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The response of the U.S. and EU leadership to Hamas’ genocidal savagery against Israel, a Western liberal democracy, has been despicable and dangerous. Blustering protestations of support and solidarity by politicians have been undercut by schoolmarmish hectoring about Israel’s “disproportionate” tactics and alleged callous disregard for Palestinian Arab lives and well-being.
This geopolitical virtue-signaling has been correctly interpreted by Hamas and Iran as a green-light to double-down on its aggression, which won’t stop with Israel.
Last week Iran showed the way by launching an unprecedent, indiscriminate attack on Israel with a 300-strong barrage of drones and missiles. Aided by the U.S., Great Britain, and Middle East Sunni states, but mostly the result of Israel’s superb anti-missile defenses, Israel suffered only one casualty.
But consistent with the kinda, sorta support the West has been showing for the last six months, this aid was followed by criticism and warnings against retaliation that once again signaled Israel’s enemies that the West really doesn’t have Israel’s back, but can be depended upon to stick a knife in it.
The Biden administration took the lead. Biden himself instructed Israel not to retaliate, but “take the win,” an egregiously stupid comment bespeaking what Biden’s track-record has repeatedly shown: that he is a Chamberlain-class appeaser. But the Europeans and the Brits were just as short-sighted, not to mention displaying the usual “preemptive cringe” that for decades has been the West’s default posture when engaging its enemies.
As World Israel News reported, “French President Emmanuel Macron said the international community should do ‘everything we can to avoid a flare-up.’ He said he would attempt to convince Israel ‘that it should not respond by escalating, but rather by isolating Iran.’
Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the United Kingdom would not take part in any military action against Iran, telling the BBC on Monday, ‘We’re saying very strongly that we don’t support a retaliatory strike. We don’t think they should make one.’”
This craven pressure on Israel reminds me of what Winston Churchill said in 1938 about France and England’s bullying Czechoslovakia into surrendering the Sudetenland to Hitler: “The British and French at this time presented a front of two over-ripe melons crushed together; whereas what was needed was a gleam of steel.” But the pressure seemed to work. Last Thursday Israel hit a few targets in Syria and Iran with a limited “de-escalatory strike,” as one Israeli analyst put it. By forcing this “almost symbolic strike,” the West once again kicks the Iran can down the road.
Why is the West “running scared of Tehran,” as Daniel Pipes put it during the Salman Rushdie fatwa affair in 1989, which many in the West met with condemnations of Rushdie? Why do nations with state-of-the-art weaponry, including nuclear arsenals, allow jihadist gangs and a failing state like Iran, viable only by dint of massive oil reserves, attack our security and interests––and those of our close ally–– with impunity?
Domestic politics, for one thing, especially in the U.S. The Biden Democrat cabal, bleeding support from traditionally reliable constituents like blacks and Latinos, can’t afford to lose the Muslim-American vote, nor the “woke” antisemitic youth vote marching and protesting on behalf of Hamas and other jihadist genocidal gangs. Team Biden thinks bullying Israel will misdirect them from Biden’s political necessity to maintain some level of support for Israel.
Also don’t forget Europe’s feckless immigration policies that have allowed 19 million Muslim into Europe. Many of them view with contempt their “infidel” hosts, refuse to assimilate to their new homes’ liberal, secular values, and frequently resort to violence to punish what they perceive are insults to Islam. Holding Israel at arm’s length, if not compromising its interests and security, are ways to appease them.
Under Biden the U.S. has gone down the same dangerous road. During his administration 7.2 million unvetted border-crossers have entered the U.S. from all over the world, including our enemies like China and people listed as terrorists on the government’s watch list.
