Hamas on Saturday launched thousands of rockets into southern Israel and sent an unknown number of terrorists on the ground to attack civilians in towns near Gaza in a major assault unseen in decades, with dictator Benjamin Netanyahu announcing the country was “at war,” the AP reports.

The terrorists had breached the border wall separating Israel proper with the not really “occupied” so much as simply interned territory on the Mediterranean. Some even reportedly used hang gliders to land deeper into populated areas to wreak havoc during the Simchas Torah holiday.

Now it might come across as asshole-ish and “too soon” to raise this point. We still kind of have to bring it up: Nobody deserves to get killed by a rocket fired from miles away or shot dead by some pissed off terrorist piece of shit on a Saturday morning. This is fucking awful. The people of Ukraine are having a similar experience with at least 52 of them dead this week after a Russian missile struck a cafe where a family had gathered after a memorial service for a soldier who had been killed in combat on the front lines. Yet, depending on how severe this attack on Israel is – and it seems like it could be pretty bad – the response here from the American right wing to what’s still going on in southern Israel is going to be completely different from their response to what’s going on in Ukraine.

How different, we don’t know yet, because it’s both early in the day in the US and early in the story of the horrific attack. At minimum however it’s a guarantee that the Republican Party and the MAGA propaganda-industrial complex will make it clear they value the average Israeli civilian’s life more than the average Ukrainian civilian’s life and want to spend more American tax dollars to protect the former while telling the latter they’re on their own. It’s not like they haven’t more or less already told us this by never putting spending to arm Israel and spending to arm Ukraine in the same conversation, but this situation is almost certain to end up making that incongruity very clear.

Also don’t be shocked if they don’t try to find some way to blame Joe Biden and then fire up the old “This never would have happened if Trump was still in office right now!” bullshit too.