‘It is a perverse alliance of far-left recidivist communists making common cause with the descendants of Hitler and the Nazis, and empowered, of course, by Islamist jihadists bent on beheading Jews and ridding the Middle East of their presence.’
I am part of the Smithsonian genetic mapping cohort, that used cheek swabs to analyse mitochondrial (and highly conserved) DNA to map human migration. Guess what? It proved that my ancestors come from the fertile cresent.
mahvelous--if you have a link to the study, pleeze share! All the time folks say ve chews have no connection ta the Levant... Baloney, I tell 'em! I save a list've studies to show 'em wrong....would love to add this one to the list!
I knew I’d love this as soon as I read the title. It’s the “uppity” Jews, right? That’s the best and possibly only word from the American paradigm of racism that’s appropriate to the history of Jews in the Middle East. (Someone pls inform Ta-Nehisi Coates). Also, brilliant point about the false accusation that Zionism is based on religious belief (and therefore irrelevant to non-believers). You only have to believe in 2 very non-subjective scientific phenomena to understand Jewish indigeneity in the land: 1. carbon-dating and 2. gravity (hello? the Al-Aqsa Mosque was built ON TOP of the Second Temple!) That’s it.
This is all quite correct, but I think we need to pull back and look at a wider picture. While this conflict has been going on, most European countries as well as the US has allowed millions of Muslims to immigrate but not integrate. The left almost immediately aligned itself with antisemitic and anti-Western Muslims. The alliance is so irrational that it should set off alarm bells for any normal, thinking person. We are dealing with irrational mob behavior that cannot be reasoned with. This is how we have come to see massive antisemitic and anti-Western demonstrations in cities and on university campuses, supposedly places where reason reigns. We are seeing progressive Western leaders recognizing a Palestinian state that does not exist. This looks crazy, but these progressive parties now see that they have boxed themselves into a corner and need the leftist/Muslim vote. Italy will not recognize this phantom state, so it is seeing violent riots in its cities. It is the leftist-Islamist alliance that is doing the rioting. We are seeing them send a message to Western leaders that this is what will happen if you don’t join the party. This is bound to create more bloodshed in Western cities where the average person is getting very fed up with what their ruling class has done. Normally peaceful Europeans will decide that this can’t be allowed to go on, and there will be demonstrations like the one recently held in London. Eventually the two sides will meet in those streets, and it won’t be pretty. As far as the West goes, the root of the problem is a combination of the left/Islamic alliance that has come about because of terrible leadership that lives in a fantasy world and the ideology created on our university campuses.
The bottom line is that we are seeing the forces of chaos and division grow stronger every day. It’s a slow suicide.
No, not at all cheery. Israel should push for the Quebecois separatist movement to separate from Canada, Scotland to gain its independence from the UK and Australia to give the entire continent back to the indigenous people. France should give back the German part they took after WWII.Then there's Spain. Heh. That should make these hypocritical leaders go 😱
Another oddity in the recent spate of recognitions of a “state” of Palestine can only be ascribed to an “Orientalist” view that Arab countries are simply incapable of governing themselves as Western-styled democracies.
Why else are these statements of recognition tied to a demand that the Palestinians most popular party by far - Hamas - must be excluded from any future political role?
For all those who say Israel is wasting its time fighting Hamas because you cannot defeat an “idea”, even a genocidal, theocratic one apparently, then the alternative would be to have Turkey and Qatar, the twin supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, arrest the leadership and seize their billions in assets (using it for, perhaps, Gaza’s reconstruction). And Qatar should direct Al Jazeera to end its cheerleading for terror and destabilization and disseminate programming that endorses peaceful cooperation with Israel.
In the meantime, the IDF will continue the hard part of separating Hamas from the population and proceed with the former’s destruction. In the region of the “strong horse”, the humiliation of Hamas will go far toward undermining its anti-West program and doctrine.
Contrary to the view held by their Western supporters, the Arabs are neither children nor stupid. They understand full well that the supposed lifeline of recognition tossed to the moribund “two state solution” - which the Palestinians have consistently rejected if it requires their accepting a Jewish state as their neighbor - changes nothing on the ground and they can expect nothing beyond words.
It’s a fair bet that jihadists will eventually vent their frustration on what their will rightly perceive as the weak, if not altogether supine, Europeans rather than continue throwing away their lives and treasury in a losing fight against Israel.
Thats the thing. They don’t have to govern themselves like a western democracy . They only have to be civil to others. They need to give women basic rights of bodily autonomy and education. They need learn how to establish an economy. Build housing. Medical facilities. The fact that most of the Middle East doesn’t recognize women as human beings with rights is catastrophic.
"On the other hand, and even as Western progressives accuse Jews of claiming national legitimacy based on skydaddyism, they behave as though Palestinian, Arab and Muslim anti-Zionism is founded exclusively on rational, non-woo woo premises — when it is overwhelmingly, almost exclusively, premised on Islamic religious supremacism and Arab racial prejudice."
