C.G. Left Attacks. Pompeo. War Against Jews. Tobin. Yadin. Melanie Phillips. More.

Brilliant and smack on: pic.twitter.com/AmZVcDX27n

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CG worked for/with me for many years as did Judy Hartley. I cam to love them both as well as their husband's.

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Many thoughts of love being sent to y’all. 

Hi Dick & Lynn. I had bought a silly card to send you for no reason - just a cheerful hello. Then came the terrible attack on Oct 7. We were immediately horrified. I knew I couldn’t send the silly card, but I did mean to write earlier. Hamas is barbaric. Secondarily, I am disgusted at the support of Hamas that I see on tv around the world. It’s sickening. I’m praying for Israel, & wanted you to know how upset we are. 

Love, CG 

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I responded :"The world needs more CG's. Stay well, thanks Me"

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Attacks from the rabid left, on our new Speaker, have begun.  They equate him and even his wife to Hamas and say they are more dangerous because they are people of faith. He prays each day before he begins his arduous responsibilities.  We should be thankful our new Speaker is a man of faith. 

Democrats are absolutely insane and have truly gone off the rails. Their views are totally in line with Karl Marx, the father of  Communism. Obama knew what he was doing when he arranged for selective Islamic immigration.  Universities are also guilty because their student bodies have been shaped and purposely selected. Now the nation and the Jewish community are paying the heavy price for their prejudice, which SCOTUS has ruled is unlawful and America's campuses have turned into battlefields of hatred and bigotry.

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Richard, as you may already know, Mike Johnson was elected Speaker of the House last week. 

Mike is a devout follower of Christ, and one of the first things he did before being sworn into office was say: “I believe that each one of us has a huge responsibility today to use the gifts that God has given us to serve the people of this great country.” 

But the liberal mainstream media doesn’t like that. Since being elected Speaker, Mike Johnson has been repugnantly criticized for making such a bold statement of faith. When I was Secretary of State, there was no separating my faith and my job – my faith is who I am in every situation of life. 

Richard, I have never seen such a blatant attack on Christian values by the media like this before. It’s obvious, our Christian values are now viewed as something to be eradicated. 

We must stand strong and show the world that our faith is not a political ploy, it is a way of life. Today, I am asking all Bible-believing patriots to chip in any amount you can to help me elect more followers of Christ.

 

ELECT FAITH-BASED LEADERS

The world will tell us to bow down and somehow separate ourselves from the very thing that makes us who we are. 

Romans 1:16 says - “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”

When the world looks us in the face and tells us that the word of God is meant to only “inform” our worldview instead of transforming it, let’s push back and fight even harder toward our goal of electing-faith driven leaders. 

Richard, if you agree that we must elect faith-driven leaders to defend our Christian values please consider rushing in $20, $15, $10, or even $5 to help me accomplish my goal of bringing Christ back to our nation.

I pray you’re following after Christ and supporting God-fearing people in the process. 

God Bless You,

Mike Pompeo 

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The War Against the Jews

Some thoughts on the first pogrom of the 21st century

 

This essay is excerpted from letters the author has written daily since the beginning of the Hamas pogrom.

We, Jews in the exile, knew that we were not safe.

Christians could complain to the Christian authorities and Jews would be drained of their wealth and then imprisoned or expelled. At times, it suited the Christian rulers to allow their Christian subjects to “riot,” that is, to enter Jewish homes and to rob, rape, and kill Jews at will, with no punishment by the rulers. There are heart-rending scenes depicted in Jewish poetry and prose—of women raped in the presence of their children and husbands; of children torn apart alive; of slit throats of children and parents in the presence of each other, of whole communities enclosed in synagogues and then burned alive. It didn’t happen every day, or even every year. But it happened every once in a while. The word was “pogrom” and it meant a riot by Christians, the purpose of which was to kill Jews, in the cruelest ways, with the quiet sanction of the state.

To be sure, living in a society that preached that Jews were Christ-killers, demons, and sorcerers, the source of the plagues that killed large percentages of the population, and so on, ensured that Jews would be a target. Christian education and preaching prepared the masses for the murder of the Jews. Jews in Christendom knew they were not safe.

Jews in Muslim lands were not much better off. There are searing narratives and poems that describe what it was like living in a society that forced Jews to cross the street when they encountered a Muslim; that did not allow public celebration of Jewish holidays; that made Jews pay a poll tax and get beaten publicly when they did; that invented the idea of special Jewish garb to single out Jews; that allowed Muslims to seize Jewish orphans and raise them as Muslims; that punished Jews for assaulting Muslims but not Muslims for assaulting Jews; and more. And then, there were the “riots” in which the masses were allowed, even encouraged, to roam through the Jewish community, raping, killing, torturing, and humiliating the Jews of all ages and genders.

The riots didn’t happen every day, or even every year. But they happened every once in a while, and became part of Jewish reality. The word was “sin’ut,” Jew hatred, and it meant the long-term humiliation of Jews, mixed with the sporadic violent murder of Jews. To be sure, living in a Muslim society that preached that Jews were deniers, apes and pigs, dishonest, greedy, and sources of illness, ensured that Jews would be a target. Muslim education and preaching prepared the masses for the murder of the Jews. Jews in Islamic lands knew they were not safe.

Then, came the Enlightenment with the idea that humans are alike. “Liberty, equality, and fraternity.” “All men are created equal.” It wasn’t true. Women were excluded. Blacks were excluded. So were Jews. But, it was a dream which, very slowly, was extended until the declaration of human rights was understood to be universal.

European and American Jews were glad to live in the Enlightenment. There were still remnants of the old regime and they were called “anti-Semitic,” but we, Jews, believed them to be remnants of medieval Christendom that would fade away in the Enlightenment. The problem was that antisemitism had very deep roots in western culture and religion and, in their enthusiasm for the Enlightenment, the Jews of Europe forgot those roots. In time, the forces of deep Jew hatred reared their heads, and secular modernity also turned against the Jews. Jews were hated because they were Jews, again: greedy for world power, the source of the loss of the old traditional values, vermin, an inferior race, modern Antichrists. That resulted in the Holocaust, an almost-successful, systematic, mechanized, state-sponsored effort to annihilate all the Jews in Europe. The education of the populace by these forces, especially in the Nazi and communist states, prepared the masses for the murder of the Jews. Jews in the modern world learned that they were not safe.

