Please, Tell Me What I am Thinking, Mr. Leftist

 

There have been occasions in my life where I have had someone tell me what it is that I think. Knowing the human condition as I do, I suspect we have all experienced this at one time or another.  It is really annoying.  Especially when they are wrong! 

Probably twenty years ago, I and my late wife, my brother, and his soon-to-be ex-wife, who was typically argumentative, decided we’d go out to dinner at the local pizza parlor.  While our wives went up to the counter to order the pizza, my brother and I went to the bar to get beer for us all.  I had no more than sat down at our table when my brother’s wife came running towards me from the counter with my wife in hot pursuit.  She demanded to know somewhat indignantly whether I liked thin or thick crust pizza.  I quizzically looked at her and said that I have always liked only thick crust and despise thin crust pizza, to which my wife responded to my brother’s betrothed, “See?  I think I know what my husband likes.”  My brother’s wife was having none of it and told me that she was absolutely sure that I had liked thin crust. 

That was typical of Pam. 

It wasn’t too long after that my brother got a divorce and she was involuntarily placed under medical supervision for being completely nuts.  (Not necessarily just because of this incident though – at least I assume so.)

Well, it seems like the certifiably nuts contagion is spreading these days.  What is even more ironic is that I have been accused of this very thing by one of the goof balls that is always guilty of this exact faux pas towards me when it comes to politics.  Indeed, I have been called an authoritarian, racist, homophobe, Trump-supporter, and neo-Nazi for years by one particular individual who may actually be in the terminal stages of leftist Kool-aide intoxication.  It doesn’t matter what I write or say to the contrary.  The fact is that I disagree with his leftist bunk, so he must know what kind of pizza I like!

I have always strongly disliked Trump, which I have reiterated ad nauseum.  Indeed, I didn’t even vote for him the first time he ran.  Nor did I vote for him the primary this year.  Mr. Kool-aide insists that I am a blind follower, admirer, and believer of his lies.  It does no good to explain that Trump is the lesser of two evils, and having seen how Biden and Trump have each governed, I choose Trump to be president.  I don’t like him, trust him, or believe a lot of what he says.  I believe in NOTHING that the head of the Biden crime family says or does.  It is a painful choice.  But I must like that damned cracker-crust pizza according to this one individual. 

What is really ironic, interesting, and hypocritical on his behalf is that this individual has accused me of supporting a racist and neo-Nazi, while this person supports all of the racist BLM, DEI, critical race theory nonsense and thinks it is necessary for Israel to immediately commence a cease-fire in the hopes of one day establishing a two-state solution with the very people that voted for the government that is actually calling for a genocide of the entire Jewish people.  Disconnect much?

According to him, “Believing Trump's lies is what makes Americans neo-Nazis.”  Meanwhile he is actually championing modern day Nazis hoping to exterminate the Jews that Hitler couldn’t, while he erroneously blames Israel for the “Israeli land theft, apartheid, terrorism, the Palestinian Nakba and GAZA holocaust.”  A little research of other-than-left-wing propaganda would prove that all of that is a lie.

This person has long parroted that, “The authoritarian personality has a characteristic over-active and enlarged primitive amygdala, the brain's fear/fight/flight center. This is why they readily embrace whatever triggers their anger, fear and hate.”

While there probably is a legitimate scientific basis for this conclusion, the irony is that an authoritarian is using this in hyperbolic propaganda-fashion to support the limitation of constitutional freedoms because he assumes that I and other like-minded conservatives are the one wanting to restrict the democratic process and destroy our nation, while his president has actually been doing this. 

The whole ludicrous backwards notion is enough to make me tired and hungry.  Maybe I’ll go see if I can find some deep-dish pizza somewhere, even though I supposedly don’t like it. 

There Must Not be a Cease Fire for Israel

September 11, 2001.  I had recently started my new job as a senior RF engineer for a wireless phone carrier.  I remember eating my breakfast that morning with the news on as the TV broadcasted pictures of a large aircraft that had strayed and crashed into one of the world trade center towers.  While I was pondering how such an accident could happen, I watched in disbelief and horror as the second plane came in and hit the other tower.  This was obviously no longer an accident.  By the time I had gotten to work the towers soon after collapsed.  2977 innocent people were killed that day and soon afterwards engulfed us in the war on terrorism. 

America had a right and a responsibility to defend our nation and hold the terrorists responsible for the heinous murder of innocent civilians accountable.  A vast majority of Americans were shocked, horrified, and fully supportive of this righteous response towards these barbaric sub-humans.  To not respond would have invited further terrorism.

On October 7^th, 2023, the terrorist detritus of Hamas left their tunnels and other hiding places in Gaza and gleefully murdered, raped, beheaded, and tortured more than 1200 innocent Israeli civilians, while taking over 250 civilian hostages.  To this day, these despicable scums still hold 130 hostages, of which six are U.S. citizens.

The 1,200 Israeli victims of terror, in that tiny country of some 9.5 million, would be the equivalent of killing more than 40,000 innocent people in our country of over 330 million. 

Just as America had the responsibility and right to defend itself after the 9/11 attacks, so too does the nation of Israel.  Indeed, it is an absolute necessity for Israel to eradicate the responsible terrorists as this is a nation that is surrounded by other states in the region that wish Israel ill, while many terrorists and terrorist nation proxies from Iran and elsewhere seek the complete annihilation of Israel “from the river to the sea”.

Last November, a month after the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that claimed the lives of these 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians, 55% of Americans approved of the military action that Israel enacted in response to this attack.   

