I guess I tempted fate by posting recently that the Islamic extremists in the world are greatly diminished. This may or may not be the actual case, but as we all know now - there was a horrific assault on Israel from hamas last weekend, on a scale not seen since the last Arab-Israeli wars. It was spearheaded with the terrorizing of civilians on a level of horror not seen since the Holocaust itself.
Innocent men, women and children slaughtered. Their bodies defiled, mutilated. Women raped mercilessly in front of their pleading or already dead families. Children and infants, killed, tortured, abducted - terrorized relentlessly.
Abject Evil. Captured on camera and broadcast to the world by the perpetrators themselves.
Over a thousand civilians dead and still rising. Just as many if not more missing and likely kidnapped. The entire country on edge and ready to fight back.
It was truly Israel's 9-11.
And yet, as purely evil as this all was and is - my heart is heaviest not because of these heinous acts.
I know hamas and their contemporaries are evil. I've known this all of my adult life. Although I was hopeful that the days of terror on this scale were in the past, I've always known that they could return. Evil will always exist and evil will always exercise it's worst impulses. This savage incursion was a bit of a shock and surprise, as there was a massive intelligence failure that didn't foresee it happening - but that it did happen is in the end, not a surprise at all.
It was, in hindsight, inevitable, and really if anything is surprising it's that this kind of thing took so long.
So what I am saddest about, in fact, relates to my last post. My heart of course breaks for those actually attacked and suffering - but my heart is also hurting because of the indifference of good people in the United States, and also because of the open hostility of not so good people among us as well.'
First, the indifferent.
In a way, these folks are the worst of all. People who hate Jews, or people who are so brainwashed that they believe that the crime of Israel existing justifies decapitating babies - those people, like the terrorists themselves, are too far gone and not really worth spending energy on.
The indifferent, the silent and the shoulder shruggers - those hurt the most. Especially the Jewish ones. I have several life long Jewish friends who will post every leftist idiocy, from a sanctimonious black square in their profile picture to praise the grift that is BLM to the smarmiest mask/vaccine shaming meme you can imagine. And yet, when their spiritual homeland is brutalized, they go radio silent.
It's bizarre. It's baffling to me.
This goy is proud to change his profile to the Star of David. I am morally compelled to speak out and raise my voice in support of the Jewish people and the country of Israel in light of what has happened. I repeat myself - the deadliest day in the history of the Jewish people since the holocaust itself.
It just makes me sad and makes me doubt the faith and hope that has long burned brightly in my heart. Hopefully the deafening silence that I am getting is more of a product of social media fatigue than anything else. But it's tough to believe that sometimes, when I still see other very recent posts about frivolities or worse, leftist causes. If you're going to be part of the online community, you need to say something when your community of faith is in the cross hairs.
Second, the hostile.
I really have no time or patience for my fellow Americans who, at the first sight of dead Israelis on the news proceed to lecture me about historical context. They can all to a one, fuck right off.
I don't care if Israel hasn't always been the best to the Palestinians. I don't care what perceived injustices are being used to justify the brutality of last Saturday's incursion. I really don't want to hear it.
Decapitated babies. Fuck right off.
Still, it does hurt that people who I have grown up with in the United States, seemingly have no intellectual capacity to understand what it's like to live surrounded by enemies who frequently say out loud that they hate you and want you exterminated. I for one grasp this, and I also understand that often the Israelis hate the Palestinians right back.
But Israelis don't do what the Palestinians did last weekend. They just don't.
That's enough for me.
I don't need a history lesson, I don't need "historical context". I need you to get on the side that doesn't butcher babies, rape women and mutilate corpses. Full stop.
If you're going to wave a Palestinian flag and set off fireworks to celebrate depravity, you are not my friend. You are my enemy and you need to stay away from me.
That's all I need to say about that.
But if you're torn, on the fence, unsure - then you need to get with it and get correct pretty quickly. I'm not here to try and convince you, I'm not here to hold your hand and have dialogue or discussion. That time has passed.
The time for talk ended when your side decided to systematically rape women and then parade them around, bleeding from the front and back.
It ended when your side killed an older sister in front of her two siblings and then put their reactions on social media.
It ended when your side decided to slaughter hundreds of teenagers at a music festival.
It ended when your side kidnapped women and children and then dragged them back to Gaza to use them as human shields.
I'm finished trying to convince and explain. The time to pick a side is now. I am standing with the side of liberty and compassion, opposite the side of tyranny and brutality. I hope you will stand with me and Israel.
And I hope if you are indifferent, you will drop that apathy and embrace empathy and also realize that what hamas is delivering to Israel is precisely what many on the radical left want to deliver to the United States. You can bury your head in the sand, but that won't stop the demon that's on it's way.
The time to speak up and speak out is now, if we wait in silence for too long - it will be way too late.
