The children in Gaza have parents, who have agency. They choose to educate their kids to hate and kill Jews. Naturally, as a Jew, I do not have any empathy for that — or the consequences that follow.
Anyone who cares about children - any children - should want them to grow up in a world free of terrorism. And Jews aren't the ones preaching, teaching, and committing terrorism.
I am, or at least I was a humanitarian at one time. This ended on October 7. I never thought that it would be possible for me to look at and listen the news of carnage (dead women, children, and men) and feel absolutely NOTHING in the way of sympathy.
Something in my soul died on that day. Everything in the world changed irrevocably on that day.
Instead of the Western "allies" rallying with Israel and assisting in rooting out the problem, they choose to support the depraved rapists and murderers instead. Every day I am breathless with shock at the ongoing and worsening Jew-hatred. Every lie is like a punch to my gut and the world's extremely dangerous stupidity makes me want to weep with rage.
Books and Ideas for turning and rescuing Anti-Zionist Jews
You have to stand up for your Country no matter what. I was anti-Zionist once. Then I heard Real Nazi Hate Speech and I soon wised up.
I have made notes of my full transition of how I came to support Israel: Not as a Jew but as an Anti-Nazi.
For Starters, The Holocaust is a MILLION times worse than Israel's behaviour to The Palestinians. Start with the Equal Rights Arab Israelis get in Israel. Then look at Hamas's Alliance with The Nazi Party which Re-formed in 2012 here in London: All on the record now.
Then, faced with the Reality of Re-emergent Nazism and The Nazi Party, who have re-sworn to Genocide, The Jews are in the moral right.
So, when placed as a step-by-logical step, Zionism is a Moral and Political response by Jews to Nazi Genocide, and is in the Moral Right.
I know this because I have done just this as a program, and my personal journey. This was not a selfish reaction to being called an oppressor or a Colonist, but a genuine understanding and then the REAL proof of what The Jewish People face from Nazism and State-backed Neo-Nazism here in Europe.
My Challenge to Jewish Anti-Zionists is to look at the facts. Israel is the only thing that stands between us, and Genocide from The Nazis: This is Monitored and is NOW FACT.
Israel and The Jewish Agency now need to help just such Jews make this genuine Journey from Anti-Zionism, to Zionist. I did it, it is completely logical and I did it by showing that Zionism is now absolutely morally justified.
Thank you Joshua. Reading your posts supports me in my scattered thinking about this war that was started by evil people. Scattered because I see what is said on the news and from reading Aljazeera and the Times of Israel. I have a hard time discerning what is happening but your posts keep me grounded in my support of Israel. That does not veer. My husband and I can't even talk about this because of his beliefs and support of the Palestinians. He is Christian and I'm Jewish, a recent convert and a firm supporter of Zionism. All said, I so appreciate your logical and factual posts. Glad I found you!
While I agree with 100% of the facts that you stated, I strongly disagree, as a Jew, with your bottom line sentiment that we should not care about the children of Gaza. Its is exactly because we are Jews with a 3,000 year history of a just God, Torah and a Rabbinic tradition that expects us to care about the thousands of civilian lives that have been lost and and families that have been shattered. Yes, no one knows the exact numbers (which we know Hamas lies about) and it is the cowardly Hamas terrorists that hide below them in safe tunnels that are to blame here, but all that does not mean I cannot care about the children.
The difference between Jews and Palestinians is that Jews kill out of necessity for survival and they don't celebrate the deaths, while the Palestinians kill because of hatred, and they celebrate the deaths. This is something that the Western world refuses to understand because they don't know that people think differently than them. Another cultural trait that the Western world doesn't understand is that lieing is expected and encouraged in the middle east. Image is more important than the truth. Also not understood is that Hamas wants their civilians to be killed, all in the name of propaganda. Israel is not fighting Hamas just for survival. They are doing so for the civilized world. Good versus evil. It's that simple.
Excellent take. If the purportedly pro-gazans suddenly decided that they wanted nothing more than to prolong the suffering of as many gazans as possible, what would they do differently? Can you think of one thing? Nothing. They would continue doing exactly what they are doing.
Thank you for this piece it is sanity in this moment. The entire narrative behind this makes no sense. When you think of the billions that have been given to the Palestinian people and what has been done with this money. Build tunnels for war and buy weapons. They do not have a mindset to build a great nation the focus is to destroy a great nation. This narrative that the Jews want to kill Palestinians they have left their families businesses and careers to fight in IDF. Why would any Israeli citizen want to leave their beautiful life in Israel to go kill Palestinas. This is defense their existence depends on it. Also like no other people there has been a consistent and persistent pursuit of annihilating the Jewish people. Therefore you are entitled to be suspect and defend aggressively.
Then this chanting that there will be more October 7th but then they also state that October 7th never happened which one is it. Is anyone carefully listening to these protestors.
As you said they are not concerned with any of the current genocides occurring across the globe. Essays like this assure me that I am not going insane. Thank you.
As for the ones in Gaza—sorry, I no longer care. After hearing the accounts of the Jewish children who were raped, tortured, and burned alive by these subhuman ape-things—assisted by maps provided by Gazans the kibbutzniks were kind enough to employ—I DON’T CARE.
Anyone who cares about children - any children - should want them to grow up in a world free of terrorism. And Jews aren't the ones preaching, teaching, and committing terrorism.
Joshua - once again an excellent piece!
I am, or at least I was a humanitarian at one time. This ended on October 7. I never thought that it would be possible for me to look at and listen the news of carnage (dead women, children, and men) and feel absolutely NOTHING in the way of sympathy.
Something in my soul died on that day. Everything in the world changed irrevocably on that day.
