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The anniversaries of two crucial events of the 20th century occurred this week, and the commemorations could not be more different. On Thursday, President Joe Biden joined more than 20 world leaders, including Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy during World War II. But on Tuesday, there were no signs or speeches in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square marking the massacre that occurred there 35 years ago.
Both D-Day and Tiananmen exert a powerful influence on global affairs. Americans came away from World War II determined to never need to fight their way into the industrialized heartlands of Europe and East Asia again. The Chinese Communist Party saw that they could lose control of China, and Xi Jinping is determined to squelch ideological threats to his rule. These deeply rooted geopolitical and ideological dynamics are at the heart of today’s Sino-American standoff.
Even though many remember D-Day as a high point in American history, the main lesson most Americans took at the time was “let’s never do this again.” More Americans died on D-Day than in the two-plus decades of fighting in Afghanistan. The following two months of fighting in Normandy were more costly than the contemporary Soviet offensive. Over the 11 months between D-Day and victory in Europe, as many Americans lost their lives every three weeks as have in all the fighting since September 11, 2001.
After the war, Americans realized they could not afford again to let an adversary come close to dominating Europe or East Asia, particularly since the carnage of a nuclear war could dwarf the horrors of either world war. Americans of all stripes have preferred to protect democracies and free peoples and usually dislike dictators, but America’s primary goal has been to make the world safe for its people and allies of all kinds.
The Chinese Communist Party came closer to losing control than it had in decades, and it is trying to suppress that memory. In 1989, student protests began in Beijing and spread across China. The party’s leadership lost confidence that the Beijing garrison would stamp out the demonstrations, so they brought in other units and eventually launched an armored assault on Tiananmen Square. According to the British ambassador at the time, the regime killed more than 10,000 Chinese in one night. Commemorations have always been banned in China, and the government has cracked down on Hong Kong’s memorials since 2020. This year, they arrested several people who had posted on Facebook about Tiananmen for “seditious intent.”
The party may try to make others forget, but its leaders remember well what happened. After taking power, Xi, whose wife sang to the troops involved shortly after the shooting and bayoneting ceased, ordered party members to reflect on the Soviet Union’s collapse. He also issued Document Nine, ordering party members to “see the ideological situation as a complicated, intense struggle,” complete with a list of “false ideological trends, positions, and activities” to suppress. Among them are “Western Constitutional Democracy” and “universal values.” The message: The Americans are a threat, and let’s never come that close to losing power again.
Preventing another Tiananmen-style crisis requires, in the party’s eyes, more control over people around the world. Beijing has pressured Western companies like Marriott and the Houston Rockets to fire employees who comment on China’s human rights record. After Taiwan’s presidential inauguration, China encircled the island democracy with a series of military drills to impose “a strong punishment.” Indo-Pacific commander Samuel Paparo warned that the drills “looked like a rehearsal” for an invasion. Beijing may no longer desire to hoist a red banner over every capital on the planet, but it does want to curb everyone’s freedom of speech. And it wants Taiwan.
Quite a few Americans hope that keeping silent about Chinese communism will lower the temperature on ideological issues and allow for a more gentlemanly chess match with Beijing. Would that it were so simple. Xi released Document Nine when the Obama administration sought Chinese cooperation on climate change and other issues: If even Obama appeared to be an implacable ideological foe to Xi, what will he think about any president that pushes back?
The lessons of D-Day and Tiananmen are bringing the United States and China into a confrontation, but a different lesson from D-Day may reduce the possibility of war. The Allies dominated the air and waters around Normandy and still required great heroism and sacrifice to gain a foothold in northern France. China may not have that around Taiwan, and its amphibious assault would be one of the biggest gambles in military history. Making the battle as grim as possible for Xi is the best way to maintain peace and protect the American people and their allies.
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Protesters from across the country descended upon Washington, D.C., on Saturday afternoon, surrounded the White House, and clashed with police officers while calling for Hamas terrorists to kill Israelis.
“We don’t want no two states, we’re taking back 48,” the keffiyeh-clad demonstrators can be heard yelling in video taken by the Washington Free Beacon. The demonstrators blocked traffic for several hours as they stretched around the White House, holding a red banner symbolizing a “Red Line” they say Israel crossed. The agitators blocked exits used by the Secret Service, called for the destruction of Israel, scaled monuments, and vandalized nearby statues.
