There may be some Palestinians capable of leadership who are not ideologically extreme, but recruiting them from the Palestinian diaspora in the West offers no guarantee of a lack of ideological extremism.
Canary Mission has uncovered hundreds of highly educated Arab Muslims in the U.S.--many of them in medicine and among university faculty--who share the views of Hamas. Being exposed to the benefits of the rule of law has not drained them of their extremism.
This is one of those proposals that sounds good, but is probably almost impossible to achieve as proposed. At present, there seems to be no hint of an internal movement among Palestinians to seek better leadership. Imposing it from above will not work, as evidenced in Afghanistan.
Quote of the day: "The United States can help arrange to channel the aid through some kind of body whose governors would include Palestinians committed to conditions set by the donors. The main conditions should be radical but hard to argue against:
(1) don’t steal the funds,"
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Thanks for starting my day out with a good belly laugh!
I am looking forward to buying Coleman Hughes's book. He was amazing on Bill Maher this weekend and will finally be a great communicator in the battle against the woke.
One thing that I would like to object to is "white America." There is no such thing, and people should stop using the language of the left. There was a white South that had a racial and ethnic hierarchy, usually with the planters on top. This system was devised for control of society by a handful of people. If you were white and stood up against them, you were dealt with severely. That world is gone.
We no longer think of ourselves as Irish, French, English, German, or Italian as we did in the 19th and 20th Centuries. What scars do the Irish today have from the past wrongs done by England and the US? Today, most didn't know it happened. The Kendi and Coates of the world get paid millions to keep this grievance alive. The US has come a long way since the 1960s. The push now should be toward seeing ourselves as individuals and celebrating our ethnic diversity and others while rejecting that we are census groups. We should celebrate our progress and move on. I am glad Colemen Hughes and the Free Press are leading the way.
It is a pipe dream to expect (hope) that Palestine could be turned into an effective and non-threatening state, much like the dream that we could turn the tenth century state of Afghanistan into a functioning democracy. The first problem is that there is no real opposition to Hamas, Fatah, or any of the other terrorist run government agencies, which will ensure that those who try to build democratic and peaceful regimes will be brutally eliminated and their supporters intimidated by the terrorists. Then, there is the problem of Islam and the religious mandate to subjugate the world under Muslim rule. The failure to subjugate the Jews in Islam's homelands is an unforgivable sin to its ardent followers. Finally, and most importantly, the theocrats in Iran will not allow a peaceful resolution in Palestine as long as Israel exists. The Iranian Shiite leadership has the goal of leading the next caliphate. We fool ourselves by pretending otherwise.
"But it puts him at odds with the most dominant black intellectuals today, led by voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi, who believe that the only remedy for past discrimination is current discrimination."
I have lived in Nablus within the past two years and taught physics at A Najah University. I thought that the common ground of physics would be (could be) a starting point for finding commonality with a culture profoundly different from that of the Occident. I was encouraged by my experiences in my teaching classes and in private conversation until October 7. Hamas has no interest in a "deal" with Israel. They want the Jews out of Palestine...period. Ordinary Palestinians don't say so explicitly (to do so would be bad manners) but they are largely in agreement. I despair of any solution...a conflict to the end of time or annihilation of one side or the other.
There are as many Americans who think Biden should run as think the earth is flat? We, no. How about facing the truth that Biden was never fit to be president. But that the scummy Democrat Party and its drooling acolytes installed him anyway. And now we are the laughingstock of the world as that doddering, corrupt imbecile, walks dazed and confused across the world stage. Sorry but my loathing for Democrats grows by the day. They have opened the borders. They have stoked racial resentment and divisiveness. They have degraded our military and foreign policy. They claim to love their country, too, but their actions speak otherwise.
It is amazing how many people actually believe in the fantasy of "responsible Palestinian leadership."
What Douglas Feith and those like him do not seem to realize is that Palestinians are above all Arabs. There is nothing very unusual about the Palestinian leaders in the Arab world; they are merely a somewhat more extreme example of the prevailing standard.
"Don't steal the funds" - Can anyone cite a single Arab country in which corruption is not the norm? Why should the Palestinians be any different under any leadership? Is this a realistic expectation?
"Don't promote hatred of Israel or the donor countries" - It is crystal clear that hatred of Jews and the West is rampant throughout the Arab and Muslim world. Yes, there are individual exceptions, but they are just that – exceptions that do not constitute any basis for any rational policy. Contempt for Jews and other heretics and intolerance and persecution of them is the universal practice in all Muslim societies, from Los Angeles to Indonesia.
