David Horwitz:I’m a Jew. The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes we will all gather in Israel so that he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. [to the student] For it or against it?
UCSD Student: For it.
David Horwitz:Thank you coming and showing everybody what’s here
One thing that can be said about the Israel and Iran as they finally openly fight the war that’s been going on between them for decades (and let’s stop pretending this isn’t a war as nobody actually declares war anymore) as that both Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran are fighting this stage of their war using tactics that are completely consistent with their primary war goals.
Israel has made the Iranian nuclear program and those who are involved in it and those whose responsibility is to protect it as their primary target. This is completely consistent with their primary war aim which is to keep Iran from developing nuclear bombs which if loaded on their ballistic missiles would be used to destroy Israel. Only a few such missiles so armed would be necessary to do the trick so it is vital to the survival of the state of Israel to destroy this capability.
For this reason while other targets might be considered and targeted if the immediate tactical situation calls for it (such as enabling an uprising in Iran) but in the end all of these things must take second place to the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program.
Iran in contrast has one primary goal: Dead Jews.
The destruction of the state of Israel would be a crowning jewel to the mullahs but this is only because it would facilitate the extermination of the largest concentration of Jews in the world.
To this end Iran has launched Ballistic Missiles and drones at Israel in the same way that Germany launched the V1 & V2 rockets at England 80 years ago.
If they manage to hit a vital military target, all well and good but if it destroys cities and kills Jews than the missiles will have done their work. Even if intercepted the debris will fall upon Israel and hopefully kill Jews. The fall of the Jewish state and the rise of an Islamic Caliphate are all worthy long term goals for them but in the end it remains what it’s always been about killing Jews.
Because Dead Jews is what Islam in general and Iran in particular wants most of all.
Major Carey of Virginia asked if I did not feel myself bound by my constitutional obligations to deliver up fugitives under the fugitive slave act. To this I replied that the Fugitive Slave act did not affect a foreign country, which Virginia claimed to be, and she must reckon it one of the infelicities of her position that insofar at least she was taken at her word
General Benjamin Butler 1861
A lot of people have a lot of things to say about the Israeli strike on Iranian Nuke sites but rather than get deeply into this let me just state the obvious:
Iran has openly spent years developing a nuclear program with the intent to destroy Israel.
Iran has openly spent considerable effort to make war on Israel through proxies.
Iran has publicly stated for decades their intent to destroy Israel, exterminate the Jews and has openly advanced that position worldwide at every opportunity.
Yesterday Israel gave a response to these forthright and open declarations by Iran that can be summed up in three simple words:
Dude:He stepped in a puddle, all right. He’s the fellow we wanted. I guess this is his. A nice, fresh $50 gold piece. It’s just about what Burdette would figure a man’s life was worth. That’s earning money the hard way. SheriffChance: Paid killer. Nice, fresh $50 gold piece. You, mister, you got one in your pocket? Man who claimed the killer wasn’t there:Nobody paid me. Nobody! SheriffChance:And nobody run in here, either, huh? [floors him with swing of his rifle barrel to the face] Dude:Chance… SheriffChance: Oh, I’m not gonna hurt him. Get up! [walking down the line of men] You’re all in it. The whole lot of you. You’re gonna get out of town. Take your boy here with you. You can tell Burdette you got Wheeler. You can tell him anybody else he sends, he’d better pay them more…because they’re gonna earn it.
Rio Bravo 1959
We now have it officially that our Palestinian friends have murdered the Bibas children and their mother (the father was released alive earlier) and will be returning their bodies along with the body of Oded Lifshitz today.
It will be interesting to see how apologists for the mass murders of Hamas , particularly those in the west and on US campus’ spin their kidnapping and murder of a six month old and three month old kid as just and right. Particularly since it can’t be denied that they were deliberately targeted and taken.
What’s even worse is their bodies are being traded for murderers and terrorists. Israel should from this day forward toss out life in prison and introduce the death penalty for terrorists so that they will never be in the position where you have to trade killers for the body of someone their allies kill.
I suspect the results of the autopsies on those children’s bodies will be almost as traumatic to the nation as their return.
I completely understand that Israel is doing all they can to get whoever is left alive back and that’s their call but the fact that they have not launched a war of extermination against these barbarians at their gates completely amazes me. If I was the PM of Israel and the lives and safety of the people of Israel were my responsibility the gloves would be off and as for humanitarian aid, food and water for those in Gaza? Not a drop, not a crumb for those who cheered, celebrated and still celebrate those who kidnapped those kids.
I suspect that the Palestinians will never see another $ of US aid during the Trump years and I suspect our relationship with Qatar who funded this horror will reap some nasty consequences, but not as nasty as they deserve.
News like this really stretches my ability to follow Christ’s command to love enemies and pray for them because such people are enemies of all humanity. I’ll obey the non-optional doctrine but I’m not going to pretend that I like it.
Closing Thought One: I kind of wonder if the decision to kill the man’s wife and children and leave him alive was deliberate as it would inflict the maximum possible pain on any husband and father. The only think that would surprise me about such a decision would be Hamas having the restraint to do so.
Closing Thought Two: Anybody surprised at these actions by the Palestinians/arabs in general and Hamas in particular simply has not paid attention for the last 80 plus years. This is who they are, this is who they always have been. You can’t change them, you can only make the cost of acting like barbarians too prohibitive to contemplate.
Note: This was going to be an “Under the Fedora” column with this as the first item but writing it stopped me cold in my tracks. How can you talk about or quip about anything else? What is more important than this?
