In today's "progressive" foreign-policy imagination, Iranian aggression is contextual, Israeli deterrence is provocative, and the Jewish state is always at fault.
We can see the modern addled Progressive mind at work here in its "all roads of evil lead to Israel/Jews" ideology.
Once the communal Progressive brain backed itself into an unthinking, reflexive "Pro-Palestinian" allegiance—which required them to not only ignore the entire history of this long conflict, the fact that Israel has offered the Palestinians their own state many times only to be always turned down, and which quickly led them to blaming Israelis for being on the receiving end of a massacre—they've trapped themselves in a moral and intellectual cul-de-sac where no revisions or new perspectives are allowed and where inside their echo chambers all that's left to say or do is crank the Jew hate volume up to 11.
This is how we've reached the point where the NYT can run a long piece on IDF rape dogs and where the Social Justice cult now openly supports a theocratic dictatorship that murders dissidents and treats women like chattel—nothing matters but supporting all enemies of Israel, no matter how odious. They've simply invested too much emotionally, socially and spiritually in the Anti-Zionist cause and all new information can only be processed in a way that keeps the cause alive and pristine. This is traditional Jew hysteria but amplified by social media and its algorithms designed to spread and intensify rage and hatred, essentially achieving in two years what took a decade for Goebbels.
What all the J Street "As A Jews" are doing now is providing the permission structure for every deranged anti-Israel conspiracy theory and giving cover to present and future Jew haters, who will think and say: If even Jews are enemies of Israel, that country must really be evil.
The J Streeters are Progressives before they're Jews, modern liberalism provides their worldviews, social lives and (most importantly) their careers, but now as Progressivism has become explicitly anti-Jewish, they are simply supporting the enemies of their own people. But of course they will be the last to see or admit this, as their paychecks demand otherwise.
JStreet has been an entirely anti-Zionist organization since the Obama administration when the Democratic party turned to it and against the formerly non partisan AIPAC.
This is lethal credentialed stupidity. Democrats look at a genocidal theocracy racing toward nuclear capability and decide the Jewish state is the problem. Iran gets “context.” Israel gets interrogation. Iran’s secrecy is a diplomatic challenge. Israel’s ambiguity is destabilizing. Spare me. The Ayatollah’s Congressional Caucus knows exactly what message it sends: keep threatening, keep enriching, keep hiding, and the Western left will blame Israel for your next move. Trump understands deterrence. These people understand therapy-speak for terrorists. Israel has never chanted death to America. Iran has. That should settle the moral question before the policy debate even begins.
Sadly you are right. I'm not sure if it is not necessary to squelch speach in this country. Perhaps congress could pass a law which requires that statements by media and congress must be truthfull and provide proof of truthfullness when politicians and news media make political statements. I don't know how you do this, but perhaps AI could be helpful. Or must, at least, present alternative views when making political statements. Atleast with respect to blanket statements which affect foreign policy and influence.
The really frightening thing is that these people are going to take power again sooner or later with a good chance of sooner and there is no longer any differentiation between Democrats. ANY Democrat elected president is going to utilize this foreign policy team. Israel had better be rapidly preparing for a day when not only will the United States not be its benefactor but may openly be its adversary.
Bob, I honestly cannot believe these people are truly that stupid. What I can believe far more easily is that many of them are morally bankrupt and willing to cower to the progressive Left because their real goal is not doing what is right, but maintaining political power.
So Israel becomes the convenient target. It is far easier politically to pressure and condemn a democratic ally than to seriously confront a fanatical regime like Iran.
And of course, one of the loudest spearheads is often a Jewish politician trying to prove his ideological credentials to the progressive world. That part is always mind-boggling to me.
But this is the upside-down world we are living in today. Rational discussion becomes almost impossible because many of these people are no longer operating from objective standards. They are operating from ideology, political incentives, and tribal alignment.
