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Yes You can Blame the US and the UK and Australia and Yes Even Israel in a Fram Oil Filter sort of way

Posted: November 7, 2023 by datechguy in culture, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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King Richard (Disguised): Oh, now I remember. How does your loyalty to Richard set on a killer of knights, a poacher of the king’s deer and an outlaw?

Robin Hood: Those I’ve killed died from misusing the trust that Richard left them. And the worst rogue of these is the king’s own brother.

King Richard (Disguised): Oh, then you blame Prince John.

King Richard (Disguised): No, I blame Richard. His task was defending his people instead of deserting them to fight in foreign lands.

The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938

Since the beginning of the Israel Hamas War I have seen a concerted effort to blame Israel and the west:

  • For the Hamas Attacks
  • For the Reactions on Western Campus
  • For the Response to Mass Protests
  • For the open antisemitism in the west

Now of course Hamas did the attack and the slaughter than brought this all on but when it comes to blaming the west let’s to the chase. They have a point.

  • I blame the west for ignoring the problem of Radical Islam in General and Hamas in particular.
  • I blame the west for allowing illegal migration bringing supporters of Jew slaughter to their lands
  • I blame the west for not enforcing their own laws against those who came illegally or even legally.
  • I blame the west for punishing those who objected to these double standards.
  • I blame the west for silencing any who warned about what was happening (see Spencer & Geller et/al)
  • I blame the west for attacking their own civilization for trifles (see microaggressions) but ignoring actual crimes of others.
  • I blame the west for letting their educational systems be taken over by those who hate us.
  • I blame the west for letting themselves be paid off
  • I blame the west for playing the “moral equivalence” game
  • I blame the west for funding the Palestinians in general and Gaza in particular without control or audit of the funds or materials.
  • I blame the west for not supporting those opposing the Mullahs in Iran
  • I blame the west for not taking out the Mullahs when they had armies both to the east and the west of them
  • I blame the west in general and the Biden Administration in particular for funding Iran
  • I blame the west for pressuring Israel to stop fighting back for the sake of peace and quiet.

And most important of all

  • I blame the west for doing all these things while there was still a chance of stopping this at a low cost.

And I don’t leave out Israel from the blame game

  • I blame Israel for deluding themselves that you could contain Hamas
  • I blame Israel and Israelis for pretending that the Palestinians want peace
  • I blame Israel for giving back Gaza, legitimately won in war with Egypt, to the Palestinians.

But most of all

  • I blame Israel for not finishing the job nine years ago when Hamas hit them or frankly any of the other dozen times that Hamas attacks and they let it go.

I actually had “giving Egypt back the Sinai” on this list but you can argue that an active peace with Egypt was worth it of course actually given Israel’s nuclear deterrence and active peace with Egypt was going to be the norm anyways, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt here.

So if you want to blame the US or blame the UK or blame Australia or even blame Israel, you do have a point in the sense that all of these that have happened were preventable so you are basically making the Fram oil filter argument from the 1970’s ads.

Israel and the west decided they wanted to pay the price later and are now doing so.

Let’s Do the “Enfield Rifles, Israeli Tanks & Palestinian Lies” about Gaza Post Again

Posted: November 3, 2023 by datechguy in Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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I have this horrible feeling of “Déjà Vu

“Déjà Vu Monty Python’s Flying Circus 1970

It’s been nearly 10 years since my post titled Enfield Rifles, Israeli Tanks & Palestinian Lies” went up on this blog in response to claims by Palestinians that Israel was targeting civilians in their response to another Hamas attack that was immediately followed by calls from the left for a cease fire since Hamas was no longer in a position to effectively kill Jews in safety.

Unlike the last time however there seem to be a massive amount of western students educated by expensive elite colleges that have been getting a lot of fund from Arab states that seem to be making the same claims of “Genocide” and “targeting civilians” that were just as false 9 years ago when Israel wasn’t all in the way they are now.

It appears that these young mush for brains while being instructed on all 387 genders have not been taught anything about simple logic so I will explain to them the fallacy of their position in a way they will hopefully understand.

