The West continues to believe, or at least pretend, that this is about land or a Palestinian state or undoing the shackles of colonialism or whatever sanctimonious and self-righteous label you choose. If only the Palestinians had a state blah blah blah. If only Israel would stop doing this blah blah blah. If this were merely a territorial dispute, then the Palestinians would have accepted the myriad of “land for peace” deals offered them in the past 78 years. If this were merely a territorial dispute, the Palestinians would have lived peacefully in Gaza rather than turning it into a terror state. In reality, this is jihad, a religious war against the Jews. The Hamas Charter speaks of killing Jews - not just Israelis - everywhere. Every week the Islamists scream “globalize the intifada,” “from the river to the sea” or “Khaybar Khaybar al Yahood.” These aren’t calls for peace, they are calls for a holy war. Islamism demands jihad so rejecting jihad is blasphemy. Even if there is peace in Gaza tomorrow and the Palestinians are gifted a state as a reward for 10/7, Islam’s war against Israel and the Jews will continue.
I would like to see: 1) all tunnels filled with concrete or demolished; 2) an elimination of Right of Return and refugee status; 3) NO Israeli help in reconstructing Gaza -- no electricity, no water no currency, no jobs in Israel proper. They want this land? It is theirs to develop with the billions they will get from surrounding Arab nations. By providing the basic necessities, Israel allowed them to divert the billions received to munitions. No more. 4) One act of terror, one rocket, and it's all over.
It won’t stop until Iran gets nuclear weapons and uses them and that day, sadly, is coming sooner than most think. As long as it’s just Jews dying the Europeans will always find a reason to do nothing. But Islam has bigger plans than just Israel.
As long as Shi’ism is the founding principle of the Islamic Republic of Iran, nuclear annihilation is a threat. And since that Islamic Republic of Iran cannot be allowed that weapon, Israel will need to undermine that regime.
If the UN was of any use, Iran could be tamed.
It’s a test for the UN.
Success and you live for another day. Otherwise you’re next on the list of replaceable institutions.
Your article shows intimate personal feelings as you should. I feel very much the same way. My feeling on the whole matter is to look back at our history. They have been murdering Jews for at the least the past three thousand years or more. Let's face it they, the world, hates us and will continue without let up. The sooner we come to grips with this the better. If things go the way they have been going I feel the next three thousand will be like the last three thousand. Shalom Dan
Yes! Bravo. And this is why I can't understand why Spain is not quaking in its boots. Anyway, we must stop caring about being called Islamophobic -- it is sane and rational to fear the barbarian; we must top caring about being called racist -- the ideology of the Islamists makes them a race worth hating and fighting against.
I think this is incorrect because it super-imposes a rather recent (and mostly Protestant) definition of religion that distorts the essence of Islam.
You write “To be clear: Islam and Islamism are not the same. Islam is a religion practiced by nearly two billion people. Islamism is a political ideology that fuses religion with state power, demands clerical rule, the implementation of sharia law, and weaponizes antisemitism as a central plank.”
Islamism is in fact grounded in the teachings of Islam. It is not like, say, anarchism or Marxism that, while having developed in Christian Europe, are quite independent of Christianity.
There is no conception within Islam of a separation between church and state. They are inseparable because Islam existed before that concept was born and, unlike Judaism whose scriptures also made no such distinction but came to accept and incorporate it through interpretation. That’s why Sharia is the legal standard in Muslim countries while Halacha is not the legal standard in Israel.
The real distinction within Islam is between the fundamentalists who believe not only that everything in the Quran and Hadiths are true and that Muhammad was perfect and a model of their own behavior, and those who are more “à la carte” Muslims for whom Islam is perhaps a marker of identity but its details remain somewhat vague and secondary to making ends meet. So, yes to prayer five times a day, yes to halal food but definitely no to dying for the sake of Allah for any reason.
Whether Islam can reinterpret itself in a manner similar to Judaism is an open question, but the prospects are not bright.
The Jews were an oppressed minority and their faith was constantly reinterpreted to take that omnipresent reality into account. For nearly 2,000 years they were a stateless people living essentially at the sufferance of the majority population, whether Christian or Muslim.
In contrast, Muslims control some 57 countries and, historically, Islam has closed the so-called gates of interpretation around the 12th century. Not surprisingly, this occurred at the height of their imperial project, a bit of hubris maybe. So there are multiple hurdles facing Islam before any chance of an “Islamic reformation” can happen.
