Nachum, I think you're right, but I would take it one step further.
The people who refuse to learn the lesson about Israel often refuse to learn the lesson about their own countries as well.
The same worldview that believes peace automatically creates security is the worldview that believes multiculturalism automatically creates harmony, that every culture is compatible with every other culture, that borders don't matter, that ideology doesn't matter, and that if we are simply tolerant enough, everyone will eventually get along.
Look at what is happening in parts of Europe. Look at England. Look at the social tensions, the parallel communities, the growing polarization, and the fears many ordinary citizens now openly express about the future of their own countries.
Yet many of the same political leaders who failed to understand the threat facing Israel seem equally unable to recognize the problems developing in their own societies.
You would think October 7 would have been a wake-up call. You would think years of rising tensions in Europe would have been a wake-up call. But they don't seem to wake up.
Instead, they cling to the same assumptions, the same slogans, and the same comforting narratives.
What frustrates me is that reality keeps presenting them with evidence, and they keep looking away. At some point, it stops being a lack of information and starts becoming a refusal to confront unpleasant truths.
Agreed, but perhaps within the West there is this obsessive fear with being called "racist." This has got to stop. Stop thinking we are the worst thing in the history of humankind. We are not. Stop this suicidal empathy.
Security is all - the ludicrous thing about Western politicians is that, despite all the evidence, they will never be able to admit they were wrong and Israel was right.
On the money! And have you noticed how the news - even including FOX, which is generally fair in covering Israel - has omitted reporting that Israel's attacks on Lebanon are a RESPONSE to Hizbullah's attacks on Israel's northern communities? They report, "Israel attacked Beirut this afternoon..." with no explanation whatsoever.
Long live Israel 🇮🇱 💙. You have every right to protect your people and home. Iran can never be trusted. I admire Israels capabilities and i do think there is jealousy over the competency. I love Israel 🇮🇱 and the IDF.
We Jews have been reciting Psalm 29:11 for millennia. And it tells us which must come first. "The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace." But our problem has been we haven't had strength for millennia, and have had to rely on friendship with bigger and stronger allies. And our Left wing brothers and sisters unfortunately believed more in the Beatles dream strategy of "Give Peace a Chance." Truth is you cannot change the spots of a leopard or a terrorist. The terrorist has to change themselves first, and only then can you talk peace. Shimon Peres' talents and ego didn't understand that. Unfortunately Psalm 120:7 states the reality we still face: "I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war."
Many people find it unlikely that the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel was truly unexpected by Israeli intelligence, albeit it may have been deadlier than the hypothetical Israeli insiders had anticipated. Regardless of the increasingly self-compromised mostly-corporatized Western mainstream news-media (unlike genuinely independent news outlets) basically deeming it non-newsworthy, it's no real secret that Israeli officials had been warned in advance by at least one credible source.
Those many innocent Israeli lives lost may be considered by the increasingly immorally opportunistic prime minister, and ilk, as a good investment or return — i.e. the ethnic cleansing and/or mass murder of Palestinian non-combatants from their land, followed by its annexation along with its natural resources. The 10/7/23 assault also conveniently enabled the Netanyahu government/IDF to justify or excuse extreme emergency war measures, then force through his/their ‘democratic reforms’. And, of course, Netanyahu's own personal corruptions while in office would go unpunished, at least for the foreseeable future.
Westerners think like westerners. It’s hard not to.
But Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian military, and other enemies don’t think like westerners because they are not westerners.
Sitting down to talk peace with someone who believes killing you is the highest value they can achieve is like offering a rare roast beef sandwich to a dedicated vegan. It is a waste of time.
The international community doesn't genuinely want stability in the Middle East. It's not obsessed over abstract “peace processes”! Israel should start focusing on the security realities that determine the fact that peace doesn't have a chance in the ME.
The international community still does not understand how the Jews survived 2 millennium of persecution, so they use all the tricks in the book to blame the lack of peace on the Jews and continue to support and fund Islamic terrorist organizations.
But all these hate mongers have a surprise coming.
To paraphrase he who shall not be named, "Here I stand with my panzers and my storm troops. There you stand with your law books and your treaties on scraps of paper. Which one of us do you think will prevail?" It was true in 1939 and it is still true now
The last sentence in so many of these paragraphs are profound in their simplicity. I’d like to pluck them out and scatter them down into a poem. I agree with your message, have been blue faced with explaining it, and have given up. Your essay gives me a little boost. I did submit a few poems yesterday to a journal calling for submissions about resistance, blah blah blah, knowing full well that they are looking for the accepted narrative in the poetry world, that Israel is an apartheid genocidal oppressor, not the “Zionist” perspective, just to give the editors a little slap. What a house of mirrors. Thank you for having the energy to keep at it.
