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I am so glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read this:

PA leaders are pleased with the anti-Israel protests at American universities but are unwilling to tolerate similar demonstrations at their own universities, fearing that they could be used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to create instability and insecurity.

In recent weeks, PA security officers have been removing Hamas flags from electricity poles in villages and towns in the West Bank. PA security forces have also foiled attempts by some students to set up encampments at Palestinian campuses similar to the ones at Columbia University and other campuses in the United States.

So let me get this straight. As far as the Palestinian Authority in the west bank is concerned here in the US it’s perfectly OK to target Jews to tear down the US flag and fly the Palestinian flag instead and to blockade and occupy college buildings, property and even set up checkpoint to restrict people in support of Hamas and to oppose any of that stuff is “islamophobic”

If however you are in lands that are actually controlled by the Palestinian Authority, well we can’t have that since it might help Hamas who they really don’t like much anyways.

Oddly I don’t think I’ve heard a single member of the press or congress who have been defending these “protests” in the US object one bit to their repression by Palestinians in the area where they wish to create a Palestinian state.

Discuss.

Madam Kovarian: You appear to be closing down, Dorium. What have you heard?
Dorium: That you pricked the side of a mighty beast, Madame Kovarian, and entirely failed to run. I admire your courage. I should like to admire it from afar.
Madam Kovarian: We’ve been waiting a month. He’s done nothing.
Dorium: Do you really think so? There are people all over this galaxy that owe that man a debt. By now, a few of them will have found a blue box waiting for them on their doorstep, poor devils.
Colonel Manton: You think he’s raising an army?
Dorium: You think he isn’t? If that man is finally collecting on his debts, God help you, and God help his debtors.
Colonel Manton: Why?
Dorium: Colonel Manton, all those stories you’ve heard about him, they’re not stories, they’re true. Really. You’re not telling me you don’t know what’s coming?

Doctor Who, A Good Man Goes to War 2011

A lot of people have talked about “consequences” for the various Student “protestors” but there is one set of consequences that nobody seems to have considered.

The basis for this set of consequences is inadvertently made by, Victor Davis Hanson, who continues to be a national treasure, in his latest piece as he nails the single most important take-away from these campus protests:

Remember, the protests started on October 7, not on October 27, when the IDF went into Gaza. At that point, campus and street protests merely changed from euphoric triumphalism on the news that Hamas had slaughtered, decapitated, mutilated, raped, or kidnapped hundreds of Jews (“exhilarated,” a Cornell professor gushed of the carnage), to furor and violence. So after three weeks of celebrating dead Jews, the street protests grew furious only when the IDF finally began fighting back and destroying Hamas, even as its terrorists cowardly hid beneath mosques, hospitals, and schools to ensure enough collateral damage to incite pro-Hamas Western throngs.

This raises an important question about these “spontaneous protests” that nobody seems to be asking:

To what degree where were they actually coordinated with the Hamas attack, that is, where they PART of attack, planned to demoralize Israel and gather support for the slaughter of Jews as it happens?

This is an important consideration because if they were an integral part of the Hamas attack, then those participating in them are in fact Hamas.

Why is this important? Let’s turn back the clock to October 12th and this speech by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (emphasis mine):

“We saw the beasts. We saw the barbarians we are facing,” Netanyahu said in a televised address, according to The Times of Israel. “We saw a cruel enemy” which was “worse than ISIS.”

“How staggering the atrocity. How great the pain,” Netanyahu said. “We are fighting with full force, on every front, we have gone onto the attack. Every member of Hamas is a dead man.”

Bibi didn’t put a limit on who these Hamas members are, where they were or if they materially participated in the attack, if you’re Hamas you’re dead and given the amount of Israeli soldiers who have tried to bring this about, I suspect the Jewish state is not going to be all that picky over any person who proudly proclaims themselves Hamas.

Do I think that means that IDF soldiers are going to suddenly turn up at US campus’ and start killing students? No, Israel is going to have plenty to do in cleaning up the mess in Gaza they will be tied up for years.

That being said Israel as a state has a long memory and if they haven’t raised October 7th to the level of the Holocaust to them it’s just a tiny bit below it. If you don’t believe me ask those who served as guards in the death camps or those involved in the 1972 Olympic attack. Ask them if the Jewish state ever forgot.

If you’ve been arrested and your name taken down don’t doubt for one minute that the best intelligence agency in the world will know that name. Odds are if your just some dumb kid who doesn’t know better they’ll pass on you, remember your name but pass on you. The worst you’ll face is a blacklist at particular jobs and companies, but if you’re an organizer if you had a hand in this, if the Mossad decides for one moment that you were part of the overall plan right from the start, well I’d be very careful if I travel outside of the US from this point on because I suspect your name is now on a list to die.

You’ve declared yourself Hamas and Israel is going to take you at your word.

