Your post is just what I needed to start the day. To the outside world, today is just another Monday, but to me it is a day of mourning. Your words from Mr P express the thoughts in my head so well.
I wish that my fellow "nice" Jews, including many relatives and former friends would wake up.
There is no possible answer to the letter in defense of Israel except to agree. And yet, the person he wrote it to will probably just cut him off.
I especially like how he points out "There is an important distinction between feeling good, and doing good."
This is the time to do good, no matter how it makes us feel, no matter how hard it is, no matter how many people turn against us. It would seem most people have become so morally bereft they can no longer distinguish between right and wrong--even when it is obvious.
I lost another dear friend today who told me how they can no longer read what I write because of how uncomfortable it makes them feel. If they feel uncomfortable now, just wait until war comes to their neighborhood. Suddenly all the philosophizing will go out the window. They won't stand there and say, "Oh, war is so distasteful, let's all just practice peace" as their murders cut them down. They will for fight their lives and the lives of their children, tooth and nail, but by then, it will be too late.
I lived for three years in Luxor, Egypt (left under dangerous circumstances in 2020) and I can tell you that the only thing these monsters understand is strength--not "restraint"! I am so fed up and tired of this complete lack of knowledge and complete refusal to listen to anyone who has lived there and knows what they are talking about, in favor of Western "influencers" who feed people the stories that make them feel good about themselves.
The terrible thing is that it doesn't matter, you can speak all the logic, all the reason, all the courageous moral arguments you want, and these people will not hear you. It's as if some demonic spell has fallen on the West and we are inviting vampires into our midst and happily committing ourselves to death by their hands.
What a beautiful example of fine diplomatic reasoning, so patient and understanding but undistracted by ‘feel good’ compassion for a romantic construct which only exists in the mind. The balance of reality and idealistic desire is perfectly expressed and may this wonderful example be successful in helping to open minds to the path to success and peace avoiding the beguiling dead end alternative routes to further horror and anguish.
Yesterday, in anticipation of today, Mon the 7th, I was seized momentarily with fear at the concept of what it would mean to wipe Israel off the map, to invade from all sides, overwhelm, and destroy the Jewish state. We are hopefully never ever going to witness such an act, but it showed me how much I was not awake to the awful possibilities inherent in this land battle and battle for the Jewish soul. I haven’t ever, as a non-Jew, considered there might not be a Jewish state, it sounds absurd. But I am waking up to the reality that no, it’s not outside the realm of possibilities, it’s a full scale proxy/no proxy war now being fought all over the world. From on the ground in the Middle East to my “Manholes of the world” FB group wherein any person who posts a manhole cover in Israel is inundated and harassed until they leave the group.
Thank you for posting this exchange and making me more aware of my own cowardly behavior in “promoting peace.” It’s time to take a side.
Thank you for posting this. It all needs to be said. And repeated. The illusion that so many live under- Jews and non-Jews- is paralyzing and poisonous. To stare at evil and not recognize it as such is to stare at your own death.
If anyone thinks they are just affronted by the existence of Jews, you don't know their history.
The courage of Mr P is beyond inspiring. His words ring of wisdom and are so insightful. I am not Jewish but my heart goes out to the people of Israel and all who are fighting this horror. God bless you all!
Unfortunately the Palestinian leadership has been boiled down to the most ruthless (and incredibly rich somehow) elements. They will never surrender and are rarely at risk. THey will fight to the last Palestinian that they personally don't throw off a rooftop for being gay, or as a member of Fatah. Palestine can be free only once the grip these devils have is loosened.
Superlative refutation of the luxury beliefs, still prominent across the Jewish diaspora, that we can negotiate our way to peace with practitioners of genocidal savagery. The core problem here is the widespread communal blindness toward Jew-hate that emanates from both Islamists and leftists, versus the more well-recognized Jew-hate from the far right. This battle against selective threat blindness across the Jewish diaspora remains to be won. As I’ve written: https://www.jns.org/column/antisemitism/23/9/3/315685/
A young escapee from Gaza into Israel tells of a better view of the world...
In Gaza schools, his time was spent learning that "all non-Muslims (especially Jews) must die."
At a job in Israel, he learned valuable trade skills and the satisfaction of collaborating with people of all backgrounds for betterment of everyone in the community.
We in the west have been funding this all along. It is us who made the terror tunnels and the intransigence of the Palestinian "leadership" possible. We literally wrote the books teaching the children this.
Brilliant. Thank you for publishing the truth. It is sad that warfare must be resorted to but as has been pointed out by some. the West is drunk on peace...
Your post is just what I needed to start the day. To the outside world, today is just another Monday, but to me it is a day of mourning. Your words from Mr P express the thoughts in my head so well.
I wish that my fellow "nice" Jews, including many relatives and former friends would wake up.