The Enlightenment never came to the lands of Islam—not for the Jews, not for women, and not for others. Modern technology came, but not the Enlightenment. Rather, modern Islam borrowed the “antisemitism” of the Christian modern world, added it to Islamic antisemitism, and began to educate Muslims to murder Jews in the modern spirit and way.

The Jews responded to Christian, secular, and Muslim Jew hatred by creating their own state. It was to be a place where Jews could live without pogroms and sin’ut, where Jews could breathe freely. At first, Jews moved to the Holy Land and settled there with their own self-government. Then, they established their own state with the purpose of making it into a place where they could live without fear of pogroms and sin’ut. They had to fight for it. Many died, but it was worth it. They were free to live, to work, even to quarrel with one another. There were occasional incursions of Muslims and wars with them, but the Muslims were fought off. We paid a price, but we thought we were safe—even to have mass protests against our own government. We knew that the Muslims hated us, but we held that at a distance and, when their hatred of us, welled up, we responded. A stalemate, but a livable one.

Then came the Enlightenment with the idea that humans are alike. ‘Liberty, equality, and fraternity.’ ‘All men are created equal.’ It wasn’t true.

The “Hamas pogrom” changed all that. The invaders were of two sorts: untrained invaders who came across the border on motorcycles, bicycles, and even on foot. Their job was to kill, or take as hostages, as many people as they could, and then retreat into Gaza. They did this well. The other sort were trained special forces who were heavily armed. Their job was to invade communities and military bases, kill and seize hostages and equipment, and then move farther into Israel. Some of them stole Israeli cars, police and army uniforms from the dead, weapons, ID cards, etc. If needed, they had contacts in the local Palestinian community who will hide them. Some of these terrorists are still on the loose, which is why all apartment doors have to be locked and one never opens a door to anyone.

Suddenly, here were the Muslim masses overrunning Jewish villages and murdering Jews in their sleep, tearing babies apart, raping women, seizing the elderly, dragging our soldiers out of tanks and abusing them, burning whole families in their homes, and then putting up videos of all this, bragging to the world of what they had done. And the Islamic world saw this as a victory, and celebrated it. The old Christian and anti-Semitic secular worlds were quick to join in, celebrating the slaughter of Jews and blaming Israel for it all.

True, the Enlightenment world did rally, at least in words. Even minute segments of the Islamic world that understood the Enlightenment condemned the sin’ut. But, it was too late. We, Jews, learned from the Hamas pogrom that even in the land that we thought was more or less safe, we have been subject to a pogrom. We learned that even in the State of Israel, we are not safe. We also know, deep down inside, that it could happen again. We will strike back this time, but the reality of the resurgence of Jew-hatred even in the Jewish state is now upon us.

It is actually worse than that. The success of the Hamas pogrom has reinforced Jew haters everywhere. Their hand has been strengthened by the Hamas pogrom. What will happen when the Jew haters in the U.S., Britain, France, South America, Germany, Poland, Russia, and elsewhere realize their power?

Sin’ut is a worldwide phenomenon with worldwide communication and funding. Many of the non-Muslims are still in the shadows, but they won’t stay there long. Word of Hamas’ victory will spread, as the blood libel that began in England during the Crusades spread, igniting Jew hatred everywhere. The right-wing Jew haters, the left-wing Jew haters, and the Christian Jew haters will join the Muslim Jew haters. Modern media will make this possible. After the Hamas pogrom, Jews are no longer safe anywhere. My European daughter-in-law says: “This feels like Brussels.” We have reports from Texas that groups of Palestinians are turning up at gun ranges, learning how to shoot, and then buying guns. There are times when I feel that I am in a nightmare, one of those that makes you wake up trembling but, in the end, you know it isn’t true. This, however, is no nightmare. It is our reality.

Therefore, a few words of advice: First, know that it is OK to be angry. It is OK to be outraged. Westerners have a tendency to be stiff-upper-lipped. Don’t be that Westerner. If you run across a university president or a religious or political leader who is not outraged enough, call them out on it. Don’t be shy. Second, know that it is OK to cry. Some things require tears. A person who does not cry is not quite human. Third, do pray even if it is not your usual custom and even if you don’t believe, or are not sure of what you believe. Prayer, that is, turning to a Presence that is beyond us, is natural. Just say what comes from your heart. It doesn’t hurt, really.

Yesterday, my son Philippe went to see an older colleague who is one of the academic experts on Hamas. He has had a stroke and can no longer go out. I know him too and have read his book. He lives in Tel Aviv. Normally, I would have gone along, but no one needs an old man with a suprapubic catheter tagging along and I did not want to leave my wife alone. So, I did not go. Then, Philippe went to see an old woman, a famous European businesswoman whose family fled here after Kristallnacht (1938). She, too, lives in Tel Aviv. It turns out that her Thai helper lost two people in the south: one who was killed and the other who is one of the known Thai hostages.

Then, Philippe went to two military funerals in the local cemetery. The first one was delayed because the coffin had been sent to the wrong place. So everyone had to wait, including the group for the second funeral. In Israel, bodies are buried in shrouds. If a coffin is used, it means the body has been severely mutilated. Both funerals were with coffins. Normally, at a military funeral, the commanding officer speaks. In these funerals, one commanding officer had been killed and the other is on the front line.

In one funeral, the deceased was a 23-year-old girl. In the other, the deceased was a 19-year-old girl who had just finished her training as an observer (these are the young women who watch the electronic cameras and pass on any dangerous information they gather). The Hamas terrorists carefully shot out the cameras, bombed the communications tower, and attacked the observation tower, raping, abusing, and killing these girls. She was one of those killed, from a Yemenite family of the community of my daughter-in-law Nili’s parents.

Philippe remarked that you could feel the anger in the crowd of hundreds gathered for these funerals. Yes, they are angry, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli commentators reflect this anger, promising a long war that will “eliminate” Hamas in Gaza—not Gazans or Muslims or Arabs, but Hamas. Upon objective reflection, such a goal seems hardly possible. In the long run, it would be useless because others will rise and take their place. Still, the Jewish anger is there. The more we read, the more we, too, feel that anger. 

