So now, I just learned: the Vatican is “Apprehensive “ about the ‘situation’ in Israel and Gaza. (I personally hate it as they try to tie the two together!) Is the Papacy, the Catholic Church going down the same ugly road? I was raised Catholic, so I was really hoping, naturally-expecting, I clear condemnation from Pope Francis of Hamas and the sheer evil. No, platitudes this and that. I have been so so disappointed in the Catholic Church for all the obvious reasons, but this seems to me like a new low
It is part of a larger problem of moral decay, hate and the suicide of the West and the death Judeo Christian roots. Could we make peace with the e Nazis? Of course not. Today’s Nazis are an existential threat. They have told us. We should listen
thank you. it is truly awful what's happening right now.
your argument is really powerful, and clear and well-supprted. i think you will get through to people; you cut right through to me, and I am grateful. Yes, this is how we suddenly could find ourselves as a people in support of a Hitler-type ruler and we're living in a dangerous time. it's this defending-the-terrorists-as-something-other-than-brutal-murderers mindset/impulse that allows it, as you described so eloquently.
however i think you'll lose people by claiming the only reason for their mindset is that they hate jews. i think: some progressive people simply aren't thinking very hard, and they can't get out of their "oppressors can't be victims" mindset. and, they see israel as an oppressor, because that's popular right now and probably because they have a shallow understanding of history. those people can be awoken by your argument and your article, but not if you call them jew haters. some people do hate jews of course, but there were a lot of people who helped and permitted Hitler, who didn't hate jews.
i paid $8 to tell you this haha. i hope it serves you and i hope you can help us americans return from the brink of repeating history. thank you again.
Our universities have clearly come down on the side of barbarism; they have not released a statement about this horror, but their student groups support Hamas. Their silence clearly places them squarely amongst the enemies of civilization. I hope a future administration will hold them accountable by cutting federal funding, taxing their endowments, and even removing their accreditation. We are not required to allow them to plant the seeds of our destruction, which is what they have been doing for decades. And now we see the rotten crop those seeds produce. We must rededicate ourselves to Enlightenment principles, and plow these places under.
Hamas’s barbarism was on full display last Saturday. On Shabbat and the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, the fanatics of Hamas put on a full display of their evil and lack of any humanity: Jews in Israel, Americans and other nationalities were slaughtered in the streets and in their homes, babies and the elderly were kidnapped, and women and girls were raped and taken as hostages to Gaza. The death toll of innocent Jews was the highest in a single day since the Holocaust. And Hamas gleefully tells the world that it will use social media to broadcast the torture and killing of its hostages to traumatize further their loved ones and to try to prevent the world from ending their vile and inhuman actions.
And we pretend we are surprised. The Hamas charter states plainly that “Israel will exist, and will continue to exist, until Islam abolishes it....” It further states, “The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,’ except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews.”
The rallying cry of Hamas and far too many Americans is “From the River to the Sea.” They do not want a two state solution. They do not want to live in peace with Jews. They want to kill Jews. They want to cleanse Jews from all of Israel. This is not anti-Zionism; this is antisemitism in its most brazen and ugly form. It is this ideology, it is this lack of even basic humanity and not any action by Israel, that led to Saturday’s massacre. There is no moral equivalence here. There are only innocent civilians killed, wounded maimed and kidnapped for merely being Jewish.
My teenage daughter said last night that we must bear witness to these atrocities and this evil and we must not turn away from it. We must end it. And MSNBC should stop accommodating this evil and pretending that this is not antisemitism on steroids. MSNBC should stop blaming Israel and report all of the ugly facts. MSNBC should stop being complicit and bear witness to this evil.
In the light of honest reporting, can you absolutely confirm that women have been raped? This isn't something anyone should take lightly, especially throwing around that charge. For example, the women that was handcuffed in the back of a jeep, hands behind her back and and from the looks of it, the outside of her pants on her backside were bloody. If she was raped, there is no excuse. It's a terrible a reached act. If she wasn't, don't you think it's possible that the handcuffs cause her writs to bleed, making her backside bloody? All I'm saying is HOW DO WE KNOW FOR SURE? AND...does it do any good to keep repeating that she was raped, if it's not verified? Isn't it more optimistic and less presumptuous and inflammatory to think/say that the ruff handling of her while she's handcuffed caused her butt to be bloody. That's what was obvious to me. It wasn't obvious that she hd been raped. But, I could be totally wrong on this. Additionally, Theres so much bullshit information floating around right now it's ridiculous. Even the free press has been repeating what everyone has been repeating. How can we trust the free press on this coverage?
Thanks. Know I'm not trying to be insensitive here. I just think it's irresponsible on the part of journalists to say stuff like "40 babies have been beheaded" or "this woman or that woman in this or that video were raped". How can you possible verify that? Plus, a lot of things like that have been walked back? How does this make the Free Press different, if they're jumping to conclusions and repeating things the mainstream says?
