Great essay. I especially appreciate the part about Israel being imperfect but still a decent country. David Horowitz has observed that one of the problems with leftist radicals is that they continually judge reality against their utopian ideals, against which it can never measure up. They can't come to grips with the fact that the utopian standard against which they judge reality is unattainable. Hence Israel, America, and other decent but flawed places are deemed irredeemably evil, while truly evil groups like Hamas and communist governments are given a pass because they are supposedly driven to their actions by the irredeemable evil of places like Israel and the USA, while also fighting for the utopian ideal.
I was literally just arguing with ppl about this on Threads. They were telling ppl spreading antisemitic libels to “keep standing up for the voiceless” and were saying America and Israel were the worst places on the planet. I said “then why does everyone keep risking life and limb to come to the U.S?” and I just got abuse for it. Ppl are always dumber than I think they are gonna be.
Reminds me of Winston Churchill saying, "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
In the same way we could say the US and Israel are the worst countries in the world except for most of the other countries...
Ironically, I just emailed Chris Van Hollen, my own legislator, who did some magnificent grandstanding fighting for the rights of the Maryland man - undocumented immigrant Abrego Garcia - wrongly deported. I suggested he go visit Edan Alexander, the AMERICAN kidnapped by Hamas. Surely he can do the same for the American as he has for Garcia? (yes...I know he won't even read it...but still...)
Bravo Michal. Keep trying. If the "press" got interested, maybe there would be more action for America to rescue an American. We all feel bad about extrajudicial deportation. Maybe it explains the impaired ethics that allow the US to ignore a Jew kidnaped by other impaired paramilitaries.
Great point!! When 53 Americans were taken hostage I Iran in late 1979 that's all you heard about every single day. What the hell happened? Oh yeah, he's a Jew.
Appropriately named Kapo-Jew, Ted Koppel, literally rose to fame hosting Nightline, a nightly news show on ABC, whose sole focus was reminding viewers exactly how many days the Americans had been held hostage in Iran. Have you heard a single supportive word from him about American hostages held by Hamas? I haven't. And antisemitic ABC certainly wouldn't be interested in airing that story one time, let alone dedicating a nightly half hour to the subject.
It is shocking to me how few Americans know Edan Alexander’s name. We should be demanding that Hamas release him. We should be bombing Iran’s nuclear sites. We should be insisting that other Arab countries take in Gazans. I am tired of our lack of action.
Israel and Israelis may indeed be imperfect.......BUT....a woman offered me her seat on the bus in Tel Aviv....when I Looked distressed trying to find my friend's address, a woman and her son stopped to help....and so on. A band from Ireland has no problem with a "f*ck Israel" message at Cochella. Only one state in the world with a Jewish majority. The Harvard President is a Jew....sort of...and is "resisting" the great Orange Monster. Just like his bud Khalil...is "resisting" Reading Douglas Murray's newest book....after Oct. 7th not ONE demonstration against hamas and for the return of the hostages. Every time there is a "protest' the news zeroes on the asajews "JEWS SAY" free Khalil.....free Kilmore......is that his name...kill more? Schapiro's house is firebombed on Pesach for "Palestine" NO one really cares. Schapiro himself is a asajew for "Palestinian dignity" If anyone cared about Palestinian dignity then along with Edan the name of the tortured and murdered Gazan 21 year old would be on posters from Columbia to Berkely with lecture halls named for him. I could go on.....another good essay Joshua.
Thank you for talking about Edan Alexander. I have felt sick since hearing that Hamas “lost touch” with his captors. I pray for his return and the 58 others, while ignorant Americans are supporting Hamas apologists.
You are always spot on. I don't know how you do it, but your words need to be seen by more people than you reach. You make the point that democracy can be flawed, but still a better alternative than oligarchy such as we are very near now in the US. Nothing - no system creates a utopia- a utopia cannot exist ever because the people creatring the society and working within its realms are themselves flawed- but it can be a hell of a lot better thsan what we have now. Everything cut is under the guise of "cutting the deficit" when the fact remains nothing could be further than the truth- not even 1% of the deficit will be touched. But what the world saw is Hamas- a truly ugly, terrifying hateful organization unleash power against civilians through torture, rape, burning,etc and the world stayed silent when Israel retaliated. The stats with respect to Gazans hurt and killed were manufactured- and still the world believed. Only Jews throughout history and now Israel get treated this way. There is our whole long, awful history of torture, elimination, abuse, defilement and exile and still the world will not care. I think Israel is wise to keep their country as safe as possible no matter what form that takes. They will be blamed anyway and their existence is absolutely essential in this world and was essentioal in the past. It took the murder of 6 million to create a little bit of world-guilt for the vote to establish Israel, but that would not happen today. Keep writing and let us know how we can see that what you say is heard by many more!