Many years ago, when I was about to write the concluding chapters of Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest, I fell physically sick for several days. I’m beginning to feel like that now. There are a lot of Hamas documents that have been recovered showing that killing civilians was the major goal and taking hostages next, plus a guide for how to take hostages. One article reports a document on how to torture hostages. American senators were forced to go to shelters because of rockets and a session of the Israeli parliament was suspended for 40 minutes for the same reason. Pro-Hamas demonstrations are multiplying all over the world. Anti-Semitic incidents are also multiplying all over the world. The Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post are dedicating space to photos and write-ups of known hostages and victims.

We went to the mourners’ services again this morning. The boy was 28 years old. He was in charge of the outgoing shift at the Sderot police station. He sent home two men early and, as the next shift arrived, he saw the attackers arriving. He warned the new shift to run away because they did not have the necessary heavy arms to fight, only pistols. He then engaged the enemy to cover their retreat.

One woman still in the station fled to the roof. She was shot in the hand. So, she smeared the blood on her face and played dead. She survived. Another policeman hid in a shaft for seven hours until help arrived. Our young policeman and about a dozen others were killed.

From the porch of Philippe’s apartment, Ursula can hear the afternoon service from the parking lot next door. It is very moving.

Everyone agrees that this was a pogrom, a successful mass-killing of Jews, the worst since the Holocaust. The last tally shows: 1,300 Jews killed, 3,300 Jews injured, many of them seriously, and over 200 Jews and others taken as hostages. The Israelis have retaliated, killing uncounted numbers of Hamas and Palestinians, and reducing large parts of Gaza to rubble.

Now, the real war has begun. It is a second war—a war of words, blackmail, and standing in the world. It is the midgame battle in a larger chess game.

Israel, with the backing of many Jews and others worldwide, wants to “eliminate” Hamas. This cannot actually be done because there are too many Hamas members and way too many Hamas believers, and because this would require a ground invasion that would cost many more Jewish lives. There are also the hostages to take into consideration, including those of Israel’s closest ally, the United States. Nonetheless, after the Holocaust and “Never Again,” the Jewish state, representing dead and living Jews, must make the price of killing Jews with the cruelty that only Jew hatred can evoke as high as possible. The world of Jew haters must know that any such action will evoke a very, very serious response in kind. Jew haters must learn that we will fight back, that we will punish severely such action against us, no matter what the price.

Jewish anger is there. The more we read, the more we, too, feel that anger.

The Jew-hating world wants to recuperate as much as possible and to go on to plan the next step in the war against the Jews. They have two pieces to bargain with: the hostages and the devastation of what they present as innocent civilians whom the West, but not Islam, regard as precious. The center of this movement is Iran. It is the leader of the anti-Western and anti-Jewish world. Iran’s leadership of this jihad is at stake. To win this midgame battle is to lose a few Palestinian pieces but to be able to advance to the next move toward an ultimate win. The rest of the Islamic world knows this well and is watching very, very carefully. So are the Jew haters in the West, on both the left and the right.

America has reason to be a loyal ally of the only democracy in the Middle East. This would restore America as the leader of the Western world and the Western values of human rights, especially after decades of defeats in the Middle East. The return to this position of power is politically crucial for America’s leadership in the South China Sea, in the Middle East, and in Europe. Japan, Korea, Australia, Ukraine, NATO, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and others are watching very carefully.

Israel can occupy the Gaza Strip. The Americans, who have long experience with the futility of such occupations, argue (correctly, I think) that such an occupation will not work. Israel could invade the Gaza Strip, destroy as much as possible of the Hamas personnel and infrastructure, and then withdraw. But, the world of bleeding hearts and the world of Islamic solidarity will pour in enough money to rebuild that human and military infrastructure as well as the ideology of Jew hatred that motivates it.

The Americans could intimidate Iran and its proxies into refraining from intervening. That would result in a “check,” but not a “checkmate.” The Iranian Jew haters will then do what any chess player would do. They will strategically withdraw, and the dead Gazans will be declared martyrs who go to paradise while the surviving Gazans will be declared heroes who will live to fight again. The Iranians will then declare victory in a serious and successful preliminary battle. Make no mistake: This would indeed be a victory for Iran, and a major loss for the Americans and the Jews.

In the process, much fuss will be made over “freeing the hostages.” The price demanded for freeing the innocent people who were unjustly seized will be high. There will be no justice; only bargaining over what the losers should pay for the lives of the women, children, grandmothers, strangers working in the Holy Land, and soldiers to “free” them, or their dead bodies. Not all of them will be released. Hamas is already claiming that they do not know where all of them are. Whatever is agreed upon, no matter how unjust, the payment is a victory for the Jew haters. It is blackmail paid.

The reinforcement of the jihad against the Jews (and also against the Christians though Christians don’t take this seriously, yet) will have the secondary effect of being the death of the “two-state solution.” Why, after a great victory against the Jews, should the forces of Islamic antisemitism agree to a Palestinian state that would imply the recognition of the legitimacy of the despised Jewish state? The West will continue to “push” for the two-state solution but the success of the Hamas pogrom has torpedoed that forever. For that matter, what Jew would ever trust a Jew hater to agree to “peace”?

For the same reasons, the success of the jihad against the Jews probably means the end to “normalization.” Who leads the Islamic world? If Iran wins the midgame chess battle by taking its Palestinian losses and withdrawing from further military action until the next move, Iran, not the United Arab Emirates and others, will be the leader, and normalization will have been an interlude.

Antisemitism, on the right and on the left, will grow. It is already spreading rapidly, particularly on college campuses. Sometimes, antisemitism is violent Jew hatred, and sometimes it is couched in equity, diversity, inclusion language which shrinks from declaring the killing of babies a crime against humanity.

There is a concept called “moral injury” that we discovered among American soldiers returning from wars in the Middle East and Asia. It is not PTSD, for which there are established treatment protocols. Moral injury is the realization that one did something in a wartime situation in which the morality of the military protects one psychologically but which, when one returns to normal moral life as civilians, one realizes was terribly wrong. For instance: A soldier in the Middle East sees a pregnant-looking woman dressed in Islamic clothing walking toward him. He does not know whether she is pregnant or has a bomb under her clothing. He shouts at her several times in the local language to stop. He fires into the air to deter her. But she keeps coming toward him. In the end, he follows standard instructions to protect himself and his unit, and he kills her. But she turns out to have been pregnant, and not a terrorist. After release from the army, he returns home and sees his pregnant wife walking toward him. The scene comes back to him and the soldier turns violent, or turns to drugs or alcohol, or commits suicide. This is “moral injury.” He did what he should have done in the situation but, in a normal context, he realizes it was a terribly wrong thing to have done. I think that, for many Israelis and Jews, the anger, indeed the rage, that we are experiencing now and our intense desire for revenge as we read the stories and watch the videos of this horror, are going to become moral injuries as life moves forward.