Then, as always there’s what Middle East hand J.B. Kelly called in 1975 “the oil cringe of the West,” the chronic appeasement of Middle East oil producers like Iran, which retain powerful leverage over global oil supplies and prices. Putting “maximum pressure” sanctions on Iran, as Trump did, or an Israeli retaliatory strike on Iran’s refineries, could disrupt oil supplies, provoke China, which buys nearly all of Iran’s 1.6 million barrels a day exports, and raise prices everywhere, a bad omen for the Dems’ chances in November.
In addition, the moral hazards of appeasement, such as Iran’s unprecedented strike against Israel, are the fruit of foreign policy delusions and magical thinking about “smart diplomacy,” which promulgates empty threats that merely confirm our enemies’ contempt. But they do provide a convenient misdirection from foreign policy failures by creating the illusion of action when action is too politically costly and, as it always is, too risky.
Next, naïve and fossilized foreign policy received wisdom about “diplomatic engagement,” the “rules-based international order,” and multinational agreement remains the West’s default response, no matter how many times over the past century it has failed––as it has with Iran for 46 years.
For example, last Friday the G7 foreign ministers announced their “determination that Iran must never develop or acquire a nuclear weapon. We urge Iran to cease and reverse nuclear escalations and to stop the continuing uranium enrichment activities reported by [the International Atomic Energy Agency] that have no credible civil justification and pose significant proliferative risks. Tehran must reverse this trend and engage in serious dialogue.”
Does anyone really think that the ruthless mullahs who have nearly five decades of American blood on their hands up to their elbows will be frightened or deterred by diplomats from nations with scanty militaries, or heed their missish bravado? Or saying that the mullahs “must engage in serious dialogue” will get any response other than contempt? And what is the answer to the mullahs’ traditional riposte to such demands––“Or what?” But we know that this show of so-called “smart diplomacy” will not be backed by mind-concentrating force, nor is intended for Iran, but for the citizens back home, most of whom will be misdirected from the West’s fear of action.
Nor can we overlook the post-Holocaust antisemitism that helps explain Israel’s pariah status among the West’s leftists and traditionalist Muslims. Both despise Israel for its global success in surviving its surrounding enemies’ serial aggression, and flourishing without communist guidance; and for its close ties to America, Iran’s “great Satan” and usurper of Islam’s rightful global power and influence.
Finally, the West’s despicable treatment of Israel––which heartens its enemies and gives them hope that they can achieve their genocidal aim to utterly destroy the only Jewish nation in the world––reflects the West’s long-developing moral corruption and civilizational failure of nerve.
Secularism has driven faith out of the town square, truth is a mere construct and an arbitrary personal preference, virtue is mocked, morality banished, patriotism demonized, the young mired in arrested development and ignorance, savage rapists and murderers celebrated in the streets and universities, political enemies are silenced or mired in specious show trials––all while our freedoms and unalienable rights are eroded, and our checked and balanced Constitutional order increasingly weakened by a technocratic tyranny relentlessly aggrandizing more and more power.
And don’t think our ruthless, autocratic enemies haven’t noticed. They see our appeasement of their aggression, especially against liberal-democratic, chronically besieged Israel––our most important ally in a critical region, which the West for decades has subjected to calumny and contempt.
Make no mistake: they’re also coming for the free West, and soon may start putting us to the test.
In particular, the American ruling class does not care about US citizens anymore.
Or care to protect America and US citizens.
The ruling class of America have got their wealth and connections and sufficient power to feel safe and immune from the devastation their depraved policies are creating for the US citizen middle and working classes.
Most Americans-US Citizens recognize that Mexico and the Mexican government are the enemy of America and US Citizens.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and the GOP House of Representatives have betrayed America and US citizens with their vote a few days ago to provide corrupt Ukraine with more billions of US Taxpayer dollars to keep the insane Ukraine-Russia-NATO-US war going,
without providing any funds to fight the INVASION of 12 million illegal aliens from across the Mexican border,
and without providing any funds to fight the murdering by Mexico of more than 100,000 US citizens every year by Mexican manufactured drugs that are effectively pushed into America by Mexico and the corrupt Mexican government.
