Comments on: UPDATED (1/12): NEW ESSAY: Memory & Indictment: Today’s Jewish Taliban Not The Israel I Grew Up In

By: Chris Condon

Chris Condon — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:41:10 +0000

The Israeli Government claims Israel has the right to defend itself. But if defending Israel means obliterating entire portions of the Near East, that is an admission that creating the nation of Israel was a mistake.

By: Chris Condon

Chris Condon — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:30:16 +0000

In order to defend itself, Israel seems to have demolished the Gaza Strip. When the war is finally over, will there be anything left for the displaced Palestinians to go back to? If not, could they move to some other part of the world? If so, where?

By: G*D

G*D — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 05:33:43 +0000

But Ilana, you Jews have openly claimed for thousands of years that you consider your selves to be not only your “G*d’s Chosen” little helpers, but also literally “as gods” your selves, while we, as your racial “national” goyim enemy rivals are but literal beasts in human form, created to serve as your slaves, sex toys and even as your food – according to your Talmud. So, given that sort of in-group racial supremacism and your equally well-documented Bibilcally-Commanded imperialist/colonialist tendencies to wipe out “every man woman and infant” within the territories you Jews want to claim for your own, how can any of this latest obscenity be at all surprising to you? Judaism itself only exists to declare the supremacy of the Jewish race over all others (“Judah Uber Alles”) and that Israel (or “Zion”) is not only the apple of your G*d’s eye but also the center of the entire Created Universe itself. Given that level of criminal hypocrisy, where no matter what the real-world objective “Do Not Attack First/Who Started It?” cause-and-effect moral sequences are, you Jews subjectively hold your selves as having the responsibility-free right to be, the if not always right at least never wrong righteously heroic equally helpless fellow victims, and any and everyone who refuses to Submit! to that obvious lie, is your wrongfully villainous oppressors, thereby entitled to have no right to defend them selves from your lies, but only deserving of submitting to the responsibility to become and remain your slaves sex toys and food forever! In short, literally by self-definition, you Jews and your are self-defined by your own Judaic creed as natural criminal HEBOCRITES. And just as all criminals are obviously hypocrites, it’s equally true that all hypocrites are criminals, too. Just like any Muslim who remains a “Muslim” implicitly accepts that they are willing to remain a specific proponent who endorses and re-[resents the general violent threat Islam itself presents, any racial Hebrew who remains as self-identified “Jew” also at least tacitly endorses the threat Judaism presents!

By: Hugo Miller

Hugo Miller — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:52:35 +0000

Israel is facing an existential threat from Hamas. Israel is dealing with this threat her way and being much criticised for so doing.
But I have yet to see, among all the condemnation of what Israel IS doing, any constructive suggestion of what she SHOULD BE doing.
I am instinctively pro-Israel, but many commentators whom I greatly admire take the contrary viewpoint.

By: Amphibian

Amphibian — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:38:53 +0000

A very powerful article indeed. Even by Ilana Mercer’s usual criteria.

My own ignorance of Israel is more or less complete. I’ve never visited it; I’ve never particularly wanted to visit it; I’m not Jewish; and perhaps most important of all, I can’t speak a word of Hebrew. This last factor means that whatever signs of Israeli dissidence are left (Haaretz might contain some still) must be filtered to me through the conduit of translation.

Nevertheless I’d like to think that I can recognize mass-murdering rage when I see it, and I strongly suspect that 99% of my contemporaries in the intelligentsia simply lack this basic gift. For the same reason that Orwell, in 1940, identified when writing about Dickens.

Here’s what Orwell had to say on the topic. (The “Acland” to whom he refers was Sir Richard Acland, who enjoyed a fleeting but nationwide fame during World War II as an independent British politician.)

“I think that because his [Dickens’s] moral sense was sound he would have been able to find his bearing in any political or economic milieu. So I think would most Victorians. The thing that frightens me about the modern intelligentsia is their inability to see that human society must be based on common decency, whatever the political and economic forms may be. Acland is apparently incapable of seeing that there is something wrong with the present Russian regime. Private property has been abolished, therefore (so he argues) everything must be more or less right. This seems to me to indicate the lack of moral nose. Dickens, without the slightest understanding of socialism, etc., would have seen at a glance that there is something wrong with a regime that needs a pyramid of corpses every few years.”

“A pyramid of corpses every few years.” No doubt, Netanyahu is delighted at that vista before him. Count me out.

By: Realist

Realist — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 12:25:47 +0000

Ilana, thanks for your perspective, I always look forward to it.