Finally, remember that 2033 is the 100th anniversary of the rise to power of Hitler; that 2038 is the 100th anniversary of Kristallnacht; and that 2041-44 is the 100th anniversary of the Nazi death camps. The Jew haters know this, for sure. I won’t be around to see this. Many of you won’t either. But our children and grandchildren will.

In the end, it is my thinking that Iran will play it rationally. They will not risk nuclear war for Palestine. They will, therefore, take their Palestinian losses, restrain Hezbollah and other pawns from intervening, declare victory, and return to planning the next major step in their jihad against Jews, Christians, and the West. Israel will do something in Gaza but will not be able to “eliminate” Hamas or Islamic Jew hatred. Hamas will suffer, will declare victory over the Jews, and will succeed in getting more money to rebuild. America will claim to have prevented another damaging war and will go on believing that it leads the free world in its march for justice and peace. Jews everywhere will grudgingly be forced to acknowledge that “there is nothing new under the sun”; that Jew hatred is here to stay. The Hamas pogrom will take its place, alongside other pogroms against Jews, as the first pogrom of the 21st century. Welcome to Jewish history.

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Biden and Blinken's call for a humanitarian pause not a cease fire. Their subtle nuance favors terrorism. What the hell is the difference? 

On D Day did Ike have to deal with a comparable plea?  Did such a demand emanate from the world when America and Britain lighted the skies over Dresden?  

Biden is losing the radical Muslim vote and his morality, if he has any, is being tested and, as usual when it comes to the right decision, he fails.

As for myself, now that the world has shown it's true collective belief, I can make racial comments and need not fear any criticism. I can even go on any campus, not feel intimidated because anything goes! 

What a free and wonderful world progressives, radical liberals and Islamist members of the Democrat Party have created.

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And:

Don’t fall for the Islamophobia scam!

A false narrative about Muslims being under attack after the Oct. 7 atrocities has it backwards. It is Muslim groups and their leftist allies who are fueling the surge in antisemitism.

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN - JNS

What’s the federal government doing in response to a massive surge in antisemitism on American streets and college campuses since the Oct. 7 atrocities on Israel by Hamas terrorists? It’s getting serious about stopping Islamophobia.

The announcement that President Joe Biden has assigned Vice President Kamala Harris to work on developing “the first-ever U.S. national strategy to counter Islamophobia” can be dismissed as nothing more than a political gesture. It’s clearly intended to counter the bitter criticism he has received from his party’s left-wing intersectional base that is deeply upset about the president’s support for Israel.

As The New York Times has reported, the Democratic Party is splintering over the administration’s stand in support of Israel’s efforts to eliminate the Hamas terrorists running the Gaza Strip. Not even his efforts to delay the Israeli offensive or his insistence that it allow humanitarian aid to enter the terrorist-run enclave that effectively resupplies Hamas has been enough to dampen the criticism that is placing his re-election campaign in jeopardy.

While his pro-Israel stand has shored up his support with centrist Democrats and independents, his party’s intersectional wing is, unlike most Americans, hostile to Israel. The only way for him to conciliate them is to double down on the administration’s embrace of the ideology of racial and ethnic grievance that is the driving force of liberal Democrat activism in the 21st century.

The myth of an anti-Muslim backlash

The nation has been shocked by the brazen Jew-hatred on display in the pro-Hamas demonstrations in many cities, in academia and in the widespread increase in anti-Jewish incidents. But even as the administration acknowledges this dismal reality, it is also buttressing a false narrative about hatred for Muslims.

Prejudice against any group is deplorable, and where there are incidents of bias against Muslims or Arabs, they should be vigorously condemned. Yet as FBI statistics for the past two decades have shown, there is little or no empirical evidence to back up the claims that Muslims faced a backlash of prejudice after the 9/11 attacks.

Throughout this period, it has been the Jews, who constitute a small fraction of the population, who have been the targets for the vast majority of religious hate crimes. That continues to this day with a real backlash. Paradoxically, the worst mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust—the barbarous Oct. 7 attacks that resulted in the deaths of 1,400 men, women and children, the wounding of thousands and the kidnapping of as many as 230 civilians—has created a surge of sympathy for Hamas and their jihad to eliminate the one Jewish state on the planet and to slaughter its Jewish population.

The evidence of burgeoning Jew-hatred on American streets and college campuses comes in many forms. It’s not just demonstrations and speeches where mobs chant their support for the destruction of Israel and their contempt for Jewish victims. It also means acts of intimidation and violence against individuals or those who publicly express their opposition to Palestinian terrorism.

Vandalizing victim posters

The most ubiquitous evidence of this hostility to Jews has been the frequent incidents in which people are tearing down posters showing the images of Israelis who are being held as hostages in Gaza. As another Times article made clear, those who commit these acts of vandalism believe that it is wrong to highlight Jewish victims since it distracts from their efforts to flip the discussion about the war Hamas launched into one about Palestinian suffering. According to the Times, the posters are viewed as “anti-Islamic war propaganda.”

The fact that so many people are carrying out this anti-social act—who, after all, would think of tearing down a poster for a missing cat or dog, let alone one about a child abducted by terrorists—speaks to something truly insidious in our culture. While there have been no reports of police tearing down the posters—as they have done in British cities such as London and Manchester, presumably to soothe the hurt feelings of Muslims who are offended by them—the contempt that these Muslim and leftist vandals feel for Jewish victims is raw, unadulterated antisemitism.

But as counter-intuitive to the facts as it may be, it actually makes a great deal of sense that an administration that has embraced the intersectional worldview of critical race theory, like Biden’s has, would attempt to flip the script from this blatant antisemitism to one about alleged Islamophobia.

To those who have embraced the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the only legitimate forms of diversity or inclusion involve those races or groups designated as victims. From that point of view, it doesn’t matter that incidents of Jew-hatred overwhelmingly outnumber those few reported incidents of anti-Muslim prejudice. Since Jews and Israel are falsely labeled as possessors of “white privilege” and oppressors—and Arabs and Muslims are “people of color” and victims—only the latter really count.