If you just want to read the original post you can click here as the point as much of the text will be the same but if you want to check out my embellishments read on:

There was a great video of Ben Shapiro answering a lot of nonsense from the “Death to Israel” crowd, a crowd so ignorant at best or mendacious as worst that one actually claimed that England didn’t bomb civilians during world war 2. The Oxford Union doesn’t allow embedding but you can view it here.

It takes a lot of ignorance for people to fall for this line although I suspect it’s more in the sense of a religious belief than actual ignorance, but for all the influences out there parroting the. “Targeting of Civilians” and “Genocide” line there is a witness who can without question prove the falsehood of that claim: The late General Reginald Dwyer.

On  April 13th 1919 General Dwyer led a contingent of about 90 men to Jallianwala Bagh where there was a large crowd of Indians some for protest and some for a local fair.

After deploying 50 of his men armed with bolt action Lee Enfield Rifles (First introduced in 1895) he opened fire on the crowd.  After expending aprox 1650 rounds his troops managed to inflict over 1500 casualties on the crowd with between 379 & 1000 dead depending on whose figures you believe.

Dyer never for one moment denied that he was deliberately targeting unarmed civilians, in fact Dyer actually had armored cars armed with machine guns but he was unable to bring them to bear. At the official inquiry he bluntly stated publicly that had he been able to deploy them he would have used them.

Once again here is the scene from the movie Gandhi that vividly portrayed that scene which is a key moment in the movement for Indian independence known as the Amritsar or the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.  

Now any good anti colonialist likely knows about what happened here and rightly decries it as an evil act. I suspect that if you mentioned it to the students currently marching in favor of Hamas they might have even been taught about this as it rightly portrays a white western colonial power in a bad light.

The problem however for our friends on the left is that this action clearly establishes their claims against Israel and their narrative in Gaza as a lie.

Consider the following:

  • General Dwyer had 50 armed men, using 19th century bolt-action rifles and in only 15 minutes of deliberately targeting a civilian population inflicted 1500 casualties.
  • Israel has called up nearly 400,000 men and women, they have deployed, jets, heavy artillery, tanks and all the weapons that a modern experienced 21st century army has at its disposal. It has been on the ground in Gaza for about five days (as of this writing on Friday morning) t and for several days before this, Israel was launching air and artillery strikes on Gaza.
  • Furthermore they are operating in a very densely populated area. In fact we are constantly told by the defenders of Hamas that Gaza is the most densely populated place there is on earth.

Now think about this for a second.

If we are to believe the Arabs on twitter, the students in universities, the “experts” on various platforms like tic-tok and the Arab media, and those marching in cities in Europe and the US that Israel is and has been deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians since day 1 as part of “genocide” then an obvious question arises:

How is it that the Israeli Army and Air Force, given weeks of time are less efficient killers of civilians than 50 British soldiers armed with bolt-action rifles, introduced when Grover Cleveland was President of the United States, were in 15 minutes?

If Israel was doing what you claim then Gaza would have been depopulated when the first version of this post went up in July of 2014 let alone today.

Bottom line if you are still maintaining that Israel is targeting civilians and committing genocide in Gaza not only do General Dyer, the dead of Amritsar and simple logic call you a nonsensical liar but by speaking this lie you are dishonoring the dead of Amritsar who never even considered the evils that Hamas committed on Oct 7th to begin this war.

Stacy McCain Notes the Johnson vs Hamas Question, Robert Zimmerman Provides the Answer

Posted: October 31, 2023 by datechguy in education, elections, media, politics
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One of the advantages of waking up in excruciating pain is that you are up early enough to notice pieces quickly such as this one from Stacy McCain on what the media thinks REAL threat to the country is today ( Spoiler: it’s not Hamas or their supporters) :

Based on his stated supposedly biblical positions, the Bible in Johnson’s head is a silly, vicious farrago of ignorance and bigotry, and a blueprint for Christofascist tyranny. . . .
[T]he right loves to say we live in a republic not a democracy. And what they mean by that is that authoritarian disenfranchisement is awesome as long as it benefits the party of white biblical Christofascism. . . .

