Elites’ Strange Disconnect Between Israel
and Ukraine
Posted By: Judy W., 2/17/2024 2:46:13 PM
The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts—but in more ways than we can imagine. Both Russia and Hamas started the wars. Russia was convinced it would easily crush the smaller neighbor. Hamas hoped to spark a pan-Islamic jihad against the Jewish state. Most of Europe, the United States, and the West understandably supported arming Ukraine to repel Vladimir Putin‘s Russian aggression. By contrast, such support for democratic Israel was strangely mixed. In many elite political, academic and media circles, Israel is criticized for its massive retaliation after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
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The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts—but in more ways than we can imagine.
Both Russia and Hamas started the wars. Russia was convinced it would easily crush the smaller neighbor. Hamas hoped to spark a pan-Islamic jihad against the Jewish state.
Most of Europe, the United States, and the West understandably supported arming Ukraine to repel Vladimir Putin‘s Russian aggression.
By contrast, such support for democratic Israel was strangely mixed.
In many elite political, academic and media circles, Israel is criticized for its massive retaliation after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
I ventured deep into the hate factory this week, which I don’t recommend, and basically slathered it all over me. Luckily, I guess, this was polite hate, couched in compound sentences filled with four syllable words. Hurling, nevertheless, said words the way schizophrenics do feces at their cell walls. I’m speaking of course, about The Atlantic, the once august journal now taken over by a group of the most prideful, squeamish ‘intellectuals’ on the planet and don’t they think they are grand. They have awarded each other multiple prizes and degrees, and nominated themselves as our moral betters.
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Resettle Gazans to End the Endless War
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1) The latest poll of Palestinian public opinion shows that the PA is deeply unpopular.
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3) The PA has an abysmal track record of corruption and was too weak to prevent a Hamas-led coup in Gaza, less than two years after Israel’s withdrawal. So why would the PA perform any better this next time?
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Much journalism these days is filled with fear, a genre made by the paranoid for the paranoid. A friend sent me Victor Davis Hanson’s recent X post about the lawsuits faced by President Trump, the corruption of the judicial system, the desperate straits he is in. (Snip) But he’s wrong. All those lawsuits foundered this week, a mere week later. And wrong are all the other catastrophists. The entire world is on the move, literally. It’s on fire. There are 100 million fire ants on the move. We are setting the agenda now, not them.
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Muslim Families To Opt Out Of LGBT Reading Lessons 16 replies
The St. Louis Park public school district in Minnesota will reportedly allow Muslim families to opt out of LGBT reading lessons for students.
Two public interest law firms, True North Legal and First Liberty Institute, sent letters to the district saying forcing Muslims to participate in LGBT lessons is a violation of the First Amendment and state law, according to Alpha News. (snip)
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Alpha News has reported the St. Louis Park School District will now allow parents to opt out of their children from any curriculum that promotes LGBTQ ideology.
The move by the district comes after the First Liberty Institute and True North Legal sent a letter on behalf of six Muslim families that stated forcing Muslims to learn LGBTQ lessons is a violation of the First Amendment.
The six families previously requested the school to notify them of when LGBTQ-centered lessons were being taught so they could opt their children out of those particular lessons.
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All of a sudden it's cool to be anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist. The "Palestinians" have a mighty propaganda machine, originally set up and taught to them by the KGB decades ago. Neither the Israelis nor Jews elsewhere can compete at that level, or even trying to compete at any level. I don't know why that is.