As we approach Rosh Hashana, the people of Israel need to recognize how lucky we are.
True, today, we find ourselves largely alone, set apart from our traditional partners in the Western world. But standing alone isn’t always the worst option. Today it is certainly not the worst option.
Over the past several years, we have witnessed the growing radicalization and fragmentation of the societies of neighboring lands. Sunnis fight Shi’ites and one another. Minority populations are slaughtered, enslaved and oppressed. Regimes fall, rise and fall again. Today, every Arab society is either in danger or at war. And in almost every case, it isn’t good fighting evil but varying degrees of evil and barbarism fighting one another.
From the PLO to Islamic State, through Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Assad regime in Syria, the ayatollahs of Iran, Hezbollah, the Erdogan regime in Turkey and other though Saudi Arabia, every single actor in the region resorts to some degree of torture and oppression.
And all do so while quoting the Koran.
Israel has responded rationally to the carnage at our doorstep.
We help where we can. For instance, we are assisting the Egyptian regime in its war against jihadist forces in Sinai. We support the Hashemite regime in Jordan. We provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of the bloodbath in Syria.
And we are securing our borders.
After we finished building the border fence with Egypt, we built one along the Syrian border. Now we are fencing off the border with Jordan.
These fences may not make good neighbors. But they do keep the bad ones at bay.
Similar rationality is in short supply today in Europe and among the smart set in America. Westerners are increasingly at a loss in the face of the break-up of societies throughout the Arab world.
Consider for instance Europe’s disoriented, confused response to the massive wave of refugees from Syria now washing onto its shores. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the unfolding drama is that it appears the Europeans only just realized that Syria has fallen apart.
The war in Syria broke out nearly five years ago.
Hundreds of thousands have already been killed in the conflict. Ten million people – nearly half of Syria’s pre-war population – have been displaced. For the past four years, millions of Syrians have been living in refugee camps in neighboring states – first and foremost in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
Most of the refugees now arriving in Europe are coming from these camps, rather than directly from Syria. Rather than help them either resettle in the lands to which they fled, or take action on the ground in Syria to enable them to return to their homes, the Europeans largely ignored them.
Part of the reason Europe has ignored Syria, of course, is indifference. So long as it’s happening “over there,” the Europeans really couldn’t care less.
But indifference alone does not explain how Europe has been taken by surprise by a humanitarian disaster of the magnitude now unfolding at its borders.
Identity politics have played a key role in shaping Europe’s failed Middle East policies – in Syria and throughout the increasingly destabilized Islamic world.
Identity politics distinguish between various groups based on how they fall on a spectrum of “oppression.”
Western nations, led by Europe and the US, are all classified as “oppressors,” due to their “imperialist” past.
The Islamic world writ large is classified as “oppressed.”
All groups that receive “oppressed” status are immune from judgment, much less resistance from those who fall on the side of the “oppressors.”
Given this taxonomy, Europeans along with the sectors of American society that have embraced identity policies are incapable of recognizing, much less taking action against, radical Islamists.
Those who are oppressed by the “oppressed” of the Islamic world – the Yazidis, Christians and Kurds, for instance – can receive no sustained protection from their jihadist oppressors by the “Muslim-oppressing” West.
The immunity identity politics confers on “oppressed” population groups adheres even when those groups themselves engage in oppression.
There is, however, one group in the Islamic world that identity politics do not immunize from Western opposition. The West can oppose Arab regimes that wish to cooperate with the West in fighting against radical Islamists.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for instance is a member of this group. Ever since he overthrew the US-supported Muslim Brotherhood regime two years ago, the US has kept him at arm’s length. Washington has imposed a partial weapons embargo and denied US support for its war against jihadist forces in Sinai.
Then there is Libya. Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi collaborated with the West against al-Qaida from 2004 until he was assassinated in 2011.
That year Gaddafi was overthrown by European forces backed by the US. The West overthrew Gaddafi in order “to prevent genocide.”
The chaos that ensued in Libya after his overthrow has in turn enabled al-Qaida and Islamic State to take over large swathes of the country.
The West has had nothing to say about this turn of events.
