The American Spectator As the subtitle of Murray’s new book suggests, our response to the cult of death will determine the future not just of Israel but of civilization itself.
"And it’s a close thing here, too. For murder has come to our shores, sponsored by a treacherous academic culture of hatred and of politicians building careers on that hatred. It’s not hard to imagine Ross Barnett, the Talmadge's, and all those who got and kept power by the subjection of an entire race, smiling and applauding from their graves."
"I let thoughts percolate and events develop before writing each week. This week, there were so many ideas coming forward that it was at first difficult to choose. But three things came together to point me in the direction that these words follow today.The first event was purchasing a new book. I had just heard Douglas Murray and Jordan Peterson talk for close to two hours about Murray’s new book, On Democracies and Death Cults, which I rushed to order.
"Murray is a Churchillian voice calling us to the defense of a civilization that is under deadly assault. We need Churchillian voices to rouse us from our opioid slumber.
"For Hitler and his gang were not cemented into place as the apotheosis of tyrannical evil. In his day, many in the West thought him onto something and that those who immediately opposed Nazism, such as Fiorello LaGuardia, and slightly later, Churchill, political opportunists engaged in dangerous warmongering. Even as the extent of Hitler’s aggressive malignancy became more apparent, Britain and France were loath to resist. Lord Halifax, whose political clout in Britain briefly rivaled Churchill’s, was looking to make a craven peace with Hitler even after Churchill had taken the reins in 1940. It was a very close thing.
"Around the world, many influential people pooh-poohed the danger he and his movement posed. So it was in America as well. Henry Ford sent the Nazis money when they were just getting started, and he accepted a gaudy medal from the German ambassador in July 1938, when Jews had already been evicted from professions, schools, and political rights, Dachau had been up and running for five years, the Rhineland had been reoccupied in violation of treaty, Hitler ended Austria’s independence, and Czechoslovakia was being threatened and was to be entirely swallowed up itself within a year. Even after Hitler had invaded Poland to start World War II, Charles Lindbergh, America’s darling after his pioneering trans-Atlantic solo flight, told Americans, “These wars in Europe are not wars in which our civilization is defending itself against some Asiatic intruder. There is no Genghis Khan nor Xerxes marching against our Western nations.”
"It is even more fashionable in today’s Europe and in woke America to embrace the cause of Hitler’s heirs in the Middle East. As pusillanimous as Chamberlain, and as casually disdainful of Jews, Britain, France, et al., have never missed a chance to oppose Israel’s efforts to end forever the existential threat everyone knows Hamas, Hezbollah, et al., pose to the Jewish state — and, as with Hitler, to Jews everywhere." . . .
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