Instead of the Western "allies" rallying with Israel and assisting in rooting out the problem, they choose to support the depraved rapists and murderers instead. Every day I am breathless with shock at the ongoing and worsening Jew-hatred. Every lie is like a punch to my gut and the world's extremely dangerous stupidity makes me want to weep with rage.
Am Yisrael Chai
Agreed. I haven’t believed in the “famine” for months. It doesn’t add up.
Books and Ideas for turning and rescuing Anti-Zionist Jews
You have to stand up for your Country no matter what. I was anti-Zionist once. Then I heard Real Nazi Hate Speech and I soon wised up.
I have made notes of my full transition of how I came to support Israel: Not as a Jew but as an Anti-Nazi.
For Starters, The Holocaust is a MILLION times worse than Israel's behaviour to The Palestinians. Start with the Equal Rights Arab Israelis get in Israel. Then look at Hamas's Alliance with The Nazi Party which Re-formed in 2012 here in London: All on the record now.
Then, faced with the Reality of Re-emergent Nazism and The Nazi Party, who have re-sworn to Genocide, The Jews are in the moral right.
So, when placed as a step-by-logical step, Zionism is a Moral and Political response by Jews to Nazi Genocide, and is in the Moral Right.
I know this because I have done just this as a program, and my personal journey. This was not a selfish reaction to being called an oppressor or a Colonist, but a genuine understanding and then the REAL proof of what The Jewish People face from Nazism and State-backed Neo-Nazism here in Europe.
My Challenge to Jewish Anti-Zionists is to look at the facts. Israel is the only thing that stands between us, and Genocide from The Nazis: This is Monitored and is NOW FACT.
Israel and The Jewish Agency now need to help just such Jews make this genuine Journey from Anti-Zionism, to Zionist. I did it, it is completely logical and I did it by showing that Zionism is now absolutely morally justified.
Thank you Joshua. Reading your posts supports me in my scattered thinking about this war that was started by evil people. Scattered because I see what is said on the news and from reading Aljazeera and the Times of Israel. I have a hard time discerning what is happening but your posts keep me grounded in my support of Israel. That does not veer. My husband and I can't even talk about this because of his beliefs and support of the Palestinians. He is Christian and I'm Jewish, a recent convert and a firm supporter of Zionism. All said, I so appreciate your logical and factual posts. Glad I found you!
You call it as I see it. Thank you for the clear sighted essay
Excellent piece of writing and you boldly give great examples to show the absolute hypocrisy of Hamas. Well done!
While I agree with 100% of the facts that you stated, I strongly disagree, as a Jew, with your bottom line sentiment that we should not care about the children of Gaza. Its is exactly because we are Jews with a 3,000 year history of a just God, Torah and a Rabbinic tradition that expects us to care about the thousands of civilian lives that have been lost and and families that have been shattered. Yes, no one knows the exact numbers (which we know Hamas lies about) and it is the cowardly Hamas terrorists that hide below them in safe tunnels that are to blame here, but all that does not mean I cannot care about the children.
The difference between Jews and Palestinians is that Jews kill out of necessity for survival and they don't celebrate the deaths, while the Palestinians kill because of hatred, and they celebrate the deaths. This is something that the Western world refuses to understand because they don't know that people think differently than them. Another cultural trait that the Western world doesn't understand is that lieing is expected and encouraged in the middle east. Image is more important than the truth. Also not understood is that Hamas wants their civilians to be killed, all in the name of propaganda. Israel is not fighting Hamas just for survival. They are doing so for the civilized world. Good versus evil. It's that simple.
Excellent take. If the purportedly pro-gazans suddenly decided that they wanted nothing more than to prolong the suffering of as many gazans as possible, what would they do differently? Can you think of one thing? Nothing. They would continue doing exactly what they are doing.
Change “Jews” to “Israeli oppressors” and the motivation becomes clearer.
Not a bit. Kill, or be killed. Pretty simple math, people.
Thank you for this piece it is sanity in this moment. The entire narrative behind this makes no sense. When you think of the billions that have been given to the Palestinian people and what has been done with this money. Build tunnels for war and buy weapons. They do not have a mindset to build a great nation the focus is to destroy a great nation. This narrative that the Jews want to kill Palestinians they have left their families businesses and careers to fight in IDF. Why would any Israeli citizen want to leave their beautiful life in Israel to go kill Palestinas. This is defense their existence depends on it. Also like no other people there has been a consistent and persistent pursuit of annihilating the Jewish people. Therefore you are entitled to be suspect and defend aggressively.
Then this chanting that there will be more October 7th but then they also state that October 7th never happened which one is it. Is anyone carefully listening to these protestors.
As you said they are not concerned with any of the current genocides occurring across the globe. Essays like this assure me that I am not going insane. Thank you.
What about this, sir? Should we not care about these “children” either?
Also, what about these “adults”? Do they live up to the moral high ground the country claims to be on?
https://twitter.com/ArielElyseGold/status/1399670268684128258
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-deputy-defense-minister-called-palestinians-animals/
I would appreciate an intellectually honest answer. Thanks.
Myriam Monsonego
Arié and Gabriel Sandler
Shalhevet Pass
Yoav, Elad and Hadas Fogel
Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran
Halelli Ariel
Hila, Hadar, Roni, Merav, and unborn baby Hatuel
These are just a few children I care about.
As for the ones in Gaza—sorry, I no longer care. After hearing the accounts of the Jewish children who were raped, tortured, and burned alive by these subhuman ape-things—assisted by maps provided by Gazans the kibbutzniks were kind enough to employ—I DON’T CARE.
We have compassion for them because they were raised that way.