Antisemitism is like pornography, you know it when you see it. As far as not knowing what “side” to be on, that is already a choice. Taking the side of the barbarian head choppers tells you everything you need to know. Taking the side of the murderers who videoed their crimes and called their mother’s extolling the fact that “I have killed 10 Jews with my own hands!” and their mother praising them is damning evidence of which side moral people should be on.
Pornography is still legal though right? lol Free speech is free speech whether you like it or it offends. Sasha isn't the government though, so she can regulate her blog how she chooses. Outside of government though, words have consequences and repercussions, so being respectful is always good.
How would it feel to you if some hater raped killed and beheaded your mother, sister or wife, girlfriend or neighbor? Or chopped your baby’s head? Or put your baby in an oven to burn slowly ? Or how about some more subtle hatred like blocking you from publishing because you were a Jew? Or threatened your child because you are a Jew? Or attacked you in the street for no reason because you are a Jew? Free speech? That’s definitely not the answer, condemnation would be more like it wouldn’t it?
Or used tanks to run over pregnant women and children sleeping inside tents- all of them are capable of heinous acts, which all of them defend with the heinous acts committed by the other. No one wins. One side films their heinous acts, which gets shared in comment sections by outraged voices. The other one does it more viscerally- like feeding a border crisis with NGOs that turn their heads when passing a rape tree their organizations helped create, or by running entire industries meant to confuse gender and destroy the minds and lives of children and young adults. Again- I don’t have to defend one or the other to know they both suck and they both hate everything America stands for- period.
There are a lot of logical fallacies out there, but the one where someone responds to an analogy by saying "this other aspect of the things in the analogy doesn't relate to the subject matter, so that means the analogy is bad!" is a common, serious problem.
That pornography is legal has no bearing whatsoever on the fact that it has something else ("You know it when you see it") in common with anti-semitism.
Whatever the debate, I find it curious that while many nations share the hatred of Israel with the Palestinians, none of them have offered to take them into their country. Reminds me of the Martha's Vineyard residents who were for unchecked immigration but also quickly ushered out the illegals that had been sent to live on their large, expansive vacation estates.
"the hatred of Israel" Umm, hatred of genocide. Israelis have constantly taken Palestinian homes. But you "forget" that. They shoot protesters against the theft. They started off by stealing many hundreds of Palestinian villages long ago. Some of the immigrant Jews who did so had been helped by Palestinians, whose homes were then stolen.
But you only peddle in propaganda.
Oh, and speaking of refugees, Israel was a main promoter of Arab mass immigration to Europe in 2015. When Arabs from Syria were let through by Turkey to go to Greece, Israel sent its IsraAid to give them legal help, telling them how to get to Germany and what to say there. They gave them maps, and the phone numbers to NGOs, such as the ones funded by George Soros, for legal aid in Germany. Israel LOVES mass immigration - to White countries.
Every Jewish organization in Europe and the U.S. and Canada actively supported immigration. To Europe of course, not to Israel. This was celebrated in the Jewish magazine Forward, showing how Jewish organizations helped the Arab immigrants.
This push for mass immigration went all the way up to the World Jewish Congress, whose president also leads the European Jewish Congress. He has also set up a separate organization to promote the silencing of speech online in the U.S. and in the EU, which he calls "combating hate." Criticism of either Israel's ethnic cleansing or of mass immigration to Europe are both "hate." He has proposed far-reaching laws to silence Whites.
And for how long will the world and the people of Gaza play the part of pawns, and the part of funding the violence the pawns are directed to do for this "game"? Not coming down on you, we have all been party to this sad game for decades. The USA has been funding this violence all along. The tunnels were being built with USD and money from all over the world. Everyone was there with eyes wide shut.
Oslo is dead. Since then, there has been a collective lie that the "Palestinians' can peacefully coexist with Israel. The solution is right front of us. There already is a "Palestinian" state. It is called Jordan. Most of the Gazans and many of the Arabs in Judea-Samaria (incorrectly referred to as the "West bank") will need to re-locate to their new state east of Jordan river.
The perfect solution when you can't or don't want to engage in direct conflict with the object of your hatred is to have some other party do it. Having Gaza and the WB under the control of Israel with a large populace that wants Israel destroyed is the perfect solution. You can have the useful idiots fight the war and make the Israelis look bad at the same time. You don't want them (the Palestinians) part of your country as it will make your country look bad.
They dont want Gaza its basically a warzone which no nation wants to commit long term to it. It has a large dependent population no real resources or value in location.
Have the same ambivalence regarding these two issues. (Ukraine and Israel) Although the people of Gaza have suffered greatly, if they continue to follow Hamas leaders who want the total destruction of Israel, what choice do the Israelis have? I have great respect for Glen Greenwald but he seems all in for the Gazans with out any criticism.
