TAMPA, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — During the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) Student Action Summit (SAS) last Saturday, comedian and Jewish podcaster Dave Smith challenged the crowd of mostly young Christian conservatives to maintain consistency in their pro-life convictions. He connected the fact that as the principle of the sanctity of each human life applies to preborn children, so too must they recognize the inviolable right to life of every child in Gaza as well.
“If you support what Israel’s doing in Gaza right now, my advice to you guys is just know that you never have a leg to stand on claiming to be pro-life for the rest of your life,” Smith said during a debate on U.S. foreign policy moderated by Charlie Kirk.
“If you support what Israel is doing to Gaza right now, my advice to you guys is that you never have a leg to stand on if you claim to be pro-life for the rest of your life.” — Dave Smith, to a mostly pro-Israel audience at the TPUSA Student Action Summit.
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Receiving some boos from attendees, the political commentator pointed out the apparent hypocrisy, quipping to the large crowd, “Oh, so it’s OK to support a policy that is killing babies. All of a sudden killing babies is negotiable.”
Suggesting he would not want to associate with a movement that holds such opinions, he said, “Alright, fine. I’m just leaving the room.”
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The internet pundit went on to reference a June 27 report titled “It’s a Killing Field” in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz where Israeli soldiers said they were ordered by superiors to fire upon desperate, starving Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid distribution, though they posed no threat to them.
READ: Israeli soldiers ordered to shoot at aid-seekers in Gaza who ‘posed no threat’
As of Wednesday, Phillippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), confirmed, “It’s a death trap. People are forced to choose between starvation or being killed while trying to address the starvation.” The same agency reports that over 870 of these Palestinians seeking food distributions have been killed and 4,000 injured since Israel resumed aid distribution near the end of May.
Additionally, UNRWA estimated on Tuesday that since October 7, 2023, “Israel, the occupying power,” has been killing the equivalent of “an entire school class of children” every day with the class size average ranging between 35 and 45 students.
In March, LifeSiteNews released a report extensively documenting the genocidal heresy of extremist religious Zionism, which has been not only adopted by many in Israel and beyond but used in the religious training of Israeli soldiers. This ideology serves to advance a false rationalization for the expelling or direct killing of the entire Palestinian population by Jews as a supposed fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
READ: Israeli extremist rabbis instruct soldiers heading to Gaza: ‘Kill all their children’
Given such training in the Israeli military, it should perhaps not be surprising when in July 2024, 45 American physicians, surgeons and nurses — who had volunteered in Gaza since October 2023 — wrote in a letter addressed to Joe Biden that “every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head and chest.”
“No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by ‘the world’s best sniper,’” commented one of the letter’s signatories, Dr. Mark Perlmutter. In his testimony, he stated that all the disasters he had seen over 30 years and 40 medical mission trips combined did not “equal the level of carnage” he saw “against civilians in just my first week in Gaza.”
The North Carolina-based physician further stated that the victims of such carnage are “almost exclusively children.” His testimony includes seeing scores of children “incinerated,” “shredded,” “missing body parts,” and “being crushed by buildings,” with other accounts confirming deaths by starvation, and decapitation.
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A documented genocide, conservative estimates of over 292,000 dead
As Israel continues to massacre and starve Palestinian civilians on a daily basis, reliable reports of Palestinian deaths number at least 58,573, including 17,400 children, at a confirmed minimum, with at least 139,607 people injured, including over 10,000 children who have lost at least one leg. These dead do not include around 14,000 who are missing and presumed dead and buried under the rubble.
READ: Gaza releases names of 15,000+ children killed by Israel since October 2023
According to a rationale presented in a Lancet study in July 2024, one can conservatively estimate total deaths, including indirect fatalities due to causes like starvation, lack of medicine or proper medical care to include 292,865 (128,861 children).
Last December, advocacy groups Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International released extensive reports concluding Israeli authorities were deliberately seeking to bring about the destruction of the people of Gaza by various means, including the deprivation of necessities like water, food, energy and medical care, amounting to crimes of genocide.
READ Genocide ‘only reasonable conclusion’ to Israel’s crimes in Gaza: Amnesty International
Additionally, in January 2024, the International Court of Justice delivered a preliminary ruling, finding the charge of genocide against Israel to be “plausible,” and last November the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defense chief Yoav Gallant “for crimes against humanity and war crimes,” including “starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.”
‘To be silent is to become an accomplice to the culture of death,’ Pope St. John Paul II
Smith went on to unpack the ironic fact that Netanyahu counted Hamas to be a “strategic friend,” including his well-known arrangement with Quatar to fund the militant group governing the Gaza strip with $35 million in cash every month to keep them in power.
READ: Censored documentary connects Netanyahu’s indictments with massive bloodshed in Gaza
“Netanyahu thought he had this brilliant idea, which is that he would prop up Hamas and keep them in power. His exact quote was, ‘We can control the height of the flame,’” explained the podcaster.
“This was the game that he played, and it blew up in his face and really blew up in the Israeli people’s face on October 7” beginning the current conflict, he said.
And “you can’t even really call it a war, because it’s not a war,” Smith continued. “It’s the destruction of a captive people. Gaza’s been occupied since 1967 by the Israelis, and they’re now just slaughtering the people there.”
READ: Did the Israeli government help establish Hamas to undermine a two-state solution?
As if to speak to Smith’s original point above during a 1996 general audience, Pope St. John Paul II affirmed, “No one can remain indifferent in the face of attacks on human life, whether it be the life of an unborn child, a sick person, or an elderly individual. To be silent is to become an accomplice to the culture of death.”
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy”https://t.co/7lTQs9E5Zf
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) October 9, 2023
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