Initially, at least, according to German scholar Mattias Kuntzel, when the Nazis sought to make its alliance with the then nascent Muslim Brotherhood movement, the Nazis found that their own race-based ideological hate of Jews had no traction with the Brotherhood, so, instead the funding the Nazis provided was used to develop a Quranic-based ideology that focused on the latter passages of the holy text, the so-called "post-Medina" portion, which was unrestrained in its hatred for Jews and the call for eradication of the perceived enemy of the Prophet.
The "whitening" of Jews as non-Levantine aliens came from the antisemitism of Russian / Soviet Communists who dropped the Communists' earlier promise to Russian Jewry to establish a Jewish homeland named Biro-Bajan in the USSR to a program of assimilation that was only embraced by a minority of Soviet Jews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevsektsiya
I wonder if the British are going to lead by example and give Northern Ireland back. Perhaps the Canadians will hand over their country to the Inuit. And I’m pretty sure that Australia was the Aborigines homeland. How about it guys?
I agree that this will not end well, but I don't think that the leaders responsible will ever recognize that they made a mistake. They will likely never apologize for failing to learn from the experience of those who have been deceived before them. This lack of accountability is being exploited by the enemies of liberty.
Do you have a proposal for a two state solution? I think each surrounding Arab Nation should contribute land, including Israel, and create a Palestinian state. Because it isn’t only Israel’s problem.
Israel, 85% the size of Vermont, has 10 million people versus the larger Vermont which has only 648K people. Bernie Sanders should create Palestine, the Lone Crescent State, for those wonderful humanitarians in Gaza he cares so much about. Of course, it would become a terror state, so not good for us/US.
It is time to RECOGNIZE that PALESTINE WILL NEVER EXIST. Jews have proven their willingness to compromise, and the Arabs played a zero-sum game. The reward for losing a zero-sum game is that the LOSER GETS NOTHING. Jewish history in the Land of Israel teaches that the high ground, Judea and Samaria, must be in the hands of the Jewish State and not in the hands of its enemies. The ARAB COLONISTS ARE NOT ENTITLED TO A PIECE OF JERUSALEM. If they cannot be good guests, and they have never been, then they must be EXPELLED INTO THE LARGER ARAB HOMELAND WHICH INCLUDES JORDAN.
‘It is a perverse alliance of far-left recidivist communists making common cause with the descendants of Hitler and the Nazis, and empowered, of course, by Islamist jihadists bent on beheading Jews and ridding the Middle East of their presence.’
👆🏻 from one of your previous posts.
Thank you for all these statements of the truth.
Unfortunately it’s the same bla bla ; I don’t see any changes
I am part of the Smithsonian genetic mapping cohort, that used cheek swabs to analyse mitochondrial (and highly conserved) DNA to map human migration. Guess what? It proved that my ancestors come from the fertile cresent.
mahvelous--if you have a link to the study, pleeze share! All the time folks say ve chews have no connection ta the Levant... Baloney, I tell 'em! I save a list've studies to show 'em wrong....would love to add this one to the list!
I knew I’d love this as soon as I read the title. It’s the “uppity” Jews, right? That’s the best and possibly only word from the American paradigm of racism that’s appropriate to the history of Jews in the Middle East. (Someone pls inform Ta-Nehisi Coates). Also, brilliant point about the false accusation that Zionism is based on religious belief (and therefore irrelevant to non-believers). You only have to believe in 2 very non-subjective scientific phenomena to understand Jewish indigeneity in the land: 1. carbon-dating and 2. gravity (hello? the Al-Aqsa Mosque was built ON TOP of the Second Temple!) That’s it.
This is all quite correct, but I think we need to pull back and look at a wider picture. While this conflict has been going on, most European countries as well as the US has allowed millions of Muslims to immigrate but not integrate. The left almost immediately aligned itself with antisemitic and anti-Western Muslims. The alliance is so irrational that it should set off alarm bells for any normal, thinking person. We are dealing with irrational mob behavior that cannot be reasoned with. This is how we have come to see massive antisemitic and anti-Western demonstrations in cities and on university campuses, supposedly places where reason reigns. We are seeing progressive Western leaders recognizing a Palestinian state that does not exist. This looks crazy, but these progressive parties now see that they have boxed themselves into a corner and need the leftist/Muslim vote. Italy will not recognize this phantom state, so it is seeing violent riots in its cities. It is the leftist-Islamist alliance that is doing the rioting. We are seeing them send a message to Western leaders that this is what will happen if you don’t join the party. This is bound to create more bloodshed in Western cities where the average person is getting very fed up with what their ruling class has done. Normally peaceful Europeans will decide that this can’t be allowed to go on, and there will be demonstrations like the one recently held in London. Eventually the two sides will meet in those streets, and it won’t be pretty. As far as the West goes, the root of the problem is a combination of the left/Islamic alliance that has come about because of terrible leadership that lives in a fantasy world and the ideology created on our university campuses.
The bottom line is that we are seeing the forces of chaos and division grow stronger every day. It’s a slow suicide.
Not too cheery, is it?
No, not at all cheery. Israel should push for the Quebecois separatist movement to separate from Canada, Scotland to gain its independence from the UK and Australia to give the entire continent back to the indigenous people. France should give back the German part they took after WWII.Then there's Spain. Heh. That should make these hypocritical leaders go 😱
Another oddity in the recent spate of recognitions of a “state” of Palestine can only be ascribed to an “Orientalist” view that Arab countries are simply incapable of governing themselves as Western-styled democracies.
