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When it’s all Over I’d Put Israeli Arabs in Charge of Gaza

Posted: December 21, 2023 by datechguy in Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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Last week I pondered the problem of who to put in charge of Gaza once Hamas is exterminated. 

Given the Gazans participation in the attacks of Oct 7th and their previous support of Hamas obviously Israel can’t allow Hamas to be replaced by Islamic Jihad or whatever new permutation of the “Let’s kill the Jews” lobby rises up. Democracy is a fine thing but it’s not a suicide pact.

Further given the indifference at best or complicity at worst of the various UN and other International NGO as Hamas prepared for their grand slaughter leaves them out.

And forget Egypt, the last thing they want is the Gaza population. Getting them off their hands was the one bright side to their losses to Israel.

And it goes without saying that the Palestinian authority shouldn’t be let anywhere near Gaza, remember the reason why the Gazans voted in Hamas is they knew the PA were a bunch of corrupt bastards (they had to find out that Hamas was the same but only more murderous).

So if Israel doesn’t want the spectacle of about 2 million Arabs being governed by Jews there is a only one solution.

I would make a special sub committee of the Israeli Knesset consisting only of Arab members and put them in charge, under the supervision of am Arab member of Israel’s supreme court.

This would thread the needle. The Arab Israeli’s have an incentive prevent terror attacks as their own families and people are not immune from such attacks while the people of Gaza whose hate for Jews has been the origin of all these troubles can avoid being directly governed by them.

If it works out then Gaza could actually thrive and prosper, furthermore this is basically the only way to I can think of to DeNazify the strip. Two or three generations of Arab Israeli rule just might be enough to wean Gazans from their insane hatred of Jews while giving them a chance to actually have a better life.

And if it fails, if the Israeli Arabs are either unable to govern or if it’s impossible to convince the people of Gaza that trying to kill Jews is a bad thing, then whatever happens next, it’s on them.

Gee I Wonder What Binding Common Social Norm Might Have Been Abandoned over the Last 40 Years in Canada:

Posted: December 20, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Via Hotair I saw a tweet that perfectly illustrates the dangers of a “post Christian” culture.

Odd how Canada has seemingly abandoned “decency” at the same time they abandoned “Christianity” isn’t it?

Canadians and Americans for that matter have to decide if they are going to be a free nation or slaves in their own land.

Furthermore they have a very limited time to decide it because in two generations they are going to be outnumbered by people who didn’t embrace abortion and birth control and thus will be making the rules.

Gee it’s as if the Church’s decision to follow God’s rules on abortion & birth control just might have an imbedded a social good for humanity with it as do all of the rules handed down for generations before the rise of the secular left.

Unexpectedly of course.

Five Under The Fedora Thoughts: Lack of Incentives, But not Everywhere, Dodging Idiocracy, One big grift and Mr. Hoge

Posted: December 18, 2023 by datechguy in blogs, culture, education, under the fedora
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One of the reasons why both antisemitism and the violence of the left continue unabated is the complete lack on incentive to stop doing these things.

As long as laws are not enforced, except against those who fight against such things , they will continue.

In a famous scene in the John Wayne movie True Grit this is illustrated

Society has had enough of the “let him be” and I fear that unless things change quickly citizens themselves will decide to apply the alternate as the norm.

The distinct difference between this stuff happening in areas controlled by the left and places controlled by the right is striking, but not as striking as the number of leftist willing to tolerate all this crap for the sake of fitting in with the right people.

It’s always amazed me how so many people willingly choose hell over heaven but my amazement to that pales before the number willing to choose hell on earth.

I hear Elon Musk is getting ready to start his own university.

This is a smart idea, given what being taught at colleges these day and the attempt to view even math and science through the lens of DEI rather than objective fact it would seem there would be a market for a school that actually you know teaches real skills.

Idiocracy was not a how to guide, but our colleges are lurching toward it.

The degree that all things have become one big grift is really something and the speed that this had taken place has been really something too.

But like most things that are unsustainable they tend to collapse, first slowly then very very quickly.

Don’t Worry, as Cardinal George told you there will be someone to pick up the pieces and start again.

Finally a quick word on the death of Mr. Hoge.

He lived a long useful life and because of this and his abiding honesty bad people tried to make trouble for him.

They not only failed but he mocked them ruthlessly on a regular basis for the rest of his life to make sure they knew he failed, this is what happens when you have someone who has brains in places where most people don’t have places and faith to go along with it.

His tweets were a joy, his post were deep, particular those involving space but having him as a friend was the real treasure.

He gave me the black fedora I have as a gift. Every time I put in on for the rest of my life I will remember him. That’s a better gift that the hat itself.

Everyone dies, my suggestion is to try and live as good as he did.

In America We No Longer Have a Common Decency

Posted: December 16, 2023 by datechguy in culture
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  • Ernst Janning: Judge Haywood… the reason I asked you to come: Those people, those millions of people… I never knew it would come to that. You must believe it, You must believe it!
  • Judge Dan Haywood: Herr Janning, it “came to that” the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent.
Judgement at Nuremburg 1961

11 years ago I was credentialed press at the Mitt Romney “victory” party in Boston. After the result became clear I was interviewed by French Radio concerning the result. One of the things I said in the interview is that we were no longer a single American culture but now two separate cultures living in the same country.

Nothing better illustrates this than What we’ve seen from the left in the last 10 days.

Consider: In the last 10 days we have had.

  • Presidents of elite ivy colleges state that it’s a question of “context” if calling for the extermination of Jews on campus is against school policy.
  • The Mayor of a major city hold and defend holding a segregated Christmas party
  • Harvard having a Jewish group remove the menorah each night for fear it would be vandalized and the university’s reputation take a hit (what they can’t afford security)
  • Students at various college campus in fear for their lives at their own schools
  • Complete media silence on Americans being held hostage by terrorists
  • A congressional staffer filming gay porn in the US capital
  • An ivy league college tolerating plagiarism by their president (but not their students)
  • Disruption of Christmas tree lightings all over the nation
  • Large numbers of US students, and faculty publicly defending people currently holding Americans hostage.

There was a time not long ago when none of this would be tolerated by society. They would have been considered violations of common decency and such actions would have led to swift and immediate consequences.

But the truth is and has been for a decade that we no longer have a common decency. We have utility and Marxism and tribalism which means that all of these must be excused because those people practicing these things are on the left and for the left/media/educational/entertainment complex the cause is above all.

And for those who claim the same on the right, remind me which party expelled George Santos even through it shrunk their majority to a microscopic level.

I’m sure there are democrats who see the actions of Senator Carden’s staff member and never thought it would come to that.

Frankly it came to that when the party defended Bill Clinton getting blow jobs from interns and when they Democrat house didn’t expel Gary Studds, the first openly gay member of congress, for banging underage boys at the capital.

Cue Spencer Tracy and Burt Lancaster:

Eventually the left will discover that Kurt Schlichter warned them years ago: ”Liberals May Regret Their New Rules“

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