Perhaps the best one can hope for in the short term is for a majority within Islam to adopt something close to the Jewish view of the coming of the Messiah: it will occur on its own schedule and there’s nothing mankind can do to accelerate it.
At any rate, it for Muslims to sort out by themselves.
You treat this as an abstract discussion and treat the issue as if logic has a place dealing with Islam. There is no logic in use, but fanaticism. On the other hand, to Jews are concerned about surviving today, and the Jew hatred is endangering our loved ones and communities. In fact many are thinking of how do we flee these cursed Jew hating countries which are supported by the socialist governments in power like Canada, Australia, and Britain. Jews in Western Europe are in more danger as they have millions of jihadists and the Red Guards who support them fully., The reasons? . Socialist governments, weak non-Socialist governments with the government frantically try to get Muslims to vote for them so they will survive, or deep, deep millennium hatred such as in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Norway, Holland, France and Italy.
They definitely need “an enlightenment “, but failing that we must remain super vigilant of the silent conquest. Without the separation of Mosque and State, multiculturalism is doomed. We have no desire to adapt their standards, so let them keep their practices in the 54 countries accepting them.
Great piece but yer lookin' at a giant watermelon (haha) an' tryin' ta say there's a few "bad seeds" inside but the rest are all worth eatin'/ignorin'--nope.
Islamism IS Islam... entire faith built on joo-hate (how they git their 72 Virgins). Those that don't wanna actively go out an' kill da joos are not follerin' their faith (which is innately political) to a tee.... An' that's why there are some that are peaceful. There's no "Reform, Conservative, Humanistic" Muzzies.
Moderates? Normies? See how many average Muslims denounce joo hatred or how many ordinary Gazans helped the hostages they were tasked with "holdin'," how many spoke out in support of da joos? The "Resistance" like some good Christians formed fer the Joos in YourUP durin' WWII. How many Muzzies like THAT? ZERO!!!!!
Sure, they might not themselfs wanna don the vests an' blow themselfs up fer Allah AchBar, but they would ALWAYS stand by those that kill. There are mebbe (mebbe?) 4-5 Muslims (not ex-muslims) whose voices I hear speakin' up "FOR" Israel / "FOR" da Jews...
It is not that they don't notice. Either they support the "world wide Intifada, that is the eradication of all Jews in the world, especially in their own countries, or they support the eradication of all Jews in Israel, and the attitude that Jews who die elsewhere is just collateral damage, met with shrugs. You have too high regard of most of the non-Jews, in the world. Their silence or their vocal and active support tells you they are no different than the Germans in the 1930s.
Thank you so much for your wonderful/educational essay !!!!!......" the protestors " all over the world loudly are saying " from the river to the sea ", " by all means necessary ", " globalized the intifada " .....Multiple times the " Palestinians " rejected the idea of having their state next to the estate of Israel..why ? Because they want the elimination (God forbid ) of our beloved Israel and the elimination (God forbid) of all the Jews !!!!! ....
Islam is not capable of a reformation because there are no stories in the Koran which require interpretation and divergence of opinion. Plus Mohammed was an illiterate so everything is mixed up as happens when the message is conveyed orally, typical of a tribal culture where defending one's honour (and the land one once conquered) is the most important issue at stake for societal survival. Islam should be pilloried and held to account, but since the West thinks everyone thinks like them as democracies tend to universalize their expectations, they keep telling us Islam is a peaceful religion, when it is not. And to lock down their blindness our elites hectoring us about non-existent Islamophobia. Not to mention all this adds to millennial Jew hatred which the left today, as ever since Marx, nourishes itself on antisemitism and leads inevitably to it. Jews need to make life difficult for our enemies. Israel needs to do that and Diaspora Jews need to do that. The time for talk and letter-writing is over. Good for Manchester Jews for booing the antisemite Lammy. A small start.