The tyranny of identity politics is not limited to its conferral of immunity on jihadists. Identity politics are a comprehensive, totalitarian world view that dictates responses in all areas of human endeavor.
For instance, the “Black Lives Matter” group in the US, which sanctions the murder of policemen, is given a pass by adherents of identity politics. Its followers view all blacks as oppressed. Police, who are perceived as agents of Western oppression, cannot expect sympathy when they are murdered.
In Britain, adherents of identity politics not only want to see Britain out of the Middle East, they support their country’s unilateral nuclear disarmament, because as they see it, Britain is unworthy of nuclear weapons due to its imperialist past.
A testament to the power of identity politics in Britain is the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. The radical Labor parliamentarian is expected to win the race for leadership of the party on Saturday.
Corbyn is a shining example of the type of leader produced by identity politics. He opposes British power. He is a foe of free markets and the British military. He supports Hamas and Hezbollah. He has led anti-Israel demonstrations and conferences organized by Islamist organizations. He has contributed to an organization led by a Holocaust denier and participated in its conferences.
And of course, he opposes Israel and Jews who support it.
That’s the thing of it. Identity politics define both Israel and Jews in the Diaspora as “oppressors.”
Many Israelis as well as Jewish organizations in the Diaspora have been trying for years to prove that this is untrue. Israel is after all the victim of both European and Islamic imperialists. Zionism is a national liberation movement.
But these protestations have made no impression on anyone. And this is to be expected. It isn’t possible to change Israel’s classification on the oppression scale, because the scale is completely arbitrary. Even worse, every attempt to question the arbitrary scale simply induces more hostility on the part of its adherents. Questioning whether oppressed groups are in fact oppressed is itself an act of oppression and further proof that those who question are indeed oppressors.
In other words, identity politics are a closed intellectual universe immune from all doubts, and logic.
According to media reports, British Jewry is in a state of panic at the prospect of Corbyn’s imminent takeover of the Labor Party. They understand that if he does win on Saturday, any residual influence they have over the second largest party in Britain will disappear. And the consequences of this loss of even a semblance of power will not be long in coming.
This week it was reported that during the past year the UK has seen a 93 percent rise in anti-Semitic attacks. This week’s brutal assault on a group of Orthodox Jewish teens in Manchester by three Muslim Jew-haters was just a particularly brutal example of what is now a daily phenomenon in Britain.
The violent demonstration against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street on Wednesday was similarly to be expected. Britain’s kid glove treatment of Muslim violence and racism empowered protesters to trample on the Israeli flag, and call for the destruction of Israel and for Netanyahu to be killed just meters away from where he was meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron.
As for the US, identity politics control the lives of university students from the moment they enter the gates of their campus until the moment they leave them. It is due to this stranglehold that anti-Semitism is now rampant in American academia.
Quite simply a university that subscribes to identity politics cannot accept that Jews are persecuted by the groups it has deemed oppressed.
Identity politics also has significant influence in left-wing ideological circles outside the classroom.
The most obvious testament to their power is President Barack Obama’s radical shift of US Middle East strategy.
The Obama administration’s animosity toward Israel is part and parcel of the world view that brought it to support Gaddafi’s overthrow and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. So, too, the administration’s refusal to take action to overthrow the Assad regime or destroy Islamic State in Syria and Iraq on the one hand, and its facilitation of Iran’s rise to regional hegemony and nuclear empowerment on the other, is a clear indication that identity politics play a key role in determining the administration’s foreign policy.
But there is still reason to hope that things can change in America. The fact is that two-thirds of Americans oppose Obama’s nuclear pact with the mullahs and support Israel. Obama has only been able to promote his radical agenda by pretending it isn’t his agenda.
As Israel seeks to secure and advance its interests in the identity politics-riven West, we must understand that our ability to impact the views of the other side is limited. The moment a society embraces identity politics, its members become incapable of rationally pursuing their own interests.
And consequently, they are lost to Israel.
As far as securing our relations with the US is concerned, we must take every opportunity to strengthen those who fight against identity politics and for rationality and reasoned analysis of reality.
And while we pray for their success, we need to recognize that this is America’s fight to win or to lose. We cannot fight it for the American people.
