This is what we're teaching kids in these hollowed halls. Where once we taught classics and philosophy, then we taught engineering and science, and now we teach calls for violence and "decolonization". We reap what we sow.
I don't know if the use of the word "hollowed" was a mistake or intentional, but in reality "hollowed" is what our higher education institutes have become. I'm totally in despair seeing what has happened there. Open debate? Sharing of ideas? Understanding of nuance? Naw - our children and grandchildren must succumb to the group-think of the radicals who have infested these institutions on pain of being condemned for not toeing the line. And it is an infestation, make no mistake. To condone what is happening in Israel is beyond reprehensible.
All those idiots--the pro-Palestine protestors, the college professors, the Squad--don't understand that if they had been at the music festival or Sderot, the Hamas terrorists would've shot, stab, raped, and kidnapped them without a second thought.
You are correct. That's why our six kids are being classically educated and our oldest is a freshman at Thomas Aquinas College. I take every opportunity to show them the consequences of being ill advised and poorly educated, I mean indoctrinated.
I don't have a gun. But I am seriously thinking of arm myself. It would be of negligible use but at least I would have some means of defending myself, my family and my neighbors. What happened in Israel could happen here- I am convinced of it. The fake race war, invasion of illegal aliens, defund the police and climate lunatics are but some of the factors taking us down the road to anarchy. I fear for our future like I never have. When we were doing drills for a nuclear attack, I never felt we were truly at risk...imagining a mushroom cloud on the horizon just didn't seem possible. But this shit is getting too real people. We need to get a grip and elect leadership who will work together to protect the American people. And I'm thinking hard about praying. Can't hurt.
This exact topic came up over the weekend in my friend group- all fathers of families living in the affluent, and seemingly secure, suburbs outside some major east coast cities. Then the videos of fighting aged men streaming over our boarders unchecked started, then the Twitter links of stories about Hamas sleeper cells, etc, etc. Scary stuff. I hope, and pray, this is a turning point for everyone to take this shit seriously and get our communities under control. I fear it may not be.
And now we know if those sleeper cells attack, and American men retaliate or defend themselves, you know what the narrative will be. "Racists killing brown people who are fighting for freedom". Better seize those guns asap!
And this is exactly why the 2nd Amendment was written, and must be defended.
Whoever is behind this (George Soros? WEF? United Nations? Biden and friends?) is now moving as fast as possible because Americans are waking up to their tyranny
Having facilitated the greatest upward transfer of wealth in human history "capital" looted and abandoned America. It's subjugation of the European peoples is well underway.
The CCP/Davos fiends declare that Americans must "accept limits on free speech" and Hillary the ghoul declares that some Americans need "re-education". It is the same hubris and narcissism that possessed the 20th Century totalitarianism that slaughtered tens of millions. And, as these reports illustrate, the fiends were willingly served by well paid poseur ideologues proclaiming a utopian future. It is an inhuman vampire psychology that rationalizes its own avarice by claiming the innocent to be guilty of the crimes being perpetrated upon them.
I'm supremely aware of the tactic described in your last sentence - accusing the victim(s) of the crime(s) actually being committed against them. Weirdly it seems to work every time - especially because it silences the voice(s) of the victim(s) so effectively.
What is truly curious (and terrifying) is these same hapless victims as a group vote/act/speak against their own self interest and collude with their mortal enemies in supreme acts of self destruction. (Just as most of humanity lined up to take poison injections/close businesses and schools/cover their faces like slaves and avoid coming together - again, all acts of complete submission to their malicious and lying jailers.)
Now so many idealogues suffering from their own willing participation in all of this are doubling down because they cannot face the truth of what they agree to. It would be more interesting on an intellectual level if it wasn't having such a horrible impact on lifelong relationships (I am 75 years old and live in 'blueland' surrounded by progressive insanity). All this said I am a former democrat who will never sign on to being a republican and have learned there may be no one trustworthy enough to vote for - and there may not even be an election in 2024 - so not feeling particularly hopeful at the moment.....
I don’t think I want to know the answer to why you think there will NOT be an election in 2024........ I can only imagine! Scary shit. Hey, if it works in “democracies” like Ukraine....... who needs elections??
You notice that all of these spokes people will assure that when the reckoning comes, they will be granted unlimited millions of the surviving currency, and will live behind security walls with guards and sentries to assure their safety. The will travel around in armored SUVs with teams of armed outriders and personal protection operatives. They will never soil themselves with dealing with the people from whom they have swindled all their riches.
The Hamas leadership is exactly like every totalitarian regime that has come and gone throughout history, The people forced to live under their rigid rule will pay the piper.
Well in Canada Trudeau is busy taking gun rights away. He is all in on the progressive globalist world view. I honestly don’t think this is a coincidence.
Trudeau is a scary human. I’m still trying to get over the Trucker fiasco when he called them Nazis [because they were holding signs that accused HIS ADMIN of acting in that way] and then promptly removed many of the protestors from the banking system! Scumbag. Can’t believe there haven’t been more uprisings as a result.
Well - there is a new uprising starting. Tens of thousands of people marched last month in support of parental rights in the school system in response to children being secretly transitioned in schools.
Of course you should get a gun, and learn how to secure it and use it. Sincerity won't protect you, and the police have no obligation to protect you either.
Really, learn how to use and secure it. Practice regularly and rehearse in your mind what your personal limits of use will be. If you do not do that, like any other tool you use in your life, it will be of no use to you at all.
If you are concerned and thinking about arming yourself check out American Contingency. Started by a former military special ops person, it's a website that builds community networks to help one another in times of difficulty like the pandemic when supply chains were screwed up, in the event of a natural disaster, and or these sorts of unthinkable situations. The government cannot and apparently will not help us anymore, so we need to build our own communities to help ourselves and each other. https://www.americancontingency.com/#mission
Depends on where you live. Buying a gun in some states is simple while others have waiting periods. Go to a gun shop and ask them questions. They are more than happy to answer your questions.
Many ranges offer instruction and will have a variety of firearms that you can rent (you may need to go with a like-minded friend). Don't buy until you have had instruction and have tried many different sorts. Like any tool, firearms are personal to the user.
Agree with JB87. I have a gun that fits well and that I like and feel comfortable with. The young man at the store was extremely helpful. I was trained by someone who was special ops and I have a concealed carry. At 5'4" 118 lbs I feel way less vulnerable having it! All the best Mrs. Miller
If you are concerned and thinking about arming yourself check out American Contingency. Started by a former military special ops person, it's a website that builds community networks to help one another in times of difficulty like the pandemic when supply chains were screwed up, in the event of a natural disaster, and or these sorts of unthinkable situations. The government cannot and apparently will not help us anymore, so we need to build our own communities to help ourselves and each other. https://www.americancontingency.com/#mission
“We need to get a grip and elect leadership who will work together to protect the American people”.
Come on man, Joe Biden and his Obama retread crew, are doing a bang up job. Just ask him! But if you want a more credible source on the impact of Biden/Obama policies, I suggest you ask the Ayatollah, Hamas, Hezbollah and the sleeper cells that have likely crossed our southern border to organize and incite the army of cretins parading around NYC and other US cities wanting to kill more Jews.
Yesterday, I saw a clip of Congresswoman Green demanding that captured Hamas weapons be traced to their source to see if they came from the Afghanistan drawdown or the Ukraine. Sleeper cells and terrorists have to eat and someone must pay for their weapons, transportation and training. So who, and why?