“We don’t want no two states, we’re taking back 48.” pic.twitter.com/p6D3rVygSn
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) June 8, 2024
Throngs of protesters came to D.C. from across the country to “join the 2 mile long ‘People’s Red Line,” as advertised on social media by the People’s Forum, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and the Answer Coalition. The groups condemned President Joe Biden for allowing Israel to invade Rafah and continuing to supply the Jewish state with military aid.
The highly organized demonstration reflects the far-left wing of the Democratic Party’s embrace of terrorists amid their dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. After Oct. 7, Biden described the United States’ support for the Jewish State as “rock solid” and “iron clad.” Since then, however, he has capitulated to his party’s progressive faction by calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and withholding arms from Israel.
“F— Israel. Stand with Hamas,” read the sign of a demonstrator.
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida and the al-Qassam Brigades—which carried out the Oct. 7 terrorist attack—were also celebrated, with calls to “kill another soldier now!”.
“Al-Qasam make us proud. Kill another soldier now!” pic.twitter.com/y4vcK0VHC4
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) June 8, 2024
The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment by the Free Beacon asking the Biden administration if they condemn the calls for violence.
Protesters harassed police officers who were deployed to keep chaos to a minimum, chasing them across Lafayette Park while chanting “these f—ing pigs have got to go.”
“Kill pigs,” a protester wrote in large red graffiti, in reference to police officers.
In the aftermath of the demonstrations, Lafayette Park was left littered with trash and vandalized with calls for the genocide of Jews. On one statue, the protesters wrote “Death to Amerikkka,” “Death to Israel,” and “Death to Zionists!”
Protesters also commended Hamas and wrote the actions of the terror organization were “justified.”
Aftermath of anti-Israel Red Line protests @WhiteHouse
“Israel go to hell, Hamas is justified”
“Death to Amerikkka”
written on a statue in Lafayette Square pic.twitter.com/S506LVaOkR
— Meghan Blonder (@Meghan_Blonder) June 8, 2024
“Israel go to hell, Hamas is justified,” protesters scribbled on a statue.
“Long live Hamas. F– IOF. Muslim 4 Hamas,” penned another protester.
“Long live Hamas. Fuck IOF. Muslim 4 Hamas.” pic.twitter.com/NSaIBnDJPp
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) June 8, 2024
Some agitators even wore PFLP and Hamas headbands as they proudly burned an American flag.
The pro-Hamas protest coincided with the D.C. Pride Parade, which took place just a block away from the White House. While some demonstrators displayed Palestinian and pride flags in support, one held a sign that read “Fags 4 Hamas.”
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Israeli forces rescued four hostages held by Hamas since October in a raid in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, while at least 93 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes in the same area, in one of the bloodiest single incidents of the war, according to local medics.
It was not immediately clear if the hostage rescue and the Israeli air assault were part of the same operation but both took place in Al-Nuseirat, a densely built-up and often embattled area in the eight-month-old war between Israel and Gaza’s ruling Hamas.
An Israeli military spokesman said the hostage rescue operation took place under fire in the heart of a residential neighborhood, where he said Hamas had been hiding captives among Gaza civilians under guard by armed militants.
Israeli forces returned fire, including with airstrikes, the spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, added. One Israeli special forces soldier was killed during the operation, a police statement said.
Israel named the rescued hostages as Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40. They were taken to hospital for medical checks and were in good health, the military said.
They were all kidnapped from the Nova music festival during Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s deadly raid on Israeli towns and villages near Gaza on Oct. 7, an attack which precipitated the devastating war in the besieged Hamas-run enclave.
Palestinian militants took around 250 hostages back to Gaza on Oct. 7. There are 116 now left in Gaza, according to Israeli tallies, including at least 40 whom Israeli authorities have declared dead.
Israeli News 12 broadcast footage of Argamani reunited with her father, smiling and embracing him. Video of Argamani’s kidnapping, showing her shouting “Don’t kill me!” as she was driven into Gaza on a motorbike, had circulated soon after she was taken on Oct. 7.
A smiling Argamani was shown speaking on Saturday by phone to Israeli president Isaac Herzog from hospital, where she was surrounded by family and friends, in footage released by the president’s office.
“Thank you for everything, thank you for this moment,” she said.
“I am so excited to hear your voice, it brings tears to my eyes … welcome home,” Herzog said.
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