But just as we build fences along our borders, we need to prepare for the worst in order to secure our survival.
Israel’s greatest strategic asset is our willingness to see things for what they are. It is my prayer for the coming year that our vision becomes ever sharper and that through our moral and strategic clarity we rally the Americans and other like-minded nations to our side in our fight for ourselves and for the noblest attributes of humanity.
Caroline Glick is a person who made aliyah from the USA and has made great achievements in Israel. She is someone to look up to and not smear.
If one is not familiar with her click on the link above or below to become informed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Glick
@ honeybee:
@ yamit82:
Actually they do an excellent job at doing it to themselves.
@ yamit82:
yamit82 Said:
<blockqu what cacophony of smell. Makes my head spin Haaa
Explains a lot, no Black Jack in your Honey Cake.
@ honeybee:
No shine but lots of perfume all brands what cacophony of smell. Makes my head spin Haaa 🙂
yamit82 Said:
No Sugar, it’s Shine. You can’t smell the mash from youre cave yawl ?????
yamit82 Said:
Some of us are more discriminating or, perhaps, less desperate.
yamit82 Said:
You and Mr. Pete both,have no sense of humor. I shall excuse as you are living rough.
When I went to release your comment, I notice a few other short comments that needed releasing. I have no idea why.
Then I have no idea why you are singled out periodically. Sorry.
Ah Ted after 4 comments that went thru last one got botted 2 lines so length can’t be an excuse 🙁
bernard ross Said:
Hadn’t noticed but you have Babs (Babushka) ? Yeah not the same I guess…… I don’t think she is a christian trojan horse…… Haaaaaa
@ honeybee:
Well said we are both on same page and fuck the Irish too!!!
bernard ross Said:
Hmm, don’t take much? 😛
@ honeybee:
I thought it was sneaky pete?
watsa46 Said:
Wrong it does benefit all enemies of America and the West. The power equilibrium has shifted now and I have my doubts it can be restored.
@ mar55:
I have a very bad ear & sinus infection, truth is all my fans will have to wait until Hanukah for their Honey cake. Low class people drink Johnny Walker Red, we intellectual drink Black Jack, I put it in my Honey cakes.
yamit, you heard HB. If you want any honey cake you must come out without delay or every little crumb will be gone.
Shana Tova!
@ bernard ross:
That is despicable. The treatment of the police who do not want to let him talk because the media was recording the assault. May all the evil they do falls upon themselves.
@ bernard ross:
babushka
Honeybee & bernard, the above quote describes what is happening to Quigley’s mind. I take exception to the Johnnie Walker Red. Someone like this character drinks only moonshine. Scrambled brains does not come from JW Red.
Bernard is the one who really knows how to deal with these kind of people.
BTW Bernard, with all what you have written and all the conspiracies theories you have enough material to begin
a novel to compete with John LeCarre.
When all this is over, please write some political spy novels full of plots and intrigue. I’m sure it will sell.
@ bernard ross:
” What makes you happy, tickles my plumb to death” Mrs. Christianberry , Yancy ,TX..
honeybee Said:
you made my day 🙂
@ yamit82:
If you expect me to brave the rattlesnakes and coyotes to bring you a Honeycake in that cave your dwelling in, forget about it, as said by yawl Yankees.
oyoyoyoyoyoyoy
@ yamit82:
thanks Yamit, shana tovah to you and your family
I miss your posts, hope you are well
yamit82 Said:
but then from where would we get our laughs; dweller and CA are gone
@ honeybee:
Shana Tovah HB 😉
@ bernard ross:
Shana Tovah Bernie
Ted Belman Said:
You are wrong his crazy off the chart rants are very worthy of him. He is insane and after all these years you have still not picked up on it and put the nut where he belongs…At the very least a ‘cyber straight Jacket’.
Shana Tova Ted
@ Felix Quigley:
#13 At last you understand, now go away ,at lest for the Holidays.
@ bernard ross:
oxoxooxxoxoxoxoxoxo. Hug and kisses or in Yiddish oyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoy
@ Felix Quigley:
what do you think of this secular leftist laborite socialist….?