RACKET NEWS/Taibbi has a recent well researched article proposing that the free Western world is being subjected to a CCP style overlay. A kind of "herd managed" surveillance apparatus of "15 minute cities", permitted travel, social credit scored digital currency and control. It's pretty obvious that if criminal finance can pull it off it'll be for the many but not for the few. The GRAYZONE recently ran a piece of NATO propaganda looking ahead to the rebuilding of Ukraine as a "model country" built on the exact specifications I just mentioned. Naomi Klein's insights into disaster capitalism, that the Patriot Act was written and ready for implementation long before 9/11, isn't a comforting reality.
Like others here I was/am enraged at the Hamas terrorist attack on the innocent but, by the nature of today's posts, I believe we all see the possibility and the same potential for bloodshed in American cities and towns. The Hamas attack is a tragedy for Israel, but it is also a clear warning to the peoples of the free world.
Clearly, the source of the civilizational/cultural/societal/financial collapse we are witnessing and experiencing emanates from a cabal of international financiers whose wealth subverted and captured American elected political leadership, intentionally introduced chaos and division into free societies and is seeking totalitarian control of the world. Murder, kidnapping, chaos and irrational violence is the natural environment of the vampire. Davos decrees and the DNC parrots and complies. The George Soros D.A. encouraging crime and the defunding of police departments. The silence of D.C. politicians when Schwab attempts to diktat anti-free speech policy for Americans. Forced mass illegal immigration and the shifting of vital funding away from the welfare of the native born. The funding of BLM riots and looting. Grants and funding to Marxist extremists in their quest to dismantle American education, history and culture.
Could it be more obvious that the DNC/EU/CCP/Davos juggernaut has no alliance to anything but itself? They are capable of any human travesty. Jews survive because they believe that God is. They possess a code of moral ethics, a mythology and are directly connected to and experience a sense of their own living history. These the very values most under attack here in America. Unite or perish.
I find myself wondering if the puppet masters protecting and managing the Biden administration are deliberately allowing terrorist infiltration of this country so they can enact Patriot Act 2.0 to irrevocably usurp our freedom.
Look at Sweden. In 2015 it let in a huge number of young men from Syria. They have engaged in all kinds of violence, created gangs, etc. Now they are declaring an emergency, enlisting the military to enforce it, and suspending constitutional rights.
They're capable of it (Patriot 2.0) but I don't think they could do it without a street fight. And, despite its compromise there are good men and women inside both the state and federal bureaucracy.
Yup. This is a wake-up call for a lot of people. Your government is incompetent and will not protect you. Our intelligence agencies who should have seen this coming were busy surveilling moms at PTA meetings and your text messages to notice this obvious threat.
Don’t waste your time, be sure to get one of those guns “that no one needs” 😉
We now own a Glock bc of local crime (Memphis) and national chaos. The Left are the Wolves and the "moderate Dems" are the Sheep. The rest of us better be ready.
We’ve considered all this for some years now. We have a few ‘guns’. No pistols unfortunately. But a 12 gauge shotgun can blow quite a hole in a body. It’ll be a while before we run out of shells. There are a few swamps out back. Anybody foolish enough to try us on after taking the trouble to find us away out in the bush, will wish they hadn’t, if they have time to register any wishes at all
Responsible gun ownership is every American's right. Buy one, learn to use it safely, visit your local gun range regularly so you maintain familiarity with your firearm, and then pray your training is never needed for self defense. But if it is, you are empowered to protect yourself and your family. (Guns are also fun recreation - we shoot skeet and trap with shotguns at our local range, and take target practice with handguns. At home, they are locked in safes accessible only to our family members. There is a way to do this right.)
If you do, please don't be one of those people who just buys the gun and assumes they'll know how to use it when the time comes. It's definitely your right to own a gun but it also is a big responsibility despite the cavalier attitude some states have about it.
When we were kids, my dad taught us all to use pistols. We used to be mad at him for not letting us have toy guns, though now, as an adult, I see he wanted us to realize how serious owning and firing a gun is.
Go to a range, practice, learn how to shoot, learn that there are times pulling the gun will likely be used against you. It's not like the movies where hundreds of bad guys keep firing and always miss the hero, but the hero never misses. It's a matter of practice and train.
And if you have small kids at home, PLEASE keep the gun in a safe. Don't just hide it and think they won't find it. They will.
I live in a quiet, safe, upper middle class neighborhood. We did not defund the police, no BLM lawn signs here. If it has come to our town, you are not far behind. Get a gun.
Thank you for naming and shaming these death cult Bolsheviks. They twist words to create a nightmarish "utopia". Like decolonization, I have compiled a glossary of modern leftist Orwellian double-speak: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-coin-a-term-part-2
Excellent article. I wonder what all the American Leftists who talk about how this country has engaged in colonialism would feel if they were raped, their children taken hostage and their friends and parents murdered on social media. That’s the real test isn’t it? Leftists are always talking about how horrible this country is. What if the “oppressed” of the world started to treat us like Israel is now being treated?
My guess? They’d find a way to explain it somehow. It’s the only way this ideology has survived despite resulting in the death of over 100 million souls. It defies logic or reason. It’s their religion and they are zealots.
If it happened here, there are some people who are so brainwashed that they would just blather on about “generational trauma”, “restorative justice”, and “noncarceral solutions”.
Oh, the “oppressed” are already here, and are already tearing us apart - only thing is, it’s from the inside out. Videos out of any Democrat run city? Mad Max is coming, and soon,
Indeed. I live in a neighborhood in Philadelphia that was looted two weeks ago. The vast majority of the residents here are hardworking people who just want to take care of their families and do not approve of violence, in fact they are the victims of it. Gun violence is out of control in my neighborhood. Those who engage in violence are in the minority but they make life terrifying for everyone else.
My guess is they see themselves in the “freedom fighters”. they don’t identify with the innocent victims of the terrorism. There’s a certain bloodlust in the human heart, and this evil ideology gives it free rein. That they would likely get a nasty wake-up call is no comfort to me.
As Nikki Haley said “Finish them”…. Hamas should accept “unconditional surrender “ and war crimes trials … Hamas can extend the war and bring more death to their people…. Japan made this mistake in WW2. Japan doesn’t threaten anyone anymore … make Gaza like Japan
Nikki Haley’s comments yesterday were ridiculous, and remove her from any consideration as a Presidential hopefully IMO. We need thoughtful, cautious, strong leaders. Not immature comments projecting fake strength from behind a camera. I’m sick of the neocon bullshit! She and Lindsay Graham can disappear from public life forever as far as I’m concerned. We are 30T+ in debt, fighting a proxy war in Europe that is going nowhere, and now we want to enter ANOTHER conflict in the Middle East with a huge, well armed country? Maybe we start with immediately ceasing all monies going to Gaza, all monies going to Iran, reinstate the policies to hamper Iran’s economic ability to play offense? Basically, do exactly the opposite of what Biden’s administration has done over the last few years. That would be a start, and needs to be announced yesterday! Where is our leadership???
Unlike Russia/Ukraine, the US has a vital interest in this greater conflict, Iran cannot be allowed to get nukes. That is a real world concrete issue. Appeasing the Iranians is such a blunder by the Biden Administration.
Your leadership, President Donald Trump, was “defeated” in the last Presidential election with the help of the liberals, leftists, and Democrats who believe this is Israel’s fault.
If it weren't so close to Israel are you saying they don't richly deserve it? Or are you just another fool who thinks that Japanese atrocities didn't make them richly deserving of their fate?
I’m a fool who thinks that indiscriminate murder of civilian populations is immoral, yes. Stop and think about what you’re saying.
