Yes, it's one of the biggest challenges we have to face. The dark side quietly took control of almost all the major channels of communication while we were sleeping. When you say that there's no famine or genocide in Gaza, people stare at you like you're out of your mind
Yes exactly. There is a cultural predisposition not to trust Israel (i.e. Jews) that is so deep in the collective consciousness of the West that most people don't even realize they've internalilzed it. This is why it has been so easy for Hamas to monster Israel.
War is war, and Hamas started it. The Gazan Arabs could have got a State so many times, but Gaza voted Hamas in 2007. 1200 Israelis and foreign workers were murdered and raped October 7th 2023 by Hamas who brought Terror to Israel. So now Israel finishes the job, which must be the expulsion of EVERY Gazan, because the same terror from Gaza will repeat again if not. How do we know this? Because Hamas HAS SAID SO!
These ignorant woke regressives citing “justice justice you shall pursue” don’t even know the rest of the phrase: “that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you.”
I’ve long made it my habit—whether the subject is Israel or some other “political” issue—to first reply to questions/statements by simply asking, “What/who is your source/What media do you watch/read/listen to?” That usually tells me everything.
Another excellent essay. To those who read this and understand its importance, please forward this to those liberal friends of yours who do exactly what Josh describes.
Thanks for the great "talking points." I plan to attend the local county fair this week and while there, between fried chicken, fried vegetables, and beer, visit the Democrat Party booth. I intend to ask them about their level of support, or lack thereof, for Israel. Perhaps I'll save the beer for after.
Leading questions such as this are typical of BBC and others. "Isn't Israel conducting genocide? Yes or No?" Clearly no, but then the hamas statistics are provided as incontrovertible proof. This has become standard well before Oct. 7th. The atrocities of Oct 7 must be in "context" of Israel's alleged "brutal occupation and blockade" of innocent and peaceful Gazans. Their crime? Palestinian while breathing. Israel is font of evil. No demonstrators outside the Russian, Chinese or Turkish, Iran missions to UN. Your rational explantation means zero to the kids who rang my bell canvassing for Mamdani for mayor of NY.
NYC's first jihadi mayor. We're done for. The opposition is discredited and hapless. As one man said on the street why he's voting Mamdani..."give him a chance." To thoroughly destroy NYC . And as always the neighborhoods who will suffer .... p o c. Back to your topic....I can't divorce the Israel hate from what is happening in the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel.
Thanks for this. This is one I may actually be able to forward to the folks who doubt. I’m working on how to frame my forwarded emails so that my family and friends will actually read it.
Actually that's often the hardest part, getting people who have become so vehemently opposed to Israel because of the total media bias and pictures of dying Palestinian women and kids on TV almost every night, that any kind of alternatively accurate and truthful reporting or articles like this one were commenting on, is extremely difficult to get them to consider; it's like the lies of Israel perpetrating genocide and apartheid.
What we've read and think to be a more truthful account of what's really been happening because we might watch occasionally MSM news but we look for other news viewpoints, particularly those that plainly rebut the lies with evidence..Evidence the MSM won't put on the news because it destroys the overall narrative....
But I say this last part here with reservation because often, the first casualty of war is truth, but Like others on here, we know where the moral side lies and who really are the victims of a war they didn't initiate. And we know who poses a very real threat to the Western world and who doesn't.....
Joshua , are you suggesting i not believe my girl Christiane Amanpour who for decades has been one of the world's greatest journalists and humanitarians?
I've developed the ability somewhere along the line of recognizing ironic statements, even when there's no obvious tip-off. But, for what it's worth, you should be aware that irony is often missed completely when it's not expected. Readers who are unaware that Amanpour has never met a terrorist she doesn't admire would likely take your comment at face value.
I learned long ago that just because, for example, a doctor is a woman, doesn’t necessarily mean she is a woman’s doctor, but a doctor who happens to be a woman. As a woman, just because someone is a woman, does not elevate them…
Those laws of war were written by Westerners... while they still believed in the morality of the West. The reality of WW II and the Nazi Holocaust largely destroyed their belief in their own culture, which means that they didn't understand the virtue of that culture. I have trouble thinking of another that would question itself over mass murder.
And, ironically, the self-doubt resulting from the mass murder of Jews has now led to applause for more mass murder of Jews.
"Stop asking if Israel committed war crimes. Start asking who told you that."
This is the most important bit of strategic advice that you're likely to hear this week, this month, this year, for winning the culture war.
The nyt,the bbc, the ncb,cbs,abc,npr and freaking democracy now all repeat the same nonsense
Yes, it's one of the biggest challenges we have to face. The dark side quietly took control of almost all the major channels of communication while we were sleeping. When you say that there's no famine or genocide in Gaza, people stare at you like you're out of your mind
Compounding the problem is that people WANT to believe the lies. "Confirmation bias" is a very real issue when it comes to Israel/Jews.