Do you want to read the whole thing? Probably not, but I felt obligated to throw the link in there, just so you could see that I’m not making this up. Does anyone really believe that “Christofascist tyranny” and “authoritarian disenfranchisement” (whatever that means) are eminent dangers to our country, or that Mike Johnson aspires to achieve this?

Johnson of course is the new very unexpected speaker of the house and democrats who created his speakership by voting with the 8 GOP reps who wanted to outset Speaker McCarthy are having a serious case of buyers remorse. To wit:

MAGA Mike unveiled the first piece of legislation promoted by his regime.

CBS reported, “House Republicans want to pay for emergency aid to Israel by cutting funding to the IRS, teeing up a collision with the White House and Democrat-controlled Senate over how to support a key U.S. ally.

“The House GOP released a $14.3 billion standalone measure on Monday that would pay for aid to Israel by cutting the same amount in funding that was allocated to the IRS under the Inflation Reduction Act, one of President Biden’s signature pieces of legislation.”

That is what conservatives have wanted for 31 years now, going back to the Reform Party, the Gingrich Revolution, the Tea Party and Trump. $30 trillion later, we may actually get cutting-before-spending legislation.

That’s via Don Surber whose early morning piece I caught almost as soon as it was published thanks to the pain still hitting me in the gut.

That the left media would be going all in on painting the rather mild mannered speaker they despise as an existential threat to American Democracy at a time when Jewish students are being advised to hide in attics at Universities and cities like Boston and New York have folks extoling the virtues of those who kidnap, murder women and children and behead babies might seem odd when this stuff is being plastered all over the news:

To the right are screen captures from two very large protests, the top showing a demonstration of an estimated 7,000 pro-Hamas protesters taking over the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on October 28, 2023. In the video at one point you can read a sign that clearly says, “Our soldiers will not be held accountable for anything.”

The second picture is from a protest in Chicago. The demonstrators at this moment are chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”, a chant that has always meant in plain language, “We will kill all the Jews in Israel because Allah said only Muslims can live there.” It is also written into the Hamas founding charter, which states unequivocally that it “owes its loyalty to Allah, derives from Islam its way of life, and strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.”

That comes from a Robert Zimmerman piece linked by Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit around the time I woke screaming in pain today. Zimmerman notes these thing that one can’t help notice in the news but then provides the answer to why the left seeks to elevate Mike Johnson as a danger while ignoring the threat of mobs provoking fear and violence :

What has not been noted enough however is the political allegiances of these pro-Hamas demonstrators. While not every Democrat favors what Hamas did on October 7th, we can be very very VERY confident that practically every single one of these pro-Hamas protesters, calling for the death of every Jew in Israel and numbering in the tens of thousands, is a Democrat, and has been voting for Democrats their entire lives.

This is the base of the Democratic Party. It is why the anti-Semitic “squad” of Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) are all elected members of the Democratic Party caucus in the House of Representatives. The first two represent districts strongly controlled by Democrats, most of whom come from the local Muslim communities, while latter two come from the one-party secular cities of New York and Boston, controlled wholly by Democrats.

This is of course consistent with the ghastly Tom Hagen Math that I’ve been writing about since 2016:

Right now the left has the Gays and the Transgenders and the Hollywood elites & media in which they are overrepresented and they figure that’s the best things to have, but in America Islam is a thing of the future.  In 20 years the children of Muslims now being raised on the tenets of Sharia law in America will be old enough to vote and Democrats going to make sure they get those votes when the time come, not now but 10-20 years from now.

And if that means that Jews in the US have to live in terror for their lives, particularly in blue cities and bright blue campus’ nationwide, well so be it.

The only problem is that this isn’t something that plays well outside of the deepest of blue cities so it must be suppressed and/or ignored because the story can’t be about Democrats supporting babykillers and kidnappers. Stacy McCain again:

Readers will recall that we last paid attention to Mr. Berlatsky two weeks ago (“Noah Berlatsky, Who Seems to Be OK With Pedophiles, Sure Does Hate Republicans,” Oct. 9), when Berlatsky sought to persuade his readers that what was really newsworthy was not that Hamas terrorists had slaughtered hundreds of Israelis civilians, but rather the Republican reaction to this massacre. Notice the pattern: No matter what the actual news may be, every day is Attack Republicans Day for Noah Berlatsky.