JEWS DID 911 & 10/7 and had the hutzpah to blame it on “the” Muslims and dropped an ungodly amount of Jewish bombs over these gargantuan Jewish lies. Because not enough folks spoke up about how 911 was a flagrantly obvious Jewish job, the same top Jews did 10/7 as another obvious false flag operation, and there's a mountain of incontrovertible evidence to prove it. The emperor wears no clothes and I think it's about time people faced reality.
Why did 10/7 happen? It was the primitive stigma taboo social shunning fear of job loss, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias and virtue signalling that prevented most folks from speaking against the passport in the rubble+Muslims in a cave boxcutter narrative-Let's go to the videotape to see the real 911 criminals, who are Jewish: https://odysee.com/@SubZero3639:c/911-Missing-Links-(FULL):5
And I repeat, 10/7 happened because 911 emboldened the Jewish criminal masterminds at the top, and now, they have run amok. For those of you RETARTS who think rump the donald is in charge, here's some good links about how he is a mere showman in the jbankers show government, the best divide and conquer asset they ever had, another stooge lackey frontman for the Jewish money power in the white house since Woodrow Wilson. Rump became a Made Man through the huge jewish heroin money “casino” resorts international. The Don's daddy Fred did also have astonishingly close ties to Jewish organized crime when the orange retart was just a wee lad
I'm Muslim. What Iran does will never eliminate the Jewish nation. All the world should put into consideration that Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian military do not relate to or represent Islam. They never know the real word of " Allah". At the end Israel will remain as this land is it's home. The Holy Quran say that.
Nachum, I think you're right, but I would take it one step further.
The people who refuse to learn the lesson about Israel often refuse to learn the lesson about their own countries as well.
The same worldview that believes peace automatically creates security is the worldview that believes multiculturalism automatically creates harmony, that every culture is compatible with every other culture, that borders don't matter, that ideology doesn't matter, and that if we are simply tolerant enough, everyone will eventually get along.
Look at what is happening in parts of Europe. Look at England. Look at the social tensions, the parallel communities, the growing polarization, and the fears many ordinary citizens now openly express about the future of their own countries.
Yet many of the same political leaders who failed to understand the threat facing Israel seem equally unable to recognize the problems developing in their own societies.
You would think October 7 would have been a wake-up call. You would think years of rising tensions in Europe would have been a wake-up call. But they don't seem to wake up.
Instead, they cling to the same assumptions, the same slogans, and the same comforting narratives.
What frustrates me is that reality keeps presenting them with evidence, and they keep looking away. At some point, it stops being a lack of information and starts becoming a refusal to confront unpleasant truths.
That may be the biggest problem of all.
Moslems have been the one people that have neither accepted nor respected the culture(s) of their host country.
Yes, you're 100% right, Paul.
Agreed, but perhaps within the West there is this obsessive fear with being called "racist." This has got to stop. Stop thinking we are the worst thing in the history of humankind. We are not. Stop this suicidal empathy.
By God you nailed it there.
Security is all - the ludicrous thing about Western politicians is that, despite all the evidence, they will never be able to admit they were wrong and Israel was right.
Say it out loud my GOODMAN
On the money! And have you noticed how the news - even including FOX, which is generally fair in covering Israel - has omitted reporting that Israel's attacks on Lebanon are a RESPONSE to Hizbullah's attacks on Israel's northern communities? They report, "Israel attacked Beirut this afternoon..." with no explanation whatsoever.
Long live Israel 🇮🇱 💙. You have every right to protect your people and home. Iran can never be trusted. I admire Israels capabilities and i do think there is jealousy over the competency. I love Israel 🇮🇱 and the IDF.
Also a good point. Jealousy plays a part in all of it.
We Jews have been reciting Psalm 29:11 for millennia. And it tells us which must come first. "The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace." But our problem has been we haven't had strength for millennia, and have had to rely on friendship with bigger and stronger allies. And our Left wing brothers and sisters unfortunately believed more in the Beatles dream strategy of "Give Peace a Chance." Truth is you cannot change the spots of a leopard or a terrorist. The terrorist has to change themselves first, and only then can you talk peace. Shimon Peres' talents and ego didn't understand that. Unfortunately Psalm 120:7 states the reality we still face: "I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war."
Committed terrorists will never change. They need to be killed and killed dead.
Even the next generation are weened on Jew hatred and become terrorists.