"Require schools to promote non-violent resolution of disputes rather than extremism" - Who is supposed to administer this? It would require fluent Arabic and an intimate knowledge of Arab and Palestinian society. The West does not have enough such people, and the ones it does have mostly subscribe to the idea that the West is responsible for all of the ills afflicting Arab society. There are certainly next to no Palestinians who can and/or will do it.
Trying to recruit people who are not members of terrorist groups is a useless endeavor. Feith should remember that Hamas was elected, and is still far more popular among the Palestinians than Fatah. Yes, many Gazans are fed up with Hamas now, but that does not mean that they hold moderate views, any more than the Germans' dissatisfaction with the Nazis when they were being blown to smithereens by Allied bombs meant that they had any serious objections to the Nazis' views or practices.
The "violent, self-serving authoritarians" who have led the Palestinians since the 19th century are an accurate reflection of the society that they rule. Better leaders requires better followers, and these are in short supply.
Re: Mr. Hughes: What's critical to the "colorblind" discussion is that under colorblind, our country remains a meritocracy. The neo-racists know that insistence on genuine merit preserves the status quo and insists that the communities they advance must actually prepare for life, a much more difficult scenario than the simpler route of attaining the executive suite via guilt.
Could it be that Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi, have nothing to offer other than hatred and excuses for Liberal policies failure since LBJ? The Liberal policies in truth are the new form of slavery. That but also, they get rich off hatred by selling the very thing they say they are against. Yet people in reality are just to stupid to understand. Hughes has a better understanding of the issues than both of these grifters and hate mongers. He knows that Govt is not the answer as it has failed forever in working the issue. Get back to what MLK preached and you have a starting point. But life is easier by blaming everyone else for your failures.
When Slow Joe signs a law, everyone needs to understand, it is a law for you and not him and his cronies milking the public and spending us into poverty. Laws for you, not for me.
Any money flowing into any country we try and help is not accountable and is often stolen or used for other purposes. The UN is of no use and corrupt beyond repair. They are out. Any Palestinian leadership is the same. Hate to say it, the only way to use foreign aide is for the US to actually have boots on the ground with military protection (with orders to shoot if needed) and any equipment and materials used, bought from the US. Employ locals and train them, but work to make your lives better.
I often mention LBJ declining to run again when explaining to my foreign friends what's wrong with American leaders today. Yes, LBJ's decision was probably largely a selfish one, but there was also a recognition that Americans deserved candidates that didn't totally alienate huge swaths of the country. Today, finding that kind of candidate might be impossible, but that doesn't mean we should be stuck with candidates who - setting aside whether the hate is justified or not - are objectively and quite obviously completely toxic to large swaths of Americans.
Obama and Clinton knew that half of America couldn't stand Clinton (heck, most Democrats begrudgingly accepted her at best) when they preselected her as the 2016 candidate. They also thought and still think they know better than at least half of America, probably more like 99% of America. So we got Clinton.
Biden knows he's too old, so does everyone around him. More importantly, they know Americans know he's too old. Doesn't matter. They know better. So we're getting Biden.
Trump is in it for himself. I actually don't doubt that he loves America and wants to save it. But I also think with his ego he literally is incapable of considering that there are other Republicans who can continue the fight to save America he started, and those candidates aren't a total non-starter for at least half of America (maybe only 40%). So we're getting Trump.
"The TikTok post is a *strange* move given that Biden signed a law banning the Chinese-owned app on government phones. But more importantly, it does nothing to persuade voters he is capable of a second term."
Its actually an "illegal move" and one that is a slap in the face of every federal government employee who abides by the rules dear leader does not follow himself.
AHEM! ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. is challenging the VEGETABLE IN CHIEF. Could you please write a balanced, informative piece on his campaign? If ever in the history of this country we needed an INDEPENDENT to win this office, this is it.
It is OBVIOUS that Biden is incapable of completing another term. It's obvious that he's non functional now -- as is his VP and his Press Secretary, she of the golden eye shadow designed to make it appear as though she's looking at the press while struggling to read her binder.
This publication has NOT given RFK J. a fair shake. The only reason, as far as I can tell, is ignorance.
There may be some Palestinians capable of leadership who are not ideologically extreme, but recruiting them from the Palestinian diaspora in the West offers no guarantee of a lack of ideological extremism.
Canary Mission has uncovered hundreds of highly educated Arab Muslims in the U.S.--many of them in medicine and among university faculty--who share the views of Hamas. Being exposed to the benefits of the rule of law has not drained them of their extremism.