There is no possible answer to the letter in defense of Israel except to agree. And yet, the person he wrote it to will probably just cut him off.
I especially like how he points out "There is an important distinction between feeling good, and doing good."
This is the time to do good, no matter how it makes us feel, no matter how hard it is, no matter how many people turn against us. It would seem most people have become so morally bereft they can no longer distinguish between right and wrong--even when it is obvious.
I lost another dear friend today who told me how they can no longer read what I write because of how uncomfortable it makes them feel. If they feel uncomfortable now, just wait until war comes to their neighborhood. Suddenly all the philosophizing will go out the window. They won't stand there and say, "Oh, war is so distasteful, let's all just practice peace" as their murders cut them down. They will for fight their lives and the lives of their children, tooth and nail, but by then, it will be too late.
I lived for three years in Luxor, Egypt (left under dangerous circumstances in 2020) and I can tell you that the only thing these monsters understand is strength--not "restraint"! I am so fed up and tired of this complete lack of knowledge and complete refusal to listen to anyone who has lived there and knows what they are talking about, in favor of Western "influencers" who feed people the stories that make them feel good about themselves.
The terrible thing is that it doesn't matter, you can speak all the logic, all the reason, all the courageous moral arguments you want, and these people will not hear you. It's as if some demonic spell has fallen on the West and we are inviting vampires into our midst and happily committing ourselves to death by their hands.
Thank you Ayaan
What a beautiful example of fine diplomatic reasoning, so patient and understanding but undistracted by ‘feel good’ compassion for a romantic construct which only exists in the mind. The balance of reality and idealistic desire is perfectly expressed and may this wonderful example be successful in helping to open minds to the path to success and peace avoiding the beguiling dead end alternative routes to further horror and anguish.
Superb.
Yesterday, in anticipation of today, Mon the 7th, I was seized momentarily with fear at the concept of what it would mean to wipe Israel off the map, to invade from all sides, overwhelm, and destroy the Jewish state. We are hopefully never ever going to witness such an act, but it showed me how much I was not awake to the awful possibilities inherent in this land battle and battle for the Jewish soul. I haven’t ever, as a non-Jew, considered there might not be a Jewish state, it sounds absurd. But I am waking up to the reality that no, it’s not outside the realm of possibilities, it’s a full scale proxy/no proxy war now being fought all over the world. From on the ground in the Middle East to my “Manholes of the world” FB group wherein any person who posts a manhole cover in Israel is inundated and harassed until they leave the group.
Thank you for posting this exchange and making me more aware of my own cowardly behavior in “promoting peace.” It’s time to take a side.
Thank you for posting this. It all needs to be said. And repeated. The illusion that so many live under- Jews and non-Jews- is paralyzing and poisonous. To stare at evil and not recognize it as such is to stare at your own death.
If anyone thinks they are just affronted by the existence of Jews, you don't know their history.
The courage of Mr P is beyond inspiring. His words ring of wisdom and are so insightful. I am not Jewish but my heart goes out to the people of Israel and all who are fighting this horror. God bless you all!
Unfortunately the Palestinian leadership has been boiled down to the most ruthless (and incredibly rich somehow) elements. They will never surrender and are rarely at risk. THey will fight to the last Palestinian that they personally don't throw off a rooftop for being gay, or as a member of Fatah. Palestine can be free only once the grip these devils have is loosened.
Superlative refutation of the luxury beliefs, still prominent across the Jewish diaspora, that we can negotiate our way to peace with practitioners of genocidal savagery. The core problem here is the widespread communal blindness toward Jew-hate that emanates from both Islamists and leftists, versus the more well-recognized Jew-hate from the far right. This battle against selective threat blindness across the Jewish diaspora remains to be won. As I’ve written: https://www.jns.org/column/antisemitism/23/9/3/315685/
fabulous piece! The current USA government, vis a vie obama wants to placate iran and our enemies.
that doesnt work as sadly 10-7 has proven. we need to wake up and stand up like Isreal does!!!
P is nothing short of superb. His words are like scalpels as he slices and dices M relentlessly and mercilessly. Thank you.
Excellent letter from a collaborator in the civilized world to a self-serving virtue-signaler.
Reminded me of an interview I saw some time ago:
A young escapee from Gaza into Israel tells of a better view of the world...
In Gaza schools, his time was spent learning that "all non-Muslims (especially Jews) must die."
At a job in Israel, he learned valuable trade skills and the satisfaction of collaborating with people of all backgrounds for betterment of everyone in the community.
He never returned to Gaza.
We in the west have been funding this all along. It is us who made the terror tunnels and the intransigence of the Palestinian "leadership" possible. We literally wrote the books teaching the children this.
Brilliant. Thank you for publishing the truth. It is sad that warfare must be resorted to but as has been pointed out by some. the West is drunk on peace...
Thank you