Many people find it unlikely that the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel was truly unexpected by Israeli intelligence, albeit it may have been deadlier than the hypothetical Israeli insiders had anticipated. Regardless of the increasingly self-compromised mostly-corporatized Western mainstream news-media (unlike genuinely independent news outlets) basically deeming it non-newsworthy, it's no real secret that Israeli officials had been warned in advance by at least one credible source.
Those many innocent Israeli lives lost may be considered by the increasingly immorally opportunistic prime minister, and ilk, as a good investment or return — i.e. the ethnic cleansing and/or mass murder of Palestinian non-combatants from their land, followed by its annexation along with its natural resources. The 10/7/23 assault also conveniently enabled the Netanyahu government/IDF to justify or excuse extreme emergency war measures, then force through his/their ‘democratic reforms’. And, of course, Netanyahu's own personal corruptions while in office would go unpunished, at least for the foreseeable future.
The highest goal - hitbodedut
annihilation of the ego.
Peace doesn't "sell" ... I don't think a lot of the West will ever get smarter... Our loss 😔💔
Israel is playing this the best way possible, I think.... Some things won't change 😕
Agree 💯 👍👌🙌
Westerners think like westerners. It’s hard not to.
But Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian military, and other enemies don’t think like westerners because they are not westerners.
Sitting down to talk peace with someone who believes killing you is the highest value they can achieve is like offering a rare roast beef sandwich to a dedicated vegan. It is a waste of time.
👍 yes 👏🏻
The international community doesn't genuinely want stability in the Middle East. It's not obsessed over abstract “peace processes”! Israel should start focusing on the security realities that determine the fact that peace doesn't have a chance in the ME.
The international community still does not understand how the Jews survived 2 millennium of persecution, so they use all the tricks in the book to blame the lack of peace on the Jews and continue to support and fund Islamic terrorist organizations.
But all these hate mongers have a surprise coming.
God works in mysterious ways.
To paraphrase he who shall not be named, "Here I stand with my panzers and my storm troops. There you stand with your law books and your treaties on scraps of paper. Which one of us do you think will prevail?" It was true in 1939 and it is still true now
GOD BLESS ISRAEL AND ITS PEOPLE
Yes and to be clear, the Iranian Guard, the Ayatollahs and the proxies must be obliterated. That's the security we're talking about.
Maybe that’s why in Israel one reads from right to left.
They all want every Jew off the face of the earth. Jews= God
The last sentence in so many of these paragraphs are profound in their simplicity. I’d like to pluck them out and scatter them down into a poem. I agree with your message, have been blue faced with explaining it, and have given up. Your essay gives me a little boost. I did submit a few poems yesterday to a journal calling for submissions about resistance, blah blah blah, knowing full well that they are looking for the accepted narrative in the poetry world, that Israel is an apartheid genocidal oppressor, not the “Zionist” perspective, just to give the editors a little slap. What a house of mirrors. Thank you for having the energy to keep at it.
JEWS DID 911 & 10/7 and had the hutzpah to blame it on “the” Muslims and dropped an ungodly amount of Jewish bombs over these gargantuan Jewish lies. Because not enough folks spoke up about how 911 was a flagrantly obvious Jewish job, the same top Jews did 10/7 as another obvious false flag operation, and there's a mountain of incontrovertible evidence to prove it. The emperor wears no clothes and I think it's about time people faced reality.
Why did 10/7 happen? It was the primitive stigma taboo social shunning fear of job loss, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias and virtue signalling that prevented most folks from speaking against the passport in the rubble+Muslims in a cave boxcutter narrative-Let's go to the videotape to see the real 911 criminals, who are Jewish: https://odysee.com/@SubZero3639:c/911-Missing-Links-(FULL):5
And I repeat, 10/7 happened because 911 emboldened the Jewish criminal masterminds at the top, and now, they have run amok. For those of you RETARTS who think rump the donald is in charge, here's some good links about how he is a mere showman in the jbankers show government, the best divide and conquer asset they ever had, another stooge lackey frontman for the Jewish money power in the white house since Woodrow Wilson. Rump became a Made Man through the huge jewish heroin money “casino” resorts international. The Don's daddy Fred did also have astonishingly close ties to Jewish organized crime when the orange retart was just a wee lad
https://americanfreepress.net/who-towers-behind-trump/
https://mintpressnews.cn/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
https://mintpressnews.cn/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/speculation-mark-hamas-attack-allowed-close-book-palestine/5836029
The IRGC must be eliminated and as well their proxies sooner than later in order to provide security.
I'm Muslim. What Iran does will never eliminate the Jewish nation. All the world should put into consideration that Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian military do not relate to or represent Islam. They never know the real word of " Allah". At the end Israel will remain as this land is it's home. The Holy Quran say that.