The West continues to believe, or at least pretend, that this is about land or a Palestinian state or undoing the shackles of colonialism or whatever sanctimonious and self-righteous label you choose. If only the Palestinians had a state blah blah blah. If only Israel would stop doing this blah blah blah. If this were merely a territorial dispute, then the Palestinians would have accepted the myriad of “land for peace” deals offered them in the past 78 years. If this were merely a territorial dispute, the Palestinians would have lived peacefully in Gaza rather than turning it into a terror state. In reality, this is jihad, a religious war against the Jews. The Hamas Charter speaks of killing Jews - not just Israelis - everywhere. Every week the Islamists scream “globalize the intifada,” “from the river to the sea” or “Khaybar Khaybar al Yahood.” These aren’t calls for peace, they are calls for a holy war. Islamism demands jihad so rejecting jihad is blasphemy. Even if there is peace in Gaza tomorrow and the Palestinians are gifted a state as a reward for 10/7, Islam’s war against Israel and the Jews will continue.
I would like to see: 1) all tunnels filled with concrete or demolished; 2) an elimination of Right of Return and refugee status; 3) NO Israeli help in reconstructing Gaza -- no electricity, no water no currency, no jobs in Israel proper. They want this land? It is theirs to develop with the billions they will get from surrounding Arab nations. By providing the basic necessities, Israel allowed them to divert the billions received to munitions. No more. 4) One act of terror, one rocket, and it's all over.
Your right. Always prepared is the moto of the Boy Scouts and now Israel.
Great article. Clear, honest and gets at the crux of this awful antisemitic world we are living in
Brave, intelligent and truthful article. Thank you.
It won’t stop until Iran gets nuclear weapons and uses them and that day, sadly, is coming sooner than most think. As long as it’s just Jews dying the Europeans will always find a reason to do nothing. But Islam has bigger plans than just Israel.
As long as Shi’ism is the founding principle of the Islamic Republic of Iran, nuclear annihilation is a threat. And since that Islamic Republic of Iran cannot be allowed that weapon, Israel will need to undermine that regime.
If the UN was of any use, Iran could be tamed.
It’s a test for the UN.
Success and you live for another day. Otherwise you’re next on the list of replaceable institutions.
They should move the UN to Idaho.
That’s presents a vision of the ambassadors and limousines scouring the potato fields for a decent lunch.
Priceless.
Good one!!
GOD BLESS ISRAEL AND ITS PEOPLE
Your article shows intimate personal feelings as you should. I feel very much the same way. My feeling on the whole matter is to look back at our history. They have been murdering Jews for at the least the past three thousand years or more. Let's face it they, the world, hates us and will continue without let up. The sooner we come to grips with this the better. If things go the way they have been going I feel the next three thousand will be like the last three thousand. Shalom Dan
Yes! Bravo. And this is why I can't understand why Spain is not quaking in its boots. Anyway, we must stop caring about being called Islamophobic -- it is sane and rational to fear the barbarian; we must top caring about being called racist -- the ideology of the Islamists makes them a race worth hating and fighting against.
Truth! ⭐💪🏻
I think this is incorrect because it super-imposes a rather recent (and mostly Protestant) definition of religion that distorts the essence of Islam.
You write “To be clear: Islam and Islamism are not the same. Islam is a religion practiced by nearly two billion people. Islamism is a political ideology that fuses religion with state power, demands clerical rule, the implementation of sharia law, and weaponizes antisemitism as a central plank.”
Islamism is in fact grounded in the teachings of Islam. It is not like, say, anarchism or Marxism that, while having developed in Christian Europe, are quite independent of Christianity.
There is no conception within Islam of a separation between church and state. They are inseparable because Islam existed before that concept was born and, unlike Judaism whose scriptures also made no such distinction but came to accept and incorporate it through interpretation. That’s why Sharia is the legal standard in Muslim countries while Halacha is not the legal standard in Israel.
The real distinction within Islam is between the fundamentalists who believe not only that everything in the Quran and Hadiths are true and that Muhammad was perfect and a model of their own behavior, and those who are more “à la carte” Muslims for whom Islam is perhaps a marker of identity but its details remain somewhat vague and secondary to making ends meet. So, yes to prayer five times a day, yes to halal food but definitely no to dying for the sake of Allah for any reason.
Whether Islam can reinterpret itself in a manner similar to Judaism is an open question, but the prospects are not bright.
The Jews were an oppressed minority and their faith was constantly reinterpreted to take that omnipresent reality into account. For nearly 2,000 years they were a stateless people living essentially at the sufferance of the majority population, whether Christian or Muslim.
In contrast, Muslims control some 57 countries and, historically, Islam has closed the so-called gates of interpretation around the 12th century. Not surprisingly, this occurred at the height of their imperial project, a bit of hubris maybe. So there are multiple hurdles facing Islam before any chance of an “Islamic reformation” can happen.