The administration’s willingness to impose DEI policies that reject equality in favor of racialized quotas rendered their much-ballyhooed plan to combat antisemitism meaningless. And that betrayal is only underlined by the pivot to Islamophobia in the midst of the greatest crisis to face American Jewry in living memory.

If young people on college campuses, as well as thugs on the streets of all backgrounds, are tearing down posters of Jewish victims, it is because they have been indoctrinated to believe that Jews have no right to live in freedom in their own land or to defend themselves. In the upside-down world of intersectionality, it is the terrorists and their supporters who deserve sympathy—not those they attack or the forces seeking to stop the murderers from striking again.

That’s the reason why the administration believes that it must play the Islamophobia card.

The one story that backs up this decision is the murder of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American child by his family’s landlord, reportedly because of anti-Muslim prejudice. This murder was shocking and tragic. But that incident—likely motivated, like so many mass shootings including those at synagogues, by mental illness as much as bias—does not demonstrate a national problem. More to the point, those crying out about Islamophobia are, in almost every case, the same people and groups who are guilty of promoting antisemitism.

An unreliable source

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is the source most often cited for the claim that there is a surge in Islamophobia. To say that it is not to be trusted on the subject is an understatement. Founded in the 1990s as a fundraising group for Hamas in the United States, it has since rebranded itself as a so-called civil-rights organization. But it has been consistently guilty of promoting Jew-hatred and has sought to silence groups that called attention to their incitement by falsely labeling them as Islamophobes. That continues to this day when it reacted to the Oct. 7 atrocities by refusing to condemn Hamas and, instead, blaming Israel for the attacks.

Once one strips away the veneer of concern for a religious minority, CAIR demonstrates that most of what is called Islamophobia involves those calling out groups like its own and others that champion efforts to destroy Israel or to target Jews and Israelis via illegal BDS discrimination campaigns, for their open antisemitism.

As we have seen in the last month, Muslims and Arabs are not the ones being attacked by Jews or, for the most part, by anyone else. Instead, they are the ones who are targeting Jews—and as the videos of the pro-Hamas demonstrations and the poster incidents show, they think they are right, even proud, to display their Jew-hatred.

It is no consolation to recognize that Biden’s Islamophobia initiative will be no more serious than his administration’s efforts to combat antisemitism, or that he has assigned the least respected and most ineffective member of his team in Harris to lead it.

Nevertheless, putting the government’s imprimatur on what is nothing more than an effort to create a false moral equivalency between a surge in antisemitism and the belief of those fueling that hate that they are the real victims is deeply troubling. Criticism of the antisemitism spewing forth from the Muslim and Arab sources—and those who back up their hatred—is not a form of prejudice. The Islamophobia scam means legitimizing those supporting the eradication of the one Jewish state on the planet and the murder of its Jewish population. Rather than helping to curb prejudice, the Biden administration is encouraging it.

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The Fed acknowledges their rate structure is biting and job growth has both slowed and even begun to shrink.  The market wisely anticipated this and  is why it rallied. Earnings are also good and stocks are responding.

Earning comparisons should be decent in the first quarter of 2024 and The Fed could cut rates early in order to avoid impacting/shaping the election.

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The company's founder is Jewish.

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I have written  the various legal actions against Trump and  brought by SOROS funded district attorneys are based more on a desire to disrupt his ability to campaign for a second term than any principle of Constitutional law based on supportable evidence. These cases are brought by Trump/Maga haters and have more to do with a second legal system than justice. The district attorneys expressed their contempt for Trump prior to trial, sent campaign funds to his opponent and refused to recuse themselves.

Their bias drips from their mouths.

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The Silent Revolution: Free Speech, Censorship, And The Campus Dilemma In America by Joshua D. Rauh, Greg Kearney via Liberty Lens - An Economics Substack In recent years, America’s leadership class has become increasingly antagonistic toward long-standing norms around free speech. As we laid out in one of our recent pieces, government bureaucrats have increasingly endorsed the use of censorship under the guise of protecting Americans from so-called mis- and disinformation. ++++

