It's sad to see so many failing this test and being duped by the antizionist propaganda, failing to understand that Israel is not its sole target. States that are hostile to the liberal West are using various methods to erode the internal trust of open societies and to sow discord between allied nations. In this sense, Israel, because it is a polarizing issue between left and right in many countries, serves as a lure, a Trojan horse, that Russia, Qatar, Iran, and China exploit in different ways. These states all work to weaken the West from within and the West, which holds sacred the values of free speech, free media, and unrestricted expression on social networks, fails to grasp that these very principles, and the platforms of social media, journalism, and academia, have been turned into weapons against it.
Qatar is a prime example. Qatar uses its fossil fuel wealth to purchase influence in Western countries, leading to multiple scandals called Qatargate. Qatar invested billions of dollars into American universities, shaping the next generation of leaders, media professionals, and businesspeople. It funds radical student activities and organizations to be its boots on the ground and give social proof for the ideas it seeds. Qatar established Al-Jazeera in order to influence public opinion, presenting itself as a free media channel, but, in reality, as a propaganda channel directly directed by Qatari authorities. This is the Qatari modus operandi: a factory of lies hiding behind institutions that appear respectable. Credit to Barak Sh. Herscowitz @barakher
Sad to say, we are past the two state solution. Israelis have seen this Arab hatred for Jews and a desire to eliminate Israel and kill all the Jews for several generations. October 7 was the straw that broke the camel’s back, to use an expression the Arab world might understand. The result of that barbaric attack was to send all Israelis the unambiguous message that the Palestinians and the Muslim world want them dead and will not change and then to send them the additional message that many millions throughout the West are with the barbarians and support the extermination of Israel.
No one in Israel can get elected by calling for a Palestinian state on their border, and Israel is a democracy. Arab Muslims already have a couple dozen Muslim states, and so-called Palestinians do not differ ethnically or religiously from the others. For a century and a half, we have seen countries lose wars with the result that people moved and borders changed. The world treats Palestinians different from everyone else, refugees forever. There can be only one explanation for this. Genocidal antisemitism. Why should they be given another state? Israelis know that’s suicidal.
Thank you for articulating this so well. Pat still clings to the naive belief that the Pallies want the same things that we do - peaceful life, an opportunity to make a living, a future for their kids. In reality, these people want a martyr's death for themselves and their children. They don't care how much they suffer as long as they hurt those Israeli kaffirs. It will take 3 generations to deradicalize their society, and only if they treat Islam as a religion rather than a system of government and law. There cannot be coexistence with a dysfunctional society.
These clowns could not care less about Gaza/Palestinians if they tried. This brand of theatre is just a way for them to express their hatred of Jews. That’s why when real atrocities happen in the world (2 million casualties in the Ukraine, tens of thousands slaughtered by the mullahs in Iran, 600,000 dead in Syria, etc.) you don’t hear anything from them. No Jews, no news. That is their only truth.
Morals And the hypocritical Islamo-loving indoctrinated Left don’t match. Just like weak immoral politicians who pander for votes, allowing western society to fall apart, rather than, actually do their jobs and help their citizens be safe, healthy, connected, and productive.
Being anti-Jewish is now integral to the Democratic Party platform, so it will probably help him win. Dems took the 70% Jewish vote willingly for decades, and now it's time to throw us in the trash because there are other larger, more on-trend constituencies that demand it.
“Or do you support maximalist visions that end with one side (the Jewish side) disappearing in ethnic cleansing or genocide?
To me, the answer is obvious. Why they want is dead Jews, and the more, the better. And it’s led to a validation of the “horseshoe theory” of politics, as we see hatred of Israel and Jews resulting in political bedfellows like Tucker Carlson and Ana Kasparian.
Graham Platner talking about "the moral test of our time" after 15 years of sporting an SS Totemkopf tattoo on his chest.. and being a WW2 history buff.
And kept lying about not knowing the Totemkopf had a clear link to the Nazis until someone who knows him well came forward publicly to claim that he had personally told Platner as much.
I sometimes wonder if any of our friends, neighbors and associates consider how they look in the eyes of their Jewish friends. We've lost so much trust in them, except for you, Pat, and the infintesimally small percentage of others like you. We ( I won't speak for every Jew, but I'll speak for myself and a bunch of other Jews I know) think a whole lot of the people we once considered friends are a bunch of morally compromised virtue-signaling faux activist cowards who see minority or "oppressed" identities as trends they can jump on for narcissistic morality points...when it's a risk-free endeavor for them. Or they're silent bystanders.
I don't know if it would even bother them if they knew our opinion of them now. That we see clearly that they would not have hidden Anne Frank, like the righteous heroes they believe themselves to be. How could they, they can't even find it in themselves to tell an anonymous bigot to shut up on social media. Who cares what Jews think, anyway, I guess. It probably doesn't even occur to them that we have a point of view -- a rather unflattering one to an awful lot of people at this point.