Why else are these statements of recognition tied to a demand that the Palestinians most popular party by far - Hamas - must be excluded from any future political role?
For all those who say Israel is wasting its time fighting Hamas because you cannot defeat an “idea”, even a genocidal, theocratic one apparently, then the alternative would be to have Turkey and Qatar, the twin supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, arrest the leadership and seize their billions in assets (using it for, perhaps, Gaza’s reconstruction). And Qatar should direct Al Jazeera to end its cheerleading for terror and destabilization and disseminate programming that endorses peaceful cooperation with Israel.
In the meantime, the IDF will continue the hard part of separating Hamas from the population and proceed with the former’s destruction. In the region of the “strong horse”, the humiliation of Hamas will go far toward undermining its anti-West program and doctrine.
Contrary to the view held by their Western supporters, the Arabs are neither children nor stupid. They understand full well that the supposed lifeline of recognition tossed to the moribund “two state solution” - which the Palestinians have consistently rejected if it requires their accepting a Jewish state as their neighbor - changes nothing on the ground and they can expect nothing beyond words.
It’s a fair bet that jihadists will eventually vent their frustration on what their will rightly perceive as the weak, if not altogether supine, Europeans rather than continue throwing away their lives and treasury in a losing fight against Israel.
Thats the thing. They don’t have to govern themselves like a western democracy . They only have to be civil to others. They need to give women basic rights of bodily autonomy and education. They need learn how to establish an economy. Build housing. Medical facilities. The fact that most of the Middle East doesn’t recognize women as human beings with rights is catastrophic.
"On the other hand, and even as Western progressives accuse Jews of claiming national legitimacy based on skydaddyism, they behave as though Palestinian, Arab and Muslim anti-Zionism is founded exclusively on rational, non-woo woo premises — when it is overwhelmingly, almost exclusively, premised on Islamic religious supremacism and Arab racial prejudice."
Initially, at least, according to German scholar Mattias Kuntzel, when the Nazis sought to make its alliance with the then nascent Muslim Brotherhood movement, the Nazis found that their own race-based ideological hate of Jews had no traction with the Brotherhood, so, instead the funding the Nazis provided was used to develop a Quranic-based ideology that focused on the latter passages of the holy text, the so-called "post-Medina" portion, which was unrestrained in its hatred for Jews and the call for eradication of the perceived enemy of the Prophet.
The "whitening" of Jews as non-Levantine aliens came from the antisemitism of Russian / Soviet Communists who dropped the Communists' earlier promise to Russian Jewry to establish a Jewish homeland named Biro-Bajan in the USSR to a program of assimilation that was only embraced by a minority of Soviet Jews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevsektsiya
Dear Pat, this is such an insightful essay. Your clarity is astounding.
I wonder if the British are going to lead by example and give Northern Ireland back. Perhaps the Canadians will hand over their country to the Inuit. And I’m pretty sure that Australia was the Aborigines homeland. How about it guys?
Great article, thank you!
If Muslims claim divine right to any land they once occupied, there are large swathes of Europe that should be concerned.
I sadly agree that this will not end well.
Quick question: where and when will we see new Palestine embassies for all the countries “recognizing” the Palestinian state?
Ha! Where indeed!
I agree that this will not end well, but I don't think that the leaders responsible will ever recognize that they made a mistake. They will likely never apologize for failing to learn from the experience of those who have been deceived before them. This lack of accountability is being exploited by the enemies of liberty.
Our generation may not live to see our comeuppance. But there will be a comeuppance.
Do you have a proposal for a two state solution? I think each surrounding Arab Nation should contribute land, including Israel, and create a Palestinian state. Because it isn’t only Israel’s problem.
I think there is enough land to go around if the Palestinians are willing to exist in peace.
I agree. But if a majority in the region have 6-10 children each, that’s when it becomes crowded beyond capacity.
Israel, 85% the size of Vermont, has 10 million people versus the larger Vermont which has only 648K people. Bernie Sanders should create Palestine, the Lone Crescent State, for those wonderful humanitarians in Gaza he cares so much about. Of course, it would become a terror state, so not good for us/US.
It can’t be allowed to become a terror state
"I don't do a paywall. I do guilt walls." 🤣🤣🤣
Spoken like a member of the tribe!
Maybe your comments section should be modified to read "listen Marty, the genius is now going to enlighten us. Go on, genius"
It is time to RECOGNIZE that PALESTINE WILL NEVER EXIST. Jews have proven their willingness to compromise, and the Arabs played a zero-sum game. The reward for losing a zero-sum game is that the LOSER GETS NOTHING. Jewish history in the Land of Israel teaches that the high ground, Judea and Samaria, must be in the hands of the Jewish State and not in the hands of its enemies. The ARAB COLONISTS ARE NOT ENTITLED TO A PIECE OF JERUSALEM. If they cannot be good guests, and they have never been, then they must be EXPELLED INTO THE LARGER ARAB HOMELAND WHICH INCLUDES JORDAN.