One Sick War By Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness The best way of understanding it is that Israelis are Jews and the ancient plague of anti-Semitism is again sweeping the globe. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE BIG STORY EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis Tells MRC’s Bozell How He’d Fight Big Tech Election Interference BY LUIS CORNELIO  Editor’s Note: All major 2024 candidates polling above one percent nationally across the spectrum — Republicans, independents, and Democrats — have been invited to participate in similar sit-downs. Our offers remain on the table. FIRST ON.  READ MORE  ++++ Hamas has learned Israelis can become killerbeeS:   https://wwwisraelnationalnews.com/news379611 +++  Yadin is the cousin of vervy, very dear friends who came to dinner recently: +++ Here’s Yadin’s interview with CNN this afternoon. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/11/03/exp-israeli-solder-gellman-110312pseg1-cnni-world.cnn +++++++++++++++  We havecome a very long way from certified  patriots to our current  leadership. It is sad, it is disgusting and I believe it  can only get worse if we keep electing  those  like we have been. This not only  includes those who occupy the Oval  Office but also those who wear Judge  and Justice robes  and those who sit in cushy leather  seats in Congress. +++ The war against the Jewish people and the west It's as if both Stalin and Hitler are being afforded a posthumous victory By MELANIE Phillips Pro-Hamas demonstration, London I gave some talks in America over the past weekend. What follows is a composite of what I said in them. In Israel, the population is traumatized, shocked and grieving. During the Hamas pogrom on October 7, Israelis were slaughtered with a level of barbarism and depravity not seen since the Shoah.  In such a small country, there’s hardly a  family that’s not personally touched by  what’s unfolded. They have relatives  who were murdered in the pogrom, or  who were kidnapped and taken hostage.  Their children and grandchildren have  been called up to military service and  are now in harm’s way on the front.  Hundreds of these conscripts have  already been killed. Israelis are going  to funeral after funeral. The rocket  barrages keep coming. The anxiety  levels are off the scale. The agenda of Hamas and its puppet- master Iran is very clear. Destroy  Israel, genocide against the Jews, and  then wipe out the Christian west and all  unbelievers. We know this is their  agenda because they say so.  Repeatedly.   The greater shock, however, has been  the reaction to this of an enormous  number of people in the west. Western depravity There have been shocking scenes in  British, American and Australian cities  of massive and mostly Muslim mobs  celebrating the mass murder of Jews  and calling for more. Among the non- Jewish population, this genocidal  hysteria is being viewed by millions  more with indifference or even  support, especially among the young. Polling has shown that among 18-24  year-old Americans, nearly half — 48  per cent — say they side more with  Hamas. More than half — 51 per cent —  think the Hamas pogrom in which 1400  Israelis were slaughtered can be  justified by the grievances of  Palestinians. In Britain and America, young people  have been tearing down posters  bearing pictures of some of the  kidnapped Israeli children. Thousands of demonstrators have  been chanting “From the river to the  sea, Palestine will be free” — the  demand for the destruction of Israel.  In London, mobs have been chanting  “Khybar, Khybar, oh Jews, the army of  Mohammed will return” — the  reference to the seventh century  slaughter of the Jews of Khybar by  Islam’s founder Mohammed, which acts  as a jubilant glorification and  incitement of the slaughter of Jews  today. The western media have been pumping  out Hamas propaganda. The BBC and  other outlets headline civilian  casualty figures put out by Hamas —  regardless of the fact that these are  always hugely exaggerated, and with  no acknowledgment of the fact that  terrorists are presumably included in  these figures and may constitute the  majority. While berating Israel for causing a  humanitarian “catastrophe,” they make  no mention of the thefts of fuel and electricity to service the Hamas terrorist infrastructure in the miles of underground tunnels. They make no mention of the rocket attacks which continue without remission against Israeli civilians. Instead they demand of Israeli spokesmen: “Why are you killing babies in Gaza?” Even though Hamas is committing war  crimes by using Gazan civilians as human  shields, western “progressives” are  accusing Israel of war crimes. Even  though Israel has been warning Gazan  civilians to flee for their own safety as  required by international law while  Hamas is forcing them under gunfire to  stay in place, Israel is being accused of  breaking international law. Thousands of cultural and intellectual  figures have been signing declarations  of solidarity with Gaza. They have not  condemned Hamas for butchering and  kidnapping Israelis. Nor have they  acknowledged the plight of the 240- plus hostages.  Instead, they have blamed “settler  colonial occupation and European  empire”. They have blamed Israel for  “collective punishment” of the  Palestinian population, who voted  Hamas into power and a majority of  whom tell pollsters they still support  it — and even if they don’t support  support Hamas, a majority support the  killing of Jews.  All civilian casualties are regrettable.  In war, however, these are inevitable.  And these are Gazan civilians who  handed out sweets and rejoiced at the  slaughter of the pogrom. Gazan  civilians who poured  through the  broken boundary fence after the  Hamas terrorists smashed through and  joined in the orgy of bloodletting,  looting and kidnap. Gazan civilians who  spat upon and desecrated the bodies of  those who had been kidnapped and  paraded through the streets. Across the west, antisemitic attacks  which were already at record levels  have now increased many times over.  People hurled firebombs at a  synagogue in Berlin. In Amsterdam,  three Jewish schools closed  temporarily over safety worries. In  Sydney where mobs chanted “gas the  Jews” in front of the Sydney Opera  House, the police advised the Jewish  community to “stay home” for their own  safety. What’s been revealed is something far  wider than the battle by Israel against  genocidal Iran and its proxies.  The  depravity witnessed in the slaughter  within Israel has put down roots in  Britain, Europe, America and Australia.  What we are seeing is a war of  annihilation against Judaism and the  Jewish people. And behind that is a war  against the west from within the west,  as expressed through what we might  describe as its mass psychopathy  moment. This is the west’s civilizational  crisis. Where did this come from? Despite the  astonishment and bewilderment of so  many — and untold thousands of  decent, sane, civilised people are horrified by what they have seen unfold in the west over these past terrible weeks — it hasn’t come out of the blue. It’s been building up for decades. That’s because a horrifying number among the west’s ruling elites themselves were, and continue to be, complicit in the agenda to destroy western civilization.  This onslaught within the west has four components: Muslim communities in western countries, support for the Palestine cause, liberal ideology and the disintegration of conservatism. Biden administration At the most obvious and immediate level,  the Iran-backed Hamas pogrom and the  war against Israel are the result of  American policy under the Biden  administration and, previous to that,  the Obama administration. These two administrations have pursued  policies that have hugely empowered  Iran. The Obama nuclear deal, which  contrary to the claims made for it  actually legitimised an eventual Iranian  nuclear weapons programme,   funnelled billions of dollars in  sanctions relief into the coffers of  the Iranian regime, enabling it to expand  its power in the region and funding the  weaponry and training it gave its  proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen,  Gaza and the disputed territories of  Judea and Samaria, the “West Bank”. The Biden administration followed suit  with further backdoor sanctions  relief as it grovelled to Tehran in an  attempt to revive the nuclear deal.  Dozens of Iran-backed attacks on  American assets in the region have been  ignored by the Biden administration or  answered with only a feeble response.  