Shana Tovah to all the Israpundits
honeybee Said:
thanks, 🙂
Felix Quigley Said:
they also supported him in his quest to kill the Jews.
Felix Quigley Said:
you are proud to support anti semites and proud to con jews into supporting them.
Felix Quigley Said:
can you translate this please?
Your problem is that on this site it is Jewish issues and interests which come first and with you it is trotsky ideology which comes first. Your priority enables you to support anti semites who wish to harm us whereas ours does not.
Felix Quigley Said:
quigley must change his name to felix pravda. You cannot show anyone here, including me, supporting the enslavement of yazidi girls. In fact, the yazidi leadership who complained about the Jew who was saving yazidi girls said that they were NOT being raped and that they had no evidence of him saving them.
See if you can show in a post that anyone here “supported” yazidi enslavement in the same way that you supported anti semites. You advocated for Israeli support of assad whereas no one here advocated for yazidi enslavement. Its just you once more telling lies here.
Felix Quigley Said:
No distortion: you come here advising Jews to support one anti semite against another rather than allow them to kill each other becuase the anti semites you support are secular ….. hitler was secular.
look here is you doing it again:
Felix Quigley Said:
do you still deny that you try to sell the con to Jews that they should support anti Semites because they are secular?
Felix Quigley Said:
NO, you gave up because you never answer my questions such as the one I just asked whether you deny advising Jews to support assad because he is a secular anti semite and not a jihadi anti semite? The other names you mentioned were also anti semites and yet you complain that the Jews did not support them. I also asked you when you sought tears for the copts and yazidis if they were anti semites and you never answered… but you stopped mentioning the copts but you still have not answered re the yazidis. You run away because you cant answer my questions. This is an important question as I cannot weep for anti semites. You say I twist your posts but I just proved again that you support anti semites. I am ecstatic that ghadaffi got the meat freezer, that saddam who paid terrorists to kill jews got hung, that Mubarak who annually airs the protocols got deposed, that assad is weakened or dead…. why should I not rejoice at the demise of anti semites? Can you answer that question?
Felix Quigley Said:
On shut up Felix. Compared to Bernard, a friend of mine, you are a bug. I have been watch the history of Auschwitz, where my Grandparent family were murdered, and I despise every one of you miserable Europeans. I hope the Jihadist , pouring across your borders, bury you all.
Bernard Ross
Continue to slice and parse and distort totally what I write it matters Little to me because I really no longer read in any detail what you say. I gave up when I could not get an answer from you as regards the fate of the Yazedi girls and women being enslaved by ISIS. Everybody has a right to stupidity but there is no right to complete reaction towards girls and women.
It is Ted Belman I will address. You write:
It is not about Assad quoting or not quoting from the Koran. maybe he did maybe he didn’t. It is that Assad is a secular type leader which is why the threatened Alawites and especially the Christians in Syria have supported and defended Assad from the beginning. Assad is in the same category as all of these Arab secular rulers that the Jihad has been launched against. As was Nasser, Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gadhafi but above all as was Saddam. And it is Saddam that we are talking about here (that is why I say “above all”) as regards Glick. Glick confusingly and deliberately mixes all of these things up and I am certain she knows exactly what she is doing. She like many others have a very dirty history on their shoulders re 2003 and I will never relent or give up and why should I. I am right.
There is nothing wrong with me but I turn the assertion around.
You have been for a long time entertaining the most dubious people on Israpundit one of which attacked viciously the Serbs and now a man who continues to support the enslavement of Yazedi girls by ISIS.
I have not changed in the slightest.
re the poetry…To quote poetry in response to what we have seen in Iraq and Syria over the past years is the ultimate in humbug.
Glick remains the most dubious person in the whole situation. You disagree with me and defend Glick and do not answer or deal with my central points re Glick and the Bush 2003 Invasión of Iraq.
I am proud of my position on this and it is not me who has gone downhill but you.
You have no answer to this because you remain the same person you were in 2003, essentially an American Imperialist type who masquerades as a Jew. Just going to live in Israel to “network” does not make you any less of an American Imperialist – just the worst kind
Felix Quigley Said:
you appear unhappy with the status of the ME: its chaos, its fragmentation…. You appear unhappy that the anti semites who up until their demise regularly held “kill the Jews” parades. You still seem to feel that Israel and the Jews should have helped and supported the anti semites in their wars with competing anti semites rather than appreciating the wonderful miracle that no one could have accomplished.