Everyone who planned and carried out Saturday’s attack should pay with their lives AND making Gaza a parking lot is not the appropriate response. Both of those things can be true.
If you celebrate depravity you are no less depraved. If you support rape, murder and atrocities you are complicit. Civilians who do so are not "innocent." Am I advocating the murder of women and children? No. But just as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved a million innocent allied soldiers - as well as Japanese civilians outside those cities - Gaza as a nest of murderous insects cannot be allowed to continue as it was as a haven for terrorists. Gazans have a choice - reject the depravity of Hamas or suffer the consequences of being used as their shields.
What a sickeningly naive statement. No, opinions you don’t like are NOT equivalent to the inhuman atrocities of this weekend. Rhetoric like yours brought us here.
Not insects. Human beings. Human beings are capable of evil.
About 40 percent of those living in Gaza are 0-14 years old. How do you suggest they reject the depravity of Hamas? How are they responsible for being used as human shields?
You assume those Gazan children are just like American kids, silly, on TikTok, doing drugs, unaware. Those Gazan children, particularly teenagers, are as hateful as the adults. They have been inculcated since birth with Jew hatred. Many take up arms.
Maybe the 0-2 year olds can be saved, but the others, they are the shock troops of the future.
You're half right. Anyone so depraved that they get satisfaction out of raping and killing a mother in front of her children is not an insect, they are beneath even unthinking bugs. Your beliefs are dangerous to the rest of us.
Sorta like 'the only good Indian is a dead Indian'? Or the way that Hitler thought that there are no good Jews? Or the way the BLM people say that all white people are guilty of Supremacy even if they don't know it?
Nice try, if incredibly simplistic. All of those are judgements based on the almighty *identity*. People don't *choose* to be white, indian or (bloodline)Jewish (which was Hitler's metric.) So yes, every single one of your examples is abhorant, evil and inhuman.
However, it is absolutely a *choice* to parachute into a music festival, spray the crowd with gunfire, beat, rape, murder anyone you see, behead grandmothers and live stream their murder over their own facebook page. Drag the raped body of a young civilian woman through the streets, blood gushing from between her legs.
It's a *choice* to celebrate those subhuman animals, and it's also a *choice* to justify or minimize any of the horror that Hamas *chose* to inflict (and still does by holding those people hostage that they have not yet massacred.
So no, Ray - not even *sorta* like any of the evil filth you mentioned - although all the Hamas apologists are *very* similar (like the nice leftist Australians at the Syndey Opera House chanting "gas the Jews" while waving smoke machines.)
I agree that mass destruction will solve nothing. Those who engaged in this weekend’s slaughter are little more than mindless cretins, willing to do the whatever bidding their ghoulish puppet masters demand. Unfortunately, there seems to be a never-ending supply of them. Perhaps it would be more effective to identify the puppet masters and their financiers, eliminate them first, whoever they are and wherever they may be, by whatever means necessary.
"Unfortunately, there seems to be a never-ending supply of them."
Which is because a brutalized and dispossessed people will inevitably fester with hatred. There are two solutions: exterminate them, or give them justice.
Timothy, but it will solve Everything! Must eradicate this evil in the world. If you leave any remaining, you will see this evil continue to grow. Cut it out, stem and root.
"The New York Times...failed to mention Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza in 2005; that Palestinians elected Hamas to rule them; that Israelis routinely give Gazans notice before attacking to minimize loss of civilian life; and that one reason (maybe the reason) so many Palestinian children have died during Israeli air strikes is Hamas uses them as human shields—the better to generate sympathetic news coverage."
Israel does give warnings before destroying buildings for the most part. In that regards, they are obviously better than many regimes. I think the issue with Gaza is that 1. There is no open economy with the rest of the world - so economic growth is limited and 2. You can't leave, even if you want to (or almost impossible). In other words - an open air prison. If you are a young Palestinian man that rejects Hamas - you are not allowed to even leave Gaza and build a new life if you want to because of Israel and Egypt blockades.
On the contrary, many Gazans are allowed cross the border daily to work in Israel. The blockades exist for only one reason: to try to prevent Hamas from getting more material to turn into weapons to use against Israel.
The main problem a young Palestinian man who rejects Hamas has is that other Muslim countries will not allow him to immigrate there.
I believe something like 15 thousand Gazans are allowed to cross into Israel to work - which is a good gesture. It's a tiny number for the number of young adults in Gaza though. And yes - other Muslim countries won't let Gazans permanently immigrate to them - but Israel does limit movement as well. The only exit for Gazans into Egypt was destroyed today by Israeli air-strikes today. There is no escape for people in Gaza. Hamas controls them from the inside - Israel and Egypt from the outside.
The Gazan people ELECTED Hamas as their government. Most Gazans still support the actions of Hamas. They willingly allow themselves to be used as human shields. They believe, just as firmly as the active members of Hamas, that Israel must be destroyed.
Israel would not find it necessary to put limitations on the movement of Gazans if the Gazans themselves did not continually demonstrate that they are an existential threat to all Israelis. Egypt won't let Gazans into their country because they are considered a dangerous and destabilizing group BY THEIR FELLOW MUSLIMS IN EGYPT.
This is not dissimilar to the whole Defund the Police issue. Leftists only see that a black man got shot by cops. They don't care what crime the man was committing. They don't care that the victims of the man's crimes were mostly black. And when the police stay out of black neighborhoods and black-on-black crime rises, THEN they complain that cops don't care enough to protect black people.
They did elect Hamas. Much like the US people elected Trump and Biden a mere 4 years apart. Guarantee neither election made the whole country Trumpists in 2016 or Bidenists in 2020.
But if Trump or Biden ordered an act of war to be committed against another nation, and our Congress agreed with it, that nation would rightfully consider all Americans the enemy.
This is an essential point that I don't think people are understanding. Not all Germans supported Hitler and his Nazi government, but once war started, all Germans were the enemy until it was over.
True - but Germany was an actual sovereign state. Gaza is still under Israeli control in many aspects - and is not an independent nation. It's more like a Native Reserve - and the US attacking the Navajo nation because of extremists attacking white Americans (while unthinkable in the modern era - actions of this sort did happen a little over a century ago).
Wow. They've proven we should take them seriously and literally. The barbarians are at the gate, and given the choice, these folks would let them wreak havoc.
I'm guessing this article and others mention women and children explicitly while Senator McConnell in the WSJ explicitly calls for mourning "the innocent men, women and children the terrorists have slaughtered" because it is beyond ludicrous that the woke anti-colonizers do not care about the safety of women in Israel. Protecting women and tearing down sexually abusive men in the West is their rallying cry. The women at the pro-peace rave would likely be the same pool of women who go to pro-feminist protests. How in God's name do these people justify "anti-colonizers" abusing and kidnapping these women while decrying colonizers' similar behavior? Lunacy.
"How in God's name do these people justify "anti-colonizers" abusing and kidnapping these women while decrying colonizers' similar behavior?"
You KNOW how they justify it! In the same way that the Nazis justified it. The same way Stalin justified it. The same way that Pol Pot justified it. The same way that ALL despots justify it, by declaring their "enemies" to be non-human! And all in the name of "liberation"!
"Barbarians at the gate". And this is not about Israel existence, this is about Jew-hatred, deeply engraved in every Muslim brain.
My mother, still alive and remembering, evacuated with my grandmother to the Afghanistan/Turkmenistan border town during WWII, were "met" by local tribes with open calls for their death, and only the presense of Soviet army in the region kept the evacuees alive. It was before Israel as a very compelling reason for its creation.