Words have been turned on their heads : progressives are anything but progressive; liberals certainly aren’t liberal; the victims of genocide, about whom the very term was created, are now deemed its sole practitioners. Orwell foresaw it all, but almost everyone falls into the linguistic traps
And if Iran had gotten nukes (they claim they had enough enriched uranium to make 11 bombs), what does the Left think would happen? First Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv. 9 bombs left. Then Saudi oil fields and/or the capital of Riyadh. Now down to 7 bombs. Then a few U.S. bases in the Mideast. 5 bombs. A couple of tankers or cargo ships to the ports of London, Boston, NYC, Baltimore/D.C., Miami. Tens of MILLIONS killed or dying. Western economies collapse. End of story! But, the leftist media (if any remains) will blame Trump.
As the great John Fetterman (D. PA), pointed out, the Democrat Party has become the party of Anti-Semitism. There is not a Nazi memorabilia fan or pro-Hamas anti-Semite whose asses today’s Democrats won’t kiss. In short, today’s Democrat Party is dead. And those on the Jewish Far Left, like J Street, or former members of the Obama-Biden administrations are irrelevant and not to be taken seriously.
Democrats these days are the new Nazis: Jew hatred, Israel hatred, America hatred and fans of Islam. Adolf would be so proud of the Democrats. Then again the Democrats are running a Nazi for Maine Senator and Nazi Nick Fuentes just announced he's a Democrat.
Sadly you are right. I'm not sure if it is not necessary to squelch speach in this country. Perhaps congress could pass a law which requires that statements by media and congress must be truthfull and provide proof of truthfullness when politicians and news media make political statements. I don't know how you do this, but perhaps AI could be helpful. Or must, at least, present alternative views when making political statements.
The American Left acts as a defense attorney for Iran. This garbage originates within Ivy League institutions, is disseminated through the media, and is further supported by politicians.
We can see the modern addled Progressive mind at work here in its "all roads of evil lead to Israel/Jews" ideology.
Once the communal Progressive brain backed itself into an unthinking, reflexive "Pro-Palestinian" allegiance—which required them to not only ignore the entire history of this long conflict, the fact that Israel has offered the Palestinians their own state many times only to be always turned down, and which quickly led them to blaming Israelis for being on the receiving end of a massacre—they've trapped themselves in a moral and intellectual cul-de-sac where no revisions or new perspectives are allowed and where inside their echo chambers all that's left to say or do is crank the Jew hate volume up to 11.
This is how we've reached the point where the NYT can run a long piece on IDF rape dogs and where the Social Justice cult now openly supports a theocratic dictatorship that murders dissidents and treats women like chattel—nothing matters but supporting all enemies of Israel, no matter how odious. They've simply invested too much emotionally, socially and spiritually in the Anti-Zionist cause and all new information can only be processed in a way that keeps the cause alive and pristine. This is traditional Jew hysteria but amplified by social media and its algorithms designed to spread and intensify rage and hatred, essentially achieving in two years what took a decade for Goebbels.
What all the J Street "As A Jews" are doing now is providing the permission structure for every deranged anti-Israel conspiracy theory and giving cover to present and future Jew haters, who will think and say: If even Jews are enemies of Israel, that country must really be evil.
The J Streeters are Progressives before they're Jews, modern liberalism provides their worldviews, social lives and (most importantly) their careers, but now as Progressivism has become explicitly anti-Jewish, they are simply supporting the enemies of their own people. But of course they will be the last to see or admit this, as their paychecks demand otherwise.
JStreet has been an entirely anti-Zionist organization since the Obama administration when the Democratic party turned to it and against the formerly non partisan AIPAC.
This is lethal credentialed stupidity. Democrats look at a genocidal theocracy racing toward nuclear capability and decide the Jewish state is the problem. Iran gets “context.” Israel gets interrogation. Iran’s secrecy is a diplomatic challenge. Israel’s ambiguity is destabilizing. Spare me. The Ayatollah’s Congressional Caucus knows exactly what message it sends: keep threatening, keep enriching, keep hiding, and the Western left will blame Israel for your next move. Trump understands deterrence. These people understand therapy-speak for terrorists. Israel has never chanted death to America. Iran has. That should settle the moral question before the policy debate even begins.
