Have you noticed, with apologies to Peter Noone, a kind of hush all over the world?
Not in Gaza, at least not yet, although the IDF has begun disengaging today against Hamas to move to agreed-upon positions for the hostage releases in the next two days. Not at the White House, which has understandably spoken about this agreement in historic terms, correctly if a bit prematurely. And not in diplomatic circles either, where relief over the potential end of the two-year war Hamas launched with its October 7 atrocities finally takes moral pressure off of their anti-Israel posturing.
No, the hush comes from the progressive world, particularly in Hollywood, where celebrities banded together to demand a cease-fire and put together a blacklist targeting the Joooooooos. I hadn't noticed it at first, but my friend John Ondrasik caught it almost immediately, as I noted in last night's Final Word:
The Silence of the AMPAS spoke loudly to Nellie Bowles, too. In her TGIF column this morning at The Free Press, Bowles offers a wry take on the sudden lack of a script from those who demanded that Israel surrender to terrorists while boycotting Israeli filmmakers. They spent the last two years insisting that Hamas' war was Israel's genocide, Bowles points out -- so why aren't they celebrating the end of the war?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/10/10/hollywood-silence-on-cease-fire-speaks-lpoudly-n3807682
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