My grandmother and mother taught me to stand unconditionally by Israel, because without it, all Jews around the world would face grave danger. Not a single state will protect us. Look what is happing even in USA. Apparently, my brethren here in US or Europe have not been taught this lesson or they chose(!) to forget it thinking that it would never repeat itself.
The barbarians have six representatives in Congress, who call themselves "the Squad" and are hailed as the future of the Democratic Party.
This initial advance serves the cultural purpose of letting young Democrats know that it's ok to rape and murder Jews. Meanwhile Democrat policy goals work to disempower our systems and our people, wrecking our social institutions while flooding our country with foreigners.
Real cultural revolutions are a slow process spanning a few decades, and we're in the middle of one.
Agree. The scary part is that the well-off liberals who had unleashed these dark forces upon us will pay their way out, when 'sh...t hits the fan'. The way they did during previous crises. And we, the unwashed masses, will be left to defend ourselves and fight for our children. History repeats itself.
And if it does hit the fan here it won’t be just “ok to rape and murder Jews” only. Remember during the pandemic when “those” people advocated for denying healthcare to people who weren’t vaccinated! It will be anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
'Every' Muslim brain? During WWII - it really wasn't muslim anti-semitism that resulted in 6 million jews being murdered. Jews in North Africa and the middle East had much higher survival rates than those in almost every European country outside the UK. Either way - I do support Israel's right to exist and defend itself the best way it can.
That's exactly what my mother remembers from her childhood years in Turkmenistan/Afganistan village where children taunted her and other evacuee children with things like 'too bad Hitler did not get to kill all of you' and the like.
And, of course, nothing in this world is absolute: I am sure that there are all 10 - 15 Muslim individuals who disagree with the mainstream
10-15? Give me a break. Even the IDF has a full unit of Bedouin Sunni Muslims that have been loyal for decades. It seems you exhibit the same sort of mindset as the overt anti-semites. There were plenty of horrible cartoons about the 'Jewish Brain' during the 1930s Europe -and even today in the Arab world.
Thank you for putting this into words. This horrific evil is a very illuminating event. We can clearly see who people really are by their response. This is compelling evidence of how effective indoctrination and propaganda are. Some of the people celebrating, excusing and moralizing the pure evil of Hamas seem to be unaware of real facts and real history. They literally believe lies. Many of them must have a darkness and hardness in their soul/heart/conscience that is impenetrable. One good thing about these people speaking out this way, is that the rest of us have no excuse to allow or facilitate these people being any where near levers of power or involved in any way in the education or information of our population.
Scary stuff. Proof that Israel just needs to destroy Hamas and all other groups that wish to destroy it. Jews will be hated no matter what they do. So might as well kill their enemies.
I made sure to tell my daughter of the massacre—my Jewish daughter, an SJW, LGBT fomosexual—before her progressive school and misinformed friends manipulate her into believing this is a win for those poor victimized Palestinians. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
So my daughter just returned home from school. She's a senior in high school by the way. I asked if they talked about Israel in class.
She said, "No, but oh my god..."
"What," I asked.
"There's this girl who posted on her SnapChat story that she stands with Hamas."
"That's horrible," I said.
"I know," she said. "I texted her sister, who's a friend of mine. I was like, is your sister okay? Because she's siding with terrorists."
I told her she did a good thing, and wished I'd warned her about trans ideology when I 'd had the chance. But I didn't see that one coming. Regardless, there's hope yet, Alan. There's hope yet.
It is time to take back America from these lunatics. Do you stand with human decency or with those who celebrate murder, rape and depravity on a scale that would make the actual Nazis blush? We have been silent too long. We have been nice for too long. We have pretended that this is normal for too long. No more. Demand that the Squad be removed from Congress. Demand that those who celebrate this depravity be removed from their positions. Because if we don't we will prove that Nuremburg meant nothing as we descend into a hell where savages run riot.
Bruce my sense is you rely heavily on electoral success as a way out of the current debacle. The sickness is in the culture- this battle will be won in the trenches of churches, bars, neighborhood associations and families.
In an honest, transparent and good-natured way we have to deliver truth and win by example, each one of us, person by person.
A picture is worth 1000 words. If showing Hamas raping a mother in front of her children and then slitting her throat isn't sufficient to change their minds, then we might as well realize what we're up against and go about fixing it.
Because we have to take a stand on multiple fronts. We have to ensure that our legislators reflect our values of decency and humanity and will not temporize on them. That our schools will not teach such garbage and that teachers and school boards who do so will be replaced. That our media stops pushing this filth. And that our neighbors know they will be mocked and shunned if they stand with Hamas. And it really is that simple.
Bruce, side question....to better educate myself and speak intelligently about this issue, do you have a book or author that you would recommend I read? I remember one interview Bari did with someone but can’t remember his name.
I believe my view on this are largely informed by Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis. Along with many other fine minds and historians who believe in truth.
It is all just too horrific to even read about. And yet we must. And never forget. For the entirety of my 75 years on earth, I have watched murderers such as these lauded as freedom-fighters by self-styled peaceniks and fools. What a nightmare the world can be.
It's been about 25 years since I learned that "believe them when they tell you who they are" isn't just some cute slogan. It's a law of safety--a law that may literally make the difference between living and dying.
The Left has just told us--plainly and with no clever jargon to hide behind--who they are. They are supporters of terrorists. They are supporters of rape and murder. Is anyone listening?
This is a similar tactic the Castros have used in Cuba. Blame the embargo and blame the American imperialism. They export all this propaganda and the leftist elites gobble it up and regurgitate it through the MSM and universities. Little do they know the atrocities and human rights violations committed against their own citizenry every day. Frustrating! We’re with you Israel 🇮🇱🇨🇺🇺🇸
These terrorists will not spare anyone. Those who defend them and justify these atrocities- they fool themselves. Hamas would use them then slay them. Plugged ears and eyes that will not see.
This is what we're teaching kids in these hollowed halls. Where once we taught classics and philosophy, then we taught engineering and science, and now we teach calls for violence and "decolonization". We reap what we sow.
I don't know if the use of the word "hollowed" was a mistake or intentional, but in reality "hollowed" is what our higher education institutes have become. I'm totally in despair seeing what has happened there. Open debate? Sharing of ideas? Understanding of nuance? Naw - our children and grandchildren must succumb to the group-think of the radicals who have infested these institutions on pain of being condemned for not toeing the line. And it is an infestation, make no mistake. To condone what is happening in Israel is beyond reprehensible.
All those idiots--the pro-Palestine protestors, the college professors, the Squad--don't understand that if they had been at the music festival or Sderot, the Hamas terrorists would've shot, stab, raped, and kidnapped them without a second thought.
You are correct. That's why our six kids are being classically educated and our oldest is a freshman at Thomas Aquinas College. I take every opportunity to show them the consequences of being ill advised and poorly educated, I mean indoctrinated.
Yep.
"hallowed halls", BobbyBob. They might also be hollow, certainly of intellect, but ...
I don't have a gun. But I am seriously thinking of arm myself. It would be of negligible use but at least I would have some means of defending myself, my family and my neighbors. What happened in Israel could happen here- I am convinced of it. The fake race war, invasion of illegal aliens, defund the police and climate lunatics are but some of the factors taking us down the road to anarchy. I fear for our future like I never have. When we were doing drills for a nuclear attack, I never felt we were truly at risk...imagining a mushroom cloud on the horizon just didn't seem possible. But this shit is getting too real people. We need to get a grip and elect leadership who will work together to protect the American people. And I'm thinking hard about praying. Can't hurt.