I agree with your concerns. I will say there's a LOT of eye witness testimony of the murders and rapes. Hamas doesn't do it in secret, and have been live streaming and/or sending video to the loved ones of the victims.
I'd rather not see that footage to spare me the nightmares, but there are alternative news outlets that believe in showing the gorey atrocities of the attacks for the sake of showing people the truth. So it's out there if you feel the need to see it to understand what happened. TGIF is just not the place to find those images.
Ok, so are we now taking the word of Hamas? This is a group that said Iran has been involved in the attacks. The WSJ did a piece on it. This was lightly sourced and one that had to rely on information from a Terrorist org. This is reliable? Again, Is it honest journalism to repeat this information without verification?
So true, Bari. Witness Harvard's President Summers' shock at a letter put forth by 31 student groups which place the blame - BLAME - for the terrorist attack on Israel entirely. Summers stated that he felt "horrified and alienated" by this response, so I'll give him that. But where are the Faculty? Where are those calling out this blatant antisemitism? Crickets
I am a Jew, and I will not remain silent on the horrific events happening in Israel. Pray for us, pray for Israel, and pray that justice will be served.
Bari, you are the sole reason we subscribe to FP. The courage you show leaving NYT and calling out people is what this country craves: Courage and Leadership, not complacency and obfuscation. You have a platform us cowboys from Wyoming do not possess. Fuckin’ use it and call out these coastal and DC elites.
That was definitely one of events that really made me follow her more than casually as well. I remain quite impressed with Bari and her lovely wife as well. We have some differences of course but I suspect that it would be a pleasant exchange of ideas and finding much common ground should I ever meet them by chance. We really need to encourage thinking like this IMO, too much vitriol and portraying the other as Satan at present.
It was never about social justice. It's always been about cosplay. Maybe, I'll be remember has an activist? These people were never progressives. These people were self absorbed nihilists with no moral compass or code of ethics.
So now, I just learned: the Vatican is “Apprehensive “ about the ‘situation’ in Israel and Gaza. (I personally hate it as they try to tie the two together!) Is the Papacy, the Catholic Church going down the same ugly road? I was raised Catholic, so I was really hoping, naturally-expecting, I clear condemnation from Pope Francis of Hamas and the sheer evil. No, platitudes this and that. I have been so so disappointed in the Catholic Church for all the obvious reasons, but this seems to me like a new low
It is part of a larger problem of moral decay, hate and the suicide of the West and the death Judeo Christian roots. Could we make peace with the e Nazis? Of course not. Today’s Nazis are an existential threat. They have told us. We should listen
thank you. it is truly awful what's happening right now.
your argument is really powerful, and clear and well-supprted. i think you will get through to people; you cut right through to me, and I am grateful. Yes, this is how we suddenly could find ourselves as a people in support of a Hitler-type ruler and we're living in a dangerous time. it's this defending-the-terrorists-as-something-other-than-brutal-murderers mindset/impulse that allows it, as you described so eloquently.
however i think you'll lose people by claiming the only reason for their mindset is that they hate jews. i think: some progressive people simply aren't thinking very hard, and they can't get out of their "oppressors can't be victims" mindset. and, they see israel as an oppressor, because that's popular right now and probably because they have a shallow understanding of history. those people can be awoken by your argument and your article, but not if you call them jew haters. some people do hate jews of course, but there were a lot of people who helped and permitted Hitler, who didn't hate jews.
i paid $8 to tell you this haha. i hope it serves you and i hope you can help us americans return from the brink of repeating history. thank you again.
https://www.newsweek.com/unreported-foreign-donations-universities-foment-anti-semitism-opinion-1546139
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/muslim-nations-are-donating-huge-amounts-to-american-universities-heres-why/
https://www.meforum.org/61807/foreign-funds-subvert-american-universities
Our universities have clearly come down on the side of barbarism; they have not released a statement about this horror, but their student groups support Hamas. Their silence clearly places them squarely amongst the enemies of civilization. I hope a future administration will hold them accountable by cutting federal funding, taxing their endowments, and even removing their accreditation. We are not required to allow them to plant the seeds of our destruction, which is what they have been doing for decades. And now we see the rotten crop those seeds produce. We must rededicate ourselves to Enlightenment principles, and plow these places under.
I have written the following to MSNBC:
Hamas’s barbarism was on full display last Saturday. On Shabbat and the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, the fanatics of Hamas put on a full display of their evil and lack of any humanity: Jews in Israel, Americans and other nationalities were slaughtered in the streets and in their homes, babies and the elderly were kidnapped, and women and girls were raped and taken as hostages to Gaza. The death toll of innocent Jews was the highest in a single day since the Holocaust. And Hamas gleefully tells the world that it will use social media to broadcast the torture and killing of its hostages to traumatize further their loved ones and to try to prevent the world from ending their vile and inhuman actions.