It's sad to see so many failing this test and being duped by the antizionist propaganda, failing to understand that Israel is not its sole target. States that are hostile to the liberal West are using various methods to erode the internal trust of open societies and to sow discord between allied nations. In this sense, Israel, because it is a polarizing issue between left and right in many countries, serves as a lure, a Trojan horse, that Russia, Qatar, Iran, and China exploit in different ways. These states all work to weaken the West from within and the West, which holds sacred the values of free speech, free media, and unrestricted expression on social networks, fails to grasp that these very principles, and the platforms of social media, journalism, and academia, have been turned into weapons against it.
Qatar is a prime example. Qatar uses its fossil fuel wealth to purchase influence in Western countries, leading to multiple scandals called Qatargate. Qatar invested billions of dollars into American universities, shaping the next generation of leaders, media professionals, and businesspeople. It funds radical student activities and organizations to be its boots on the ground and give social proof for the ideas it seeds. Qatar established Al-Jazeera in order to influence public opinion, presenting itself as a free media channel, but, in reality, as a propaganda channel directly directed by Qatari authorities. This is the Qatari modus operandi: a factory of lies hiding behind institutions that appear respectable. Credit to Barak Sh. Herscowitz @barakher
Sad to say, we are past the two state solution. Israelis have seen this Arab hatred for Jews and a desire to eliminate Israel and kill all the Jews for several generations. October 7 was the straw that broke the camel’s back, to use an expression the Arab world might understand. The result of that barbaric attack was to send all Israelis the unambiguous message that the Palestinians and the Muslim world want them dead and will not change and then to send them the additional message that many millions throughout the West are with the barbarians and support the extermination of Israel.
No one in Israel can get elected by calling for a Palestinian state on their border, and Israel is a democracy. Arab Muslims already have a couple dozen Muslim states, and so-called Palestinians do not differ ethnically or religiously from the others. For a century and a half, we have seen countries lose wars with the result that people moved and borders changed. The world treats Palestinians different from everyone else, refugees forever. There can be only one explanation for this. Genocidal antisemitism. Why should they be given another state? Israelis know that’s suicidal.
Thank you for articulating this so well. Pat still clings to the naive belief that the Pallies want the same things that we do - peaceful life, an opportunity to make a living, a future for their kids. In reality, these people want a martyr's death for themselves and their children. They don't care how much they suffer as long as they hurt those Israeli kaffirs. It will take 3 generations to deradicalize their society, and only if they treat Islam as a religion rather than a system of government and law. There cannot be coexistence with a dysfunctional society.
These clowns could not care less about Gaza/Palestinians if they tried. This brand of theatre is just a way for them to express their hatred of Jews. That’s why when real atrocities happen in the world (2 million casualties in the Ukraine, tens of thousands slaughtered by the mullahs in Iran, 600,000 dead in Syria, etc.) you don’t hear anything from them. No Jews, no news. That is their only truth.
Morals And the hypocritical Islamo-loving indoctrinated Left don’t match. Just like weak immoral politicians who pander for votes, allowing western society to fall apart, rather than, actually do their jobs and help their citizens be safe, healthy, connected, and productive.
He just shared a post from Neo-Nazi Stew Peters. How is that not candidacy killing?
Being anti-Jewish is now integral to the Democratic Party platform, so it will probably help him win. Dems took the 70% Jewish vote willingly for decades, and now it's time to throw us in the trash because there are other larger, more on-trend constituencies that demand it.
“Or do you support maximalist visions that end with one side (the Jewish side) disappearing in ethnic cleansing or genocide?
To me, the answer is obvious. Why they want is dead Jews, and the more, the better. And it’s led to a validation of the “horseshoe theory” of politics, as we see hatred of Israel and Jews resulting in political bedfellows like Tucker Carlson and Ana Kasparian.
Graham Platner talking about "the moral test of our time" after 15 years of sporting an SS Totemkopf tattoo on his chest.. and being a WW2 history buff.
And kept lying about not knowing the Totemkopf had a clear link to the Nazis until someone who knows him well came forward publicly to claim that he had personally told Platner as much.
I sometimes wonder if any of our friends, neighbors and associates consider how they look in the eyes of their Jewish friends. We've lost so much trust in them, except for you, Pat, and the infintesimally small percentage of others like you. We ( I won't speak for every Jew, but I'll speak for myself and a bunch of other Jews I know) think a whole lot of the people we once considered friends are a bunch of morally compromised virtue-signaling faux activist cowards who see minority or "oppressed" identities as trends they can jump on for narcissistic morality points...when it's a risk-free endeavor for them. Or they're silent bystanders.
I don't know if it would even bother them if they knew our opinion of them now. That we see clearly that they would not have hidden Anne Frank, like the righteous heroes they believe themselves to be. How could they, they can't even find it in themselves to tell an anonymous bigot to shut up on social media. Who cares what Jews think, anyway, I guess. It probably doesn't even occur to them that we have a point of view -- a rather unflattering one to an awful lot of people at this point.