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Sunday, October 22, 2023

Living in the Past

 Let’s all climb aboard the WABAC Machine. If you’re unfamiliar with WABAC, it is an abbreviation for Wormhole Activating and Bridging Automatic Computer: a fictitious invention of cartoon inventor Dr. Peabody.


The WABAC was capable of transporting people to and fro historic periods in order to provide background to stories of yore that were pertinent to today, sort of a time machine.


Entering the WABAC and setting the date for 2017, we quickly approach a time when women and men both rallied around a concerted effort to chastise and harangue a very successful film producer, Harvey Weinstein, whose 38-year long career suddenly stopped due to allegations of sexual harassment.


It seems as though Weinstein was so successful with his movies, his approach to casting for them was deemed coercive, to the point of being criminal according to the legal system.


Long-time actresses who gleefully starred in his films during those four-decades suddenly felt the need to exit the proverbial ‘closet of shame,’ to share their stories about how Weinstein used them for his own desires, climbing onto the sexual abuse bandwagon to exact revenge as well as see justice served.


This concerted effort was all part of something called the “Me Too” movement, “a global, survivor-led movement against sexual violence, we are dedicated to creating pathways for healing, justice, action and leadership,” states metoomvmt.org.


Soon, airwaves of radio and television, as well as the internet, were flooded with complaints by women who refused to be left out of this groundswell directed toward a therapeutic conclusion of a longstanding, often ignored newly discovered problem: the mistreatment of women by powerful men.


Weinstein, as of this writing, is serving prison time in California, to be followed by his sentence in New York State for sexual abuse charges.


As is evident, the WABAC machine has thus far served us well. Now to the present.


In early October 2023, Hamas attacked – without warning – its neighbor, Israel.


By way of background, Hamas is a terrorist organization, officially the Islamic Resistance Movement, in the Gaza Strip of the Palestinian territories.


Climbing back into the WABAC, Hamas was formed in 1987 at the start of the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, against Israel. It is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Sunni Islamist group that first formed in Egypt. It rejects any peace deal with Israel, which it refuses to recognize.


Throughout the following decades, Hamas has wreaked havoc upon innocent civilians by indiscriminately bombing, shooting, stabbing, and lobbing missiles into Israel largely due to their hate for anyone related to Judaism as well as those non-Islam believers: infidels.

Hamas exercise in peace


Exiting the WABAC, we hear constant air raid sirens in the background of the on-the-ground TV reporters currently broadcasting the mayhem Hamas is creating in the Middle East against Israel. Those reporters are wearing flak jackets and helmets to protect themselves from shrapnel – the result of Hamas’ rockets targeting Israel.


Part of those early news reports have been centered around the absolute horror inflicted upon the innocent Israeli populace. Reports of kidnappings to acquire hostages, a bombing of an outdoor concert, snatching babies to later behead them, and cutting infants from the wombs of pregnant women are examples of the unthinkable horror being exhibited on Israeli Jews.


There appears to be no end in sight to this clear exertion of terror.


But here’s the rub.


All those women who stood loudly and proudly against a movie mogul who traded sex for roles cheered while they safely pointed fingers of blame at Harvey Weinstein, and continue to do so until today, albeit safely, are nowhere to be found.


Yet, no one from that global Me Too group is rallying against Hamas and its ardent attempt at genocide of women.


Rather, college-aged women, television news readers, even the deranged Congressional Squad members: AOC, Tlaib, Omar, and Pressley, are actually siding with Hamas and its antics of sordid killings and hate. College and university personnel are publicly siding with greasy Hamas, too.


Clearly these phony “women’s rights” supporters are showing their true allegiances by standing with sub-humans who are inflicting atrocities on innocent people while picking the low-hanging fruit of notoriety.


It’s time to make note of whose side on which everyone is gathering. And all those standing with the guilty side of this incursion should be permanently marked for exclusion in any job, housing, or other societal inclusion because of their clearly demonstrated bigotry that isn’t tolerated elsewhere in civil order.


You cannot stand for peace and simultaneously back Hamas and Palestine. But I’m afraid this is not the end, rather it is only the beginning.