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, tunisia, etc….. all with leaders and a despicable population who for decades march to “kill the Jews”. restructuring the ME into a fragmented tribal chaos appears to me to be the optimum scenario in which anti semites should find themselves. Who could have arrived at such a brilliant vision? Definitely not bush, he did not want to maintain the chaos at a sustainable level.
Felix Quigley Said:
why do you shed a tear for a bushwhacker whacking a bushwhacker. Saddam tried to assassinate Bush’s father, that’s enough reason to whack anyone. ghadaffi tried to assassinate the last king Abdullah before he was king, he got the meat freezer from the saudi proxies. Instead of weeping for low lives you should celebrated a just world where low lives murder each other…. you lack a grateful attitude.
Felix Quigley Said:
you are so wrong, which is why you never address the points I have made in my prior posts which debunk your ludicrous position. Saddam was an ant semite who funded terrorists killing Jews… that’s all I need to know. Iraqis supported the destruction of Israel, that’s all I need to know.
Bush attacks led to the current desirable chaos and fragmentation in the ME whereby the anti semites are busy killing each other instead of Jews. that’s all I need to know to support their wars against each other. that’s the same reason I support the jihad against the euros. In the same way the jihadis are killing each other in the ME and have no energy for killing Jews I expect the muslim spring in europe to do the same. However, it matters not the next phase as anti semites in chaos, misery and suffering is always GOOD!
Second, your argument that Iran got stronger from the current situation is as weak as you argument that Israel should have supported Assad. Iran, even with the nuclear deal, is weaker today than before the arab spring. they are spread thin in Iraq, syria and lebanon and might soon be fighting for their own stability internally if the next phase comes to pass. Iran was already intending to be a nuke power, already blowing up jews globally, already trying to restructure the ME. The arab spring has embroiled it and weakened it, it has put the GCC and Israel against it. the current chaos in the ME is good in the war agianst Iran also.
the problem is that the Jews enemies are your friends
Herzog the lunatic wants these nutters and jew killers in israel, you want us to feel sorry for them.
Do I have an ounce of sympathy for them?
Do I hope they reach safety where they can regroup and kill the Jews?
Do I seek happiness and peace for them?
Between Yes and NO, guess my answer.
If one cannot recognize who their enemies are then one cannot focus the energy to weaken and destroy them. One does not strengthen or maintain the stability of ones enemies.
Although the current situation is not ideal it is a lot better than before the arab spring. There has been a steady weakening of the enemies of the Jews since the inception of arab spring, dont look a gift horse in the mouth.
Instead, pray next for an arab spring in Iran.
Saddam Hussein was the gate preventing the Iranian tsunami but he was highly toxic on the international scene, destroying the UN and the vacillating international order.
The present situation however is the result of BHO personal agenda.
Bush II possible error does in no way absolve BHO, on the contrary. Weakening the US and the West will benefit no one. Not Iran, not the USSR and not China.
QUOTE FROM CAROLINE GLICK…
Taking stock in Iraq one year on
Friday, March 19th, 2004
A year ago today I crossed the desert border between Kuwait and Iraq with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division.
Sitting in the back of a Humvee, I was filled with a sense of both trepidation and expectation as we smiled at a sergeant from the Engineering Corps who stood on a sand dune waving an oversized American flag, ushering us into war. END QUOTE
“Ushering us into war”
Do the words above of Glick “the embedded journalist” strike you as the words of a fearless journalist, independent, prepared to question just what the hell the US of A was up to?
No they definitely do not. They show a person who is supporting and feels herself at the centre of the Bush war on Saddam. She feels herself and the US making history. They are going to have no more nonsense. They are going to RESTRUCTURE the Middle East.
That is George Bush the Texas bushwhacker who is going to whack any bad person in the Middle East and Glick will lead the way for Israel through her column.
We know however that Sharon the PM of Israel and her PM also bitterly opposed this war but good question here what was Netanyahu, out of power then but active always, doing?
