Posted on 06/06/2024 2:29:06 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
What makes someone instinctively defend a monster? I don’t mean a legal defense, to which everyone is entitled. Nor do I mean exonerating someone after the facts are known. I’m talking about instinctively defending a monster purely out of some inexplicable affinity with him.
That was the spectacle du jour on social media yesterday, when an official Israeli account posted a video of female soldiers as they were taken hostage. The Hamas terrorists taunt and salivate over the women, some of whom are bloodied from the attacks. There was nothing ambiguous about what the fatigue-clad barbarians meant or intended.
Nevertheless, a darkly pedantic argument ensued on Twitter/X. The Israeli account had mistranslated one of the words to suggest the terrorists were specifically pointing out which women were fertile. Hamas apologists took to social media to rain down approbation on the video and those who shared it. They suggested other parts of the video were mistranslated, and therefore that the whole scene was portrayed falsely.
To review: The scene they’re talking about is Hamas terrorists taking women hostage during an extremely bloody spree of murder and sexual violence. It was obviously not the case that this video showed anything other than monsters behaving monstrously. There is only one reaction to such a video that marks you as worthy of participating in society, and it is not, as the anti-Zionist twitter horde spat, “hey nobody said the word ‘pregnant,’ you hasbarists!”
Eventually, Palestinians who aren’t Hamasniks logged on to point out that in fact the terrorists were referring to the women essentially as sex slaves and were referencing Islamic scripture. If anything, then, the one modest translation error had underplayed how sick and twisted the Hamasniks’ words were.
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Dr.Wayne W. Dyer (New Age author) said: A crisis doesn’t make a person it reveals them. If you squeeze an orange you will get orange juice, or it’s a lemon you’ll get lemon juice, not anything else.
Old saying in the 1960s “Scratch a liberal and you’ll reveal a fascist.”
Stay safe my FRiend....
You are in harm’s way over there....
Safer here than in the US. IDF knows what to do, has done it, and will do it again.
I was looking at your tagline.
Is it your child that needs a glucose monitor?
“Revealed”? It only revealed the sickness to those too out-of-touch to have seen it when we created a civil right out of baby-killing and then created one for sodomy. And if that wasn’t enough to clue them in, perhaps they’ll remember the attempt to force people to get injected with an untested poison shot a couple years ago...
No, nephew of a friend of mine.
As Hitler did. Sadly, as we remember the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion on Normandy Beach, France, there were so many in the world who believed just as Hitler did. He was not an isolated, crazy man who duped Europe into supporting his war. He was representative of many in the world on that day. I believe that Sinwar and Hezbollah are no different than Hitler, and Iran, their benefactor, and many throughout the world wish to finish the job Hitler started.
Exposed to whom? Slow learners?
Trans rights, immigration flood, banning of firearms, unbalanced trade with the worlds most genocidal government (CCP)…most of us saw this 20 years ago.
Olympics of 1936 were in Berlin. Of course, back then there was not yet talk of genocide, just marginalization of the “undesirables”. But that was fine for the Olympic Committee.
“Hamas Has Exposed a Sickness in Western Society,”
If you stupidly allow immigration of a million Hamas supporters, don’t be surprized when they support Hamas.
Seeing Harvard and Columbia students tearing down posters with pictures of the captives just a few days after October 7, and before any major military operations in Gaza were on was a revelation to me, and I’ve known the reality of academic left-wing bias since my early youth, since my father was a left-wing professor. But tearing down those posters was a new, unforeseeable low. Composed and posted a parody song, which I can’t find just now, but will dig it up. Title: Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be Harv-tards.
No surprise there. Elite students, however, was a surprise.
Sage words.
Indeed. It appears to be far safer in Israel with the great IDF than in many parts of USA nowadays, especially many of the larger cities and urban areas.
Much mindless physical assault and threats are directed against innocent Jewish people in USA, not by many real Americans but usually by or led by Moslems that Biden has let into the country. the difference is that in USA there’s no IDF to protect Jews.
ALSO, there’s a great deal of violence in the larger society that is not specifically attacking Jews or Christians per se. But rather, attacking anybody and everybody. As illustrated perhaps by:
https://www.ktvu.com/news/construction-crew-abandons-repaving-job-over-safety-concerns-east-oakland
(PS: Oakland used to be a quite pleasant safe city with many amenities. SO very very sad to see just how far down the path to perdition it has gone)
The big cities used to be where people learned to get along with all sorts. Now DEI mayors are tying the hands of the police AND defunding them, so that lawlessness can reign supreme. It’s painful just to hear about it and watch videos. Once upon a time, Manhattan was my playground. No more. My youngest son wants to visit. I tried to discourage him, but he’s determined to see his older brother and re-visit the country of his birth. As far as I’m concerned, that country doesn’t exist anymore, although it can be revived, and I hope it is one day, and I would help out in any way that I can that doesn’t involve going back. He’s paying for his plane ticket. He’s over 21. I hope he comes back in one piece. My daughter is lost in the street life. Needless to say, I’m voting Trump.
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