The administration has given the Iranian  regime — as well as Russia, China and  North Korea — the impression that the  United States is no longer prepared to  go to war anywhere in the world over  anything. This impression of a toothless  and weak America has hugely  emboldened Iran to increase its  aggression.  And Iran was behind the Hamas pogrom,  as it is behind the Syrians, the  Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in  Yemen who are all currently  developing a multi-front onslaught  against Israel. So far, there has still been a muted and  ambiguous response from America.  There are persistent doubts that it will  allow Israel to destroy Hamas. An  existential war of self-defence — as in  the Allies’ war against Nazi Germany —  requires for its victory that the entire  enemy population is regarded as  hostile. Yet the Biden administration  has been warning Israel to hold back  its assault and to admit “humanitarian”  aid even though this will be  appropriated by Hamas, and even  though weapons are likely to be  smuggled in among the aid trucks. Moreover, for a deterrent to work it  has to be credible. America has sailed a  mighty force into the region to deter  Iran from escalating the war. But  although Hezbollah has been firing  missiles at northern Israel to probe  American resolve, and although  American assets have now been  repeatedly attacked, the US has  responded only sparsely and feebly. If  even America’s friends don’t believe it  will decisively enter this fight, why  should the regime in Tehran believe it  either? The question is why these Democrat  administrations are so keen to appease  rather than fight and defeat tyranny. Liberal delusions of reason One reason is the liberal “kumbaya”  mindset: the belief that everyone in the  world is governed by reason, that  everyone is susceptible to appeals to  their self-interest, and that all  conflict can be ended by negotiation  and “conflict resolution”. War, to such  liberals, is never ever necessary and  always self-defeating. Such an attitude,  so prevalent in the west during the  1930s, facilitated the rise of Hitler and  the Holocaust; had it continued to  prevail, the Nazis would have overrun  the free world.  Today, such liberals can’t get their  heads around Islamic religious  fanaticism and the belief in jihadi holy  war that elevates death to the highest  goal of life.  This liberal mindset is a bottomless and  lethal delusion. It is largely why the US  has remained hell-bent upon  “negotiating” with Iran. And it’s why , even now, President Joe Biden is  insisting “what comes next has to be a  two-state solution…a path towards  peace”.  This is deluded on two grounds. The  first is that the issue behind the battle  with Hamas is the non-existence of a  state of Palestine. This is asinine. The  issue is Iran’s genocidal war to destroy  Israel and murder Jews, an aim that  Hamas fully shares.  The second delusion is the belief — so  evident in the Biden administration —  that there are the “bad” Palestinians of  Hamas and the “good” Palestinians of  the Palestinian Authority (PA) under  Mahmoud Abbas.  This distinction is false. The PA’s tactics  may be different from Hamas but its aim  is the same. The PA wants the  destruction of Israel, as anyone can  see from its maps of “Palestine” which  consists of the whole of Israel; it has  said repeatedly that a Palestine state is  a means to that end in its “strategy of  stages”; and it teaches its children that  their highest calling is to murder Jews  and steal all their land including Tel  Aviv, Jaffa and Haifa. Moreover, Abbas’s  role model is the Nazis’ Middle Eastern  ally, Haj Amin al Husseini, who promised  Hitler that if he won the war al Husseini  would exterminate every Jew in the  Middle East.  A Palestine state would mean importing  Gaza into the heart of Israel. Victim culture But there’s a broader degree to which  liberals have been complicit in fuelling  the current incendiary atmosphere. The  “progressive” world has not only  created a dominant narrative of Israeli  “colonialism” and Palestinian  victimisation by Israeli “oppression”. It  has created a similarly  unchallengeable narrative of a Muslim  world composed entirely of victims of  the west. For decades, it has promoted the  doctrine that white-skinned  westerners are colonial oppressors  so everything they do is bad, while  those in the brown or black-skinned  developing world are their victims and  therefore morally pure.  Under the dogma of identity politics,  victim status gives “powerless” (and  therefore morally pure) groups  defined by race, ethnicity, sexuality or  gender a free pass for their misdeeds,  for which their “oppressors” are  blamed instead. Accordingly, no criticism can be made of  Muslims; those who do so are promptly  accused of “Islamophobia”. According to  this mindset, Islamic terrorism or  extremism has nothing whatever to do  with Islam; it is instead caused by  poverty, discrimination, marginalisation  and so forth. This failure to understand the  theological driver of Islamic  extremism, whose aim is to Islamise the  world and defeat modernity as a  source of evil that threatens Islam,  means in turn a failure to grasp the  Islamists’ belief that modernity is  driven by the Jews who they believe are  the prime source of evil in the world.  Islamism, or modern jihadi Islam, fuses  theological Jew-hatred with Nazism,  reflecting the Nazi influence on the  fanatical ideologues who created  Islamism in the early decades of the  last century. Antisemitism is rampant throughout the  Islamic world. This is ignored by the  west, which also doesn’t understand  anti-semitism and thinks it’s just   another form of racism rather than a  uniquely deranged, paranoid and  murderous creed. Accordingly, the west is gripped by the  naive and ignorant belief that the  “Middle East conflict” is over the  division of the land. It is not. It was  always at root an Islamic holy war  against the Jewish presence in the land.  The west’s mistaken support has  conscripted western liberals into a  Palestinian narrative based entirely on  lies, demonisation and the writing of  the Jewish people out of their own  history.  Restoring the narrative The narrative of Israeli oppressors and  Palestinian victims is the default  position in progressive circles. But  with the Hamas pogrom on October 7  this narrative was holed below the  water line. To their unbridled horror,  western liberals watched people  whose cause they had supported  commit acts of barbarous depravity, while the people they had called colonialist oppressors were slaughtered — in the cause that western liberals had supported,  sanitised and legitimised. It’s hard to exaggerate the consternation and disorientation this  has caused among such liberals. It’s  not just the humiliation and  embarrassment at having made a bad  mistake. It’s much deeper than that.  Their entire moral personality is  constructed around the belief that  everything they stand for is morally  virtuous. Anyone who dissents is not  just wrong but evil. All who dissent are  “right-wing”. All evil is right-wing and  all right-wingers are evil. Tyranny can  only come from the right. Anti-semitism  therefore can only come from the  right.  But now it’s come from their own side.  So what does that make them? Also  right-wing and evil? This is intolerable.  So they have to get their Israel- Palestine narrative back on track.  That’s why they seized upon Israel’s  alleged bombing to destruction of  Gaza’s al-Ahli hospital which they  claimed had caused hundreds of  patients to die. This was quickly shown  to be totally untrue: the hospital  wasn’t destroyed (even the solar panels on the roof were left intact),  and it wasn’t an Israeli attack at all but  a Palestinian rocket aimed at murdering  Israeli civilians that had misfired and  fallen within Gaza, hitting the  hospital’s car parking lot. Yet despite  this, the liberal media continued to try  to pin this “atrocity” upon Israel. The  narrative had to be got back on track. But there’s something even darker that  had to be got back on track. This is the  need to blame the Jews for their own  suffering.  As the black joke has it, the west can’t  forgive the Jews for the Holocaust. It  can’t deal with the fact that the Shoah  was perpetrated by the country,  Germany, that stood at the very apex of  high western culture; it can’t deal with  the fact that other western countries  stood by as accessories to the  genocide.  