I always loved what Golda Meir said - something very close to "there cannot be peace until Palestinians love their children as much as they hate ours".
I am happy that there are people concerned about the folks in Gaza. Perhaps they can help build a world where these people are not led by murderous tyrants as that is not very good for life or business (other than those who profit from it). In the past, there were many Gazans that worked in Israel. So obviously they were OK with living next door.
I just love how you welcome people and remind everyone that they’re interacting with actual minds, hearts and lives when they comment. It makes a difference to be aware of that fact. When texting first became a thing, I can’t tell you how many ridiculous arguments I got into with MY FRIENDS because of the tendency to forget about the human on the other side of the digital conversation. Thank you. By the way, I am also part Jewish (small) but 100% pro-Israel. Have a beautiful day.
I too am very pro Israel. All of Israel including Judea-Samaria that many in the "Establishment" (swamp) in both the US and Israel call the "West bank." Trump's former Ambassador David Friedman recently wrote a book called "ONE JEWISH STATE." The book essentially makes the case for formally making Judea-Samaria part of Israel and that there already is a "Palestinian" state. It is currently called Jordan which is another fake state (please see Sikes Picot).
Without condoning or condemning Israel's actions, it is difficult for me to imagine living in a country surrounded by other countries virtually all of which have called for your total annihilation.
I can tell you that it is not easy and energetically draining... if I don't get out once a year to "clean my head" as we say... I can go a little nuts... but I wouldn't trade it for anywhere else... even with the knowledge that my oldest grandchild will be going to serve in the IDF after he finishes grade 12 in June...
June 1973 and I'm dating a girl I really like and I think she likes me. We've been going out for a couple of months. September is the end of the Rugby season and we are still together. She invites me to meet her parents😊.
That afternoon she tells me that she's bought two tickets to an outdoor concert at a stately home. The orchestra on an island surrounded by green grass and a blue sky. Perfect. The music takes us into the night and the finale is the 1812 overture, cannons and rockets. Perfect end to a beautiful day. She turns to me. "Ernie, I've brought you here to say thank you for the last six months. I'm going to Israel on Monday." I didn't know she was Jewish. What a blow. I thought about it. Israel and staying on a kibbutz sounded fun. I had no idea what one was or where on the map Israel is. " I'll come out to be with you." It was settled she would go out and I would follow her the following Monday. The following week was Yom Kippur although I didn't know what it was it sounded fun. Well we all know what happened on the Saturday. The kibbutz office rang to see if I still wanted to go. By then I had walked out of work and given notice on my apartment. I arrived at Kibbutz Grofit near Eilat. My girlfriend had gone to a kibbutz on the northern border. I only saw her once in the 6 months I was there. What I learned was how close the Syrian Tanks came to rolling over the Golan Heights and into the heart of Israel. I saw the young men and women come back from the front line with a look in their eyes that told me they'd seen *things. But they were Israeli, they were determined to defend their country, knowing that the UN was useless. They were Jews determined never again to walk into cattle trucks. It seems the hard times of 73 were replaced by easy times and softer Israelis. I believe any other leader apart from Netanyahu would have already have given in to a two state type solution. That would have/will destroy Israel.
Thanks for your post, Ernie. I think Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995 because he was about to agree to 2 state solution (Oslo). Netanyahu took power in 1996 and made a ‘Clean Break’ from the 2-state solution path. The clean break however has brought along its own set of problems, some of which now reverberate outside the Middle East. Some (not all) of the mass migration and Sharia Law with it to EU, has connective tissue to the clean break wars/destabilizations that have occurred in these 6 countries since 1996: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon. Of course, Israel feared for its existential life in ‘48, ‘67 and ‘73, so I can’t arm-chair blame them. The traumas of our pasts do affect our futures. Netanyahu also lost his brother (Yonatan) during hostage rescue mission Operation Entebbe in 1976 (Yoni only Israeli soldier to die). So this old war horse Netanyahu can’t change his spots any longer.
Thanks Matt. It has to be remembered that less than six years ago the one state Israel was trading with the richest Arab countries freely. Obama ended that
Read the history of the jews and Israel, their home land. Anyone who believes the propaganda about IDF committing genocide is badly misinformed (at best).
This conflict will not end until the so-called Palestinians will understand that Israel is here to stay and start to appreciate life instead of Jihad.
