Israel

What do you want me to say?

My inbox is filling up with people asking me to comment on the war in Israel. But in today's modern world, the truth is self-evident, in the news. But having said that, it is well-documented that X/Twitter is a cesspool of misinformation. But now the truth is out, now you know what it's like to be Jewish, now you know that Hamas and the rest of these Arab countries won't be satisfied until Israel is wiped from the face of the earth.

But you probably don't know the history anyway. How the Palestinians were offered their own country back in the forties and refused to accept it, because they insisted that the Jews not have their own country.

Not that Israel is perfect. As a matter of fact, recently its politics/government has been insane, with Netanyahu trying to eliminate democracy, or at least put a huge dent therein. Then again, there's this same force in America, a march to autocracy, and it's based on hatred, Biden runs a crime family and the Democrats are pulling the country down the drain. And if you believe that mantra, you probably believe that the Palestinians are an innocent people unfairly oppressed by the Israelis and...

You don't think about dying in America. Maybe they'll shoot up your kids' school, but you need a gun in your house to protect yourself so you can commit suicide when depressed or shoot a supposed intruder who is your friend. You think you're safe. But if you're an Israeli, you must constantly look over your shoulder, you must constantly be on guard.

But having said that, the problem is that Bibi took his eye off the ball. Rust never sleeps, nor does Hamas or Iran or Hezbollah.

But that's all history.

Sure, innocent people will be killed in Gaza. But these are the same people who chose to be represented by Hamas.

Oh, I don't want to get into the details. I don't want to give you specifics that you can argue. I just want to say the world is an unsafe place and if you think it can't happen to you, you're wrong. Like Ukraine... Ignoring Ukraine, refusing to fund it, is like ignoring a drought in the central California valley and then being surprised when there's a shortage of grapes or lettuce or...

We're all in it together, and one thing is for certain, we can't all get along. Even worse, we're not even starting from the same facts.

But death's honesty, that's real. Once you're gone it doesn't matter what you think, because you can't think.

Anything I write here will only dig a deeper hole, will only piss off those who may not agree with me, they can nitpick something I said and bounce back.

But where is Roger Waters now? All those pro-Palestinian agitators, the BDS people, so upset with Israel that they want to see its demise so the Palestinians can live peacefully...

I've got nothing to add. It's all there if you want to see it.

It was a surprise, that's one of the big stories. That Israel didn't see it coming.

What else are we not seeing coming.

It appears after the 1/6 convictions that no one is going to rise up in the streets to defend Trump. But it's not an impossibility.

And it's also not an impossibility that Trump is not the nominee. Then how does Biden look as a candidate? Strange things happen, isn't that the point here? I was surfing my phone late Friday night, catching up on the news, the last thing I expected to see was war in Israel. It reminded me of the death of Princess Diana, 9/11, I was just checking in online and I was confronted by information that did not compute, that I could not easily digest. It was visceral. No one had e-mailed me about it, it was personal and private, yet ultimately universal.

That's what it's like to be living in the world today. You get the information alone and immediately start texting people, did you see? That's how you get the word out.

We've got tons of information, yet people are still fighting wars like they always have.

And the problem remains the Jews. If only we can get rid of the Jews, everything will be all right.

What a bunch of crap that is, if for no other reason that there aren't even that many Jews on the planet. But a scapegoat, a group that many have a negative opinion about, who are ultimately expendable... Yup, shoot 'em up in the synagogue, throw rockets at them, it's those people, the other, the loudmouths, the money-changers, that are the problem.

It's Hamas. But it's also Kanye West. And the protesters in Charlottesville.

I'm not changing any minds here. I'm paying attention just like you. The hostages...it appears the Israelis value human life more than Hamas, otherwise they'd blow Gaza to smithereens.

We don't know exactly how this plays out. But one thing is for sure, the vaunted Israeli military...turns out not to be all-knowing, omnipotent, our perception was incorrect, things change.

And the Iron Dome... The last time Hamas fired rockets commentators said that Israel should share this technology with the Palestinians.

Yes, it's clear, the Israelis are the oppressors and the Palestinians are the oppressed. Really? Tell me, how do you live, how do you defend yourself, when the stated goal of your enemy is your complete demise, when this is not the first rodeo, when Jews have been eradicated, made pariahs for centuries.

Yup, especially you Jews. Keep on with that Palestinian b.s.

What a long strange trip it's been, and continues to be.


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