And we pretend we are surprised. The Hamas charter states plainly that “Israel will exist, and will continue to exist, until Islam abolishes it....” It further states, “The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,’ except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews.”
The rallying cry of Hamas and far too many Americans is “From the River to the Sea.” They do not want a two state solution. They do not want to live in peace with Jews. They want to kill Jews. They want to cleanse Jews from all of Israel. This is not anti-Zionism; this is antisemitism in its most brazen and ugly form. It is this ideology, it is this lack of even basic humanity and not any action by Israel, that led to Saturday’s massacre. There is no moral equivalence here. There are only innocent civilians killed, wounded maimed and kidnapped for merely being Jewish.
My teenage daughter said last night that we must bear witness to these atrocities and this evil and we must not turn away from it. We must end it. And MSNBC should stop accommodating this evil and pretending that this is not antisemitism on steroids. MSNBC should stop blaming Israel and report all of the ugly facts. MSNBC should stop being complicit and bear witness to this evil.
Bari,
In the light of honest reporting, can you absolutely confirm that women have been raped? This isn't something anyone should take lightly, especially throwing around that charge. For example, the women that was handcuffed in the back of a jeep, hands behind her back and and from the looks of it, the outside of her pants on her backside were bloody. If she was raped, there is no excuse. It's a terrible a reached act. If she wasn't, don't you think it's possible that the handcuffs cause her writs to bleed, making her backside bloody? All I'm saying is HOW DO WE KNOW FOR SURE? AND...does it do any good to keep repeating that she was raped, if it's not verified? Isn't it more optimistic and less presumptuous and inflammatory to think/say that the ruff handling of her while she's handcuffed caused her butt to be bloody. That's what was obvious to me. It wasn't obvious that she hd been raped. But, I could be totally wrong on this. Additionally, Theres so much bullshit information floating around right now it's ridiculous. Even the free press has been repeating what everyone has been repeating. How can we trust the free press on this coverage?
This is a 15 second clip of a member of Hamas admitting that they kidnap women to defile them by way of rape. https://rumble.com/v3omurj-disturbing-video-of-hamas-terrorist-reveals-why-they-kidnapped-women.html
Thanks. Know I'm not trying to be insensitive here. I just think it's irresponsible on the part of journalists to say stuff like "40 babies have been beheaded" or "this woman or that woman in this or that video were raped". How can you possible verify that? Plus, a lot of things like that have been walked back? How does this make the Free Press different, if they're jumping to conclusions and repeating things the mainstream says?
I agree with your concerns. I will say there's a LOT of eye witness testimony of the murders and rapes. Hamas doesn't do it in secret, and have been live streaming and/or sending video to the loved ones of the victims.
I'd rather not see that footage to spare me the nightmares, but there are alternative news outlets that believe in showing the gorey atrocities of the attacks for the sake of showing people the truth. So it's out there if you feel the need to see it to understand what happened. TGIF is just not the place to find those images.
Ok, so are we now taking the word of Hamas? This is a group that said Iran has been involved in the attacks. The WSJ did a piece on it. This was lightly sourced and one that had to rely on information from a Terrorist org. This is reliable? Again, Is it honest journalism to repeat this information without verification?
It's hard to know what is real and what isn't these days. It's a confusing problem, to be sure.
"I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends."
Elie Wiesel
So true, Bari. Witness Harvard's President Summers' shock at a letter put forth by 31 student groups which place the blame - BLAME - for the terrorist attack on Israel entirely. Summers stated that he felt "horrified and alienated" by this response, so I'll give him that. But where are the Faculty? Where are those calling out this blatant antisemitism? Crickets
Bari Weiss always hits the nail on the head . She truly deserves my 5$/ month!
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I am a Jew, and I will not remain silent on the horrific events happening in Israel. Pray for us, pray for Israel, and pray that justice will be served.
Bari, you are the sole reason we subscribe to FP. The courage you show leaving NYT and calling out people is what this country craves: Courage and Leadership, not complacency and obfuscation. You have a platform us cowboys from Wyoming do not possess. Fuckin’ use it and call out these coastal and DC elites.
That was definitely one of events that really made me follow her more than casually as well. I remain quite impressed with Bari and her lovely wife as well. We have some differences of course but I suspect that it would be a pleasant exchange of ideas and finding much common ground should I ever meet them by chance. We really need to encourage thinking like this IMO, too much vitriol and portraying the other as Satan at present.
It was never about social justice. It's always been about cosplay. Maybe, I'll be remember has an activist? These people were never progressives. These people were self absorbed nihilists with no moral compass or code of ethics.