Excellent. We must continue to try to tell this to the world around us. To ignorant college students wearing kefiyahs (and masks) and to our friends and family who just don't understand.
There was a show that came out of Israel after the 6 Day War, "To Live Another Summer, To Pass Another Winter." One of the songs is "We're Sorry We Won It." Very cute. Done with everyone wearing an eyepatch over one eye.
What’s currently driving me mad is how people are like “they’re trying to silence me! But nay, I will speak out because we must stand for the voiceless! Free Palestine!” The Irish band who are hard for terrorists at Coachella, perfect example. Despite Trump being pro-Israel (for now), “free Palestine” IS the status quo opinion. You are not “speaking out” and you’re not brave for doing the thing that everyone else is doing, the thing you know will get applause while bigots reward bigots and pretend they’re all Nelson Mandela. They are cowardly dolts pretending that they’re doing something difficult yet moral.
Bravo Joshua......as always. an utterly honest, wonderful essay.....It's so hard to witness the hypocrisy and the Doble standards......people siding with terrorists, murderers, rapists, kidnappers......is pure Insanity.....let this MK be deported and go to protest in Siria......
The World has 3 different standards: One for whites, one for everyone else, and a completely separate one for Jews! Screw that! One standard for all, or you have nothing but pathetic Hypocrisy!
Yes and this raises one of my recent musings. On Oct. 7 this life-long liberal suddenly stopped and said, "the Jews have been persecuted throughout history and always we manage to come back, be productive, find a niche. It's time other 'underpriveleged' groups showed the same gumption." And we should stop treating them like children.
No one has resilience like the Jews! Ironically, 400 years of slavery and selective breeding by the Egyptians, followed by 2,000 of oppression and persecution has also led to selective breeding, proving Darvin's "Survival of the fittest" theory correct! With less than %.5 of the Worlds female population, the offspring of Jewish women produce about %35 of all Prizes in Economics, %25 in Physics, %20 in medicine, etc. Absolutely incredible and worthy of protection, just like any endangered species would be!
Great essay. I especially appreciate the part about Israel being imperfect but still a decent country. David Horowitz has observed that one of the problems with leftist radicals is that they continually judge reality against their utopian ideals, against which it can never measure up. They can't come to grips with the fact that the utopian standard against which they judge reality is unattainable. Hence Israel, America, and other decent but flawed places are deemed irredeemably evil, while truly evil groups like Hamas and communist governments are given a pass because they are supposedly driven to their actions by the irredeemable evil of places like Israel and the USA, while also fighting for the utopian ideal.
I was literally just arguing with ppl about this on Threads. They were telling ppl spreading antisemitic libels to “keep standing up for the voiceless” and were saying America and Israel were the worst places on the planet. I said “then why does everyone keep risking life and limb to come to the U.S?” and I just got abuse for it. Ppl are always dumber than I think they are gonna be.
Reminds me of Winston Churchill saying, "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
In the same way we could say the US and Israel are the worst countries in the world except for most of the other countries...
Brilliant, thank you.
Ironically, I just emailed Chris Van Hollen, my own legislator, who did some magnificent grandstanding fighting for the rights of the Maryland man - undocumented immigrant Abrego Garcia - wrongly deported. I suggested he go visit Edan Alexander, the AMERICAN kidnapped by Hamas. Surely he can do the same for the American as he has for Garcia? (yes...I know he won't even read it...but still...)
Bravo Michal. Keep trying. If the "press" got interested, maybe there would be more action for America to rescue an American. We all feel bad about extrajudicial deportation. Maybe it explains the impaired ethics that allow the US to ignore a Jew kidnaped by other impaired paramilitaries.
Beautiful. Wouldn’t that be amazing?
Great point!! When 53 Americans were taken hostage I Iran in late 1979 that's all you heard about every single day. What the hell happened? Oh yeah, he's a Jew.
Appropriately named Kapo-Jew, Ted Koppel, literally rose to fame hosting Nightline, a nightly news show on ABC, whose sole focus was reminding viewers exactly how many days the Americans had been held hostage in Iran. Have you heard a single supportive word from him about American hostages held by Hamas? I haven't. And antisemitic ABC certainly wouldn't be interested in airing that story one time, let alone dedicating a nightly half hour to the subject.
It is shocking to me how few Americans know Edan Alexander’s name. We should be demanding that Hamas release him. We should be bombing Iran’s nuclear sites. We should be insisting that other Arab countries take in Gazans. I am tired of our lack of action.