So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?“
John 18:37-38a
If I had to explain the communist left why they can not be trusted from only one example, the one that instantly comes to mind is their actions from 1939 to 1941 concerning World War 2.
Being two sides of the same coin the Soviet Communists and the German Fascists’ hated each other with a passion having fought against each other by proxy in Spain during the Spanish Civil war. Their proxies in the west had plenty to say attaching the German Reich and their provocative moves right up until August 24 1939 when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact or Hitler Stalin pact was signed at which point leftist all over America in editorials and in song urged America to stay out of World War Two and particularly not to aid Britain in her time of need…
…right up until June 22nd 1941 when the Nazi juggernaut poured into the USSR and the states that they had invaded after 1939. Suddenly all of these voices pivoted 180 degrees and demanded that the US get involved in World War Two to stop the Nazi Menace.
This is one of the reasons why once Japan attacked in December of 1941 you didn’t see the left complain about us going to war. Fighting Japan and Germany meant fighting to save Communist Russia as well so as far as the American left was concerned, they were all in!
Or to put it simply the atrocities and the danger from the Nazis didn’t matter all that mattered was advancing the desired narrative.
And that brings us to Gaza.
For years the Palestinians aided by the left pushed the idea of Gaza as an “open air prison.” that Israel kept oppressed with an iron fist, then Israel, after the attacks of October began their ground invasion of Gaza on October 27th twenty days after the October 7th attacks and demonstrated that this time they meant it and then the narrative slowly then all at once changed.
As Israel pulverized tunnels and destroyed terror infrastructure suddenly we saw Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular wax poetic about the beauty of Gaza that existed before the war. They talked about markets, malls, beautiful beaches and all the wonders and joys of Gaza that existed before the Israeli invasion. No talk of open air prisons, just talk about the paradise that Gaza was before the big bad Jews decided that for once Hamas had gone too far and they were going to root them out of their holes once and for all, no more hiding in schools, no more hiding in hospitals, no more hiding in tunnels. If you were Hamas you were going to be dead.
You see as long as Israel was not in Gaza it was important to the cause of Jew Haters to declare Gaza a prison and point fingers at Israel as the jailors, but once Israel actually came in and destroyed infrastructure used to support terror suddenly Gaza was an Arab paradise before October 2023 that Israel spoiled by their invasion. Reality didn’t matter, the narrative mattered.
And now we see the latest twist and turn of reality with the coming of the Biden (Trump?) cease fire.
For the last year everywhere you looked Israel was being attacked as perpetuating a genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza, in colleges, on news broadcast and in marches and rallies and especially in the UN & ICC the word of the day was Genocide.
The reality that if Israel wanted to slaughter the Arabs they could have done it at any time without putting any troops at risk didn’t matter, the fact that nations actually moved to change the legal defination of “genocide” to make it fit their cause didn’t matter, the fact that the Israel was allowing supplies in rather than letting their enemes starve and that Hamas was stealing the supplies and selling them didn’t matter either, what has happening in Gaza was genocide and that was that.
Until yesterday, when with the latest peace deal suddenly Hamas and their supporters declared victory.
Suddenly the last 15 months were transformed from “Genocide” to a grand victory that Palestinians in general and Hamas in particular could celebrate with pride.
The fact that large chunks of Gaza have been leveled and that Hamas while surviving has been castrated means nothing, victory must be declared because to not declare victory in public is to admit defeat.
This is what happens in a face society, a society that runs on reputation rather than reality can’t deal with seeing things in the light of truth. It’s why Egypt spent the first two days of the six day war vs Israel in 1967 declaring that they were at the gates of Tel Aviv when in fact their air force was gone and their armies were in retreat. Frankly if it wasn’t for the fact that Egypt prolongated this lie, Jordan would not have gone to war with Israel and would still hold the west bank and Jerusalem.
A society that lies to itself because the truth is too painful can not deal with things as they are and when you can’t deal with reality bad things happen.
The left in California can’t deal with the reality of what causes fires, so it burns.
The left in the Northwest can’t deal with the reality of socialism, thus it collapses
The left in NYC can’t deal with the reality of policing thus crime flourishes
The left in England (and the elite right for that matter) can’t deal with the reality of Islam and woman thus their children get raped and their people silenced for speaking out.
And most of all the Arabs can’t deal with the fact that will less that 16 million Jews in the entire world they have outpaced the entire Arab world in every single single measurable advancement of life and have repeatedly defeated their armies when they’ve tried to destroy them.
This is what the left and the Arabs have in common and why a group of people who are supposedly in love with Homosexuality, Transgenderism and gay marriage and destruction of the family unit can so embrace a culture that would slay people for all of these things. They share the unwillingness to alter their views to fit the facts rather than vice versa. Cue Tom Baker:
If Arab nations ignored Israel in general and the Jews as a nation in particular and concentrated on improving their own situation they would flourish. They have a large population, people who are devout (even if they in many cases see God incorrectly) and have so much potential. If they focused on these things they would be giants in the world of trade, science entertainment and the condition of their own people. That they have not is one of the tragedies of human history.
I still have high hopes that as a pious people the days will come (long after I’m gone) where they will discover Christ as he is rather than Christ as they paint him, there are already rumblings of such things taking place.
But until then they will declare a public truth that suits their fragile egos and ability to cope while privately seething in humiliation knowing that the only reason they are alive is that Israel doesn’t want to kill them.
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