This exact topic came up over the weekend in my friend group- all fathers of families living in the affluent, and seemingly secure, suburbs outside some major east coast cities. Then the videos of fighting aged men streaming over our boarders unchecked started, then the Twitter links of stories about Hamas sleeper cells, etc, etc. Scary stuff. I hope, and pray, this is a turning point for everyone to take this shit seriously and get our communities under control. I fear it may not be.
And now we know if those sleeper cells attack, and American men retaliate or defend themselves, you know what the narrative will be. "Racists killing brown people who are fighting for freedom". Better seize those guns asap!
And this is exactly why the 2nd Amendment was written, and must be defended.
The Republic, the Constitution and the citizen are the only legitimate frame of political reference and the only engine of survival.
Exactly - eyes opening up and probably too late
Whoever is behind this (George Soros? WEF? United Nations? Biden and friends?) is now moving as fast as possible because Americans are waking up to their tyranny
It's literally an illness.
Having facilitated the greatest upward transfer of wealth in human history "capital" looted and abandoned America. It's subjugation of the European peoples is well underway.
The CCP/Davos fiends declare that Americans must "accept limits on free speech" and Hillary the ghoul declares that some Americans need "re-education". It is the same hubris and narcissism that possessed the 20th Century totalitarianism that slaughtered tens of millions. And, as these reports illustrate, the fiends were willingly served by well paid poseur ideologues proclaiming a utopian future. It is an inhuman vampire psychology that rationalizes its own avarice by claiming the innocent to be guilty of the crimes being perpetrated upon them.
I'm supremely aware of the tactic described in your last sentence - accusing the victim(s) of the crime(s) actually being committed against them. Weirdly it seems to work every time - especially because it silences the voice(s) of the victim(s) so effectively.
What is truly curious (and terrifying) is these same hapless victims as a group vote/act/speak against their own self interest and collude with their mortal enemies in supreme acts of self destruction. (Just as most of humanity lined up to take poison injections/close businesses and schools/cover their faces like slaves and avoid coming together - again, all acts of complete submission to their malicious and lying jailers.)
Now so many idealogues suffering from their own willing participation in all of this are doubling down because they cannot face the truth of what they agree to. It would be more interesting on an intellectual level if it wasn't having such a horrible impact on lifelong relationships (I am 75 years old and live in 'blueland' surrounded by progressive insanity). All this said I am a former democrat who will never sign on to being a republican and have learned there may be no one trustworthy enough to vote for - and there may not even be an election in 2024 - so not feeling particularly hopeful at the moment.....
I don’t think I want to know the answer to why you think there will NOT be an election in 2024........ I can only imagine! Scary shit. Hey, if it works in “democracies” like Ukraine....... who needs elections??
You notice that all of these spokes people will assure that when the reckoning comes, they will be granted unlimited millions of the surviving currency, and will live behind security walls with guards and sentries to assure their safety. The will travel around in armored SUVs with teams of armed outriders and personal protection operatives. They will never soil themselves with dealing with the people from whom they have swindled all their riches.
The Hamas leadership is exactly like every totalitarian regime that has come and gone throughout history, The people forced to live under their rigid rule will pay the piper.
Well in Canada Trudeau is busy taking gun rights away. He is all in on the progressive globalist world view. I honestly don’t think this is a coincidence.
Trudeau is a scary human. I’m still trying to get over the Trucker fiasco when he called them Nazis [because they were holding signs that accused HIS ADMIN of acting in that way] and then promptly removed many of the protestors from the banking system! Scumbag. Can’t believe there haven’t been more uprisings as a result.
Well - there is a new uprising starting. Tens of thousands of people marched last month in support of parental rights in the school system in response to children being secretly transitioned in schools.
Trudeau can't take them away, people have to give them up.
What I find remarkable is that Canada has a convenient way of removing Trudeau from power: They can table a vote of no confidence.
I am amazed that my many Canadian friends haven't been calling for the Canadian Parliament to begin such an action...
You are sorely misinformed and clearly do not understand Canadian politics. We are not stupid - if this was possible it would have been done long ago.
Do both. Pray and get that gun.
Of course you should get a gun, and learn how to secure it and use it. Sincerity won't protect you, and the police have no obligation to protect you either.
Really, learn how to use and secure it. Practice regularly and rehearse in your mind what your personal limits of use will be. If you do not do that, like any other tool you use in your life, it will be of no use to you at all.
A former Army Ranger here who hasn’t touched a weapon in the last 40 years — I swore I never would — but I am starting to share your sentiment.
If you are concerned and thinking about arming yourself check out American Contingency. Started by a former military special ops person, it's a website that builds community networks to help one another in times of difficulty like the pandemic when supply chains were screwed up, in the event of a natural disaster, and or these sorts of unthinkable situations. The government cannot and apparently will not help us anymore, so we need to build our own communities to help ourselves and each other. https://www.americancontingency.com/#mission
Thanks, I will check it out.
I’m with you. How does one start the process? Licensing, learning to shoot, purchasing etc…
Depends on where you live. Buying a gun in some states is simple while others have waiting periods. Go to a gun shop and ask them questions. They are more than happy to answer your questions.
And join the NRA
Thank you will do!
There are often gun classes that are specifically designed for women. Personally, I prefer private lessons from former LEOs or military.
Many ranges offer instruction and will have a variety of firearms that you can rent (you may need to go with a like-minded friend). Don't buy until you have had instruction and have tried many different sorts. Like any tool, firearms are personal to the user.
Agree with JB87. I have a gun that fits well and that I like and feel comfortable with. The young man at the store was extremely helpful. I was trained by someone who was special ops and I have a concealed carry. At 5'4" 118 lbs I feel way less vulnerable having it! All the best Mrs. Miller
Thank you!
If you are concerned and thinking about arming yourself check out American Contingency. Started by a former military special ops person, it's a website that builds community networks to help one another in times of difficulty like the pandemic when supply chains were screwed up, in the event of a natural disaster, and or these sorts of unthinkable situations. The government cannot and apparently will not help us anymore, so we need to build our own communities to help ourselves and each other. https://www.americancontingency.com/#mission
Michael, I cannot tell you how many people who never owned guns are telling me what you're saying.
“We need to get a grip and elect leadership who will work together to protect the American people”.
Come on man, Joe Biden and his Obama retread crew, are doing a bang up job. Just ask him! But if you want a more credible source on the impact of Biden/Obama policies, I suggest you ask the Ayatollah, Hamas, Hezbollah and the sleeper cells that have likely crossed our southern border to organize and incite the army of cretins parading around NYC and other US cities wanting to kill more Jews.
Yesterday, I saw a clip of Congresswoman Green demanding that captured Hamas weapons be traced to their source to see if they came from the Afghanistan drawdown or the Ukraine. Sleeper cells and terrorists have to eat and someone must pay for their weapons, transportation and training. So who, and why?
RACKET NEWS/Taibbi has a recent well researched article proposing that the free Western world is being subjected to a CCP style overlay. A kind of "herd managed" surveillance apparatus of "15 minute cities", permitted travel, social credit scored digital currency and control. It's pretty obvious that if criminal finance can pull it off it'll be for the many but not for the few. The GRAYZONE recently ran a piece of NATO propaganda looking ahead to the rebuilding of Ukraine as a "model country" built on the exact specifications I just mentioned. Naomi Klein's insights into disaster capitalism, that the Patriot Act was written and ready for implementation long before 9/11, isn't a comforting reality.