This is one of those proposals that sounds good, but is probably almost impossible to achieve as proposed. At present, there seems to be no hint of an internal movement among Palestinians to seek better leadership. Imposing it from above will not work, as evidenced in Afghanistan.
Kendi is not a black intellectual, he’s a racist grifter doing a long con.
Quote of the day: "The United States can help arrange to channel the aid through some kind of body whose governors would include Palestinians committed to conditions set by the donors. The main conditions should be radical but hard to argue against:
(1) don’t steal the funds,"
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Thanks for starting my day out with a good belly laugh!
I am looking forward to buying Coleman Hughes's book. He was amazing on Bill Maher this weekend and will finally be a great communicator in the battle against the woke.
One thing that I would like to object to is "white America." There is no such thing, and people should stop using the language of the left. There was a white South that had a racial and ethnic hierarchy, usually with the planters on top. This system was devised for control of society by a handful of people. If you were white and stood up against them, you were dealt with severely. That world is gone.
We no longer think of ourselves as Irish, French, English, German, or Italian as we did in the 19th and 20th Centuries. What scars do the Irish today have from the past wrongs done by England and the US? Today, most didn't know it happened. The Kendi and Coates of the world get paid millions to keep this grievance alive. The US has come a long way since the 1960s. The push now should be toward seeing ourselves as individuals and celebrating our ethnic diversity and others while rejecting that we are census groups. We should celebrate our progress and move on. I am glad Colemen Hughes and the Free Press are leading the way.
It is a pipe dream to expect (hope) that Palestine could be turned into an effective and non-threatening state, much like the dream that we could turn the tenth century state of Afghanistan into a functioning democracy. The first problem is that there is no real opposition to Hamas, Fatah, or any of the other terrorist run government agencies, which will ensure that those who try to build democratic and peaceful regimes will be brutally eliminated and their supporters intimidated by the terrorists. Then, there is the problem of Islam and the religious mandate to subjugate the world under Muslim rule. The failure to subjugate the Jews in Islam's homelands is an unforgivable sin to its ardent followers. Finally, and most importantly, the theocrats in Iran will not allow a peaceful resolution in Palestine as long as Israel exists. The Iranian Shiite leadership has the goal of leading the next caliphate. We fool ourselves by pretending otherwise.
Race politics is sexy, while equality is not. Who here knows that the word "slave" comes from slav?
Tech is the new form of slavery now: https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/how-do-children-become-addicted-to
The slavonic people were subjugated just as well as all humanity at one point, and we can trace back our servitude to ancient Sumeria.
Now that sounds more provocative than any talking head on CNN doesn't it?
"But it puts him at odds with the most dominant black intellectuals today, led by voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi, who believe that the only remedy for past discrimination is current discrimination."
Intellectuals?
Now that's funny.
I have lived in Nablus within the past two years and taught physics at A Najah University. I thought that the common ground of physics would be (could be) a starting point for finding commonality with a culture profoundly different from that of the Occident. I was encouraged by my experiences in my teaching classes and in private conversation until October 7. Hamas has no interest in a "deal" with Israel. They want the Jews out of Palestine...period. Ordinary Palestinians don't say so explicitly (to do so would be bad manners) but they are largely in agreement. I despair of any solution...a conflict to the end of time or annihilation of one side or the other.
There are as many Americans who think Biden should run as think the earth is flat? We, no. How about facing the truth that Biden was never fit to be president. But that the scummy Democrat Party and its drooling acolytes installed him anyway. And now we are the laughingstock of the world as that doddering, corrupt imbecile, walks dazed and confused across the world stage. Sorry but my loathing for Democrats grows by the day. They have opened the borders. They have stoked racial resentment and divisiveness. They have degraded our military and foreign policy. They claim to love their country, too, but their actions speak otherwise.
It is amazing how many people actually believe in the fantasy of "responsible Palestinian leadership."
What Douglas Feith and those like him do not seem to realize is that Palestinians are above all Arabs. There is nothing very unusual about the Palestinian leaders in the Arab world; they are merely a somewhat more extreme example of the prevailing standard.
"Don't steal the funds" - Can anyone cite a single Arab country in which corruption is not the norm? Why should the Palestinians be any different under any leadership? Is this a realistic expectation?