Sasha is a "Salt of the earth" person. I am a hard core Christian Zionist but I try not to castigate anyone who does not share my world view as a Jew hating Nazi. I wish Sasha would unpack Tucker's position on Israel more. I too am a big fan of his but I do take pause on his perceived hostility towards Israel. I wish he would simply address the question of whether or not he accepts Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. I too have criticism of Israel but it is not it being too brutal but not brutal enough. I criticize Israel for too much seeking permission from the US and/or international bodies to survive. I look forward to the day Israel is not dependent on the US for help. But the corner stone of Western Civilization needs our help and I wish I was there helping the IDF destroy Islamic terrorists.
Israel is a very small state, and is being hated by very big part of the world, so if militarily her may be able to manage on her own, she desperately needs political cloud of US to protect her from bias on international arena. Israelis want to be able to live as citizens of other countries of the world, and be able to travel without being arrested.
Yes I agree. The goal is by Israel's 100th birthday is to be fully independent. Israel must have the ability to say FU to even the US. How Biden treated Irael was beyond disgraceful. Israel must formally annex Judea-Samaria as part of Israel because it is. Israel must also institute the death penalty for terrorists.
1. He seems to have genuine guilt over the part he played in urging on the Iraq/Afghanistan madness.
2. He's aware that far out of proportion to their numbers in the population, Jews comprise the ranks of neoconservatives, who argued with passion that it was our duty to fight those wars. That alone, leaving out his own involvement as a cheerleader, would tend to make him skeptical of Israel.
3. He was born in 1969, a rich kid and essentially a screwoff, who will still say from time to time that he's in the process of becoming a serious man. In a world of narcissists, most of whom seem to be malignant, this lack of taking himself all that seriously is charming. It explains the Darryl Cooper atrocity. Carlson seems to know as little about World War II as he knows about the JFK assassination. ( "We KNOW the CIA killed John Kennedy." Actually, we don't, because they didn't. )
My first and second points impute no culpability to Carlson. The first one implies that he's a man of conscience. The second is what you might expect of someone who discovers he's been knowingly misled.
It's the third point that fills me with disappointment in him. I find it impossible to believe that since the Cooper interview he hasn't heard from people he trusts who have told him what a fraud Cooper is, and which sources to study which prove it. He's had an unusually busy six months, but in my view, that doesn't absolve him of responsibility to have studied at least some of the overwhelming amount of material which documents the reality of the Holocaust. If he had, I fail to understand how he couldn't have renounced Cooper and denounced himself as having been ignorant and inexcusably irresponsible.
He may be hoping the whole thing will just go away. It won't, of course, and it's a huge stain which he is obligated to deal with. He will remain tarnished in my view until he does.
Good post. Thank you. Yeah I forgot about Tucker's interview with Cooper. Also Tucker's trip to Moscow and being totally shocked about cheap food demonstrated real ignorance. You can find cheaper stuff in many third world / under developed nations. Tucker also did a very bazar interview with some dude who allegedly had a sexual affair with Obama. I kept asking why do I need to know or even care about this. One minute Tucker seems like some with brilliant incite. The next he comes off as a shallow and resentful dork.
My take on Tucker and Israel is that he doesn’t agree w/ Netanyahu leadership which is very pro ‘projection of war and/or regime’ on any Arab neighbor that is supportive of Palestinians. I believe Tucker also takes issue w/ Netanyahu pulling along USA into this. Netanyahu was editor of 1986 book called ‘Terrorism: How The West Can Win”. This book was answer to question of what is the ‘Terror’ the USA was fighting when in 2003 Bush/Cheney/Romney declared a US ‘War on Terror’ that resulted in the Iraq War disaster. Netanyahu/Israel leadership (not the people of Israel!) cheerleader that on. I’m not saying Netanyahu alone orchestrated all this. There are plenty of US warmongers to point to. It’s just that Netanyahu ‘went along’ with it all, and the outcome isn’t good. Outcomes I see is a lot of sped up mass migration to the EU and opening up to Sharia Law to take a fresh foothold. I read there’s a push in Iraq to lower marriage age to 9….
I too was a foolish cheer leader on GW Bush's wars. Now I would like to see both Bush and Cheney tried for war crimes. The "Crime" is against the American people. We were lead into these wars with the understanding to defeat / destroy the bad guys and eliminate WMD. But then the mission changed to national building / imposing Jeffersonian democracy on a culture that does NOT share these values to put it mildly. How many American lives were lost for us staying and trying to do this idiotic nation building. As soon as it became clear there were no WMD to speak of, we should have gotten out Iraq immediately. But GW Bush believed the US had to prevent a Shia and Suni civil war and "Build democracy." As far as Afghanistan is concerned, we should realized that place is also not fertile ground for "Building democracy." We should have held onto Bagrum airbase for killing terrorists when needed. Not all cultures are of equal value.
