Who says there’s no such thing as good news?
Since early October 2023, the deranged Palestinian political and military organization, Hamas, has been front and center in the news. Hamas is an acronym of its official name, the Islamic Resistance Movement, an organization governing the Gaza Strip of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, according to a variety of on-line sources.
Since history is no longer being taught in schools, by way of background, World War II was a conflict begun in Germany in 1939, continuing through 1945. After the armistice, the League of Nations – precursor to the feckless United Nations (UN) – decided the war-displaced European Jews needed a place to live.
The League of Nations, in 1948, decided that Palestine land was an appropriate place for the Jews to reside in peace. Regular minor incursions into Israel by Hamas, over the years, has kept tensions high. Missiles, ‘hit and run’ attacks with guns and explosives, and suicide assassins, directed at the Jewish state, has been dealt with – tolerated – until the last October 7th.
That was the infamous day Hamas summarily sent hundreds of missiles into Israel killing 1,200 mostly civilians. Innocent civilians, that is. Children, elderly men and women, young people at an outdoor concert and festival, all indiscriminately killed by Hamas.
Not being satisfied, Hamas soldiers physically entered Israel to further murder and capturing remaining Israelis, to include young women and babies, many of whom were raped. Please re-read the last sentence.
Those who weren’t killed were captured, being taken back into Palestine to be tortured and held as bargaining chits.
This mayhem was met with a strong response from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the form of rockets, missiles, tanks, ground troops, as well as air strikes. This show of force has been relentless, and justifiably so.
As if on cue, “news” organizations largely controlled by The Left have been using propaganda since the first IDF bullet was fired, claiming defenseless Palestinian civilians were being slaughtered for no good reason. And so it went.
Repeated lies about Israel randomly dispatching Arab children, cutting off food and water supplies, and preventing the repair of electrical lines, were quickly, regularly spread worldwide with glee.
Talk shows, podcasts, newspapers, and social media have been touting the pain and suffering of Palestinians at the hands of the IDF, with no end in sight, and always the same: Hamas did nothing to deserve the relentless counterattacks especially on such a fun-loving people.
But just as cockroaches run willy-nilly until the lights are turned-on, sickening diseases and awful things occur because of an inherent inability to destroy those guilty vermin.
Suddenly, organized protests, marches, even television appearances of otherwise “normal” celebrities have sprouted from virtually nowhere. Chanting racist slogans and hurtful messages, protesters of all races, sexes, and ages took the streets of major cities to express their hate of Israel and Jews, demanding they all be exterminated without mercy.
College pukes, Congressfolks, college professors, athletes, foreign nation heads, teachers, even the aforementioned inept UN have clearly laid their proverbial hand of cards on the table. Most of those anti-Semitic demonstrators were demanding not only a “pause” infighting by the IDF, but also intifada.
Intifada is an Arabic word meaning to “tremor” or “shake off” dirt from one’s sandals. Not exactly the love and peace we’ve been told the Arab and Muslim cultures expound. Remember September 11, 2001?
Proudly standing tall, usually while wearing smug grins, these Hamas supporters have been showing their bigoted, egotistic attitudes without concern or care of castigation from the people who pay their salaries, openly appearing before federal committees to answer some easy questions posed by Congress.
Appearing before Congress to share their thoughts about these current events were MIT President Sally Kornbluth, UPenn President Liz Magill, and Harvard President Claudine Gay – all of whom appear to be affirmative action hirees.
After several long hours of questioning about their professional positions regarding the clear antisemitism being demonstrated on their respective campus’, not one of the bunch could articulate – in a manner other than as a lawyer – that they condemned open disgust for and disdain at Jews.
Dancing around the questions from Congresswoman Elise Stefanik much like the late Fred Astaire famously performed, all three exercised their chicane skills in an attempt to appear to answer without answering – a move usually reserved for government employees appearing before House and Senate Committees.
All three scored poorly on their oral exams on December 5th, as not one of these over-educated lawyers were able to respond “yes” or “no” to questions concerning the condemnation of antisemitism on their respective campus’.
President Magill’s response to the anti-Jew rhetoric was a clever, “It is a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman.” I’ll bet it is.
Just as an aside, Magill’s annual salary was reported to be $1,200,000, plus benefits and perks, according to timesnownews.com.
But Magill had an epiphany several days later to voluntarily step down from her president’s position. That’s one job opening. Arrogant Claudine Gay and Sally Kornbluth appear as though they, too, may be on the platform awaiting their train for departure from academia. Our fingers are crossed.
That would create another two jobs that need filling. Perhaps this time they will be properly filled with qualified personnel other than those who are merely able to check the appropriate boxes. Compassion and humanity are two of the important checklist items.