To deal with this intolerable burden of  guilt, the west tries to erase Jewish  victimisation. Demonising the Israelis as  latter-day “Nazis” gives it the perfect  means to do so. It legitimises the Jew- baiting which went underground after  the Holocaust. It makes it acceptable to  demonise the Jews again, this time under  cover of “merely” being “anti-Israel” or  “anti-Zionism”. It enables it to get back to disliking Jews again. So Gaza is misrepresented as an “open prison” (ignoring altogether its border with Egypt, which normally keeps it closed to the aid Israel allows through its own crossing-point) “occupied” by the “cruel” Israelis who cause a  humanitarian “catastrophe”. It’s no use telling such people that  Israel has the most moral army in the  world, or leads the way in medical  advances and saving lives, or is always  first to offer help after any natural  disasters. Such people don’t want to  know how moral the Jews are. That  makes them feel really bad. They need  the Jews to be bad. Liberal ideology The western mind hasn’t just been  poisoned by the Palestinian agenda of  Israel rejectionism. Few realise the  extent to which this agenda has  knocked the west off its moral  compass. The Palestinians blame the Israelis for  behaviour of which Israel is totally  innocent but of which the Palestinians  themselves are guilty — such as ethnic  cleansing, aggression, illegality, war  crimes, genocide. This moral inversion  is based on the Palestinians’  pathological projection of their own misdeeds onto their victims.  Support for this agenda of moral  inversion has fed into the moral  inversion of the west’s own identity  politics. For decades, the progressive project  has been to destroy the bedrock  institutions of the west, its history and  traditions and create a new world  order around the individual and groups  of the “oppressed”. These ideologies of  race, ethnicity, sex and gender are  based on the Marxist doctrine that all  relationships comprise structures of  power, in which the powerful oppress  their victims. Why do people want to be victims? It’s  because members of “oppressed”  groups can play an unchallengeable  victim card when behaving badly, and  blame instead as oppressors those  they are themselves attacking. That’s  precisely how Palestinianism works. We can see the results of this broad  victim culture in an education system  that no longer teaches history or an  appreciation of the institutions of a  free society and subjects students  instead to these twisted ideologies of  “oppressors” and “oppressed”. Which is why the young now support those  intent upon genocide against the Jews,  themselves attack Jews and the Jewish  homeland, and promote barbarism over  civilisation.  These ideologies of race, ethnicity,  sexuality and gender are all based on a  repudiation of the western nation state — which is supposedly responsible for all bad things in the world — by universal values. They are intended to replace the supposedly innate belligerence of the nation state by the brotherhood of man. We can see how well that one has  worked out in the UN, where the  world’s worst tyrannies sit on the  Human Rights Council which sanitises  and excuses those tyrannies while  persecuting democratic Israel and  whose Secretary-General, Antonio  Guterres, blamed Israel for the  atrocities inflicted upon its own people  by saying the Hamas pogrom “did not  happen in a vacuum”. Liberal orthodoxy ordains there can be  no hierarchy of values. This means that the west can’t say its principles — such  as equality for women, freedom of  religion and democracy — are any  better than despotisms and tyrannies.  The belief that the west oppresses the  developing world means Muslims can  never be held responsible for what  they do. They are always viewed instead  as victims. Jews can never be seen as  victims. They are viewed  as white (even  when they are brown-skinned or black)  and are thought to be so powerful they  control capitalism and the world in  their interests and to the disadvantage  of everyone else. That was why when Karine Jean-Pierre,  the White House press secretary,  was  asked about the rise in antisemitism in  America she answered by claiming that  “Muslims and those perceived to be  Muslim have endured a  disproportionate number of hate- fuelled attacks”. According to this liberal mindset,  genocide by the Muslim world is  resistance and Israeli resistance to it  is genocide. The way in which this  grotesque inversion of truth and  morality has fried the minds of so many  reflects the tactics of the former  Soviet Union. The way the west has  succumbed to the lies of Palestinianism reflects the way in which so many in the west in the 1930s were convinced against all the evidence that Stalinism was creating a model society. The current convulsions in the west are as if both Stalin and Hitler are being afforded a posthumous victory. Conservatism What this also points to is an utter  failure of conservatism. Edmund Burke  became the father of conservatism  when he defended the inherited values of the Enlightenment against the  murderous French revolutionaries. He  understood the priceless value of  what was in danger of being destroyed. For decades, modern conservatives  have lost sight of the west’s priceless  values that need to be defended against the attack being mounted against them.  They have failed to take the fight to the  left on the ground on which it has made  such advances. They have failed to  understand the damage being done by  moral and cultural relativism, the  ideologies of race and gender identity  politics and victim culture. For decades, conservatives have failed to  stop the universities and the schools  substituting anti-west propaganda for  education and teaching young people  to hate their nation, western society  and its values.  Conservatives have ignored all these cultural issues. They decided instead to make liberty into their lodestar, and  devoted all their energies to  promoting free-market economics.  Instead of fighting the left, they put  themselves on the same patch of  ideological turf: while the left  promoted the free market in sexual and social values, conservatives promoted the free market in economics. Both threw the bonds of tradition out of the window. Conservatives went along with the mass breast-beating over colonialism, the promotion of mass immigration and lone parenthood, the obsession with blaming humanity itself for a man-made climate catastrophe whose arrival has been persistently and mysteriously postponed.  Conservatives said they had no option but to “go with the flow” of cultural change. As the left hijacked language to destroy morality, conservatives were looking the other way. They laughed at the inanity of the professors of gender studies; they saw insurrections like Black Lives Matter or Just Stop Oil as principally public order matters; they rolled their eyes at the persecution of lesbians by transgender activists. None of this, they thought, had anything fundamental to do with them. The culture war, said conservatives, was a distraction from the important things like the economy. As for the Muslim  world, US Republican as well as  Democrat presidents pushed the  Palestinian cause and ignored its genocidal antisemitism; it was a  Republican president, George W Bush,  who said Islam was a “religion of peace”. Now conservatives and others are all  looking in horror at the depraved  outcome — on university campuses, in  the cultural and administrative  classes, and on the streets of great  western cities. They are all staring  aghast at a civilisation teetering at the  edge of the cliff and asking how this  could have happened. The answer is as  bleak as it is brutal. It’s happened  because of them.  Israel is fighting for its own survival and for the lives of its people. It is also  fighting for civilisation against  barbarism. The question is whether western civilisation understands that  this is now a tipping point in the fight to save it. The question is whether western  civilisation actually wants to be saved  since its leading lights appear to have  have concluded that it is innately bad  and not worth the fight. Israel will win this battle — at terrible  cost — because it is determined to  survive. It fights because it  understands what it is fighting for. The  Jews know what they are because they  are bound together as one through  their roots in an ancient history; they  love and value their own people and  their nation; and they have risen up as  one to defend them to the death. This is  not true of the west, which seems  instead to have decided to go the way of ancient Rome. The west is looking in horror at events  in the Middle East. Its needs to realise  that the war is right here at home. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++