People who assert Israel is conducting genocide seem unaware of some simple facts and history. When one encounters such a person, ask them how many Mosques are in Israel (quite a few), and how many Synagogues are Gaza (Zero, zip, nada). Ask them how many practicing Muslims are in Israel, and how many practicing Jews are in Gaza. Truth is, there are thousands of mixed couples (Jew and Arab) in Israel, and none in Gaza. The truth is, Israel is trying to CRUSH Hamas and if the poor, uneducated, unaware Arabs in Gaza get dead in that process, its a price Israel is willing to pay in order to survive. If the "war" or "genocide" or whatever it is in Gaza is to end, the people of Gaza need to renounce Hamas and seek their own peace with the Jews. I believe the Jewish nation and its inhabitants would welcome them.
While I have deep sadness for the deaths of Gazan civilians I will not blame Israel for needing to win this war. When a nation is attacked it is obligated to follow the enemy to their very homes if need be until they are vanquished or seek peace. Just as the US fought from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, or to the streets of Berlin and the death of Hitler. HAMAS started a war that Israel must finish
Israel's Gaza war is described as a "genocide" because every war that is not approved by the globalist progressive narrative is called that nowadays. If the US invades Iraq without justification it is for the sake of "democracy." If Russia invades Ukraine to protect Russian or Russian-speaking populations there (because the US helped the modern-day descendants of the Galician SS launch a civil war against them after engineering the Maidan coup d'etat, which the Galicians extremists hijacked with our backing, so we could use them to push Nato into the Russian sphere), the Russians are committing "genocide."
The language of "genocide" which has become a daily occurrence reflects the perverse moral abstraction of our times and the "human rights regime" which has supplanted the actual political (democratic) life of nations with the rule of leftist global elites.
Hamas can end the Gaza war at any moment by giving back all of the hostages, standing down, and recognizing the legitimacy of the Jewish state in a convincing way. Of course they won't do that, because they want to exterminate all Jews in the Middle East like the Moslem Brotherhood of yore, its origin, and are willing to use their own citizens and children as human shields to do that. And they seem to be doing it with broad support from Palestinians on the whole, as well as Western leftists who identify with Palestinian nihilism.
The issue in "Palestine" is not a Palestinian state, which the Palestinians don't want, but the elimination of the Jewish state, even though every other state in the region is ethnic or religious. The Palestinians have never wanted a two-state solution, and that is not the issue of this war. Recognition (or not) of Israel is. It's deeply tragic, but as long as Palestinians can not bring themselves to live alongside of a Jewish state, they will kill their own children.
One side is productive. The other, destructive. Not a hard choice at all for me.The fact that the productive ones are also better at destruction is irrelevant
I like to take people one at a time and base my opinion on the way they treat me and others. I don't find fault with people based on the actions of their leaders and government.
To think your Mom is for a war that we, Joe Biden and the Neocons, provoked. Nato expansion and Empire being the goal. And sell our low information citizens the line that Russia surprised Ukraine and NATO when they invaded. One million or more have died and the Rules based lunatics, led by Antony Blinken of 51 Experts fame, have escalated the war. And in the Middle East and Israel, fundamental Islamist, led by Hamas fire rockets and massacre the Jews killing thousands on Oct 7. They are not fighting Israel out of any economic or political disagreement. It is their philosophy that literally and fundamentally goes back to the Prophet Mohammed. Islamism. Supremacist, Fundamental, Intolerant and violent. Nothing has changed since Mohammed himself massacred the the Banu Qurayza after the Battle of Trench in 627. Nothing has changed at all since. And to think the Progressive Left sell Israel defending itself in war as Genocide when Jews are fighting against a death Cult who proclaim the following.
The Hamas Foundational Covenant.
- The complete destruction of Israel as an essential condition for the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a theocratic state based on Islamic law (Sharia),
- The need for both unrestrained and unceasing holy war (jihad)
I am Jewish and a proud zionist. Nothing ambiguous about where I stand. However Sasha, I found your comments very well thought out and greatly appreciate your willingness to engage on a topic you know to be controversial and fraught with emotion. I hope the people on your substack follow your lead and engage in a thoughtful, respectful way regardless of their leanings.
Antisemitism is like pornography, you know it when you see it. As far as not knowing what “side” to be on, that is already a choice. Taking the side of the barbarian head choppers tells you everything you need to know. Taking the side of the murderers who videoed their crimes and called their mother’s extolling the fact that “I have killed 10 Jews with my own hands!” and their mother praising them is damning evidence of which side moral people should be on.
Preach !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pornography is still legal though right? lol Free speech is free speech whether you like it or it offends. Sasha isn't the government though, so she can regulate her blog how she chooses. Outside of government though, words have consequences and repercussions, so being respectful is always good.