My first question is why only 55%?  Why do barely over half of Americans think that a nation does not have a right and responsibility to defend its citizens?  Of course, the answer lies in the antisemitism and oppressor/oppressed indoctrination being taught in academia and other leftist circles of our nation and propagated by the leftist media.  Sadly, the most recent Gallup polling in March shows that 36% of Americans “approve of Israeli military action in Gaza” and 50% disapprove. 

Indeed, I have had this very argument presented to me recently by another blogger that over half of Americans think Israel should enact a cease fire against the very terrorists that initiated this war once again.  His flawed logic seemed to suggest that since a majority of people were for a cease fire, that must be the right action to take.  The irony is that there was a “cease fire” in effect until this pernicious attack by Hamas.  Israel is fighting for its very right to exist, while some Americans are blinded by antisemitism and critical theory doctrines it seems.

To exacerbate the problem our feckless and incompetent president is trying to curry favor with pro-Hamas Muslim Americans in this election year by undermining Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s war on terrorism.  Even Biden’s callous and clueless Secretary of State Antony Blinken has effectively accused Israel of dehumanizing Palestinians but Blinken’s accusation is disgusting and utterly without merit.

While the duplicitous Biden continues to trash talk Netanyahu in public and private, his regime has also considered slow-walking the delivery of needed munitions to Israel to force a slowdown in the war.

Further, Biden sent the number-two man at the National Security Council to Dearborn, Michigan, in February to offer a mea culpa to Muslim-American leaders. The apology came after Muslim Americans complained bitterly about support for Israel from “Genocide Joe.”

The apology was delivered to leaders of a city labeled, with justification, the “Jihad Capital of America.” Public celebrations erupted in Dearborn after Oct. 7. Three days later, a jubilant crowd gathered at the Ford Performing Arts Center to celebrate the carnage against the 1,200 innocent Israelis. A local imam told the crowd that Israeli actions in the past put “fire in our hearts that will burn that state (Israel) until its demise.”

Then the Biden administration betrayed Israel in the U.N. Security Council vote that demanded Israel enact a cease-fire without any requirement for Hamas to release hostages. Rather than using the U.S.’s power to veto the measure, and automatically end the U.N.’s farcical cease-fire demands, the Biden administration simply abstained from the vote.

It almost feels as if the left, especially Biden, are viewing this war through diametrically truth opposed lenses.  It has been determined that at least 12 UNRWA staffers joined Hamas on Oct. 7 to kill innocent Israelis. Another intelligence report indicates an additional 30 UNRWA staffers also joined the savage attack.  The Wall Street Journal reported in late January that at least 10% of UNRWA workers, some 1,200 Gazans are Hamas terrorists. And half of UNRWA’s 12,000 Gaza employees have close relatives who belong to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.  Further, keep in mind that Hamas came to govern Gaza by being democratically elected by the people.  Since then, of course, Hamas has “eliminated” any political opposition and cancelled all further elections.

Continuing, and by strange “coincidence,” Hamas placed a sensitive underground data center some 65 feet directly below UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found power cables linking the Hamas data center to an UNRWA data center above ground, suggesting close collaboration between the two.

These stunning revelations provoked nearly 20 nations, including the U.S., to suspend all aid to UNRWA. And while that is the correct response, it is not nearly enough. Congress should immediately cut ALL aid to the ENTIRE United Nations apparatus which has continuously proven to be single-mindedly antisemitic in its actions and voting.

The Biden administration threatens to cut off or slow-walk aid to Israel if it continues to retaliate against Hamas, even though Hamas started the war.  So, the administration promises to give more aid to Gaza after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorism than it gave to Gaza before Hamas’ attack.

The leftists and various other antisemites are attempting to portray Hamas and Gaza as the victims here as they clamor for a cease fire.  They claim that Israel is using disproportionate force in retaliation to the savage Hamas attack.  They fear for the non-Hamas Gazans that are being killed due to the war time operations here.  They see Israel as the egregious aggressor here.  The truth is something far different, however.

“Despite the unique challenges Israel faces in its war against Hamas, it has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other military in history,” asserts John Spencer, co-director of West Point’s Modern War Institute.  Indeed, Israel drops leaflets from planes in civilian areas to inform people that an attack on Hamas targets is imminent and that they should evacuate.  Sometimes door to door warnings are given. Hamas, as it has no concern for life even of its own people, will purposely embed its operations in civilian neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, and mosques.  Israel risks the lives of its soldiers to prevent civilian deaths. Hamas risks the lives of its civilians to prevent terrorists’ deaths.

As I have written previously, Israel and Netanyahu have an obligation to defend itself.  Allowing a cease fire now before Hamas has been completely eliminated would only allow these terrorist vermin to regroup, resupply, and continue their unjust and hateful war of extermination against Israel.  Indeed, if Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and all of the other terrorist proxies in the region were to simply lay down their arms and live their lives, there could be peace in the region.  If Israel were to lay down its arms or enact a permanent cease fire, they would be eradicated and cease to exist. 

So, does a cease fire enacted by Israel still seem like the right course of action for this tiny Jewish nation to take?  Does one reward terrorism by giving in to their demands as they still hold Israeli (and American) hostages, or does such weakness only invite more terrorism?  I, for one, think Israel must stay the course and eliminate EVERY LAST MEMBER of Hamas.  Further, they should endeavor to destroy every other proxy group that attacks them with extreme prejudice and disproportionate force as required to permanently eliminate the threats.  No two-state solution can ever be enacted with intractable enemies that refuse to seek peace or even acknowledges Israel’s right to exist.  And the United States of America should be the greatest supporter and ally of Israel in this fight!

If you have ever wondered what you would have done in Nazi Germany as the Jews were rounded up for extermination, today you now have an answer to that question.  The answer to that question is the same as for the answer you provide regarding Israel’s right to survive and live in peace today.