"Don't promote hatred of Israel or the donor countries" - It is crystal clear that hatred of Jews and the West is rampant throughout the Arab and Muslim world. Yes, there are individual exceptions, but they are just that – exceptions that do not constitute any basis for any rational policy. Contempt for Jews and other heretics and intolerance and persecution of them is the universal practice in all Muslim societies, from Los Angeles to Indonesia.
"Require schools to promote non-violent resolution of disputes rather than extremism" - Who is supposed to administer this? It would require fluent Arabic and an intimate knowledge of Arab and Palestinian society. The West does not have enough such people, and the ones it does have mostly subscribe to the idea that the West is responsible for all of the ills afflicting Arab society. There are certainly next to no Palestinians who can and/or will do it.
Trying to recruit people who are not members of terrorist groups is a useless endeavor. Feith should remember that Hamas was elected, and is still far more popular among the Palestinians than Fatah. Yes, many Gazans are fed up with Hamas now, but that does not mean that they hold moderate views, any more than the Germans' dissatisfaction with the Nazis when they were being blown to smithereens by Allied bombs meant that they had any serious objections to the Nazis' views or practices.
The "violent, self-serving authoritarians" who have led the Palestinians since the 19th century are an accurate reflection of the society that they rule. Better leaders requires better followers, and these are in short supply.
Re: Mr. Hughes: What's critical to the "colorblind" discussion is that under colorblind, our country remains a meritocracy. The neo-racists know that insistence on genuine merit preserves the status quo and insists that the communities they advance must actually prepare for life, a much more difficult scenario than the simpler route of attaining the executive suite via guilt.
Could it be that Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi, have nothing to offer other than hatred and excuses for Liberal policies failure since LBJ? The Liberal policies in truth are the new form of slavery. That but also, they get rich off hatred by selling the very thing they say they are against. Yet people in reality are just to stupid to understand. Hughes has a better understanding of the issues than both of these grifters and hate mongers. He knows that Govt is not the answer as it has failed forever in working the issue. Get back to what MLK preached and you have a starting point. But life is easier by blaming everyone else for your failures.
When Slow Joe signs a law, everyone needs to understand, it is a law for you and not him and his cronies milking the public and spending us into poverty. Laws for you, not for me.
Any money flowing into any country we try and help is not accountable and is often stolen or used for other purposes. The UN is of no use and corrupt beyond repair. They are out. Any Palestinian leadership is the same. Hate to say it, the only way to use foreign aide is for the US to actually have boots on the ground with military protection (with orders to shoot if needed) and any equipment and materials used, bought from the US. Employ locals and train them, but work to make your lives better.
Build permanent housing for palis? You mean those concrete apartment buildings many stories tall aren’t permanent?
It’s not the buildings that were “refugee camps “ it’s the mindset of the Palis
I often mention LBJ declining to run again when explaining to my foreign friends what's wrong with American leaders today. Yes, LBJ's decision was probably largely a selfish one, but there was also a recognition that Americans deserved candidates that didn't totally alienate huge swaths of the country. Today, finding that kind of candidate might be impossible, but that doesn't mean we should be stuck with candidates who - setting aside whether the hate is justified or not - are objectively and quite obviously completely toxic to large swaths of Americans.
Obama and Clinton knew that half of America couldn't stand Clinton (heck, most Democrats begrudgingly accepted her at best) when they preselected her as the 2016 candidate. They also thought and still think they know better than at least half of America, probably more like 99% of America. So we got Clinton.
Biden knows he's too old, so does everyone around him. More importantly, they know Americans know he's too old. Doesn't matter. They know better. So we're getting Biden.
Trump is in it for himself. I actually don't doubt that he loves America and wants to save it. But I also think with his ego he literally is incapable of considering that there are other Republicans who can continue the fight to save America he started, and those candidates aren't a total non-starter for at least half of America (maybe only 40%). So we're getting Trump.
"The TikTok post is a *strange* move given that Biden signed a law banning the Chinese-owned app on government phones. But more importantly, it does nothing to persuade voters he is capable of a second term."
Its actually an "illegal move" and one that is a slap in the face of every federal government employee who abides by the rules dear leader does not follow himself.
AHEM! ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. is challenging the VEGETABLE IN CHIEF. Could you please write a balanced, informative piece on his campaign? If ever in the history of this country we needed an INDEPENDENT to win this office, this is it.
It is OBVIOUS that Biden is incapable of completing another term. It's obvious that he's non functional now -- as is his VP and his Press Secretary, she of the golden eye shadow designed to make it appear as though she's looking at the press while struggling to read her binder.
This publication has NOT given RFK J. a fair shake. The only reason, as far as I can tell, is ignorance.