Perhaps the best one can hope for in the short term is for a majority within Islam to adopt something close to the Jewish view of the coming of the Messiah: it will occur on its own schedule and there’s nothing mankind can do to accelerate it.
At any rate, it for Muslims to sort out by themselves.
You treat this as an abstract discussion and treat the issue as if logic has a place dealing with Islam. There is no logic in use, but fanaticism. On the other hand, to Jews are concerned about surviving today, and the Jew hatred is endangering our loved ones and communities. In fact many are thinking of how do we flee these cursed Jew hating countries which are supported by the socialist governments in power like Canada, Australia, and Britain. Jews in Western Europe are in more danger as they have millions of jihadists and the Red Guards who support them fully., The reasons? . Socialist governments, weak non-Socialist governments with the government frantically try to get Muslims to vote for them so they will survive, or deep, deep millennium hatred such as in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Norway, Holland, France and Italy.
They definitely need “an enlightenment “, but failing that we must remain super vigilant of the silent conquest. Without the separation of Mosque and State, multiculturalism is doomed. We have no desire to adapt their standards, so let them keep their practices in the 54 countries accepting them.
Great piece but yer lookin' at a giant watermelon (haha) an' tryin' ta say there's a few "bad seeds" inside but the rest are all worth eatin'/ignorin'--nope.
Islamism IS Islam... entire faith built on joo-hate (how they git their 72 Virgins). Those that don't wanna actively go out an' kill da joos are not follerin' their faith (which is innately political) to a tee.... An' that's why there are some that are peaceful. There's no "Reform, Conservative, Humanistic" Muzzies.
Moderates? Normies? See how many average Muslims denounce joo hatred or how many ordinary Gazans helped the hostages they were tasked with "holdin'," how many spoke out in support of da joos? The "Resistance" like some good Christians formed fer the Joos in YourUP durin' WWII. How many Muzzies like THAT? ZERO!!!!!
Sure, they might not themselfs wanna don the vests an' blow themselfs up fer Allah AchBar, but they would ALWAYS stand by those that kill. There are mebbe (mebbe?) 4-5 Muslims (not ex-muslims) whose voices I hear speakin' up "FOR" Israel / "FOR" da Jews...
Islam IS Islam-IZM....
https://hellish2050.substack.com/p/the-government-is-lying-about-the?
(deleted a duplicate below :-)
Dimwit politicians allow this madness to spread. What happens when your children don’t have boundaries - chaos ensues.
Hate to see the behaviour of the children of these politicians. Must be a big disappointment to the grandparents. Obviously the parents don’t care.
It is not that they don't notice. Either they support the "world wide Intifada, that is the eradication of all Jews in the world, especially in their own countries, or they support the eradication of all Jews in Israel, and the attitude that Jews who die elsewhere is just collateral damage, met with shrugs. You have too high regard of most of the non-Jews, in the world. Their silence or their vocal and active support tells you they are no different than the Germans in the 1930s.
Thank you so much for your wonderful/educational essay !!!!!......" the protestors " all over the world loudly are saying " from the river to the sea ", " by all means necessary ", " globalized the intifada " .....Multiple times the " Palestinians " rejected the idea of having their state next to the estate of Israel..why ? Because they want the elimination (God forbid ) of our beloved Israel and the elimination (God forbid) of all the Jews !!!!! ....
Islamism?
There is only Islam.
Islam is not capable of a reformation because there are no stories in the Koran which require interpretation and divergence of opinion. Plus Mohammed was an illiterate so everything is mixed up as happens when the message is conveyed orally, typical of a tribal culture where defending one's honour (and the land one once conquered) is the most important issue at stake for societal survival. Islam should be pilloried and held to account, but since the West thinks everyone thinks like them as democracies tend to universalize their expectations, they keep telling us Islam is a peaceful religion, when it is not. And to lock down their blindness our elites hectoring us about non-existent Islamophobia. Not to mention all this adds to millennial Jew hatred which the left today, as ever since Marx, nourishes itself on antisemitism and leads inevitably to it. Jews need to make life difficult for our enemies. Israel needs to do that and Diaspora Jews need to do that. The time for talk and letter-writing is over. Good for Manchester Jews for booing the antisemite Lammy. A small start.
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