The Rap Against Israel

Israel’s will to live continues on a collision course with those seeking her destruction.

The Defense Ministry this week set in motion a plan to study the feasibility of the development of 70 outposts, which are essentially budding Israeli communities. This activity has been allowed by various Likud governments since 1977. Ariel Sharon played a major role in the development of Judea and Samaria as a home for Jews.

This will receive a severe rebuke from European and Arab governments. Some of us in the West have allowed evil to flourish for the past 25 years (in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict) because we’ve been too soft on those seeking Israel’s destruction.

My friend Brian Schrauger is currently in Europe and has written poignantly of the rise of anti-Semitism, to pre-World War 2 levels.

I include in the list of those seeking Israel’s destruction the various Western media, political, and religious figures who appear to be more reasonable than, say, Hamas. Some are clueless dupes, some are more nefarious.

Add to the list the rapper Vic Mensa, who has just returned from a visit to “Palestine,” where he condemned alleged Israeli abuses of Palestinians. He drew the now infamous parallel of the treatment of blacks in America during the Civil Rights era. Of course, Mensa, clearly not a student of history, compared it to Chicago:

“It’s as if the South Side of Chicago’s most forgotten and disenfranchised neighborhoods were separated from the luxury of Downtown’s Gold Coast by a simple concrete wall.”

He refers to the security fence built by Israel to stop the murder of Jews. The fence has been very effective.

The Dream Defenders, a radical group, sponsored Mensa’s trip. Among the board members of DD are radical leftists Angela Davis and Linda Sarsour.

A Jerusalem Post report highlighted Mensa’s op-ed in TIME:

“The rapper, whose new music video for his song ‘We Could Be Free’ features footage of the West Bank, admits to not having a full understanding of the conflict. ‘The blood on both sides runs deep. I do not pretend to be familiar with every nuance of the longstanding turmoil that engulfs Israel and Palestine; it is no doubt as aged and tangled as the family trees ripped apart by its brutality. I can only speak to the experiences I had there,’ he writes.

“He professes his horror at Palestinian boys facing a mandatory minimum sentence of four years in prison for throwing stones, for example, without mentioning the deaths of Israeli adults and children in some of those attacks.

“’As with the black community in the US, the use of incarceration, racial profiling and targeting the youth as methods of control are heavily prevalent in the occupied West Bank. The main difference I see between our oppression in America and that of Palestinians is how overt and shameless the face of discrimination is in the occupied West Bank,’ Mensa also wrote.”

No kidding Mensa isn’t familiar with the conflict, but rather is regurgitating propaganda he’s heard from Left wing groups and individuals.
And the comparison of Israel’s security fence with Chicago’s South Side—a cauldron of violence and crime for more than 100 years—is equally lame. No one in Chicago is dedicated to the extermination of an entire people, as the Palestinians have wed themselves to in an attempt to rid the Middle East of Jews.

Mensa—his name is ironic—is but another American left wing activist. He is no different from so many in the Evangelical leadership community.

(In fact, a number of them this week pandered to minorities by writing op-eds and blogs championing Martin Luther King; they are also very close to groups like Black Lives Matters that demonize Israel and use the false corollaries Mensa has regurgitated. Wonder how they’d handle knowing that MLK spoke glowingly of Israel?)

As we often note here, we live in a remarkable moment in history, one in which it feels that the train is about to pull into the station. On the one hand, we have an Israeli government that understands it is morally legitimate to allow Jews to live in their ancestral homeland. And on the other hand, we must listen to the moral piety of Western dupes, who enable monstrous ideologies to flourish and threaten Israel.

jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

 

The Mummy

In a world full of problems, a major one is the failure of too many to understand what Islam is, in terms of its aggression.

One could say we can’t get away from it.

I love old movies, and recently watched the 1932 version of “The Mummy,” starring Boris Karloff. The female character, Helen Grosvenor, remarks at one point that she longs for the “real” Egypt, meaning Classical Egypt. In other words, not the Islamic Egypt. Remember, this film was made in 1932, before the rise of modern Islam’s terror agenda.

Yet critic Caroline T. Schroeder saw it as a dig at Islamic culture!

Wow.

This “dhimmi” mentality is literally killing Europe and spreading everywhere. Dhimmitude is the mindset of those who are afraid of crossing Muslim authorities. Whether that be Palestinians in Bethlehem, or diplomats in Brussels, a dhimmi is under the authority of Islam. In Islamic societies, this often includes a tax.

It is Islam’s way of asserting itself over those it labels as infidels.

Only a few cultures fight this aggression: the U.S. and Israel primarily. Unfortunately, we do not fight it strongly enough. One of the indications that we were entering a long war came when George W. Bush insisted that Islam is a “religion of peace.”

This of course is a complete inversion of the truth. Whether Bush knew that or knows it now is debatable. What is clear is that he was “gotten to” by Muslim apologists.

Israel is perhaps the only culture that comes closest to resisting in a way that keeps the terror jackals at bay.

In 2017, 20 Israelis were murdered by terrorists, while 169 were injured. Frankly, I don’t believe the global community cares (though there will be a reckoning one day). But this is a grotesque look at the mayhem committed by followers of “Allah.”

Further, the Palestinian Authority paid-out $350 million to these animals. The PA has always been what it was once called, the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). It is a gang of criminals. One propped-up by the West.

In all this, Israel wages war every day against an enemy that started the war.

Also, Benjamin Netanyahu said this week that Israeli intelligence had thwarted numerous terror attacks in Europe, including airline bombings. It is ironic that European capitals constantly sell-out Israel, in an attempt to curry favor with Islamic regimes, including Iran. Or maybe it isn’t ironic.

One could make the claim that there is a dhimmi mentality among even European heads-of-state, in various ways.

According to a report from the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center:

“On January 2, Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, said in a  phone conversation with the French President, Emanuel Macron, that Iran’s presence in Iraq and in Syria is in accordance with  the  official  requests of the governments of  the two countries and its goal is to combat terrorism. He asserted that it is clear to everyone today that Iran’s efforts  and its assistance led to the eradication of ISIS in the region (Fars, January 2, 2018).”

Rouhani is telling Macron how it is. In the context of Iran’s agenda. Macron will not resist. Notice this at the same time France and the UK are being taken over by Islamists.

Meanwhile, police in Vienna are pursuing charges against pro Israel activists for…waving an Israeli flag during a rally! This is one more of the countless examples of the effects of appeasing Islam. While it is certainly an example of anti-Semitism, it is not unreasonable to say that it is also a way to pacify Islam.

Dhimmi.

In a certain sense, Islam is the Undead, a malevolent, destructive force that seeks its own agenda, even if that means death or others. It isn’t hard to predict that Islam will continue to bully a quivering international community.

And Israel will continue to resist.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com