How would it feel to you if some hater raped killed and beheaded your mother, sister or wife, girlfriend or neighbor? Or chopped your baby’s head? Or put your baby in an oven to burn slowly ? Or how about some more subtle hatred like blocking you from publishing because you were a Jew? Or threatened your child because you are a Jew? Or attacked you in the street for no reason because you are a Jew? Free speech? That’s definitely not the answer, condemnation would be more like it wouldn’t it?
Have very seldom seen a less sympathetic people demand sympathy to the same level of Chutzpah as the Palestinians.
Or used tanks to run over pregnant women and children sleeping inside tents- all of them are capable of heinous acts, which all of them defend with the heinous acts committed by the other. No one wins. One side films their heinous acts, which gets shared in comment sections by outraged voices. The other one does it more viscerally- like feeding a border crisis with NGOs that turn their heads when passing a rape tree their organizations helped create, or by running entire industries meant to confuse gender and destroy the minds and lives of children and young adults. Again- I don’t have to defend one or the other to know they both suck and they both hate everything America stands for- period.
Well said @sheila fisher
I would seek retribution upon them until I died or was killed. What has that got to do with free speech?
There are a lot of logical fallacies out there, but the one where someone responds to an analogy by saying "this other aspect of the things in the analogy doesn't relate to the subject matter, so that means the analogy is bad!" is a common, serious problem.
That pornography is legal has no bearing whatsoever on the fact that it has something else ("You know it when you see it") in common with anti-semitism.
Tucker has NEVER ONCE indicated support for Hamas.
Exactly.
Haha, "moral people". Good one!
Whatever the debate, I find it curious that while many nations share the hatred of Israel with the Palestinians, none of them have offered to take them into their country. Reminds me of the Martha's Vineyard residents who were for unchecked immigration but also quickly ushered out the illegals that had been sent to live on their large, expansive vacation estates.
"the hatred of Israel" Umm, hatred of genocide. Israelis have constantly taken Palestinian homes. But you "forget" that. They shoot protesters against the theft. They started off by stealing many hundreds of Palestinian villages long ago. Some of the immigrant Jews who did so had been helped by Palestinians, whose homes were then stolen.
But you only peddle in propaganda.
Oh, and speaking of refugees, Israel was a main promoter of Arab mass immigration to Europe in 2015. When Arabs from Syria were let through by Turkey to go to Greece, Israel sent its IsraAid to give them legal help, telling them how to get to Germany and what to say there. They gave them maps, and the phone numbers to NGOs, such as the ones funded by George Soros, for legal aid in Germany. Israel LOVES mass immigration - to White countries.
Every Jewish organization in Europe and the U.S. and Canada actively supported immigration. To Europe of course, not to Israel. This was celebrated in the Jewish magazine Forward, showing how Jewish organizations helped the Arab immigrants.
This push for mass immigration went all the way up to the World Jewish Congress, whose president also leads the European Jewish Congress. He has also set up a separate organization to promote the silencing of speech online in the U.S. and in the EU, which he calls "combating hate." Criticism of either Israel's ethnic cleansing or of mass immigration to Europe are both "hate." He has proposed far-reaching laws to silence Whites.
Wonderful allies!
Of course you will deny all of this.
Yes, well, they hate the Palestinians as well as the Jews, they just hate the Jews more. Kind of like enemy of my enemy sort of thing.
They (the anti-Israel / anti-Zionist coalition) want to use the Palestinian people as weapon against Israel. These folks are playing the long game.
And for how long will the world and the people of Gaza play the part of pawns, and the part of funding the violence the pawns are directed to do for this "game"? Not coming down on you, we have all been party to this sad game for decades. The USA has been funding this violence all along. The tunnels were being built with USD and money from all over the world. Everyone was there with eyes wide shut.
Oslo is dead. Since then, there has been a collective lie that the "Palestinians' can peacefully coexist with Israel. The solution is right front of us. There already is a "Palestinian" state. It is called Jordan. Most of the Gazans and many of the Arabs in Judea-Samaria (incorrectly referred to as the "West bank") will need to re-locate to their new state east of Jordan river.
Gaza can also return to Egypt.
The perfect solution when you can't or don't want to engage in direct conflict with the object of your hatred is to have some other party do it. Having Gaza and the WB under the control of Israel with a large populace that wants Israel destroyed is the perfect solution. You can have the useful idiots fight the war and make the Israelis look bad at the same time. You don't want them (the Palestinians) part of your country as it will make your country look bad.
They dont want Gaza its basically a warzone which no nation wants to commit long term to it. It has a large dependent population no real resources or value in location.
Sasha,
Have the same ambivalence regarding these two issues. (Ukraine and Israel) Although the people of Gaza have suffered greatly, if they continue to follow Hamas leaders who want the total destruction of Israel, what choice do the Israelis have? I have great respect for Glen Greenwald but he seems all in for the Gazans with out any criticism.
