His anger is not justified. His anger is morally perverse and more than slightly stupid. It is an actor trying to play the part of the angrily prophetic “good jew”, to win approving applause from Israel’s enemies.
Here is the plain truth: If Hamas were to surrender and return the hostages, the war would end immediately. But Hamas has not surrendered, and they still hold hostages.
Hamas only wants Israel to stop fighting only to enable it to recover, rebuild and make more attempts to annihilate Israel, or at least punish its citizens for the crime of existing. It doesn’t even pretend otherwise, and it doesn’t have to, thanks to the moral bankruptsy of Progressivism.
Now I’m going to challenge you to think critically for yourself instead of passively accepting the “critical thinking” narrative you’re being fed by your trusted sources. What made enemies of the Jewish people so evil and despicable was NOT that they fought the Jews until they were defeated and unable to fight back. That is simply fighting a war to victory. If you recall, this also describes how the Allies fought in WWII. They didn’t make peace with the Germans and Japanese once they were temporarily unable to continue their plans to dominate the world. No! — the Allies demanded unconditional surrender. That is what Israel is doing, and it is what they SHOULD be doing.
Here is really what made the enemies of the Jewish people so evil and so despicable: The Nazis and the like attacked peaceful Jews who were not fighting them. They wanted the Jews to no longer exist.
And this, of course, describes Hamas, not Israel.
I suggest that playing the part of the good Jew should be the opposite of what this silly “angry prophet” wannabe is doing.Being a good Jew is to insist that people stop attacking Israelis and to insist that they live in real peace — with no long term plans whatsoever to annihilate Israel.
Is that really so unreasonable?
Sadly, the sacrifice demanded at the altar of Progressivism’s golden calf is reason itself. One must conform to the attitudes and feelings and beliefs dictated by the editorial staff of whatever overclass propaganda vehicle one subscribes to — the less reasonable the better. The tastiest sacrifice of all, though, is Jewish self-respect.
Antisemites always find reasons to have the attitudes they’re going to have, anyway. They blame everything on Jews, so it should come as no surprise that their own antisemitism is also the Jews’ fault.
But wow — it really helps their case when “the good Jews” agree with them. Progressivist loudmouths keep throwing that in my face when they insist that “antizionism is not antisemitism.” They know Jews who hate Israel and who agree with them about everything, so clearly this has nothing at all to do with Jewishness.
Of course Progressivists are unprincipled to the core, and don’t remember all that stuff they said in the BLM days about internalized racism of black police officers who did a lot of the violence they decried as racist. Nor do they remember all their claims about the impossibility of overcoming 400 years of racism. They’ve somehow magically removed 2000 years of antisemitism without even trying, and they know they are not antisemitic, because they don’t feel antisemitic.
One logic applies to them and another to everyone else. When it comes to progressivists, there is one principle and one principle alone : Progressivists, and Progressivists alone, decide everything, arbitrarily, in accordance with their momentary whim, and nothing anyone else says matters.
Progressivism has been betraying liberalism for years, and now it is betraying the Jewish people. Every time I think Progressivism has hit bottom it finds new lows.