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| Used as a tool of Hamas... |
"As Victor Davis Hanson recently pointed out again in a recent podcast, the war in Vietnam was lost in the politics in America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Despite decades of evidence that Communist victory results in death, immiseration, and the forced flight of millions, Americans had wide-spread optimism that a new age of democracy and peace would dawn, the impatiently awaited Aquarian Age.
"The waves of boat people who chose to throw themselves on the mercy of the seas rather than stay under their new overlords changed my own mind about the war that I had opposed.
"Those who, like the Communists, worship at the altar of power, learned a different lesson: in a conflict with Western democracy, a superior military can be overcome by astute manipulation of the democratic politics.
"The Vietnam War was also the time when what we now call the Palestinian cause was adopted by the Soviets as their own. We exited the Vietnam War into the chaos of the energy crisis and oil boycott, the rough wake of the Yom Kippur War. This was the beginning of the spawning of the Left’s OmniCause—all of their disparate issues rolled into one juggernaut designed to roll over and crush any discussion or debate on the whole agenda.
"Most of those Arab states that took part in the oil embargo are no longer supporting the goal of pushing the Jews into the sea. A growing number have made peace with Israel or are planning it, and feel free to explore the merits of peaceful, even cooperative, relations.
"However, among those who remain enamored with the idol violent power — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, et al, have upped their proficiency in the art of manipulating the democracies to their advantage. Over the years of the Hamas regime, every Israeli response to their endless attacks has resulted in the emission of a frothy bilge of false data, manipulated and mislabeled photos, and major staged melodramas, all aimed at dominating Western media. And as the devotees of OmniCause have a hand on the controls of major swaths of Western culture, the fabrications are given all the sophisticated packaging that modern media are capable of. They sell these repackaged crude lies as debate-ending Powerful Truths.
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| ...just like simple Greta |
"The particular photo at the head of the Times article was speedily revealed as anything but shut-up proof of Israeli-run starvation. Aside from the fact that the family members shown in the photo showed no signs of starvation, it turns out the child was dealing with a tragic disease, information easily available for those vaguely interested, if not in the whole truth, at least of maintaining the appearance of objectivity. This was so egregious that it forced the Times to make a public retraction, albeit late and minimalist. Sadly, it gives no evidence of rethinking of the Times’ long-established role as an eager purveyor of the lies of the Destroy Israel front." . . .
Meanwhile in America....
