregulars — was won on the conventional battlefield by a real army. And while there were occasional atrocities on both sides, Americans did not blow up Loyalist American women and children, or dynamite Tory churches — much less have agents in London shooting British schoolgirls in their beds. The Palestinians name streets after murderers, and give bounties to those who butcher women at work and in their sleep; the Continental Congress did not.

Nor was America fighting for an "American Authority" under the dictatorial control of George Washington — himself also a different sort of man than Yasser Arafat, by any set of moral standards, then or now. A little boilerplate exegesis usually follows, relating the Israelis to the similarly imperialistic and militarily preponderant British, the weak and idealistic Palestinians to American "freedom-fighters" circa 1776.

The analogy is not only false, but offensive as well to the American nation. The Revolutionary War — for all the romance of the Minute Men, Nathanael Greene, and the Swamp Fox's irregulars — was won on the conventional battlefield by a real army. And while there were occasional atrocities on both sides, Americans did not blow up Loyalist American women and children, or dynamite Tory churches — much less have agents in London shooting British schoolgirls in their beds. The Palestinians name streets after murderers, and give bounties to those who butcher women at work and in their sleep; the Continental Congress did not.

Yeah, like Arafat or Hamas have a real lesson for the rest of the world.