Victor Davis Hanson: The Sudden Rehabilitation of Radical Islam

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🗓️ 15 May 2026

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There has been a growing effort by commentators, podcasters, and public figures to recast Islam and the Muslim world in a more favorable light while increasingly directing criticism toward Israel. From 9/11, the USS Cole bombing, the Beirut barracks attack, Fort Hood, San Bernardino, and the Boston Marathon bombing to the war in Gaza, many in the West are ignoring decades of Islamic terrorism and adopting a new political framework rooted in anti-Israel sentiment, identity politics, and cultural revisionism. Some commentators have even gone so far as to argue that Iran should possess a nuclear weapon to create “balance” with Israel, despite repeated threats from Iranian leaders calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.8	dot UK slash podcast to learn more. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal. We're experiencing another strange phenomenon right now.
0:41.3	There's been a number of high-profile podcasters and others, and I can't list them all,
0:47.3	that have said that they have now changed their mind and they have a very sympathetic
0:53.3	view of Islam and the Muslim world, which is fine.
0:59.0	That's all to the good, but it's often juxtaposed to derision of Israel in comparison.
1:06.2	And it's kind of a recalibration or revisionism of the United States relationship with Islam the last
1:13.3	20, 30, 40 years. I don't quite understand it, but I'm going to make an attempt to. Tucker Carlson,
1:21.2	just to give, I don't want to pick on Tucker. I knew him. I liked him. But in one case,
1:25.1	he thinks that Iran should have a bomb because Israel has one.
1:30.5	And that would have creative tension and deterrence and might make the Middle East more peaceful.
1:35.1	But Israel has never said that they were going to, in a preemptory fashion, hit Iran with a nuclear weapon.
1:43.5	Because they could have done it for the last 25 years.
1:46.2	They haven't.
1:48.4	All they have said about the use of a nuclear weapon, there will be no second Holocaust, and people can draw their conclusions.
1:56.0	That's not true of Iran.
1:58.0	One of their presidents, Mr. Ahmedidid, said he was going to wipe Israel off the map.
2:03.5	That would only be possible by a nuclear weapon.
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