Woody Allen once said: “Just because you think people are out to get you doesn’t mean they aren’t.” Russia made a beeline to Kyiv, which was about 25 miles of armor backed up that a squad of A-10 or Apache pilots would have shot to pieces. It would have been a spectacular and more entertaining sight than the highway from Kuwait to Iraq.
At the time, the US and the “Western” powers rallied around the brave Ukrainians and shipped scores of billions in arms, aid, and other help. Russians are afraid of being encircled by hostile countries on their doorstep, a fear induced by being swaddled tightly as infants and toddlers. It might also be increased by the US and other NGOs spending $5 billion to oust Mr. Yanukovich after he was elected. Either way, the streets had no protests against the “Nazi regime” of Mr. Zelkensky or protests to allow Ukraine to be “free (of Nazis) from the Dnipro to the Sea.”
I thought, and am sorry that I didn’t, that what is Israel was gruesomely attacked and had to fight for its life? Would the Europeans, the West, and the US rush emergency aid, support the people, and do everything they could to allow the Israelis to drive out the attackers and go after their terror network? Based on th eUkraine model, one might think so.
Unfortunately, I didn’t think it would work out like that. Even as a knowledgeable Jew and staunch Zionist whose son was a Tzanchan Krevi (Combat Paratrooper) as a lone soldier from 2010-2012, I wasn’t sure that Israel would receive arms and other supplies from anyone except the US.
What surprised me was the indifference and outright hostility that Israel faces on the world stage and among the intelligentsia of my country, especially elite universities. That’s all been written about; my comments won’t move the needle. My comments allow me a bit of therapy and a chance to just guffaw when I see the banality of evil that has worked its’ way into the media, the elite schools, and governments about Israel and its war against Hamas. I understand that Ireland may still be in trauma from the 350+ years of Penal Laws England imposed on them, ca. 1490-1850. South Africa, where stadiums filled with 80,000 people yell “Kill the Boer (Whitey)” and do so on a routine basis.
The amount of public demonstrations in favor of a death cult called Hamas and Houthis, who have -0- skin in the game, is astounding. The charter of Hamas reads as follows: “ … This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realized.”
One does not negotiate with another whose stated vow is to kill you. By the way, all other religions not part of the Umma must have their adherents convert, accept Dhimmi status, and pay Jizya in the Dar-al-Islam. The rest of the world is Dar-al-Harb, or house of war (against the non-Muslims).
There are no Iraqis, Jordanians, Syrians, or Saudis, except as a construct of Western colonial powers who created them. Persia (Iran) is Shia, and the rest of the Islamic world is Sunni. No laws by the state are superior to the laws of Islam. There is no “separation of masjid and state. It’s all Sharia, the rules that govern all aspects of life. Civil, criminal, and social codes are all spelled out, subject to interpretation, since Mohammed did not write the Koran or the Hadith.
The effects of spending billions of dollars by the Saudis, who made a deal with the jihadists and said make war on infidels; we will build mosques and madrassas, and you will attack Kuffirs (infidels) in other countries. Leave our corrupt centi-billionaires alone. To their credit, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and a few other majority Muslim states have not sprung into action against the West, especially the US, as they did in 1973 with the Arab oil embargo.
The people who are marching and showing their Jew-hatred, let’s call a trough a trough. There’s no other reason for it. There was a cease-file until October 6, 2024. Then, Messrs. Sinwar and Haniyeh, possibly with the backing of help from Iran and the PRC, opened war on Israel.
Israel did not start this war but will finish it. Hamas cannot be allowed to infest NGOs and other organizations and steal billions in aid from countries and NGOs, preach hatred and the murder of non-Muslims, and fester on the border of Israel.
Is Israel perfect? No. The US had to enact the Voting Rights Act of 1964 to allow Blacks to vote when they were legally freed almost 90 years earlier. There is a lot of discrimination, and we are far from a perfect union. We’re working through it. Israel had five elections in about three years to end up with Bibi as PM, with his horrible coalition parties, which include racists. People voted for them. The country was still divided after five elections, with marches for 35 weeks against the coalition in power.
Was Gaza an open-air prison? Maybe. Israel did not occupy any of Gaza after 2005. The Egyptians are Sunni Arabs, except for 10 million Christian Copts who are brutalized, murdered, and oppressed by the Muslim majority. Egypt could easily absorb their culturally, religiously, and language-related people from Gaza. They won’t, either because they like to keep a festering sore against Israel or they don’t want to let the Islamists back for more war.
Christians, where are you? Boko Haram slaughters Christians with impunity in Nigeria. Where are the Christians marching for their rights? Christians are slaughtered all over the world, and I don’t see any UN resolutions to stop it. The PRC oppresses its Uighurs, a Muslim sect that nobody cares about. Erdogan in Turkey oppresses Kurds, as does Syria and Iran. Nobody cares.
It seems almost nobody cares about the Gazans; they hate Israel. The UN wastes so much time vilifying Israel they would have to meet only every other year, if not for all the anti-Israel goings on all the time. Oppression of other people and violence against them? Sorry, not on their radar.
So, to the world, screw off. Israel will fight and win. yes, there will be problems, and the world doesn’t want to help all that much. Name another group in the Bible who remains today except perhaps Egyptians. Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites were all supposed to be slaughtered, but no archaeological evidence exists to support that position. Jews are here; we have a sovereign country and an army to protect us and come to our rescue in other lands. See, e.g., the rescue of 100,000 Ethiopian Jews and 800,000 who were kicked out of Arab countries before that after 1948.
To the people chanting “From the river to the sea…” go get a job, or have a window put in your stomachs so you can see. My heart is in Gaza with the hostages, including ten US citizens, I Am Yisrael Chai!