Therefore, I can say with almost certainty now that the GOP has cut their own throats regarding the November 2024 National elections.
The GOP will lose the House, The GOP will lose the Senate, and the GOP will lose the Presidency because of this dastardly traitorous, immoral decision that betrays America and US citizens.
“What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul ?” Matthew 16:26
But for Ukraine …?
What a disgrace !
Well said. My thoughts exactly.
I must quote Bruce Thornton here for emphasis …
“Finally, the West’s despicable treatment of Israel––which heartens its enemies and gives them hope
that they can achieve their genocidal aim to utterly destroy the only Jewish nation in the world––
reflects the West’s long-developing moral corruption and civilizational failure of nerve. ”
So True.
America and Europe and the West in general are becoming more depraved psychopathic suicidal
and berserk every day. And the woke leftist DEI CRT BLM democrat party is leading the way.
Approving the INVASION of America by 12 million illegal aliens from the Mexican border,
and doing nothing about the murder of more than 100,000 US citizens by Mexican manufactured
drugs/fentanyl pushed effectively into America by the corrupt Mexican government is a crime
perpetrated by American political leaders, Democrat and GOP, on US citizens, particularly the
young.
What a disgraceful bunch of traitors the American political leaders have become.
A pox on most of them is well deserved.
America’s political leaders and ruling class have absolutely no ability now to recognize any
enemies at all, other than patriotic US citizens.
Absolutely appalling what America has become.
It would be comical in almost any other setting. That these protesters mostly scream and yell in the Ivy League elistist colleges speaks tons about the education received therein – damn little. Mostly what they exhibit is a stunning ignorance of history, geography, real information about the news today. Thank goodness many employers now are electing to hire graduates that are not from these formerly elite schools, and for good reason – they lack critical thinking, cry and scream at the mere thought of being challenged. In a word, they are spoiled rotten and they would die of hunger were they forced to earn their own keep. Were i the person with authority to do so, i would send them to Gaza, Somalis, the ME to do service there as part of their “elite” education.
“In particular, the American ruling class does not care about US citizens anymore.”
Pardon me but you’re wrong about that. There is no objective proof that the ruling class has ever cared about the American people. That’s the same as saying that both political party establishments care about their voters. They don’t and it can be factually proven.
Americans need to disabuse themselves of such naivety before it’s too late which it may already be.
Lastly, the GOP will lose simply because they’re feckless cowards. Moreover, it would be far easier to herd cats than to get the GOP to unanimously agree on anything!
The Founding Fathers cared about the American people but I can’t think of any other ruling class which has, only individuals among that class.
That was in days of yore but we’re in the here and now. Today’s ruling class is made of of the very wealthy, the military industrial complex, the political elites and the deep state apparatchiks (i.e., managerial class government bureaucrats) that serve them.
The only interest those folks have in average Americans is what they can squeeze (e.g., money, etc.) out of them what or who they can dupe them into voting for.
Other than that, they regard average American citizens as are nothing more than toilet paper they wipe their asses with or dog crap on the bottom of their shoes
I don’t want the “ruling class” to care about me. I want them to leave me alone. The whole care narrative is part of the safety culture of progressivism and implicitly accepts that we are children of the state in need of “care.”
Your illegal alien number of 12 million comes from compromised sources. The true estimate is probably at least 3x that number. No one knows and no one is supposed to know. A Yale study done in late 2018 estimated 22.1 million illegal aliens living here in 2018 BEFORE Biden erased the border. I live in central Texas and I can tell you they are everywhere and they cause a lot of car accidents and horrific crimes against children and animals.
Although what you write is true, the reality is much worse. Here is the Yale study:
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates
To Kynarion Hellenis ….
I stand corrected.
Thank you.
Domenic Pepe
There were over 30 million illegal aliens here long before the Borderless Biden administration brought in an estimated 20 million in just three years.