You see…no nonsense from Saddam, no nonsense from Ben Ali…Mubarak…Gadhafi…but you will note they never do mention IRAN sitting on the sidelines licking its lips at what they are doing.
Here we enter an interesting situation. As a true Trotskyist I opposed this war on Saddam. But I opposed it from completely the opposite reason that the Chomsky Anti-War crowd opposed it. They said it was a war which was really the first step in a war against Iran and that Iran was their target. I said NO that this was a war which was aimed at promoting IRAN and aiming to promote Iranian hegemony in the Middle East. WITH SADDAM OUT OF THE WAY IRAN WOULD BE STRENGTHENED. I opposed the war from the position of being against the Islamic Jihad.
And so it has come to pass
Indeed those who supported Bush in this war did not understand at all who Saddam was. He may have had a Koran in his suitcase but he did not apply Sharia to political life in Iraq.
That is a huge difference right there to Iran and the Mullahs.
This is why in the Saddam war against the Khomeini Iran there should have been no ambiguity whatsoever. Saddam had to be backed unconditionally against the Khomeini post-1979 Iran. This does not imply political agreement with Saddam on other matters.
Indeed push this back BEFORE 1979 then it was necessary to back the Shah against the Khomeini forces.
In fact the Stalinist Communist Party of Iran called the Tudeh Party joined in Alliance with the Khomeini forces against the Shah. This was a fatal mistake and opened the door tot he Jihad but it was not too different to the Bush invasión with Glick in tow both physically, spiritually and politically, to remove Saddam.
And go back even further to the roots of this very question when Nasser (who as we know was an enemy of Israel) decided to hang the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1966 then it was necessary to defend that decisión of Nasser unconditionally against Qutb, although that did not imply agreement with Nasser on other vital political issues.
I now see Caroline Glick as a comical Jewish figure, no more no less, but a Jewish figure in which comedy has turned to tragedy for millions of Jews and for potentially billions of human beings.
The issue is as serious as that.
Taking stock in Iraq one year on
Friday, March 19th, 2004
So when under a new President, with economic crisis raging, perhaps a decisive President like Trump (or anybody of either party), they decide to go for Israel and as Glick says “the UN Security Council resolutions limiting its sovereignty provided the legal and diplomatic justifications for the war” but this time to dismantle Israel and remove HER Nuclear Arsenal…her words and your defence of Glick will come back to haunt you.
F.Q. only wants to kill the messenger. He must be reading too much propaganda. Or perhaps he used the wrong pair of glasses! We are a forgiving people.
An apology is due.
Felix, you really should cast aside the Johnnie Walker Red (I can only assume that Communists drink Johnnie Walker Red) because it has blurred your vision to the point where you cannot distinguish between Glick and Obama. The current chaos in the Middle East coincided not with the arrival of the US military in Iraq, but with its departure.
Felix Quigley Said:
Felix, did you finally fall off your rocker? are you seriously equating a war correspondent following a war with a Bush political platform?
Felix Quigley Said:
I believe she is accurate as the Koran was also used by the secular Baathist sadam to manipulate the muslim population. This is not a difficult assertion to swallow regarding authoritarian political leaders of any persuasion.
whether fraudulent or not any Jew should celebrate the deposing of saddam and any other anti semitic leader. furthermore, he financed terrorism agains Israelis and gave 25k to families of terrorists. its good when anti semites die, and even better when anti semites who support the enemies of Jews die. Its good when there is chaos in the lands of anti semites who spread lies against Israel and the jews. there is no more saddam financing jewish murder, there are no more kill the jew parades in Iraq, syria and lebanon because they are in chaos…..soon we may witness the same in europe where the euros cease stalking the Jews to deal with the plague ironically visited upon them that they tried to visit on Israel.
Iraq had ceased to attack Iran then but still financed terrorists against Jews. you see the glass half empty but I see it half full. I see the age old anti semitic bastions against Israel as being submerged in a chaos and fragmentation that any military strategist could only dream in hope but which has miraculously arrived as a blessing to the Jews. it is ideal when anti semite jew killers are killing each other. Although I am not happy that enough persian jew killers are not being slaughtered by the sunnis I have hope for the future and faith that the same miracles which brought the smiting of the jew killers in the surrounding neighbors will next move to iran.
