We’re starting our Thanksgiving early this time around. Katie and her husband Ryan flew in to south Florida several days ago, and they’ve been visiting with his family there. They’re coming here tomorrow, and then our youngest will get home from school on Wednesday, and we’ll have our Thanksgiving a day early, because Katie has to fly back to Denver on Thanksgiving day.
We appreciate the chance to be together for this holiday, even if it takes some schedule-juggling to do it. I hope that you all have a great holiday too!
Today I’m going back through some stories that fell through the cracks for me in the last week or two.
First up, several developments in the “Israel responds to 10/7 genocidal attack” story, in descending order of grimness:
You’ve probably seen the poll asking “Palestinians” in both the West Bank and Gaza how they feel about Hamas and the 10/7 attacks. (It was conducted by a group called “Arab World for Research and Development,” for what it’s worth.)
If you believe the MSM and leftist line about Gaza, you’re probably breathing through your mouth, and following along with this column using your finger on the screen, while you slowly mispronounce each word out loud. But that’s not relevant right now.
What is relevant is that if you believe the MSM and the leftist line about Gaza, you think that Gaza is full of innocent, vaguely Amish/Sunni pacifists who hate Hamas, and who only want to live freely with their Jewish neighbors in harmony and brotherly love.
If that’s you, prepare for a rib kick of reality, followed by a groin kick of truth, and then an uppercut of “what the hell were you thinking?”
Because it turns out that 76% of “Palestinians” view Hamas positively, and 75% view the 10/7 attacks positively.
You may be thinking that polls are often unreliable, and that their results can be skewed by the way they are worded, and I’m right there with you. And the question about the 10/7 attacks was not worded along the lines of, “How much do you support the brutal attack on babies, the elderly and hippie chicks by the cowardly goat-molesting Hamas terrorists?”
(By the way: fact check true.)
That might have driven the positive responses down a bit. Especially when you consider that the question was actually biased in the opposite direction. Here is the exact wording, which I am not making up: “How much do you support the military operation carried out by the Palestinian resistance led by Hamas on October 7th?”
They’re not terrorists, they’re “the resistance,” and they carried out a “military operation.”
You know, like when Napoleon led a cavalry charge through a nursing home, sabre-ing off the seniors’ heads, or when Hannibal ran his elephants through a maternity ward, or when American airborne troops dropped behind Nazi lines on D-Day and then raped and murdered their way through a crowd of German girls dancing at a rave to the irritating “music” of Kraftwerk.
So sure, maybe the dishonestly positive phrasing bumped the positive responses up a few points. But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that around three-quarters of Gazans are more like the ghouls who desecrated the bodies of murdered Jews in their street celebrations on 10/7, than like the peace-loving “oppressed” of the leftist imagination.
It’s very hard to do what’s necessary in war when you don’t recognize the nature of your enemy. Fortunately, most Israelis recognize the malicious pathologies of the Gazans, and they’re doing what it takes to wipe out Hamas.
Which is the best path forward for teaching average Gazans how to recognize and reject those pathologies. So I wish them Godspeed.
Meanwhile, in LA, a group of Hamas enthusiasts did not react well when Jewish actress Gal Gadot screened a 43-minute film compiled from footage recorded by Hamas terrorists and their Israeli victims and witnesses on 10/7.
Those protesting the film were mostly peaceful. If by “mostly peaceful” you mean that they started multiple fights and screamed hateful things until they received not nearly enough pepper spray, IMO.
One ironically humorous detail was the venue where the peaceful fighters did their best to intimidate and censor people: The Museum of Tolerance! You can’t make this up.
I detect a subtle pattern going on here. The Hamas fanboys (and fangirls, and fan-theys) in LA were not outraged because the footage was some kind of propaganda that cast Hamas in a falsely negative light. The film just relayed the terrorists’ actual behavior, and from their own point of view.
Similarly, the brave lady who runs Libs of TikTok has been attacked mercilessly by leftists for spreading propaganda that falsely casts leftists in a negative light. But she simply searches TikTok for videos made by leftists that accurately portray their lunatic beliefs and behavior, and re-posts those videos for everyone to see.
And now, the left is attacking Mike Johnson for releasing ALL of the video from January 6th, screaming that letting people see what actually went on that day will convince them of a false, conservative narrative.
Why, it’s almost like these people really don’t like the way the truth conflicts with their political ideology!
Speaking of the truth ruining a perfectly good fable, a Muslim fella named Hesham Ayyad ended up in a hospital in Northridge, Ohio last month, where he told a harrowing tale of violent Jewish folks perpetrating a hate crime against him. Hesham said he’d been walking home from lunch when a lunatic driver raced toward him, yelling, “Kill All Palestinians!” and “Long Live Israel!” before hitting him and driving away.
CAIR was on the case immediately, putting out pics of Hesham in a neck brace in the hospital, decrying systemic Islamophobia, and demanding a hate crime probe.
Annnnnndddd… it turns out that Hesham got his injuries in a fight with his non-Jewish, non-stunt-driver brother, Khalid.
But hey, you can’t blame CAIR for believing his hoax, can you? I mean, considering the well-known Jewish obsession with racing around in fast cars and all. Who can forget the driving exploits of Moishe Andretti, Herschel Earnhardt, and Itzhak Waltrip, just to name a few?
Wait a minute… my crack research staff just handed me a bulletin. It turns out that “Hesham Ayyad” is Arabic for “Jussie Smollet.”
Huh.
Since we’re on the subject of hoaxes, I’ll give you one more. This is the tale of a Canadian “celebrity” (c’mon) named Buffy Sainte-Marie, a singer with a long career, and the most famous indigenous person in Canada. She claimed to have been born on the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan and adopted by a white family as an infant.
She had a few things going for her, claimed-indigenous-identity-wise. She actually looks a little Indian (unlike a certain Tilda-Swinton-looking Massachusetts Senator I could name) (#wemustneverstopmockingher), and when she wore an animal-skin hat with bead earrings, she could pass.
On the other side of the ledger? Her name is “Buffy Sainte-Marie.” Other than Buffy Bull (Sitting Bull’s second wife) and Buffy Horse (Crazy Horse’s niece), I can’t think of a single Indian woman ever named “Buffy.”
Oh, and also, there’s that birth certificate that turned up, showing that she was actually born “Beverly Jean Santamaria” to Albert and Winifred Santamaria. No, not of the Piapot Santamarias – of the English and Italian Santamarias.
So cue the sad indigenous hollowed-out musical gourd, I guess?
In closing, the Babylon Bee has a great video out now. This one deals with the most compassionate way we can deal with our aging parents, and with all that’s going on with my mom these days, it gave me some good ideas. I’m going to show it to her on Thanksgiving, and knowing her, she will find it hilarious.
The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFeNSB66PY0
Have a great Thanksgiving everybody, be thankful for all that you have, and as always…
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 