Tiny Thoughts 16 — Imagine, if you will . . .

(1,100 words – about a 4 minute read if reading at 265 words per minute)

. . . December 7, 1941. The nation is in shock. People are scared about a possible large-scale invasion and still reeling from a devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. An attack on a military installation and naval resources.

Those old enough can go back 23 years and remember what it was like on September 11, 2001. Those who lived it knew — with fatalistic certainty — that the world had changed. With some notable exceptions, the attack was widely condemned by most of the world.

One can undoubtedly ponder causality for both events, as many have, but I want to highlight one difference between those two events. Specifically, the fact that the Pearl Harbor attack was focused on military assets, and the 9/11 attack was focused on civilian targets.

While both events triggered wars, we can squint a bit and generalize that WW II was in no small part due to a worldwide economic crisis.

The 9/11 attack was not driven by economic needs. It was ideological . . . and celebrated by Palestinians and many Muslims in Arab countries.  

Jump forward to October 8, 2023, and you see Americans cheering the brutal slaughter of men, women, and children in the Hamas-led Palestinian attack on Israel’s border with Gaza on October 7, 2023.

Many of these protesters are too young to remember what it felt like witnessing the 9/11 attack. They cannot empathize with the insecurity it fosters. They cannot imagine the pain of the victim’s family and friends, shared by millions of people struggling to come to grips with the event.

Many of today’s pro-Hamas protesters weren’t even born when 9/11 happened.

. . . but I have no trouble imagining that, had they been alive back then, they would have been out in the streets with their jihadist pals chanting “Death to America!” even as smoke still rose from the ruins of the Twin Towers.

It demoralizes me, distresses me, and makes me lose hope for the world — but especially for the American experiment and its value — when I witness Americans or anyone supporting Hamas.

Even more so when I read about our elected representatives supporting Hamas. It points to a not insubstantial base of institutional sympathy for terrorists and not just misguided individuals searching for self-worth paid by the blood of others.

I hope it is profound ignorance and not outright hatred that has Americans chanting slogans like “From the river to the sea!“.

But I fear the worst because supporting this or that cause is one thing. It’s another to celebrate burning people alive, raping women, and killing kids and babies.

It takes someone exceptionally high on the despicable and inhumanity scale to rejoice about those acts.

My hope for it just being a result of ignorance and misguided good intentions moving these privileged Americans is waning, as they’ve repeatedly doubled down in their call for the extermination of Jews.

Of course, I also don’t rule out stupidity since many are the product of Universities that have eschewed learning for indoctrination and critical thinking for the joy of simplistic slogans not of their making.

Note: THIS makes for interesting reading.

Think about it; the bodies of Israeli men, women, and children still where they fell after being viciously struck down, and these disgusting excuses for human beings were not only expressing support for their slaughter but celebrating it.

Forward a few months, and — with unabashed hypocrisy — our government urged Israel to show restraint and followed with a condemnation of Israel’s eventual response, often after misleading and patently suspect reporting of events by “news” organizations who deserve none of what little respect they still hope to claim.   

As I write this, Israel has yet to respond to Iran’s recent direct attack (approximately 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles launched from Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, although Iraq said no rockets were launched from their territories). Still, even now, our government is warning Israel to not overreact.

Strange that the US and others aren’t supporting a “proportional response” to the attack, especially after continually stressing “proportionality” for the past six months. It would seem justified for Israel to send 320 or so missiles the other way, no?

Or maybe not strange because the US is currently not responding to attacks in the Middle East, something that outright pisses me off when I read about US armed forces routinely being fired upon and prohibited from shooting back.

Worse, hearing our government calling for a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza while there are still American Citizens among the hostages Hamas holds makes me lose faith in the government’s ability to secure the safety of its citizens. It’s hard to believe they even care about it, and actually, I no longer do.

Repeated ceasefires as a result of international pressure combined with hostage-taking and one-sided concessions are precisely what I believe have emboldened all terrorist organizations, but especially Hamas and their overlords, the Iranians.

No other country is held to Israel’s standard, and no other country would accept the limitations to its sovereignty and right to defend itself and its citizens.  

In part, it’s because Hamas has done a better international PR job than Israel, mainly because the rest of the world won’t give Jewish people the same consideration those countries demand for themselves.

To this day, morally and intellectually addled pro-Hamas protesters around the world deny the atrocities Palestinians themselves documented and rejoiced about on October 7, 2023.

One final comment about this and related conflicts in that area of the world.

I mentioned above that this was a fight about ideology. That ideology has a name.

Islam was, is, and for the foreseeable future will remain a religion that incorporates incredible cruelty in their tenets, a religion that denies fundamental human rights, and a religion that is not only unwilling to police its most radical elements but actively supports them. All this even though, by far, most Muslims who are killed die at the hands of other Muslims.

Until there is a change from within, the idea that Western democracies can negotiate with extremist Muslims — which consistently have the support of the majority of Muslims — is as foolish as English and European politicians trying to appease an ever-increasing aggressive Nazi regime in the late 1930s . . . and we know how that turned out.

That American students march in support of people who routinely oppress women, kill atheists, kill gays, and cheerfully join in the call for the genocide of all Jews is a stain on the ideals of this country and on the educational institutions that have fostered such unconscionable attitudes.

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