It might take 5 years, it might take 10 years it might take 20 years but when it comes to long term revenge we Sicilians have nothing on Israel. I don’t care how much the Arab states are paying you. I don’t care how much George Soros or the Tides foundation or Arabella have kicked in. I don’t care how comfortable a life they’ve given you. Speaking as a guy working long hours and struggling financially who can only dream about getting something like the $8K for one days work that some of those folks got, let me say this.

I wouldn’t trade places with you for all the treasure on earth.

Clemenza gets it

Michael: How bad do you think it’s gonna be?

Clemenza: Pretty goddam bad. Probably all the other Families will line up against us. That’s all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know, you gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they was just asking for trouble.

The Godfather 1972

One of the best commercials that I ever saw comes from my youth. It was for the Fram Oil Filters. In it a mechanic is doing expensive engine work on a car that didn’t have the oil changed regularly. The message was very simple and direct. Spend the money for an oil change and filter now or pay me later for engine work.

That’s what instantly comes to mind when I saw this story

Bragg, who is currently prosecuting the case against former President Donald Trump, did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation asking whether pro-Palestinian protestors arrested on Tuesday would be charged.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested 119 protestors at Columbia on Tuesday night, along with 173 protestors at the separate City University of New York (CUNY) protest, where students occupied an administration building.

“Given his track record and the political nature of the events, I would be surprised if the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office prosecuted the charges in a serious manner,” Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson told the DCNF. “The charges are likely to be dropped against most perpetrators, and drastically reduced for others under an agreement that would see the charges eventually expunged.”

“In New York City, unfortunately, this type of weak prosecution agenda encourages more crime,” Jacobson continued.

Alas as Professor Jacobson own blog can attest to. These actions are not confined to Columbia & New York City, Northwestern, U Chicago, Rutgers, UCLA, Brown, U Wisconsin (where students chanted “Heil Hitler” at Jewish Students are among the colleges that these mobs have occupied. At Portland State police found “improvised weapons” and Drone footage shows the mob at UCLA being trained in hand to hand combat.

As James Woods notes, these were not “spontaneous protests”

Brings to mind the pallets of bricks that oddly found themselves delivered in the path of BLM riots years ago. Robert Spencer elabortates:

Not only is it not spontaneous, it’s clearly orchestrated from outside the colleges and universities where the encampments have sprung up. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has acknowledged that “professionals” were involved in the Columbia University encampment. Another sign that this isn’t exactly a grass-roots movement is the fact that a large number of the pro-Hamas protesters have identical tents. Which well-heeled leftist bought them? We don’t know and may never know, but someone certainly appears to have done some buying in bulk. 

Still, the movement needed foot soldiers. The cadres had to be recruited and indoctrinated. That has been the work of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the professional organization of Middle East Studies professors at colleges and universities nationwide.

Now in Red states folks like Ron DeSantis are enforcing the law, but in blue states the police didn’t start moving in until the visuals were polling bad for Democrats or when people started fighting back and leftists were getting beaten.

The administrators of many of the universities hosting these encampments have either been too fearful to act or actually sympathize with the pro-Hamas brownshirts. They allowed not just the tent occupation on a public university campus to fester, but even with evidence of brownshirts’ being trained …

… never called for any measures to clear this out until a group of Jews decided maybe “Never again” was now.

And, suddenly, Karen Bass noticed.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass vowed Wednesday to prosecute pro-Israel vigilantes who attacked the illegal “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) overnight.

Beating a Jewish girl and sending her to the Hospital, No big deal. Fighting back against those who beat her when the authorities take no action? That’s beyond the pale.

What’s worse is the selective prosecutions:

And let’s be clear, too, that Governor Hairgel Newsom said nothing until yesterday, too, when so-called vigilantes decided to go where law enforcement refused to go.

This is how a high trust society is destroyed. There would have been no vigilante action if our Dear Democrat Betters like Bass, Newsom and UCLA brass had done their job. Let’s see who is really legally punished by Soros-puppet DA Gascon after the dust has settled. We saw lots of arrests after the 2020 fiery, but mostly peaceful riots but close to no convictions. Hamas brownshirts who blocked the Golden Gate bridge have had no charges filed.

The FBI is too busy with grandmas who spent ten minutes walking between velvet ropes on Jan 6 or keeping tabs on observant Catholics to be bothered when anti-Western Hamasholes shutdown taxpayer-funded university campuses.

The good folks at Citizen Free Press put it perfectly

The bottom line is selective enforcement of the law combined with allowing people to get away with violence while going after those who try to stop it will cause the former to become bolder and the latter eventually deciding going the full Popeye deciding:

The end result what happened in Israel. They took it and they took it and they took Hamas figured they could continue to strike until they finally figured they could get away with killing thousands and kidnapping hundreds without issue.

That’s when Israel finally decided: That’s all I can stands I can’t stands no more and full scale war in Gaza is the result.

That is what is coming here. As a nation we have a choice, we can enforce the laws and stop this nonsense now while the price is low, or we can allow these thugs to operate without consequences until people get killed and when that happens people are going to decide: “That’s all I can stands I can’t stands no more.”