I didn’t know they committed crimes against animals.
Yes. In my county, an illegal alien was arrested for sex with a horse not long ago. Animal cruelty, bestiality and pedophilia is much more common in many of the cultures coming over our borders unimpeded.
We westerners, living on the fumes of western Christianity, are unaware of the depths of depravity other cultures take for granted. Diversity is our strength, indeed.
If it is the same 2018 study by Yale and MIT researchers that I’m a little familiar with I believe the finding was that there were between 22.5 and 29 million illegals in the country. And that was before Open Borders Biden. This is simply insane.
The next inbecile order from Biden Administration is to force Ukraine into a NATO member.
It is as if Biden is pushing buttons for Russia to be at War with us, and on our shores too..
We are suffering from the ultimate stupidity every moment of the day.
And the Republican House is going along with this hideous aid Package
The republican party merged with the democrat party to become the uniparty back during the GWB administration, That’s when I left the republican party and re-registered as an independent.
DJ Trump was and is an anomaly. Outside of him there’s at most a nickel’s worth of difference between the two parties. They maintain the illusion of being two different political parties to keep their decades long grift going.
Getting elected to congress is the same if not better than winning the lottery. Just ask former bartender AOL!!
“It is as if Biden is pushing buttons for….War….”
After I read this article, all the dots were connected for me. This is why we have everlasting war supported by both parties:
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/sober-analysis-war-as-the-health
“….disrupt oil supplies, provoke China, which buys nearly all of Iran’s 1.6 million barrels a day exports…”
That right there is the main reason Alzheimer Joe’s handlers protect and aid the mullacracy in Iran. They kow tow to China to protect their puppet President. They want to maintain their power. Everybody with a functional brain knows Beijing Biden is bought and paid for by China. If China were to lose a large portion of its oil supply from Iran, Xi Ping Pong could very easily reveal enough of Biden’s collusion and treason with China to ensure no amount of D-Bag vote cheating could put him back in office in 2025.
1.According to Hezbollah’s leader,if Hamas is ever on the point of being eliminated,then Hezbollah will attack Israel with its 150,000 missiles. But only then.
All military experts agree that Hezbollah would win. A wise Israel would not go to a war it would lose. A nuclear bomb is impossible,then radioactivity would go into Israel. Ask a scientist.
2. Israel itself has said 18 Iranian missiles hit 3 military targets in Israel.They were protected by a supposedly IMPENETRABLE anti-missile system,the best in the world,Iron Dome,plus helped by the US anti-missile system. But they hit the targets. Iran proved it has a better military system. A wise Israel would not go to war against Iran.
Iron Dome can’t stop Iran’s hypersonic missiles.
Those and other missiles have this: they separate into two parts,confusing the anti-missile system.
They also,when near the target, CHANGE direction,going here and there,confusing the anti-missile algorithm.
Then at the end, explode into several different parts,so even if an anti-missile missile heads straight to the missiles,it would only hit a portion,the rest would hit the target. Neither Israel nor the US has that,and much less hypersonic missiles.
3.If the US went to war with Iran,Iran would block the Hormuz strait, causing oil prices to go to $150-$200,causing hyperinflation in the US,devaluation of the dollar, due to the 35 trillion dollar debt, and soon no more diesel and gasoline, US oil RESERVES are very low.Then no gasoline for trucks,food will not be delivered across the US, causing hunger, lack of food.
Are you here for comic relief? Do you just make stupid stuff up or are you employed by Iran to be a moron, a$$-licker?
Ok, look at YEMEN, it is still preventing US,UK and Israeli ships from entering the Red Sea. This has caused a 20% drop in the Israeli economy. The US was bombing Yemen for weeks and couldn’t defeat them,how will it defeat Iran?
Well, to be accurate, the U.S. was only bombing Yemen when a missile launcher was ready to fire, otherwise opting to wait until the missile was airborne before opening fire on that missile. In other words, the Rules of Engagement, not capability, prevented us from destroying Yemen.
