As a card-carrying cautious optimist, I’m trying to seek out whatever tiny slivers of a silver lining that I can find in the aftermath of the horrific Hamas attack.
An obvious one is seeing the big brave leaders of Hamas all hiding in their mommy’s basements and begging for the “international community” (bah!) to save them. Within 4 days they went from beating their chests to peeing their robes, as the realization sets in that it may be a little tougher to face the Israeli military than it was to slaughter toddlers, oldsters and hipsters at a rave.
I hope that they’re all losing sleep and having a Yamamoto moment: “we’ve awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
A second silver lining is seeing blocks and blocks of Hamas infrastructure in Gaza being turned to rubble. That one causes mixed emotions, since I know that many kids are going to be suffering there because of the evil actions of their unspeakably terrible parents. But that’s inevitable: when horrible people do horrible things, their kids end up paying a horrible price.
Still, I’d like to get some “before” and “after” pics of the streets where rabid packs of jihadis were celebrating their cowardly crimes last Saturday and Sunday. I’d especially like to see the street where those freaks drove slowly along with the half-naked corpse of an Israeli woman in the back of a truck, with males (I won’t call them “men”) spitting on her.
I hope that that street today is nothing but rubble. And I hope that some of those spitters are partially beneath that rubble, and that their saliva has been replaced by concrete dust, and that they are slowly choking to death on it.
Okay, I got a little off track there. Let me try again.
Let’s see… cautious optimist… silver lining….
Oh, I got one! In America and abroad, the liars and the congenitally stupid have been revealing themselves in the aftermath of last weekend, and that’s useful. Too many among us have not recognized their true, vile nature, but they couldn’t help showing it to us this week.
All of the creepy anti-semitic student groups at Harvard went full Toobin, releasing a statement that solely blamed Israel (!) for the jihadicide on Saturday. And now many rich guys and influential employers are seeking out lists of everybody in those groups, so they can be sure not to hire them. Great!
The Democratic Socialists of America did the same, and a bunch of room-temp-IQ lefties are shocked – Shocked, they tells ya! – that they’ve been rubbing elbows with bigoted genocide enthusiasts.
My favorite was Sarah Silverman, the potty-mouthed and middling comedian who is dumb enough to admit that she was “a proud lifetime member” of the DSA and that she is still a democratic socialist, but smart enough to say, “[Friend] you and goodbye forever!” to the DSA.
It’s a start, I guess.
BLM has demonstrated their true colors (you’ll pardon the expression) once again, by claiming to recognize “clear parallels between Black and Palestinian (sic) people.”
To any sane black person, those should be fighting words, and a grave insult. But these morons are the same racist, anti-Semitic haters that they’ve always been. The blackness of their skin means nothing; the blackness of their hearts means everything.
Of course the members of the Squad have covered themselves in glory, too. I loved watching Rashida Tlaib run from a reporter asking if she had any comment about Hamas terrorists murdering babies. She wouldn’t comment about that, or about whether she has any second thoughts about the “Palestinian” flag at the door of her congressional office.
I wouldn’t have thought it possible, but Tlaib is as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside.
By the way, hat-tip to the Babylon Bee for two big stories it just broke:
1. Rashida Tlaib’s “Palestinian” flag just threw her Rainbow LGBTQ+ flag off the roof of the Capitol building, (HA!) and
2. A GoFundMe account has already raised $5 million to send the Squad to Gaza. (That’s a cause so worthy that I might even approve of tax dollars being used for it.)
Any silver linings aside, though, the most maddeningly stupid argument that the left has – and that we’ll surely be hearing more of in the coming weeks – is the accusation that Israel’s retaliation is morally equivalent to Hamas’ initial Satanic attack.
Two old sayings sum up the moral gulf between Israel and its jihadi opponents:
“If the ‘Palestinians’ put down their guns today, tomorrow there would be no more war. If the Israelis put down their guns today, tomorrow there would be no more Israel.”
And, in reference to the Hamas practice of using their own civilians and children as human shields:
“Israel uses missiles to protect their children, and ‘Palestinians’ use children to protect their missiles.”
The difference couldn’t be more stark; there is NO moral equivalence between terrorists and their supporters on one side, and Israel on the other.
Even in the far less fraught situation of a plain old physical fight, did none of these morons have fathers who taught them the basic rules of fights?
Sure, I was raised in the Midwest in the late 1800s. But by the time I went to school, I knew that while I wasn’t supposed to start a fight, if someone else threw the first punch, I was supposed to do my level best to throw the last one.
If you visited my town and saw some bully punch someone on the playground, and when his victim hit him back you had run up and lectured the second kid about how wrong he was to hit back, my entire community would have looked at you like you’d lost your freaking mind.
But the jackholes at Harvard – and Dearborn and Sydney and London and MSNBC and CNN and many in the Democrat party – don’t know what the fathers in every small town used to teach their sons by the time they were 5 years old.
But I don’t think those idiots are too old to learn that lesson. I’d love to see a few working-class males go to a leftist genocide rally, listen to one chorus of “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free,” and then walk up to bullhorn boy and spend about three minutes pummeling him. Just beat him like a rented mule, and finish the lesson by jamming the bullhorn in an orifice it isn’t intended for.
And when the crowd started screaming in outrage, the puncher could just hold up his hands and say, “Whoa, whoa! I call for an immediate ceasefire. This is the time for de-escalation. Hitting me would be the moral equivalent of me hitting him, and I know that we all agree that that is NEVER permissible. Now I’m going to grab a child – or a female with the least body odor in this herd of unfriendables – and hide behind her, and if any of you so much as give me some side-eye, I’m calling the cops and the EU forthwith!”
Even if I hadn’t had a great dad, I grew up in America, and I know how we’d react if we were in Israel’s position. If we had a border wall (and we freaking should!) and Mexico sent hordes of terrorists through that wall to rape, murder and kidnap our citizens, or fired rockets into our cities, how would we respond?
I refer you to a couple of former trouble spots called Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Mexico already has a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), but we’d introduce them to a new holiday called “Semana de los Muertos” (Week of the Dead), followed closely by “Mes de Combustion Ardiente” (Month of Smoldering), and then by “Siglo de Mexicanos Muy Dociles” (Century of Very Docile Mexicans).
In Florida, whenever we have a hurricane, we put plywood over our windows with spray paint saying, “You loot, we shoot!” And our governor (Man, I hope he is someday president!) and law enforcement supports us.
That’s right: we will shoot your worthless arse after bad weather events. And if you don’t go down at first – sometimes even if you do – we’ll shoot you a lot! And then we’ll let our canines play “fetch the looter ankle bone.”
If we do that to opportunistic thieves, what do you think we’d do to cowardly micro-phallused Hamas terrorists after what they did last weekend? (Hint: Cassie the Wonder Dog would have scraps of hang-glider and keffiyeh in her stool for a week!)
Okay, that’s it folks. That’s the closest I can get to a happy, “Keep on the Sunny Side” type of column today. Have a good weekend, pray for Israel, and remember…
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 
Try that in a small town! 🎶🎵🎸
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