I always loved what Golda Meir said - something very close to "there cannot be peace until Palestinians love their children as much as they hate ours".
I am happy that there are people concerned about the folks in Gaza. Perhaps they can help build a world where these people are not led by murderous tyrants as that is not very good for life or business (other than those who profit from it). In the past, there were many Gazans that worked in Israel. So obviously they were OK with living next door.
Agree about Israeli choices and about Greenwald. I certainly have an historical blind spot or two. Glen's appears to be Gaza.
I just love how you welcome people and remind everyone that they’re interacting with actual minds, hearts and lives when they comment. It makes a difference to be aware of that fact. When texting first became a thing, I can’t tell you how many ridiculous arguments I got into with MY FRIENDS because of the tendency to forget about the human on the other side of the digital conversation. Thank you. By the way, I am also part Jewish (small) but 100% pro-Israel. Have a beautiful day.
I too am very pro Israel. All of Israel including Judea-Samaria that many in the "Establishment" (swamp) in both the US and Israel call the "West bank." Trump's former Ambassador David Friedman recently wrote a book called "ONE JEWISH STATE." The book essentially makes the case for formally making Judea-Samaria part of Israel and that there already is a "Palestinian" state. It is currently called Jordan which is another fake state (please see Sikes Picot).
Sykes Picot created fake states all over the MidEast. UK and France should pay for reconstruction of Gaza, Syria and Lebanon.
Without condoning or condemning Israel's actions, it is difficult for me to imagine living in a country surrounded by other countries virtually all of which have called for your total annihilation.
I can tell you that it is not easy and energetically draining... if I don't get out once a year to "clean my head" as we say... I can go a little nuts... but I wouldn't trade it for anywhere else... even with the knowledge that my oldest grandchild will be going to serve in the IDF after he finishes grade 12 in June...
Praying for him. 🙏🏼❤️
Biblical prophecy full filled.
I'm on the side that doesn't want to kill me next.
June 1973 and I'm dating a girl I really like and I think she likes me. We've been going out for a couple of months. September is the end of the Rugby season and we are still together. She invites me to meet her parents😊.
That afternoon she tells me that she's bought two tickets to an outdoor concert at a stately home. The orchestra on an island surrounded by green grass and a blue sky. Perfect. The music takes us into the night and the finale is the 1812 overture, cannons and rockets. Perfect end to a beautiful day. She turns to me. "Ernie, I've brought you here to say thank you for the last six months. I'm going to Israel on Monday." I didn't know she was Jewish. What a blow. I thought about it. Israel and staying on a kibbutz sounded fun. I had no idea what one was or where on the map Israel is. " I'll come out to be with you." It was settled she would go out and I would follow her the following Monday. The following week was Yom Kippur although I didn't know what it was it sounded fun. Well we all know what happened on the Saturday. The kibbutz office rang to see if I still wanted to go. By then I had walked out of work and given notice on my apartment. I arrived at Kibbutz Grofit near Eilat. My girlfriend had gone to a kibbutz on the northern border. I only saw her once in the 6 months I was there. What I learned was how close the Syrian Tanks came to rolling over the Golan Heights and into the heart of Israel. I saw the young men and women come back from the front line with a look in their eyes that told me they'd seen *things. But they were Israeli, they were determined to defend their country, knowing that the UN was useless. They were Jews determined never again to walk into cattle trucks. It seems the hard times of 73 were replaced by easy times and softer Israelis. I believe any other leader apart from Netanyahu would have already have given in to a two state type solution. That would have/will destroy Israel.
that is why it is called a "Two state [delusion]."
Thanks for your post, Ernie. I think Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995 because he was about to agree to 2 state solution (Oslo). Netanyahu took power in 1996 and made a ‘Clean Break’ from the 2-state solution path. The clean break however has brought along its own set of problems, some of which now reverberate outside the Middle East. Some (not all) of the mass migration and Sharia Law with it to EU, has connective tissue to the clean break wars/destabilizations that have occurred in these 6 countries since 1996: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon. Of course, Israel feared for its existential life in ‘48, ‘67 and ‘73, so I can’t arm-chair blame them. The traumas of our pasts do affect our futures. Netanyahu also lost his brother (Yonatan) during hostage rescue mission Operation Entebbe in 1976 (Yoni only Israeli soldier to die). So this old war horse Netanyahu can’t change his spots any longer.
Thanks Matt. It has to be remembered that less than six years ago the one state Israel was trading with the richest Arab countries freely. Obama ended that
that was my first war too
Ambivalent?
Read the history of the jews and Israel, their home land. Anyone who believes the propaganda about IDF committing genocide is badly misinformed (at best).