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Where did you get that crap? The ayatollah’s Facebook page?
The Telegraph said,”at least five ballistic missiles were not intercepted, hitting the Nevatim air base in the Negev desert in the south of Israel, damaging a C-130 cargo plane, an out-of-use runway and empty storage facilities, an unnamed US official told ABC News. Four other missiles appear to have hit another airbase in the Negev, causing significant damage.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/israel-admits-iranian-ballistic-missiles-struck-two-military-bases/ar-BB1lEsRB
NEVATIM air base is supposed to be totally impenetrable,that no missile can ever reach it,much less FIVE. They were not intercepted because they were too fast.
Last year Israel had said it had created a HYPERsonic missile called Skysonic, an advanced interceptor, a groundbreaking defensive response to the growing threat of hypersonic missiles. Skysonic failed because it is false it is hypersonic.
Its not just the USA in decline, its all countries. Distress with Perplexity is playing out everywhere. Israel is the sign that God’s judgment is coming. Hamas were murderous, raping, butchering, monsters. They tore through Israel’s fences and murdered over 1,200 innocent people in gruesome ways, and kidnapped and murdered hundreds more. The handful of Arabs living in the area-wasteland….sold the land back to the Jews at exorbitant prices., and ISRAEL was created LEGALLY in response to the UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION passed November 1947 which authorized establishment of. JEWISH STATE in the land the Romans renamed PALESTINE. You can’t steal land thats already legally yours.
A depressingly accurate summary of the World of Hypocrisy infecting the supposed “free” west, particularly the creeping erosion of our freedoms. Am Yisrael Chai.
As the great man said:
“Don’t.”
👍
And “don’t jump!” If he weren’t senile as shit, Alzheimer Joe would remember that’s never been funny.
Betrayal and Stabbing Israel and America and US citizens in the back is now the sacred policy of the Biden/Blinken/Obama/Pelosi/Schumer/Clintons woke leftist anti-American democrat party.
If America and its ruling political class do not recognize that Islam is a depraved psychopathic murderous berserk evil hate-filled cult,
then eventually America’s ruling class will come to rationalize and promote the idea that depraved psychopathic murderous Islam is really a friend of America and that it is really Israel who is America’s enemy.
Ohh … I forgot … Biden and Blinken and Obama and the Clintons and Pelosi and Schumer and the rest of the leftist democrat administrative state scum are already doing that.
Already, America and the West bend over backwards to accommodate Islamic aggression intimidation crime murder terrorism and violence …. because the Islamic Saudi Royal Family and Qatar and other Royal Families of the Islamic/OPEC middle east control the chokepoint of the world’s energy/oil supply.
The American ruling class now does what the Saudi and Qatar and other Islamic Royal Family orders it to do..
What must now be done is for the USA and Europe and the West to recognize that Islam is its true and never-ending enemy, and to crush the depraved psychopathic murderous berserk lunatic Mohammedans.
1400 years of depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam is enough already.
The policy of betrayal and stabbing Israel and America and US citizens in the back must end.
America and the US government and patriotic leaders and patriotic US citizens must now defend and protect themselves and their own kindred spirits.
And Israel must not be abandoned, which is the real policy of Biden and the democrats.
Make no mistake about it.
“In particular, the American ruling class does not care about US citizens anymore.”
Just one word too many, sir. “anymore” should be removed.
Anyone believe Bill Gates cares a damn about mr./mrs. average person? Zuckerberg? Bezos? For that matter, does anyone on the left care?
I stand corrected.
Thank you.
In the meantime, self-hating half Jew Michael Douglas) and his self-hating JINO friends just held a fundraiser for the Israel Backstabber in Chief, raising over $10 million for his reelection fund. Sickening. May they and the Soroses all join Aaron Bushnell.
There is no fixing stupid, especially celebrity stupid.