Like others here I was/am enraged at the Hamas terrorist attack on the innocent but, by the nature of today's posts, I believe we all see the possibility and the same potential for bloodshed in American cities and towns. The Hamas attack is a tragedy for Israel, but it is also a clear warning to the peoples of the free world.
Clearly, the source of the civilizational/cultural/societal/financial collapse we are witnessing and experiencing emanates from a cabal of international financiers whose wealth subverted and captured American elected political leadership, intentionally introduced chaos and division into free societies and is seeking totalitarian control of the world. Murder, kidnapping, chaos and irrational violence is the natural environment of the vampire. Davos decrees and the DNC parrots and complies. The George Soros D.A. encouraging crime and the defunding of police departments. The silence of D.C. politicians when Schwab attempts to diktat anti-free speech policy for Americans. Forced mass illegal immigration and the shifting of vital funding away from the welfare of the native born. The funding of BLM riots and looting. Grants and funding to Marxist extremists in their quest to dismantle American education, history and culture.
Could it be more obvious that the DNC/EU/CCP/Davos juggernaut has no alliance to anything but itself? They are capable of any human travesty. Jews survive because they believe that God is. They possess a code of moral ethics, a mythology and are directly connected to and experience a sense of their own living history. These the very values most under attack here in America. Unite or perish.
I find myself wondering if the puppet masters protecting and managing the Biden administration are deliberately allowing terrorist infiltration of this country so they can enact Patriot Act 2.0 to irrevocably usurp our freedom.
Look at Sweden. In 2015 it let in a huge number of young men from Syria. They have engaged in all kinds of violence, created gangs, etc. Now they are declaring an emergency, enlisting the military to enforce it, and suspending constitutional rights.
There are also numerous “no go zones” in Sweden which are virtually unpoliced communities run independently by immigrants. That’s insane.
They're capable of it (Patriot 2.0) but I don't think they could do it without a street fight. And, despite its compromise there are good men and women inside both the state and federal bureaucracy.
If you live in a free state, Palmetto State Armory is a great starting point
Yup. This is a wake-up call for a lot of people. Your government is incompetent and will not protect you. Our intelligence agencies who should have seen this coming were busy surveilling moms at PTA meetings and your text messages to notice this obvious threat.
Don’t waste your time, be sure to get one of those guns “that no one needs” 😉
Had the same conversation with my husband yesterday - planned on looking into local lessons in firearm use today.
We now own a Glock bc of local crime (Memphis) and national chaos. The Left are the Wolves and the "moderate Dems" are the Sheep. The rest of us better be ready.
We’ve considered all this for some years now. We have a few ‘guns’. No pistols unfortunately. But a 12 gauge shotgun can blow quite a hole in a body. It’ll be a while before we run out of shells. There are a few swamps out back. Anybody foolish enough to try us on after taking the trouble to find us away out in the bush, will wish they hadn’t, if they have time to register any wishes at all
Responsible gun ownership is every American's right. Buy one, learn to use it safely, visit your local gun range regularly so you maintain familiarity with your firearm, and then pray your training is never needed for self defense. But if it is, you are empowered to protect yourself and your family. (Guns are also fun recreation - we shoot skeet and trap with shotguns at our local range, and take target practice with handguns. At home, they are locked in safes accessible only to our family members. There is a way to do this right.)
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If you do, please don't be one of those people who just buys the gun and assumes they'll know how to use it when the time comes. It's definitely your right to own a gun but it also is a big responsibility despite the cavalier attitude some states have about it.
When we were kids, my dad taught us all to use pistols. We used to be mad at him for not letting us have toy guns, though now, as an adult, I see he wanted us to realize how serious owning and firing a gun is.
Go to a range, practice, learn how to shoot, learn that there are times pulling the gun will likely be used against you. It's not like the movies where hundreds of bad guys keep firing and always miss the hero, but the hero never misses. It's a matter of practice and train.
And if you have small kids at home, PLEASE keep the gun in a safe. Don't just hide it and think they won't find it. They will.
I live in a quiet, safe, upper middle class neighborhood. We did not defund the police, no BLM lawn signs here. If it has come to our town, you are not far behind. Get a gun.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/oakland-county/crime-rings-from-latin-american-countries-targeting-luxury-homes-in-oakland-county-sheriff-says
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2023/10/10/oakland-county-jewelry-heist-arrests-chile/71096033007/
Thank you for naming and shaming these death cult Bolsheviks. They twist words to create a nightmarish "utopia". Like decolonization, I have compiled a glossary of modern leftist Orwellian double-speak: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-coin-a-term-part-2
Excellent article. I wonder what all the American Leftists who talk about how this country has engaged in colonialism would feel if they were raped, their children taken hostage and their friends and parents murdered on social media. That’s the real test isn’t it? Leftists are always talking about how horrible this country is. What if the “oppressed” of the world started to treat us like Israel is now being treated?
My guess? They’d find a way to explain it somehow. It’s the only way this ideology has survived despite resulting in the death of over 100 million souls. It defies logic or reason. It’s their religion and they are zealots.
If it happened here, there are some people who are so brainwashed that they would just blather on about “generational trauma”, “restorative justice”, and “noncarceral solutions”.
Oh, the “oppressed” are already here, and are already tearing us apart - only thing is, it’s from the inside out. Videos out of any Democrat run city? Mad Max is coming, and soon,
Indeed. I live in a neighborhood in Philadelphia that was looted two weeks ago. The vast majority of the residents here are hardworking people who just want to take care of their families and do not approve of violence, in fact they are the victims of it. Gun violence is out of control in my neighborhood. Those who engage in violence are in the minority but they make life terrifying for everyone else.
My guess is they see themselves in the “freedom fighters”. they don’t identify with the innocent victims of the terrorism. There’s a certain bloodlust in the human heart, and this evil ideology gives it free rein. That they would likely get a nasty wake-up call is no comfort to me.
As Nikki Haley said “Finish them”…. Hamas should accept “unconditional surrender “ and war crimes trials … Hamas can extend the war and bring more death to their people…. Japan made this mistake in WW2. Japan doesn’t threaten anyone anymore … make Gaza like Japan
Nikki Haley’s comments yesterday were ridiculous, and remove her from any consideration as a Presidential hopefully IMO. We need thoughtful, cautious, strong leaders. Not immature comments projecting fake strength from behind a camera. I’m sick of the neocon bullshit! She and Lindsay Graham can disappear from public life forever as far as I’m concerned. We are 30T+ in debt, fighting a proxy war in Europe that is going nowhere, and now we want to enter ANOTHER conflict in the Middle East with a huge, well armed country? Maybe we start with immediately ceasing all monies going to Gaza, all monies going to Iran, reinstate the policies to hamper Iran’s economic ability to play offense? Basically, do exactly the opposite of what Biden’s administration has done over the last few years. That would be a start, and needs to be announced yesterday! Where is our leadership???
Unlike Russia/Ukraine, the US has a vital interest in this greater conflict, Iran cannot be allowed to get nukes. That is a real world concrete issue. Appeasing the Iranians is such a blunder by the Biden Administration.
not a blunder at all - part of the 'Biden' plan
Your leadership, President Donald Trump, was “defeated” in the last Presidential election with the help of the liberals, leftists, and Democrats who believe this is Israel’s fault.
Nuke Gaza? Twice? Is that what you’re saying?
If it weren't so close to Israel are you saying they don't richly deserve it? Or are you just another fool who thinks that Japanese atrocities didn't make them richly deserving of their fate?
