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But Hamas…

When Israel’s defenders bring up Hamas’s execrable anti-Semitic and genocidal charter, they should be reminded that for decades before the 1948 self-declared founding of Israel, Zionist leaders and settlers had talked about reclaiming and sanctifying the “Promised Land” for the “Chosen People”; supported the “transfer,” by force if necessary, of the Palestinian Arabs (those non-Jewish people who for generations lived inexplicably in the “land without a people”); treated them with utter contempt to their faces (to the dismay other Jews); expelled over 750,000 Palestinian Arabs in 1948, the Nakba; massacred hundreds of others and even poisoned their wells; destroyed some 500 villages to make way for Jewish towns, forests, and parks; and militarily ruled the remaining Palestinian Arabs for the next two decades. Then came the occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip through the 1967 war with its attendant brutality and humiliation.

All of that preceded Hamas’s emergence in the late 1980s. This does not justify Hamas’s horrendous violence against noncombatants, but perspective advances comprehension — if comprehension is deemed desirable.

Trump: The American Empire Personified

That’s why they hate him. He’s just saying what they’re all thinking, but you’re not supposed to do that.

Dave DeCamp:

Former President Trump said in an interview with Israel Hayom over the weekend that Israel made a “big mistake” by broadcasting images and videos of the destruction in the Gaza Strip, saying it’s losing Israel “a lot of support.” …

“You gotta get it done. And, I am sure you will do that. And we gotta get to peace, we can’t have this going on. And I will say, Israel has to be very careful, because you’re losing a lot of the world, you’re losing a lot of support, you have to finish up, you have to get the job done,” Trump said.

When asked by the interviewer about how he would respond to the “wave of anti-Semitism” since October 7, Trump replied, “Well, that’s because you fought back. And I think Israel made a very big mistake. I wanted to call [Israel] and say don’t do it. These photos and shots. I mean, moving shots of bombs being dropped into buildings in Gaza. And I said, oh, that’s a terrible portrait. It’s a very bad picture for the world. The world is seeing this…every night, I would watch buildings pour down on people,” Trump said.

The interviewer then claimed that “terrorists” were hiding in the buildings. Trump replied, “Go and do what you have to do. But you don’t do that. And I think that’s one of the reasons that there has been a lot of kickback. If people didn’t see that, every single night I’ve watched every single one of those. And I think Israel wanted to show that it’s tough, but sometimes you shouldn’t be doing that.”

Trump also took shots at Democrats for the growing criticism of Israel from within the party. “Some 15 years ago, Israel had the strongest lobby. If you were a politician, you couldn’t say anything bad about Israel, that would be like the end of your political career. Today, it’s almost the opposite. I’ve never seen you have AOC plus three, these lunatics, frankly. But you have AOC plus three plus plenty of others. And all they do is talk badly about Israel, and they hate Israel, and they hate the Jewish people,” he said. …

Jared Kushner, who was Trump’s point man on Israel, recently said Gaza’s “waterfront property could be very valuable.”

My Favorite Michael Malice Quote

My Favorite Michael Malice Quote

If the government didn’t have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced was foie gras.

Michael Malice

 

Netanyahu as Haman

The fable of Purim ends with the slaughter of over 75,000 non-Jewish Persians by the Jewish Persians after one official’s (Haman’s) plot to kill the Jews is exposed when the king is alerted by his Jewish wife. That’s a mighty big conspiracy! God makes no appearance. An inspiring story for sure! The closest thing today to the villain, Haman, is Netanyahu and his team. Boo!

Beware: The Government Is People

Nearly everyone complains about capitalism’s defects, or market failures. In fact, those are social failures, not specifically market failures, which show up when many rational individual actions create a social situation that displeases everyone. This means that government dirigisme — state direction or displacement of the market — cannot be a remedy because who do you think staffs the government and how do they get there? A big difference between the two systems — market and state — is that while the market diminishes social defects, the government magnifies them.

The Real Enemy: The Bin Ladenites

Probably-ISIS just attacked civilians at a theater in Moscow.

I have no reason to believe the U.S. is currently backing these terrorists like back in the Clinton and Bush years, other, perhaps than that they did then, but regardless, this terrorism should be a reminder that it was the bin Ladenites who killed thousands of Americans in this century and the last, not Russia. Not Iran. Not the governments of Syria or Yemen or Palestine.

This is not a call to war. We should end the war on terrorism. But to fight al Qaeda and ISIS’s enemies, just like supporting Israel’s merciless murder of the Palestinians and occupying bases on the “Holy Peninsula” is ultimately treason against the American people and our country.

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