This conflict will not end until the so-called Palestinians will understand that Israel is here to stay and start to appreciate life instead of Jihad.
Exactly right.
Sasha is a "Salt of the earth" person. I am a hard core Christian Zionist but I try not to castigate anyone who does not share my world view as a Jew hating Nazi. I wish Sasha would unpack Tucker's position on Israel more. I too am a big fan of his but I do take pause on his perceived hostility towards Israel. I wish he would simply address the question of whether or not he accepts Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. I too have criticism of Israel but it is not it being too brutal but not brutal enough. I criticize Israel for too much seeking permission from the US and/or international bodies to survive. I look forward to the day Israel is not dependent on the US for help. But the corner stone of Western Civilization needs our help and I wish I was there helping the IDF destroy Islamic terrorists.
Israel is a very small state, and is being hated by very big part of the world, so if militarily her may be able to manage on her own, she desperately needs political cloud of US to protect her from bias on international arena. Israelis want to be able to live as citizens of other countries of the world, and be able to travel without being arrested.
Yes I agree. The goal is by Israel's 100th birthday is to be fully independent. Israel must have the ability to say FU to even the US. How Biden treated Irael was beyond disgraceful. Israel must formally annex Judea-Samaria as part of Israel because it is. Israel must also institute the death penalty for terrorists.
I think Carlson's problem has several elements:
1. He seems to have genuine guilt over the part he played in urging on the Iraq/Afghanistan madness.
2. He's aware that far out of proportion to their numbers in the population, Jews comprise the ranks of neoconservatives, who argued with passion that it was our duty to fight those wars. That alone, leaving out his own involvement as a cheerleader, would tend to make him skeptical of Israel.
3. He was born in 1969, a rich kid and essentially a screwoff, who will still say from time to time that he's in the process of becoming a serious man. In a world of narcissists, most of whom seem to be malignant, this lack of taking himself all that seriously is charming. It explains the Darryl Cooper atrocity. Carlson seems to know as little about World War II as he knows about the JFK assassination. ( "We KNOW the CIA killed John Kennedy." Actually, we don't, because they didn't. )
My first and second points impute no culpability to Carlson. The first one implies that he's a man of conscience. The second is what you might expect of someone who discovers he's been knowingly misled.
It's the third point that fills me with disappointment in him. I find it impossible to believe that since the Cooper interview he hasn't heard from people he trusts who have told him what a fraud Cooper is, and which sources to study which prove it. He's had an unusually busy six months, but in my view, that doesn't absolve him of responsibility to have studied at least some of the overwhelming amount of material which documents the reality of the Holocaust. If he had, I fail to understand how he couldn't have renounced Cooper and denounced himself as having been ignorant and inexcusably irresponsible.
He may be hoping the whole thing will just go away. It won't, of course, and it's a huge stain which he is obligated to deal with. He will remain tarnished in my view until he does.
Good post. Thank you. Yeah I forgot about Tucker's interview with Cooper. Also Tucker's trip to Moscow and being totally shocked about cheap food demonstrated real ignorance. You can find cheaper stuff in many third world / under developed nations. Tucker also did a very bazar interview with some dude who allegedly had a sexual affair with Obama. I kept asking why do I need to know or even care about this. One minute Tucker seems like some with brilliant incite. The next he comes off as a shallow and resentful dork.
My take on Tucker and Israel is that he doesn’t agree w/ Netanyahu leadership which is very pro ‘projection of war and/or regime’ on any Arab neighbor that is supportive of Palestinians. I believe Tucker also takes issue w/ Netanyahu pulling along USA into this. Netanyahu was editor of 1986 book called ‘Terrorism: How The West Can Win”. This book was answer to question of what is the ‘Terror’ the USA was fighting when in 2003 Bush/Cheney/Romney declared a US ‘War on Terror’ that resulted in the Iraq War disaster. Netanyahu/Israel leadership (not the people of Israel!) cheerleader that on. I’m not saying Netanyahu alone orchestrated all this. There are plenty of US warmongers to point to. It’s just that Netanyahu ‘went along’ with it all, and the outcome isn’t good. Outcomes I see is a lot of sped up mass migration to the EU and opening up to Sharia Law to take a fresh foothold. I read there’s a push in Iraq to lower marriage age to 9….
I too was a foolish cheer leader on GW Bush's wars. Now I would like to see both Bush and Cheney tried for war crimes. The "Crime" is against the American people. We were lead into these wars with the understanding to defeat / destroy the bad guys and eliminate WMD. But then the mission changed to national building / imposing Jeffersonian democracy on a culture that does NOT share these values to put it mildly. How many American lives were lost for us staying and trying to do this idiotic nation building. As soon as it became clear there were no WMD to speak of, we should have gotten out Iraq immediately. But GW Bush believed the US had to prevent a Shia and Suni civil war and "Build democracy." As far as Afghanistan is concerned, we should realized that place is also not fertile ground for "Building democracy." We should have held onto Bagrum airbase for killing terrorists when needed. Not all cultures are of equal value.
