Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has shown great empathy and support for the victims of the October 7 massacre, which he called “an operation directed at terrorizing Jewish civilians with maximum savagery.” As he watched the sickening 45-minute raw Hamas video footage of the Einsatzgruppen attack, he stressed that “the atavistic savagery of October 7 was not just an attack against Israel; it was a defiant challenge to all the values of the Enlightenment, and the moral underpinnings of Western civilization.”
Asked what leverage he would use as U.S. president to get Hamas and Israel to end the current conflict, he stressed that he would have used more diplomacy from the beginning. Yet despite the pain and horror experienced by the Gaza civilians, he said that it is important to understand two main facts: Israel is in an “existential battle,” and Hamas, a “genocidal” organization that is pledged to Israel’s annihilation, does not want a two-state solution. “Hamas wants a one-state solution, which is: Israel gone. Actually, it has in its charter a provision that says that it is against Islamic law to even negotiate with Israel, which [is currently fighting] a five-front war: with Hamas, with Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria, with Hizbullah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. All of them are proxies of Iran,” RFK Jr. said, emphasizing, “We have to let Israel disarm Hamas.”
RFK Jr. then pointed out that the West needs to be reminded that Israel (which is part of the collective West) is the oldest (and loyal) ally of the U.S., as well as the only democracy in the Middle East. “Could you imagine what a world would be like without Israel? For the first time in 80 years, people are entertaining that possibility,” he warned. By this, he was referring to the campus protests in the West, where thousands of students are calling to wipe out Israel, the heart of the West’s Judeo-Christian roots and values, chanting the genocidal “from the River to the Sea” slogan.
According to RFK Jr., after nine months of war, the U.S. role should be to use diplomacy to avoid an escalation, since a full-out war in the Middle East would signify a need to prepare for a “final battle” in the coming years in which Iran may order Hizbullah to use 160,000 missiles against Israel that could destroy 70% of it.
Many have argued that RFK Jr.’s support for Israel is inconsistent with his positioning himself as the antiwar candidate, having said, “As a presidential candidate, I have promised to never wage a war that is avoidable through diplomacy, and that is not essential to our national security.” Yet for him, “Israel’s war in Gaza is not a war of choice.” He underlines that “it is a defensive war, a war for survival, against a foe pledged to Israel’s total destruction. It is a justified war to recover stolen hostages and to end nearly a quarter of a century of aerial missile attacks that continue to this day. Israel is responding to 23 years of bombardment by Hamas of Israel’s civilian centers, and an armed invasion that killed the equivalent number of Israelis proportionate to its population as seven Pearl Harbors and over twelve 9/11s.”
Now, after reading RFK Jr.’s words, you may understand why the mainstream media are demonizing him and refusing to give him credit. Demonizing the adversary is an old trick, and when it happens it usually means that the one being vilified is perceived as a significant threat. He is clearly not a “conspiracy theorist.” He is not a “fanatic” and not “crazy.” But nowadays, speaking the truth means being labeled as dangerous.
