Most of my parents’ parents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles died in the Holocaust. I grew up aggressively sensitive to antisemitism, never allowing it to go unanswered. Luckily, during my football days I was 6’4’ and weighed 250, but it was the principle of ‘Never Again’ that guided my words and actions.
Most of my parents’ parents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles died in the Holocaust. I grew up aggressively sensitive to antisemitism, never allowing it to go unanswered. Luckily, during my football days I was 6’4’ and weighed 250, but it was the principle of ‘Never Again’ that guided my words and actions.
I was involved with SDS and it chaotic, violent protests throughout the ‘60’s. My awakening came during the early ‘70’s. All my fellow ‘revolutionaries’ began supporting the ‘Palestinian freedom fighters’. These people are the ancestors of today’s democrats. It was a time when those terrorists were wantonly murdering Jews around the world. This caused me to step back and reassess.
Then came the ‘72 Olympics. Avery Brundage, a Hitler supporter from the ‘36 Olympics wanted another Munich setting. Providing little security for Israel, the terrorists murdered a number of the Israeli athletes and were allowed to fly away. The next day, Brundage continued the competition with hardly a hesitation, and democrats in the US were relatively silent.
While I did not trust Nixon, I left the democrats and eventually came to cast my ballot in 1980 for Mr Reagan.
The radicals have driven the democrat bus over the cliff of reason, propriety and objectivity. They are well on their way to becoming a terrorist organization.
Humanity has always searched for a scapegoat (the precept of Rene Girard) to divert attention from its evil and its failings. "It is not our fault, they made me do it." (This ignored the insight of Solzhenitsyn, The line between good and evil goes through the individual human heart). The Jews have been historically the most vulnerable and most frequently were "served up" by the then current elites to assuage their guilt.
Jerusalem and Athens are the political and intellectual foundations of the West. The lessons were learned and were successful.
However, currently the West has been crippled and compromised by Dostoyevski's precept, Without God everything is allowed. The West has no values. Concurrent with this, China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea have decided to fill the vacuum created and destroy the West, Europe and America.
Israel, contrary to historical context, has decided to say NO. How dare they. Aren't the Jews supposed to do our bidding and submit, as in the past.
Israel is the Churchill, while Europe and America are the Chamberlain, the latter crippled by a distorted world view, a situational ethics and "tolerance" approach, hoping against hope that all of this, the current Nazis, Iran, China, etc will go away. They will not. Confrontation is the only currency available. Heaven help us.
I too am a child of parents who survived Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto and other camps and ghettos but whose other family members were murdered for being Jewish. I had no one to celebrate holidays with but my parents and brother. My parents were damaged with PTSD (then not spoken of). But they loved America and Israel. I was against the Vietnam because I did not want my brother to go, it would have killed my parents again. I saw the democrats start to turn and heard the jargon on college campuses where I worked. DEI but not for Jews. Summer Lee seeing Harris' rejection of Shapiro as a "f..ing" victory is scary. Bowman, Omar, Bernie clearly Anti-semites cheering Walz because it was not Shapiro looks like the 1930s. My vote may not count in a blue state but my message will be all republican across the board. My pro-choice mindset be damned. My People and Israel come first.
Most of my parents’ parents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles died in the Holocaust. I grew up aggressively sensitive to antisemitism, never allowing it to go unanswered. Luckily, during my football days I was 6’4’ and weighed 250, but it was the principle of ‘Never Again’ that guided my words and actions.
I was involved with SDS and it chaotic, violent protests throughout the ‘60’s. My awakening came during the early ‘70’s. All my fellow ‘revolutionaries’ began supporting the ‘Palestinian freedom fighters’. These people are the ancestors of today’s democrats. It was a time when those terrorists were wantonly murdering Jews around the world. This caused me to step back and reassess.
Then came the ‘72 Olympics. Avery Brundage, a Hitler supporter from the ‘36 Olympics wanted another Munich setting. Providing little security for Israel, the terrorists murdered a number of the Israeli athletes and were allowed to fly away. The next day, Brundage continued the competition with hardly a hesitation, and democrats in the US were relatively silent.
While I did not trust Nixon, I left the democrats and eventually came to cast my ballot in 1980 for Mr Reagan.
The radicals have driven the democrat bus over the cliff of reason, propriety and objectivity. They are well on their way to becoming a terrorist organization.
Mr Scholl and C24:
Humanity has always searched for a scapegoat (the precept of Rene Girard) to divert attention from its evil and its failings. "It is not our fault, they made me do it." (This ignored the insight of Solzhenitsyn, The line between good and evil goes through the individual human heart). The Jews have been historically the most vulnerable and most frequently were "served up" by the then current elites to assuage their guilt.
Jerusalem and Athens are the political and intellectual foundations of the West. The lessons were learned and were successful.
However, currently the West has been crippled and compromised by Dostoyevski's precept, Without God everything is allowed. The West has no values. Concurrent with this, China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea have decided to fill the vacuum created and destroy the West, Europe and America.
Israel, contrary to historical context, has decided to say NO. How dare they. Aren't the Jews supposed to do our bidding and submit, as in the past.
Israel is the Churchill, while Europe and America are the Chamberlain, the latter crippled by a distorted world view, a situational ethics and "tolerance" approach, hoping against hope that all of this, the current Nazis, Iran, China, etc will go away. They will not. Confrontation is the only currency available. Heaven help us.
The West used to have values, we can have them again, but we must provide sanity to prevail. Very well composed response to Mr. Scholl and C24.
One of those values used to be respect for the results of elections.
Hopefully we can get back to that by rejecting politicians who don’t.
Thank you, I appreciate your framework for viewing the situation.
I too am a child of parents who survived Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto and other camps and ghettos but whose other family members were murdered for being Jewish. I had no one to celebrate holidays with but my parents and brother. My parents were damaged with PTSD (then not spoken of). But they loved America and Israel. I was against the Vietnam because I did not want my brother to go, it would have killed my parents again. I saw the democrats start to turn and heard the jargon on college campuses where I worked. DEI but not for Jews. Summer Lee seeing Harris' rejection of Shapiro as a "f..ing" victory is scary. Bowman, Omar, Bernie clearly Anti-semites cheering Walz because it was not Shapiro looks like the 1930s. My vote may not count in a blue state but my message will be all republican across the board. My pro-choice mindset be damned. My People and Israel come first.
Brundage was rotten.