Felix Quigley Said:
citing a man who gave away gaza, to save himself and his family from ruin and jail, and caused the next 3 gaza wars as a result appears to me to be counter productive to your argument.
Felix Quigley Said:
you covered nothing: you irrelevantly smeared a war correspondent as if she were a political leader; you supported the anti semites Saddam and Assad; you cited for support of your argument the incredulous Sharon;…..
Basically, you were as ludicrous as when you advised the Israelis to support their anti semitic military enemy Assad.
Gosh, you were wrong then and still wrong now: the fragmentation and chaos in the enemy lands of anti semitic Jew killers is a GOOD thing,……
try to see the glass half full…..
I suggest you read some zen.
Felix Quigley Said:
What’s wrong with you. Norman just quoted a famous Jewish poet and you attack him with slurs. Mind your manners.
Then you go on to attack Glick.Felix Quigley Said:
What’s wrong with you? What has Caroline’s going into Iraq as a war correspondent go to do with this article. Glick is a truth teller par excellence, yet you have the audacity to call her a liar and for what? because she said that Assad quoted from the Koran. If she said that Assad has quoted from the Koran, I believe her. I have no reason not to. Even though he is secular. So was Arafat and so is Abbas.
Your rant is off the charts and not worthy of you.
Norman F you are full of bull. Come down to earth will ye. I really hate people like yopu Norman with your seeming eternal bull manure.
THIS IS THE SAME CAROLINE GLICK WHO WENT INTO IRAQ AFTER BUSH TO REMOVE SADDAM. WHY DO YOU NOT COMMENT ON THAT TED BELMAN?
Do Jewish people who produce these blogs not know the history of this fiendish woman Caroline Glick?
Glick is now the number one liar in the world of the Jews as is seen in this quote from her latest piece as expressed here:
“From the PLO to Islamic State, through Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Assad regime in Syria, the ayatollahs of Iran, Hezbollah, the Erdogan regime in Turkey and other though Saudi Arabia, every single actor in the region resorts to some degree of torture and oppression.
And all do so while quoting the Koran.” END QUOTE
No Caroline Glick! You are a liar! (Hint…who does she omit? Hint…when did Assad carry a Koran?) A sophisticated liar of the NeoCon type as you were in 2003 when you dragged your sorry ass and lined up with the Americans in deposing Saddam in that utterly fraudulent war.
Then you were a NeoCon claiming that it was a good thing that Bush was doing but you KNEW VERY WELL AND BOUND TO KNOW that your very own Israeli Prime Minister Arik Sharon WAS OPPOSED TO BUSH GOING IN AND REMOVING SADDAM
That is how serious a liar that Glick was then. She was doing that while hiding that it was totally against the wishes of the Prime Minister of the Jewish people of Israel.
Has anybody ever challenged Glick in public on this or just challenged her in any way?
By removing Saddam from power the Americans, British and NATO/UN were removing the very worst enemy that the Iranian Fascists had. A bitter enmity that had existed from 1979 to that date in 2003 and which lasted even beyond that until Saddam’s final moments – being hung by the NeoCons (step forward and take a bow again Glick)
It was THAT move by the NeoCons and George W. Bush with the Glick sorry “Jewish” ass trailing behind that led to the present Iranian Nuclear Deal Crisis, because the removal of Saddam opened the door to Iran and its total hegemony in the whole área, and if Bush, Glick and Obama have their way to the whole of the world, throwing not just the Jews, certainly yes in a big and serious way the Jews, but countless hundreds of millions even billions into terrible peril.
I realize I have not covered fully the lies in that short paragraph from Glick I have quoted. But heck I find my blood pressure rising so dangerously at the lies of Glick that I may leave it for somebody else to try to take it up.
The great Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi in his famous Zionide, wrote in part:
Eikháh ashaléim nedarái va-esarái be-ód
Tziyón be-ével edóm va-aní be-khével aráv.
The vows and the oaths I took I must keep
While Zion is caught between the chains of Edom and the fetters of Arabia.
True when he was alive and its even more true in our own time.