Michael Ejercito
2024-09-02 15:37:53 UTC
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Well, I Guess I Feel a LITTLE Better Now That It’s Clear That a Lot of
Israelis Are As Ethically Clueless As So Many Americans…[Expanded]
September 2, 2024 / Jack Marshall
Over night, Israel’s largest labor union called for nationwide strike to
push for a hostage deal, threatening to shut down “the entire Israeli
economy” Tel Aviv’s international airport announced that it would halt
departures and arrivals of flights for two hours, and intense protests
have broken out in response to Israel’s military recovering the bodies
of six hostages killed in Gaza. The protesters say Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not done enough to protect the hostages.
To be blunt, the protesters are ethics dunces and morons….much like the
American students, Democrats, pundits and the Biden administration
trying to pressure Israel into a ruinous cease-fire with Hamas.
The head Ethics Dunce here is Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the
lone dissenter in the Israel Cabinet, who accuses the Israeli government
of prioritizing control of a key border area over a deal to free
hostages (who may be dead already). Calling Netanyahu’s course a “moral
disgrace” during a Cabinet meeting yesterday, Gallant warned his
colleagues, “If we continue on this path, we won’t manage to achieve the
goals that we set for ourselves. If we want the hostages alive, we don’t
have time. I was taught that we don’t leave the injured behind in the
field.”
That’s odd: I was taught that if you bargain with terrorists for
hostages, you ensure that more hostages will be taken, and validate
hostage-taking as a tactic. That happens to be true. There is only one
party at fault for the fate of any of the hostages, including those who
may have been killed by Israel’s bombing raids as the hostage takers
claim (and why wouldn’t you believe them, with their record of
truthfulness and integrity?). Hamas is 100% responsible, and no one
else. The terrorist leaders of Gaza took the hostages and placed them in
peril.
Allowing the fate of hostages to have any effect on Israel’s efforts to
purge the region of a deadly and ruthless terrorist organization that
has pledged to cause Israel’s destruction is logically, historically and
ethically indefensible, and yet that is what substantial numbers of
emotion-driven Israelis are protesting for, and worse, what the current
American government continues to try to force on Netanyahu.
Again: ethics dunces, fools and morons.
All of them.
Netanyahu may be corrupt, and he may need to be ejected from power
eventually and even jailed, but in this instance he is correct.
Meanwhile, Israel’s highest court has declared the strike illegal and
ordered that it cease. Good. Unfortunately, stupidity will never be
illegal. The CNN headline current up on its site should be an
embarrassment to protesters here and in Tel Aviv: “Israel Strikers and
Protester Demand Gaza Deal After 6 Hostages Killed.”
________________
ADDED: I just saw this reaction from my friend John Podhoretz:
“Had the Biden administration’s will not been bent and twisted in the
months following the attack by the fiendish propaganda campaign causing
them to worry about the war’s effect on Joe’s chances in Michigan—due to
a population that effectively supported the terrorist monsters and cared
not a whit for the eight Americans, let alone the 240 other innocents
dragged into Hell—would Hersh and these others have survived? Imagine an
Israel that had not found itself restrained and under assault, not told
to pause, not scolded in pissy little phone calls with petulant American
establishmentarians, without arms and aid held up, without being
lectured about the geostrategic value of going slow or not going at all.
Imagine an Israel that was not told by its best friend in the world that
offensive action in Gaza had become self-defeating, was not told that
Israel should care more about feeding people in Gaza than about
eliminating the threat to its 9 million citizens and pummelling Hamas
until that evil group of thugs cried uncle and begged for way to
negotiate to return the hostages.
Imagine an America that did not lose its nerve under a president whose
team knew perfectly well he was infirm and was working desperately to
stave off his eventual collapse and departure from the race to save
their own rotten and misbegotten jobs.”
To which you host responds, “Bingo.”
Well, I Guess I Feel a LITTLE Better Now That It’s Clear That a Lot of
Israelis Are As Ethically Clueless As So Many Americans…[Expanded]
September 2, 2024 / Jack Marshall
Over night, Israel’s largest labor union called for nationwide strike to
push for a hostage deal, threatening to shut down “the entire Israeli
economy” Tel Aviv’s international airport announced that it would halt
departures and arrivals of flights for two hours, and intense protests
have broken out in response to Israel’s military recovering the bodies
of six hostages killed in Gaza. The protesters say Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not done enough to protect the hostages.
To be blunt, the protesters are ethics dunces and morons….much like the
American students, Democrats, pundits and the Biden administration
trying to pressure Israel into a ruinous cease-fire with Hamas.
The head Ethics Dunce here is Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the
lone dissenter in the Israel Cabinet, who accuses the Israeli government
of prioritizing control of a key border area over a deal to free
hostages (who may be dead already). Calling Netanyahu’s course a “moral
disgrace” during a Cabinet meeting yesterday, Gallant warned his
colleagues, “If we continue on this path, we won’t manage to achieve the
goals that we set for ourselves. If we want the hostages alive, we don’t
have time. I was taught that we don’t leave the injured behind in the
field.”
That’s odd: I was taught that if you bargain with terrorists for
hostages, you ensure that more hostages will be taken, and validate
hostage-taking as a tactic. That happens to be true. There is only one
party at fault for the fate of any of the hostages, including those who
may have been killed by Israel’s bombing raids as the hostage takers
claim (and why wouldn’t you believe them, with their record of
truthfulness and integrity?). Hamas is 100% responsible, and no one
else. The terrorist leaders of Gaza took the hostages and placed them in
peril.
Allowing the fate of hostages to have any effect on Israel’s efforts to
purge the region of a deadly and ruthless terrorist organization that
has pledged to cause Israel’s destruction is logically, historically and
ethically indefensible, and yet that is what substantial numbers of
emotion-driven Israelis are protesting for, and worse, what the current
American government continues to try to force on Netanyahu.
Again: ethics dunces, fools and morons.
All of them.
Netanyahu may be corrupt, and he may need to be ejected from power
eventually and even jailed, but in this instance he is correct.
Meanwhile, Israel’s highest court has declared the strike illegal and
ordered that it cease. Good. Unfortunately, stupidity will never be
illegal. The CNN headline current up on its site should be an
embarrassment to protesters here and in Tel Aviv: “Israel Strikers and
Protester Demand Gaza Deal After 6 Hostages Killed.”
________________
ADDED: I just saw this reaction from my friend John Podhoretz:
“Had the Biden administration’s will not been bent and twisted in the
months following the attack by the fiendish propaganda campaign causing
them to worry about the war’s effect on Joe’s chances in Michigan—due to
a population that effectively supported the terrorist monsters and cared
not a whit for the eight Americans, let alone the 240 other innocents
dragged into Hell—would Hersh and these others have survived? Imagine an
Israel that had not found itself restrained and under assault, not told
to pause, not scolded in pissy little phone calls with petulant American
establishmentarians, without arms and aid held up, without being
lectured about the geostrategic value of going slow or not going at all.
Imagine an Israel that was not told by its best friend in the world that
offensive action in Gaza had become self-defeating, was not told that
Israel should care more about feeding people in Gaza than about
eliminating the threat to its 9 million citizens and pummelling Hamas
until that evil group of thugs cried uncle and begged for way to
negotiate to return the hostages.
Imagine an America that did not lose its nerve under a president whose
team knew perfectly well he was infirm and was working desperately to
stave off his eventual collapse and departure from the race to save
their own rotten and misbegotten jobs.”
To which you host responds, “Bingo.”