And that’s when you discover what happens when a highly armed population reaches that point. That’s when these thugs discover what Glenn Reynolds has been saying for years, that Police exist to protect criminals from the rest of us. Or as John Wayne illustrated so well.

The biggest irony is these Jew Hating Nazi’s (because that’s what Hamas supporters are) in the same position that Hitler was when he was moved to occupy the Rhineland in 1936 and America’s Universities city and state governments are in the position of England and France who could have stopped Hitler cold if they had acted:

A German officer assigned to the Bendlerstrasse during the crisis told H. R. Knickerbocker during the Spanish Civil War: “… we knew that if the French marched, we were done. We had no fortifications, and no army to match the French. If the French had even mobilised, we should have been compelled to retire.” The general staff, the officer said, considered Hitler’s action suicidal.[62] General Heinz Guderian, a German general interviewed by French officers after the Second World War, claimed: “If you French had intervened in the Rhineland in 1936 we should have been sunk and Hitler would have fallen.”[63]

Right now if these thugs are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law with the same vigor as the Biden Administration went after the J6 folks who didn’t do a 1/10 of what these people did they can be stopped and a bloody 2nd American civil war or a modern version of the Lincoln County Wars can be avoided.

If not then one day people will write about our government and administration what William Shriver Author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich wrote about Britain and France’s inaction during the 1936 Rhineland crisis.

in March 1936 the two Western democracies, were given their last chance to halt, without the risk of a serious war, the rise of a militarized, aggressive, totalitarian Germany and, in fact – as we have seen Hitler admitting – bring the Nazi dictator and his regime tumbling down. They let the chance slip

So what will be be America will we prosecute & stop them with little risk now or we let them continue with no consequences till we have to kill them later in a horrible Civil War later?

“Father Shouldn’t we put a stop to it” “Aye lad we should, we should it’s our duty”

Policeman 1: [Running into station seeing big fight & massive crowd] Call up Ballinrobe tell them to send the inspector down here send reinforcements the regents. There’s a riot down here!

Policeman 2: [Picking up phone and shouting into it] Ballinrobe, Ballinrobe!

[scene changes to the fight and then returns]

Policeman 1: [On the phone] Yes inspector, thank you sir.

Policeman 2: What did he say?

Policeman 1: He said put Five Pounds on Danaher’s Nose

The Quiet Man 1952

Every now and then people make a wish, a really stupid wish and every now and then the world decides to grant that stupid wish and give said people just what they asked for.

This happened to the “protestors” at UCLA yesterday. Police had arrived in force and the “protestors” being the leftists that they are did not take kindly to their arrival.

They chanted “Pigs Go Home” and had signs up saying “Fuck UCPD” and “ACAB” (all cops are bastards) deriding the police who had arrived to restore order.

This went on for a while, and then the police decided to grant their wish and decided to withdraw…

…coincidently right at the time when a group of people, armed with pipes, upset at an attack the sent a Jewish girl, arrived.

Chris Bray describes what happened next:

For two hours. Multiple agencies responding to a mutual aid request from campus police apparently had conflicting or limited orders, with people on the campus hearing that officers were warned to avoid using force or making arrests.

It was at this point where those folks who where chanting “Pigs go home” were suddenly shocked SHOCLED and outraged at the lack of police presence to protect them.

No police? Isn’t that what those students showing “pigs go home” just a few minutes before wanted? Why aren’t they all delighted?
Where are the police? Why they “fucked off” just like you asked them to.

What we seem to have hear is a failure to communicate the redefinition of words which has become common among the left these days. When the pro-hamas anti-Semite radicals where saying:

“Pigs Go Home”

They apparently actually meant:

“Please Mr. Policeman protect us from our enemies who want revenge on us for beating up that girl”

Bray again:

They never meant “fuck the police” as a statement of principle, as any form of expression regarding their personal beliefs. It was cosplay; they were making fashionable mouth sounds, morally and intellectually empty child-noises from howling human voids gibbering mindless nonsense with absolutely nothing happening in the gob of fat they use for a brain. Empty, pathetic, worthless.

Fortunately for the Hamas crowd the Mayor, perhaps realizing that it was a crowd of Democrat voters who were now at risk instead of just Jewish girls, finally called the police giving permission to engage and within an hour things were quiet again.

It’s worth noting that once the police had removed the danger the pro-terrorist protesters faced from their attackers a familiar refrain returned to the anti-Semite encampment:

(...until our enemies come back to fight)

On the plus side the students at this place of education were given a valuable lesson about police. One of their primary duties is to protect criminals from mob justice, which can be a life saving task if you’re one of the criminals who the mob is crying for vengeance against.

Expect cries of outrage from Democrat pols who were 24 hours earlier decrying the police moving in at Columbia.

Unexpectedly of course.

For those too young to remember the great fight scene referenced at the top here it is: