The past year has been rotten in many ways. Events have taken place my personal life as well as in the life affected by the world at large, the world of others, their actions, and the effects on me and mine. The ripples of their deeds have far too often run into the ripples of my own eddies. These meetings are neither welcomed. nor heartwarming. One of the most unfortunate, to put it mildly, events of the past year. has been the shocking though not really unexpected rise in vitriolic anti- semitism, so much so that it is now JewHatred, one word unable to be rendered apart so intimately are they bonded.
The threat is overwhelming. It is populated by herds of dumb, deluded animals who have shed their humanity, their independent thought capacity, and consigned their fate, their lives. to the beast who leads them. My fervent hope is that the hordes of pathetic sheep either wake up or follow their evil leader(s) right off the edge of the cliff. Their abdication of self-control, their nonacceptance of their roles in furthering another Holocaust, is greatly frightening and threatening, as every alarm goes off within the genetic trauma alerts of every Jew. The air reeks of their hypocrisy and barely covered hate and hope of a bad end, shall we say, for all Jews - including those moronic ones who stand with the herd and chant calls for their own demise. Holocaust Redux.
But thankfully there remains sanity. in the very few strong enough to resist the siren call. I'm encouraged violence. One of the people who has fallen at their enthusiastically into the camp of Jew haters is a man who thinks that he is now assumed their life in the role as in the role of Papa Joe for all Jews. He will be the one to command Israel. He will be the one to decide how they fight a war which is not his. A war which has been thrust upon Israel. He is the one who will decide the fate of all Jews, not only within Israel, but without.
However, he is so not my Papa Joe my father, my pups always look. that always looked out for me and for his children always. look to make the make the right choice. to shred curtains trying to disguise evil deeds and evil thoughts. This Papa Joe No, not my papa. Oh, the Papa of any do nor Of any rightly thinking person. It is not for him to decide the faith of a nation. It is not. for him to decide that certainly the lives of Palestinians who enable Hamas to remain in place for so many years. who have allowed Hamas to shed shred their own lives, steal that food, steal the concrete meant for them to rebuild their lives. It is not for him to decide that. no Hamas is responsible. for in meshing their infrastructure within the infrastructure of civilians sacrificing them. to decide to weigh and judge Jewish lives versus Palestinian lives. The lives of those who suffered massacre and butchery of rape and pillage. versus the lives of people placed in danger by their own people. How to separate the so-called innocent civilians of Gaza from the quite enthusiastic, to say the least. Patrons of Hamas, who cheered as the buddies dead and alive were paraded through Gaza as they chaired Allahu Akbar. Are their lives worth more than the lives of Jews? Are the instigators of the war violated? violators, the true criminals to be given victory because Papa Joe has decided that it must be so new. paragraph
No, no, this will not happen. This will not be allowed. Israel, if not allowed to claim its own right and integrity as a nation. will then disallow the actions of the world. The vicious drippings and drooling of their hate, the hypocrisy of Papa Joe and will do as it must. As for me, I adopt this Papa Joe out of my life. He has fallen into an evil well within his soul a deep well within his soul which has enabled him to carry out unequal calculations, to the point of deciding that the lives of Palestinians are more worthy than the lives of Israeli Jews and the lives of world Jewry.
No, Papa Joe, no more. We adopt you out. we cancel yourself appointed adoption. We remind you that if you are worried about. the Michigan votes, well, worry about the New York votes. The New Jersey votes. The Pennsylvania votes. The California votes. The Illinois votes. The votes of cities and suburbs where American Jews live. Illinois votes the votes of cities and suburbs. We know that this issue, the survival of Israel, is existentially critical for all Jewry. So, you go and worry, ex Papa Joe. Go. Worry.
Very few of the public world can touch my heart, my soul, with their words. Brett Stephens is such a one, a throwback to the true moderate Republican, now an endangered species. Here is a man who. should be president. I have taken the rare step of enclosing an entire opinion piece that he has written, just yesterday. Read the words here. Feel the words.
Just a reminder, Papa Joe, you are not my papa. My Pops would be ashamed of you and your weakness, your thoughtlessness as you consign Israel to a garbage heap in a bloody swamp, in a lake of their own blood, as you deny them the arms and ammunition necessary for their own defense. As you empower Hamas the murderers by pressuring and denying Israel. Where the hell are your brains? Who the hell has been advising you? They should all go to hell.
BRET STEPHENS FOR PRESIDENT!
If only.
Dear anti-Israel campus protesters:
Though it may take a few years before you realize it, supporters of Israel like me have reasons to give thanks to militant anti-Zionists like you.
Recently, a friend asked what I would have made of your protests if they had been less fervently one-sided. If, for instance, pro-Palestinian student groups at Harvard and Columbia hadn’t castigated Israel immediately following the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Or if Jewish students and professors hadn’t faced violence, harassment and antisemitic imagery from you or your allies from Harvard to Columbia to Berkeley to Stanford. Or if you had made a point of acknowledging the reality of the Oct. 7 rapes or the suffering of Israel’s hostages and their families while demanding their safe return. Or if you consistently condemned and distanced yourselves from Hamas. Or if all of you had simply followed rules that gave you every right to free expression without trampling on the rights of others to a safe and open campus.
In short, what if your protests had focused on Israel’s policies, whether in Gaza or the West Bank, rather than demanding the complete elimination of Israel as a Jewish state? What if you had avoided demonizing anyone who supports Israel’s right to exist — which includes a vast majority of Jews — as modern-day Nazis?
In that case, I told my friend, I would have disagreed with your views but I wouldn’t have despised them. Nor would a broad plurality of Americans, including many to my left. The result could have been a movement that would have had stronger arguments and greater impact. You would have been able to win over undecideds to your cause. And I would have had to fight harder to make my case that Israel must get rid of Hamas.
I realize this isn’t how some of you see it. The most hard-line among you want to “sharpen the contradictions,” as the Marxists say. Your real goal was not to shape U.S. government policy, at least in the near term. What you really want to do is normalize anti-Zionism, particularly on elite college campuses, while hoping that the bigger payoff will come in 20 or 30 years, when those you’ve converted to your cause become senators and governors and university presidents.
But the problem with sharpening the contradictions is that the contradictions being sharpened are your own. For every student who became ardently pro-Palestinian during the protests, another one, perhaps a Jewish student with previously indifferent feelings about Israel, finally saw the connection between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. For every professor who’s shown up to your encampment to lend support, you’ve lost a fair-minded liberal with your Maoist-style sloganeering and your arrogant disdain for the genuine fears of some of your Jewish peers.
And for every commencement ceremony whose cancellation you’ve effectively forced, or which you intend to spoil, thousands of apolitical students — who didn’t get to have a proper high school graduation thanks to Covid — have taken an intense and permanent distaste to you and everything you stand for.
In short, if sharpening the contradictions is the game you’re playing, it’s paying bigger dividends for my side than it is for yours. It’s also nothing new. Those 1968 protests you’re trying to emulate? What they mainly helped achieve was the election of Richard Nixon followed by nearly 40 straight years of right-of-center governance in the United States.
Nor is this the only help you’re giving my side.
I am a Zionist not only because I support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state — an abstract point about another country. I am also a Zionist for the most personal of reasons: because I see Israel as an insurance policy for every Jewish family, including mine, which has endured persecution and exile in the past and understands that we may not be safe forever in our host countries. For anyone with a historical memory of France until Dreyfus, Germany until Hitler or Iran until Khomeini, that kind of insurance is one Jews can’t afford to lose.
What happened on Oct. 7 shook my faith in the quality of that insurance: What else does the Israeli state exist for, after all, if not to protect its people from the kind of butchery they endured that day? But what happened on Oct. 8 — the moment your protests began — renewed that faith, because it gave me a glimpse into what America might yet become for Jews, at least if people like you were to gain real power.
I get that many if not most of you see yourselves as dedicated idealists who want to end suffering for Palestinians, champion equality and oppose all forms of bigotry. There are ways you could do that without making common cause with people who hate Jews, want to kill us and often do. Supporting a two-state solution would be one such way. Insisting that Palestinians deserve better leaders than Hamas is another. Building bridges with Israelis is a third.
Instead, without knowing it, you are my daily reminder of what my Zionism is for, about and against. For that, if nothing else, thank you.
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