Oh my...
Yes… you said what I’ve been preaching … Israel has to get independent for ammunition.
People who assert Israel is conducting genocide seem unaware of some simple facts and history. When one encounters such a person, ask them how many Mosques are in Israel (quite a few), and how many Synagogues are Gaza (Zero, zip, nada). Ask them how many practicing Muslims are in Israel, and how many practicing Jews are in Gaza. Truth is, there are thousands of mixed couples (Jew and Arab) in Israel, and none in Gaza. The truth is, Israel is trying to CRUSH Hamas and if the poor, uneducated, unaware Arabs in Gaza get dead in that process, its a price Israel is willing to pay in order to survive. If the "war" or "genocide" or whatever it is in Gaza is to end, the people of Gaza need to renounce Hamas and seek their own peace with the Jews. I believe the Jewish nation and its inhabitants would welcome them.
While I have deep sadness for the deaths of Gazan civilians I will not blame Israel for needing to win this war. When a nation is attacked it is obligated to follow the enemy to their very homes if need be until they are vanquished or seek peace. Just as the US fought from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, or to the streets of Berlin and the death of Hitler. HAMAS started a war that Israel must finish
Israel's Gaza war is described as a "genocide" because every war that is not approved by the globalist progressive narrative is called that nowadays. If the US invades Iraq without justification it is for the sake of "democracy." If Russia invades Ukraine to protect Russian or Russian-speaking populations there (because the US helped the modern-day descendants of the Galician SS launch a civil war against them after engineering the Maidan coup d'etat, which the Galicians extremists hijacked with our backing, so we could use them to push Nato into the Russian sphere), the Russians are committing "genocide."
The language of "genocide" which has become a daily occurrence reflects the perverse moral abstraction of our times and the "human rights regime" which has supplanted the actual political (democratic) life of nations with the rule of leftist global elites.
Hamas can end the Gaza war at any moment by giving back all of the hostages, standing down, and recognizing the legitimacy of the Jewish state in a convincing way. Of course they won't do that, because they want to exterminate all Jews in the Middle East like the Moslem Brotherhood of yore, its origin, and are willing to use their own citizens and children as human shields to do that. And they seem to be doing it with broad support from Palestinians on the whole, as well as Western leftists who identify with Palestinian nihilism.
The issue in "Palestine" is not a Palestinian state, which the Palestinians don't want, but the elimination of the Jewish state, even though every other state in the region is ethnic or religious. The Palestinians have never wanted a two-state solution, and that is not the issue of this war. Recognition (or not) of Israel is. It's deeply tragic, but as long as Palestinians can not bring themselves to live alongside of a Jewish state, they will kill their own children.
One side is productive. The other, destructive. Not a hard choice at all for me.The fact that the productive ones are also better at destruction is irrelevant
Thank you for standing up against hatred of the Jewish people
I like to take people one at a time and base my opinion on the way they treat me and others. I don't find fault with people based on the actions of their leaders and government.
To think your Mom is for a war that we, Joe Biden and the Neocons, provoked. Nato expansion and Empire being the goal. And sell our low information citizens the line that Russia surprised Ukraine and NATO when they invaded. One million or more have died and the Rules based lunatics, led by Antony Blinken of 51 Experts fame, have escalated the war. And in the Middle East and Israel, fundamental Islamist, led by Hamas fire rockets and massacre the Jews killing thousands on Oct 7. They are not fighting Israel out of any economic or political disagreement. It is their philosophy that literally and fundamentally goes back to the Prophet Mohammed. Islamism. Supremacist, Fundamental, Intolerant and violent. Nothing has changed since Mohammed himself massacred the the Banu Qurayza after the Battle of Trench in 627. Nothing has changed at all since. And to think the Progressive Left sell Israel defending itself in war as Genocide when Jews are fighting against a death Cult who proclaim the following.
The Hamas Foundational Covenant.
- The complete destruction of Israel as an essential condition for the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a theocratic state based on Islamic law (Sharia),
- The need for both unrestrained and unceasing holy war (jihad)
I am Jewish and a proud zionist. Nothing ambiguous about where I stand. However Sasha, I found your comments very well thought out and greatly appreciate your willingness to engage on a topic you know to be controversial and fraught with emotion. I hope the people on your substack follow your lead and engage in a thoughtful, respectful way regardless of their leanings.