October 7th
One Year Later
This is not a good day and I will keep it uncharacteristically short.
It has been a year since the October 7th massacre by the Palestinian terrorists.
Yes, I said Palestinian terrorists. There is this whole narrative promoted by the uninformed politicians in the West, who have looked at the map of the Middle East for five minutes once, that there is some sort of a mythical majority of innocent Palestinians held hostage by Hamas.
All available data suggest that a strong majority of Palestinian society both in Gaza and in West Bank supported Hamas before the atrocities of October 7th. Hamas’ popularity went up AFTER the atrocities of October 7th. Are there innocents there? Yes, but they are a significant minority. Depending on who does the polling, support for Hamas is somewhere between 70% and 80% among the Palestinians.
That’s probably not as high as among the humanities students at Harvard and Columbia, but still atrociously high.
On October 7th, while Hamas terrorists initiated the invasion of southern Israel, rank and file Palestinians quickly joined the fray. A lot of the rape, murder and pillaging at the local Kibbutzim was committed by the “innocent” Palestinians. Never forget that. I assuredly will not.
That kicked of what became a shooting war between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran. No, not between Israel and Hamas or Israel and Hizballah. The military confrontation is between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The bigger war is between the modernity of the Western World and the barbarity of the Fundamentalist Islamic World.
Again, note that I did not say Iran. I said Islamic Republic of Iran. Unlike the situation with Palestinian Arabs, somewhere between 70 % and 80% of rank and file Iranians do not want to have anything to do with the mullahs who took over their country in 1979.
Iran went back to the 8th century governance when Jimmy Carter was President. Islamic Republic got immeasurably stronger with pro-active assistance from America-hating Obama administration and Biden administration.
Keep that in mind when you vote.
Before I let you be, here is a very good article from Niall Ferguson. We do not teach history in this country any more. Maybe we should hire Niall Ferguson and Ayan Hirsi Ali to rework the humanities curriculum…