I’m a fool who thinks that indiscriminate murder of civilian populations is immoral, yes. Stop and think about what you’re saying.
Everyone who planned and carried out Saturday’s attack should pay with their lives AND making Gaza a parking lot is not the appropriate response. Both of those things can be true.
If you celebrate depravity you are no less depraved. If you support rape, murder and atrocities you are complicit. Civilians who do so are not "innocent." Am I advocating the murder of women and children? No. But just as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved a million innocent allied soldiers - as well as Japanese civilians outside those cities - Gaza as a nest of murderous insects cannot be allowed to continue as it was as a haven for terrorists. Gazans have a choice - reject the depravity of Hamas or suffer the consequences of being used as their shields.
You are no different than Hamas.
What a sickeningly naive statement. No, opinions you don’t like are NOT equivalent to the inhuman atrocities of this weekend. Rhetoric like yours brought us here.
Not insects. Human beings. Human beings are capable of evil.
About 40 percent of those living in Gaza are 0-14 years old. How do you suggest they reject the depravity of Hamas? How are they responsible for being used as human shields?
You assume those Gazan children are just like American kids, silly, on TikTok, doing drugs, unaware. Those Gazan children, particularly teenagers, are as hateful as the adults. They have been inculcated since birth with Jew hatred. Many take up arms.
Maybe the 0-2 year olds can be saved, but the others, they are the shock troops of the future.
You cannot ascribe American values to barbarians.
You're half right. Anyone so depraved that they get satisfaction out of raping and killing a mother in front of her children is not an insect, they are beneath even unthinking bugs. Your beliefs are dangerous to the rest of us.
Impossible to separate. There are no “good” Palestinians.
I feel sorry for you.
Save your sickening arrogance for someone who buys the self-gratifying garbage. You support subhumans, you’re subhuman. Grow up.
Sorta like 'the only good Indian is a dead Indian'? Or the way that Hitler thought that there are no good Jews? Or the way the BLM people say that all white people are guilty of Supremacy even if they don't know it?
Nice try, if incredibly simplistic. All of those are judgements based on the almighty *identity*. People don't *choose* to be white, indian or (bloodline)Jewish (which was Hitler's metric.) So yes, every single one of your examples is abhorant, evil and inhuman.
However, it is absolutely a *choice* to parachute into a music festival, spray the crowd with gunfire, beat, rape, murder anyone you see, behead grandmothers and live stream their murder over their own facebook page. Drag the raped body of a young civilian woman through the streets, blood gushing from between her legs.
It's a *choice* to celebrate those subhuman animals, and it's also a *choice* to justify or minimize any of the horror that Hamas *chose* to inflict (and still does by holding those people hostage that they have not yet massacred.
So no, Ray - not even *sorta* like any of the evil filth you mentioned - although all the Hamas apologists are *very* similar (like the nice leftist Australians at the Syndey Opera House chanting "gas the Jews" while waving smoke machines.)
I agree that mass destruction will solve nothing. Those who engaged in this weekend’s slaughter are little more than mindless cretins, willing to do the whatever bidding their ghoulish puppet masters demand. Unfortunately, there seems to be a never-ending supply of them. Perhaps it would be more effective to identify the puppet masters and their financiers, eliminate them first, whoever they are and wherever they may be, by whatever means necessary.
"Unfortunately, there seems to be a never-ending supply of them."
Which is because a brutalized and dispossessed people will inevitably fester with hatred. There are two solutions: exterminate them, or give them justice.
“give them justice.””
I’m all for that, I’d start with mounting severed Hamas heads on poles and posting the images on social media
Of course I have no idea what’s being floated in the war room huddles, but I do think it’s possible to have a muscular response while using a scalpel.
Timothy, but it will solve Everything! Must eradicate this evil in the world. If you leave any remaining, you will see this evil continue to grow. Cut it out, stem and root.
the people of Gaza hate Hamas because they are USED by their own leaders
Really? Then why did they voted them in as their government??
there's a question but they did and THEN were kicked to the curb
does it make sense to you yet?
Pacify ….no one spoke of using a nuclear weapon … the Japanese refused to surrender… they were pacified …
Invaluable context.
"The New York Times...failed to mention Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza in 2005; that Palestinians elected Hamas to rule them; that Israelis routinely give Gazans notice before attacking to minimize loss of civilian life; and that one reason (maybe the reason) so many Palestinian children have died during Israeli air strikes is Hamas uses them as human shields—the better to generate sympathetic news coverage."
robertsdavidn.substack.com/about
So much for "All the news that's fit to print"
Fit to print according to the ideologies and political strategies of Democrat leadership and their international allies.
"All the news you are allowed to think."
We've always been at war with Oceania.
For years it's been, "All the news that fits, we print."
Israel does give warnings before destroying buildings for the most part. In that regards, they are obviously better than many regimes. I think the issue with Gaza is that 1. There is no open economy with the rest of the world - so economic growth is limited and 2. You can't leave, even if you want to (or almost impossible). In other words - an open air prison. If you are a young Palestinian man that rejects Hamas - you are not allowed to even leave Gaza and build a new life if you want to because of Israel and Egypt blockades.
On the contrary, many Gazans are allowed cross the border daily to work in Israel. The blockades exist for only one reason: to try to prevent Hamas from getting more material to turn into weapons to use against Israel.
The main problem a young Palestinian man who rejects Hamas has is that other Muslim countries will not allow him to immigrate there.
You mispeled "kill him."
I believe something like 15 thousand Gazans are allowed to cross into Israel to work - which is a good gesture. It's a tiny number for the number of young adults in Gaza though. And yes - other Muslim countries won't let Gazans permanently immigrate to them - but Israel does limit movement as well. The only exit for Gazans into Egypt was destroyed today by Israeli air-strikes today. There is no escape for people in Gaza. Hamas controls them from the inside - Israel and Egypt from the outside.
The Gazan people ELECTED Hamas as their government. Most Gazans still support the actions of Hamas. They willingly allow themselves to be used as human shields. They believe, just as firmly as the active members of Hamas, that Israel must be destroyed.
Israel would not find it necessary to put limitations on the movement of Gazans if the Gazans themselves did not continually demonstrate that they are an existential threat to all Israelis. Egypt won't let Gazans into their country because they are considered a dangerous and destabilizing group BY THEIR FELLOW MUSLIMS IN EGYPT.
This is not dissimilar to the whole Defund the Police issue. Leftists only see that a black man got shot by cops. They don't care what crime the man was committing. They don't care that the victims of the man's crimes were mostly black. And when the police stay out of black neighborhoods and black-on-black crime rises, THEN they complain that cops don't care enough to protect black people.
They did elect Hamas. Much like the US people elected Trump and Biden a mere 4 years apart. Guarantee neither election made the whole country Trumpists in 2016 or Bidenists in 2020.
But if Trump or Biden ordered an act of war to be committed against another nation, and our Congress agreed with it, that nation would rightfully consider all Americans the enemy.
you et what you vote for. then you get what those leaders do
This is an essential point that I don't think people are understanding. Not all Germans supported Hitler and his Nazi government, but once war started, all Germans were the enemy until it was over.
True - but Germany was an actual sovereign state. Gaza is still under Israeli control in many aspects - and is not an independent nation. It's more like a Native Reserve - and the US attacking the Navajo nation because of extremists attacking white Americans (while unthinkable in the modern era - actions of this sort did happen a little over a century ago).
There are Gazan's who work in Israel and cross over every day to do so.
Wow. They've proven we should take them seriously and literally. The barbarians are at the gate, and given the choice, these folks would let them wreak havoc.