Why do you think that is?

Stacy gives his reason why Berlatsky wants to advance this narrative, but in my mind Mr. Zimmerman’s explanation as to why Democrats want to change the subject is more persuasive. I fully believe that in just a few years we will see this from Democrats:

Or you simply an example of a “good German”, who makes believe evil isn’t happening in your name, and will later claim “you just didn’t know, you had no idea what the Nazis were really doing?”

For the left to see themselves in the light of truth might be unbearable. But for the voters of the nation to see Democrats in the light of truth, that’s unthinkable.

Under the Fedora: UN Talk vs Shot, The Just Murdering Kids High Ground, Pam and Robert Being Right Sometimes Sucks, Self Inflicted Wounds, Schlichter and Wayne on Barbarians

Posted: October 30, 2023 by datechguy in culture, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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Given what we’ve seen from the UN lately there are a lot of people wondering why we bother with the UN. People who ask this forget what the actual job of the UN is which was so aptly described by Sir Humphrey Appleby in the Classic series Yes Prime Minister over Israel striking back after a PLO attack nearly 40 years ago:

PM James Hacker: Surely we should use the debate to promote peace, harmony good will!

Sir Humphrey: Well it would be most unusual. The UN is still the accepted forum for the expression of international hatred

Yes Prime Minister A Victory for Democracy

That’s the secret. Instead of going to war against Israel in a fight that would not go well for them Every single one of those Arab states can go back to their population that would like to see Israel wiped from the face of the earth and the Jews exterminated and point to their vote in the UN to show how they gave the Jews what for.

That’s 3D chess.

Had a commentator who insisted that the beheading babies stuff was a myth. Guys like that are the reason that Ike made sure US troops and generals saw the death camps and recorded the evidence of them.

But what I’d really like to ask the fellow is this: “Given that you deny that Hamas beheaded babies, would you object if they did and concede that if it was done it would constitute a terrorist act?”

I suspect the answer would be a long speech about Israel and a lot of ducking because if your base position is. “They didn’t behead babies they just killed them.” there isn’t a lot of high ground left to hold.

I saw this tweet a few days ago concerning how the British Taxpayer was subsidizing the radical mosques and put up this response:

Geller and Spencer and company have been right about this from the start and spent a decade warning the west about it and for their efforts have dodged assassination attempted, been banned from countries and have been put on all kind of “hate” lists.

The only hate that I suspect they have is hating the fact they they were right about all of it. I suspect they would have been much happier if they had been wrong about radical Islam and the antisemitism of the left.

Being right sometimes sucks.

That actually brings up another aspect of not only this story but the decline of the US and the west. Every single part of it was preventable and was only made possible by people making choices at worst for personal gain and at best out of sheer ignorance and stupidity.

The bottom line is those who made these choices hated those who warned them more than they hated the possible consequences of their decisions, particularly if the consequences were pretty much restricted to the plebes.

I suspect that they will remain wed to those choices because they would rather continue with these consequences than admit we were right.

Finally Kurt Schlichter has a piece today that illustrates the reality that our friends on the left have spent the last 40 years denying:

What happened over the last 70 years or so was an interregnum of peace in the West, created by violence against barbarians and facilitated by people willfully looking away from the butchery still continuing at the fringes of the map. The West managed to build a civilization that was – for the first time in history since perhaps the Pax Romana – generally internally peaceful. And the West convinced itself that this was normal.

But it was not normal. It was an anomaly, a glorious one, but an anomaly nonetheless. The world is not a peaceful place, and it never was, and it never will be.

You can read the whole thing but if you want the best possible summery of the truth he is saying you can’t do much better than this two minute clip from John Wayne’s Oscar winning performance in True Grit.

Consider the closing line from the clip: “The rat catcher’s too tough on the rats, give them rats a fair show they say. Well what kind of fair show did they give old man Potter. Tell me that!”

I can’t think of a better summing up of the left’s call for a cease fire than that.

My parents generation that fought World War 2 understood this. Their grandchildren and great grandchildren who whine about “microagressions” do not.

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