Sadly you are right. I'm not sure if it is not necessary to squelch speach in this country. Perhaps congress could pass a law which requires that statements by media and congress must be truthfull and provide proof of truthfullness when politicians and news media make political statements. I don't know how you do this, but perhaps AI could be helpful. Or must, at least, present alternative views when making political statements. Atleast with respect to blanket statements which affect foreign policy and influence.
Absolutely agree 100%!!!
The really frightening thing is that these people are going to take power again sooner or later with a good chance of sooner and there is no longer any differentiation between Democrats. ANY Democrat elected president is going to utilize this foreign policy team. Israel had better be rapidly preparing for a day when not only will the United States not be its benefactor but may openly be its adversary.
The 'progressive' news is not to be trusted; self hatred and kapo articles ... these'reporters'are rabidly in bed with our mortal enemies.
Bob, I honestly cannot believe these people are truly that stupid. What I can believe far more easily is that many of them are morally bankrupt and willing to cower to the progressive Left because their real goal is not doing what is right, but maintaining political power.
So Israel becomes the convenient target. It is far easier politically to pressure and condemn a democratic ally than to seriously confront a fanatical regime like Iran.
And of course, one of the loudest spearheads is often a Jewish politician trying to prove his ideological credentials to the progressive world. That part is always mind-boggling to me.
But this is the upside-down world we are living in today. Rational discussion becomes almost impossible because many of these people are no longer operating from objective standards. They are operating from ideology, political incentives, and tribal alignment.
With apologies to Dara Horn, if there’s one thing people love more than dead Jews, it is defenseless ones.
Words have been turned on their heads : progressives are anything but progressive; liberals certainly aren’t liberal; the victims of genocide, about whom the very term was created, are now deemed its sole practitioners. Orwell foresaw it all, but almost everyone falls into the linguistic traps
And if Iran had gotten nukes (they claim they had enough enriched uranium to make 11 bombs), what does the Left think would happen? First Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv. 9 bombs left. Then Saudi oil fields and/or the capital of Riyadh. Now down to 7 bombs. Then a few U.S. bases in the Mideast. 5 bombs. A couple of tankers or cargo ships to the ports of London, Boston, NYC, Baltimore/D.C., Miami. Tens of MILLIONS killed or dying. Western economies collapse. End of story! But, the leftist media (if any remains) will blame Trump.
“lethal credentialed stupidity” - this is the new best meme for so-called leaders who capitulate to suicidal empathy.
As the great John Fetterman (D. PA), pointed out, the Democrat Party has become the party of Anti-Semitism. There is not a Nazi memorabilia fan or pro-Hamas anti-Semite whose asses today’s Democrats won’t kiss. In short, today’s Democrat Party is dead. And those on the Jewish Far Left, like J Street, or former members of the Obama-Biden administrations are irrelevant and not to be taken seriously.
Democrats these days are the new Nazis: Jew hatred, Israel hatred, America hatred and fans of Islam. Adolf would be so proud of the Democrats. Then again the Democrats are running a Nazi for Maine Senator and Nazi Nick Fuentes just announced he's a Democrat.
Sadly you are right. I'm not sure if it is not necessary to squelch speach in this country. Perhaps congress could pass a law which requires that statements by media and congress must be truthfull and provide proof of truthfullness when politicians and news media make political statements. I don't know how you do this, but perhaps AI could be helpful. Or must, at least, present alternative views when making political statements.
The American Left acts as a defense attorney for Iran. This garbage originates within Ivy League institutions, is disseminated through the media, and is further supported by politicians.
Democrats are confusing imagination with intelligence. 🤔
I would say its propaganda with truth as well.