I'm guessing this article and others mention women and children explicitly while Senator McConnell in the WSJ explicitly calls for mourning "the innocent men, women and children the terrorists have slaughtered" because it is beyond ludicrous that the woke anti-colonizers do not care about the safety of women in Israel. Protecting women and tearing down sexually abusive men in the West is their rallying cry. The women at the pro-peace rave would likely be the same pool of women who go to pro-feminist protests. How in God's name do these people justify "anti-colonizers" abusing and kidnapping these women while decrying colonizers' similar behavior? Lunacy.
"How in God's name do these people justify "anti-colonizers" abusing and kidnapping these women while decrying colonizers' similar behavior?"
You KNOW how they justify it! In the same way that the Nazis justified it. The same way Stalin justified it. The same way that Pol Pot justified it. The same way that ALL despots justify it, by declaring their "enemies" to be non-human! And all in the name of "liberation"!
"Barbarians" is right
Nailed it
"Barbarians at the gate". And this is not about Israel existence, this is about Jew-hatred, deeply engraved in every Muslim brain.
My mother, still alive and remembering, evacuated with my grandmother to the Afghanistan/Turkmenistan border town during WWII, were "met" by local tribes with open calls for their death, and only the presense of Soviet army in the region kept the evacuees alive. It was before Israel as a very compelling reason for its creation.
My grandmother and mother taught me to stand unconditionally by Israel, because without it, all Jews around the world would face grave danger. Not a single state will protect us. Look what is happing even in USA. Apparently, my brethren here in US or Europe have not been taught this lesson or they chose(!) to forget it thinking that it would never repeat itself.
Are you still sure, my dear people?
The barbarians have six representatives in Congress, who call themselves "the Squad" and are hailed as the future of the Democratic Party.
This initial advance serves the cultural purpose of letting young Democrats know that it's ok to rape and murder Jews. Meanwhile Democrat policy goals work to disempower our systems and our people, wrecking our social institutions while flooding our country with foreigners.
Real cultural revolutions are a slow process spanning a few decades, and we're in the middle of one.
Agree. The scary part is that the well-off liberals who had unleashed these dark forces upon us will pay their way out, when 'sh...t hits the fan'. The way they did during previous crises. And we, the unwashed masses, will be left to defend ourselves and fight for our children. History repeats itself.
And if it does hit the fan here it won’t be just “ok to rape and murder Jews” only. Remember during the pandemic when “those” people advocated for denying healthcare to people who weren’t vaccinated! It will be anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
'Every' Muslim brain? During WWII - it really wasn't muslim anti-semitism that resulted in 6 million jews being murdered. Jews in North Africa and the middle East had much higher survival rates than those in almost every European country outside the UK. Either way - I do support Israel's right to exist and defend itself the best way it can.
That's exactly what my mother remembers from her childhood years in Turkmenistan/Afganistan village where children taunted her and other evacuee children with things like 'too bad Hitler did not get to kill all of you' and the like.
And, of course, nothing in this world is absolute: I am sure that there are all 10 - 15 Muslim individuals who disagree with the mainstream
10-15? Give me a break. Even the IDF has a full unit of Bedouin Sunni Muslims that have been loyal for decades. It seems you exhibit the same sort of mindset as the overt anti-semites. There were plenty of horrible cartoons about the 'Jewish Brain' during the 1930s Europe -and even today in the Arab world.
Thank you for putting this into words. This horrific evil is a very illuminating event. We can clearly see who people really are by their response. This is compelling evidence of how effective indoctrination and propaganda are. Some of the people celebrating, excusing and moralizing the pure evil of Hamas seem to be unaware of real facts and real history. They literally believe lies. Many of them must have a darkness and hardness in their soul/heart/conscience that is impenetrable. One good thing about these people speaking out this way, is that the rest of us have no excuse to allow or facilitate these people being any where near levers of power or involved in any way in the education or information of our population.
These people should be marginalized
Scary stuff. Proof that Israel just needs to destroy Hamas and all other groups that wish to destroy it. Jews will be hated no matter what they do. So might as well kill their enemies.
I made sure to tell my daughter of the massacre—my Jewish daughter, an SJW, LGBT fomosexual—before her progressive school and misinformed friends manipulate her into believing this is a win for those poor victimized Palestinians. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
You have already lost her.
Fuck that.
Get back to me when the dust settles. Either she rejects the SJW LBGT nonsense or she decides somehow this is Israel's fault.
So my daughter just returned home from school. She's a senior in high school by the way. I asked if they talked about Israel in class.
She said, "No, but oh my god..."
"What," I asked.
"There's this girl who posted on her SnapChat story that she stands with Hamas."
"That's horrible," I said.
"I know," she said. "I texted her sister, who's a friend of mine. I was like, is your sister okay? Because she's siding with terrorists."
I told her she did a good thing, and wished I'd warned her about trans ideology when I 'd had the chance. But I didn't see that one coming. Regardless, there's hope yet, Alan. There's hope yet.
It is time to take back America from these lunatics. Do you stand with human decency or with those who celebrate murder, rape and depravity on a scale that would make the actual Nazis blush? We have been silent too long. We have been nice for too long. We have pretended that this is normal for too long. No more. Demand that the Squad be removed from Congress. Demand that those who celebrate this depravity be removed from their positions. Because if we don't we will prove that Nuremburg meant nothing as we descend into a hell where savages run riot.
Exactly. Start with the squad please!
Bruce my sense is you rely heavily on electoral success as a way out of the current debacle. The sickness is in the culture- this battle will be won in the trenches of churches, bars, neighborhood associations and families.
In an honest, transparent and good-natured way we have to deliver truth and win by example, each one of us, person by person.
A picture is worth 1000 words. If showing Hamas raping a mother in front of her children and then slitting her throat isn't sufficient to change their minds, then we might as well realize what we're up against and go about fixing it.
What I guess I’m skeptical on is: what legislative action would change the view that beheading infants is a legitimate tactic in a freedom fight?
Because we have to take a stand on multiple fronts. We have to ensure that our legislators reflect our values of decency and humanity and will not temporize on them. That our schools will not teach such garbage and that teachers and school boards who do so will be replaced. That our media stops pushing this filth. And that our neighbors know they will be mocked and shunned if they stand with Hamas. And it really is that simple.
Bruce, side question....to better educate myself and speak intelligently about this issue, do you have a book or author that you would recommend I read? I remember one interview Bari did with someone but can’t remember his name.
I believe my view on this are largely informed by Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis. Along with many other fine minds and historians who believe in truth.
It is all just too horrific to even read about. And yet we must. And never forget. For the entirety of my 75 years on earth, I have watched murderers such as these lauded as freedom-fighters by self-styled peaceniks and fools. What a nightmare the world can be.
It's been about 25 years since I learned that "believe them when they tell you who they are" isn't just some cute slogan. It's a law of safety--a law that may literally make the difference between living and dying.
The Left has just told us--plainly and with no clever jargon to hide behind--who they are. They are supporters of terrorists. They are supporters of rape and murder. Is anyone listening?
This is a similar tactic the Castros have used in Cuba. Blame the embargo and blame the American imperialism. They export all this propaganda and the leftist elites gobble it up and regurgitate it through the MSM and universities. Little do they know the atrocities and human rights violations committed against their own citizenry every day. Frustrating! We’re with you Israel 🇮🇱🇨🇺🇺🇸
These terrorists will not spare anyone. Those who defend them and justify these atrocities- they fool themselves. Hamas would use them then slay them. Plugged ears and eyes that will not see.