Yes exactly. There is a cultural predisposition not to trust Israel (i.e. Jews) that is so deep in the collective consciousness of the West that most people don't even realize they've internalilzed it. This is why it has been so easy for Hamas to monster Israel.
Nothing more to say than this 💖💖💖. Thank you Josh!
War is war, and Hamas started it. The Gazan Arabs could have got a State so many times, but Gaza voted Hamas in 2007. 1200 Israelis and foreign workers were murdered and raped October 7th 2023 by Hamas who brought Terror to Israel. So now Israel finishes the job, which must be the expulsion of EVERY Gazan, because the same terror from Gaza will repeat again if not. How do we know this? Because Hamas HAS SAID SO!
These ignorant woke regressives citing “justice justice you shall pursue” don’t even know the rest of the phrase: “that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you.”
How ironic.
I’ve long made it my habit—whether the subject is Israel or some other “political” issue—to first reply to questions/statements by simply asking, “What/who is your source/What media do you watch/read/listen to?” That usually tells me everything.
Another excellent essay. To those who read this and understand its importance, please forward this to those liberal friends of yours who do exactly what Josh describes.
It will not change them.
If we give up trying to educate the ignorant and biased self-haters we’re lost!
Thanks for the great "talking points." I plan to attend the local county fair this week and while there, between fried chicken, fried vegetables, and beer, visit the Democrat Party booth. I intend to ask them about their level of support, or lack thereof, for Israel. Perhaps I'll save the beer for after.
Leading questions such as this are typical of BBC and others. "Isn't Israel conducting genocide? Yes or No?" Clearly no, but then the hamas statistics are provided as incontrovertible proof. This has become standard well before Oct. 7th. The atrocities of Oct 7 must be in "context" of Israel's alleged "brutal occupation and blockade" of innocent and peaceful Gazans. Their crime? Palestinian while breathing. Israel is font of evil. No demonstrators outside the Russian, Chinese or Turkish, Iran missions to UN. Your rational explantation means zero to the kids who rang my bell canvassing for Mamdani for mayor of NY.
NYC's first jihadi mayor. We're done for. The opposition is discredited and hapless. As one man said on the street why he's voting Mamdani..."give him a chance." To thoroughly destroy NYC . And as always the neighborhoods who will suffer .... p o c. Back to your topic....I can't divorce the Israel hate from what is happening in the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel.
Thanks for this. This is one I may actually be able to forward to the folks who doubt. I’m working on how to frame my forwarded emails so that my family and friends will actually read it.
Actually that's often the hardest part, getting people who have become so vehemently opposed to Israel because of the total media bias and pictures of dying Palestinian women and kids on TV almost every night, that any kind of alternatively accurate and truthful reporting or articles like this one were commenting on, is extremely difficult to get them to consider; it's like the lies of Israel perpetrating genocide and apartheid.
What we've read and think to be a more truthful account of what's really been happening because we might watch occasionally MSM news but we look for other news viewpoints, particularly those that plainly rebut the lies with evidence..Evidence the MSM won't put on the news because it destroys the overall narrative....
But I say this last part here with reservation because often, the first casualty of war is truth, but Like others on here, we know where the moral side lies and who really are the victims of a war they didn't initiate. And we know who poses a very real threat to the Western world and who doesn't.....
Joshua , are you suggesting i not believe my girl Christiane Amanpour who for decades has been one of the world's greatest journalists and humanitarians?
Dear Clarity Seeker,
I've developed the ability somewhere along the line of recognizing ironic statements, even when there's no obvious tip-off. But, for what it's worth, you should be aware that irony is often missed completely when it's not expected. Readers who are unaware that Amanpour has never met a terrorist she doesn't admire would likely take your comment at face value.
A fair comment. I attempted to post an addendum that didn't go through for some reason. Going forward i shall be more blunt.
Blunt is good. Wit and subtlety are delightful for dinner conversation, but for making an impression on social media, blunt wins hands down. :)
Yes. That’s exactly what he is saying. Where does she get her information from?
I learned long ago that just because, for example, a doctor is a woman, doesn’t necessarily mean she is a woman’s doctor, but a doctor who happens to be a woman. As a woman, just because someone is a woman, does not elevate them…
Those who want to believe lies against Israel will not be changed. Don’t waste your energy on them.
David said in Psalm 139:19-
Surely Thou will slay the wicked O God . . . For they speak against Thee wickedly and Thine enemies take Thy name in vain.
What God has ordained for Israel WILL BE. All of hell cannot stop it.
Seems so obvious when you tell it.
Well said!
Those laws of war were written by Westerners... while they still believed in the morality of the West. The reality of WW II and the Nazi Holocaust largely destroyed their belief in their own culture, which means that they didn't understand the virtue of that culture. I have trouble thinking of another that would question itself over mass murder.
And, ironically, the self-doubt resulting from the mass murder of Jews has now led to applause for more mass murder of Jews.
Amazing how the holocausts of Communist China, Russia, Cambodia, and Vietnam all get swept aside through purposeful historical ignorance.
Journalistic ethics? Ha!