Israel and Israelis may indeed be imperfect.......BUT....a woman offered me her seat on the bus in Tel Aviv....when I Looked distressed trying to find my friend's address, a woman and her son stopped to help....and so on. A band from Ireland has no problem with a "f*ck Israel" message at Cochella. Only one state in the world with a Jewish majority. The Harvard President is a Jew....sort of...and is "resisting" the great Orange Monster. Just like his bud Khalil...is "resisting" Reading Douglas Murray's newest book....after Oct. 7th not ONE demonstration against hamas and for the return of the hostages. Every time there is a "protest' the news zeroes on the asajews "JEWS SAY" free Khalil.....free Kilmore......is that his name...kill more? Schapiro's house is firebombed on Pesach for "Palestine" NO one really cares. Schapiro himself is a asajew for "Palestinian dignity" If anyone cared about Palestinian dignity then along with Edan the name of the tortured and murdered Gazan 21 year old would be on posters from Columbia to Berkely with lecture halls named for him. I could go on.....another good essay Joshua.
Thank you for talking about Edan Alexander. I have felt sick since hearing that Hamas “lost touch” with his captors. I pray for his return and the 58 others, while ignorant Americans are supporting Hamas apologists.
I was thinking Chris Van Hollen needs to demand a visit with Edan Alexander.
If Hamas lost touch with his captors, his captors were "regular Palestinians." Hmmm
Perfectly said!
You are always spot on. I don't know how you do it, but your words need to be seen by more people than you reach. You make the point that democracy can be flawed, but still a better alternative than oligarchy such as we are very near now in the US. Nothing - no system creates a utopia- a utopia cannot exist ever because the people creatring the society and working within its realms are themselves flawed- but it can be a hell of a lot better thsan what we have now. Everything cut is under the guise of "cutting the deficit" when the fact remains nothing could be further than the truth- not even 1% of the deficit will be touched. But what the world saw is Hamas- a truly ugly, terrifying hateful organization unleash power against civilians through torture, rape, burning,etc and the world stayed silent when Israel retaliated. The stats with respect to Gazans hurt and killed were manufactured- and still the world believed. Only Jews throughout history and now Israel get treated this way. There is our whole long, awful history of torture, elimination, abuse, defilement and exile and still the world will not care. I think Israel is wise to keep their country as safe as possible no matter what form that takes. They will be blamed anyway and their existence is absolutely essential in this world and was essentioal in the past. It took the murder of 6 million to create a little bit of world-guilt for the vote to establish Israel, but that would not happen today. Keep writing and let us know how we can see that what you say is heard by many more!
Excellent. We must continue to try to tell this to the world around us. To ignorant college students wearing kefiyahs (and masks) and to our friends and family who just don't understand.
It's beyond disgusting.
A fine article and directly to the point. Could not say it better and I have tried. It is heartbreaking and infuriating.
Jews with guns?! Oh, my!
There was a show that came out of Israel after the 6 Day War, "To Live Another Summer, To Pass Another Winter." One of the songs is "We're Sorry We Won It." Very cute. Done with everyone wearing an eyepatch over one eye.
What’s currently driving me mad is how people are like “they’re trying to silence me! But nay, I will speak out because we must stand for the voiceless! Free Palestine!” The Irish band who are hard for terrorists at Coachella, perfect example. Despite Trump being pro-Israel (for now), “free Palestine” IS the status quo opinion. You are not “speaking out” and you’re not brave for doing the thing that everyone else is doing, the thing you know will get applause while bigots reward bigots and pretend they’re all Nelson Mandela. They are cowardly dolts pretending that they’re doing something difficult yet moral.
I like the "for now." So, so true.
Bravo Joshua......as always. an utterly honest, wonderful essay.....It's so hard to witness the hypocrisy and the Doble standards......people siding with terrorists, murderers, rapists, kidnappers......is pure Insanity.....let this MK be deported and go to protest in Siria......
Perfect as usual!
Fabulous article!
The World has 3 different standards: One for whites, one for everyone else, and a completely separate one for Jews! Screw that! One standard for all, or you have nothing but pathetic Hypocrisy!
Yes and this raises one of my recent musings. On Oct. 7 this life-long liberal suddenly stopped and said, "the Jews have been persecuted throughout history and always we manage to come back, be productive, find a niche. It's time other 'underpriveleged' groups showed the same gumption." And we should stop treating them like children.
No one has resilience like the Jews! Ironically, 400 years of slavery and selective breeding by the Egyptians, followed by 2,000 of oppression and persecution has also led to selective breeding, proving Darvin's "Survival of the fittest" theory correct! With less than %.5 of the Worlds female population, the offspring of Jewish women produce about %35 of all Prizes in Economics, %25 in Physics, %20 in medicine, etc. Absolutely incredible and worthy of protection, just like any endangered species would be!
We are rather remarkable, aren't we?