Honor and Dishonor

“A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money” [G. Gordon Liddy]

“If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.”[Ludwig Borne]

America has become more divided than ever and evil thrives. On the other hand, truth has emerged. Barbara Tuchman, the winner of 2 Pulitzer Prizes, and one of the best American historians, wrote in her book, “The March of Folly” that a phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.”

According to her, “self-interest is whatever conduces to the welfare or advantage of the body being governed; folly is a policy that in these terms is counter-productive.” It appears that after its victory in the Six Day War, Israel placed folly at the foundation of all her subsequent policies. This became especially obvious prior to the Yom Kippur War when the Israeli leaders completely misread the plans of the Arabs, and only the courage and selflessness of the Israeli soldiers saved the Jewish state.

Instead of pursuing a logical path, Israel attempted to surrender some land won in bloody wars for survival in exchange for acceptance of the Jewish state. This is especially strange as the lands of Judea, Samaria and Gaza [Yesha] that returned to Israel’s control had never formed an internationally recognized part of an Arab state.

Further notes Tuchman, “Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government.” In the beginning of 1967, she had this to say:

“With all its problems, Israel has one commanding advantage – a sense of purpose: to survive—It is conscious of fulfilling destiny. It knows it must not go under, that it must endure. Israelis may not have affluence—but they have what affluence tends to smother: a motive. On the whole and for the present, the pace-setters of the nation, have—a knowledge why they are there and where they are going.

During the 7th century, the Muslims, animated by a new religion, exploded in a wild career of conquest that extended from Persia to Egypt and, by the year 700, reached Morocco across the narrow straits from Spain.”

At the time of the Oslo Accords: The 15th Anniversary, the Jerusalem Post Star, Sarah Konig penned a masterful version of The Wooden-Headedness Factor. Thus, she points to “Tuchman who died on February 6, 1989 missed an example of preposterous statecraft, on a scale that would have easily vied with every absurdity she included in her 1984, “March of Folly.”

Sarah Konig on Oslo, “Rarely in human affairs is it as possible to point to a single inanity as the trigger which radically changed the fortunes of a people—in Israel’s case of a beleaguered people, struggling for bare physical survival. Oslo turned this once feisty and plucky little nation into an apathetic aggregate that has ceased to seethe about much of anything.

It briefly appeared that the 2nd Lebanon War, Oslo’s direct defective descendant, might ignite the extinguished flicker of common sense yet again, but that spark quickly died out. “What is the cause of repeated invasions of Gaza by Hamas? This surely is a matter of indigenous rights.

The Ottomans controlled the land for 400 years. Prior to that there was a succession of foreign rulers back to the last Jewish commonwealth in Judea, the Hasmonean Dynasty, which lasted for about 80 years around 100 BCE. Before that there were periods of Greek and Babylonian rule following the destruction of the biblical kingdoms of Judea and Israel. What must be understood is that Israel is the only Indigenous regime dating back through all the years to Biblical times. These include periods of Greek and Babylonian rule following the destruction of the biblical kingdoms of Judea and Israel.

After the Romans crushed the Jewish rebellion of Bar Kochba in 135CE, numbers of Jews remained in their homeland. No mention of “Palestinians”, given that there never was an Arab country called “Palestine. “Many authors have addressed Israel being the only indigenous country in the Land of Israel. A few papers on the subject:

“We Never L: The Jews’ Continuous Presence in the Land of Israel” by Lee S. Bender and Jerome R. Verlin.
“So-called Palestinians have no history in Israel” by Richard Mather.
“We Never Left: The Jews’ Continuous Presence in the Land of Israel” by Lee S. Bender and Jerome R. Verlin.

The Mizrachi Rabbi and CEO acknowledges that the modern-day “Palestinians” are neither historically nor culturally the descendants of the “Philistines”, he considers them “spiritual heirs” of the biblical people, in that they fulfil a similar role by contesting Jewish claims to the land.

Dr. Victor Davis Hanson authored, “Biden and the Destruction of Wisdom” on July 18, 2022. He points to the Biden regime being decoupled from both the past and reality, and quite capable of destroying American’s lives as they have known them. Further, he say, there used to be an agreed-on body of wisdom, which both Left and Right, Republicans and Democrats, generally accepted. Heated arguments and invective centered on implementations and methods of solving problems, which at least both sides agreed were problems. Both ideologies accepted a common core of wisdom, despite their radical differences in interpreting it.

“Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and especially Biden’s strange cabinet of loud Jacobin amateurs, reject the very hallowed knowledge upon which civilization is based. In that sense the public has begun to recognize them as nihilist and anarchist. Nearly 2 out of 3 Americans in some polls hold unfavorable views of the Biden Administration. They fear that it is decoupled from both the past and reality, and quite capable of destroying their lives as they have known them.”

Professor Hanson has openly declared, “Biden is the worst President”.

Today, these un-democrat Democrats crowd NYC streets wildly rioting against President Trump as if their votes had not been registered.

Before the 2020 US presidential election, Joe Biden’s campaign and its allies employed several strategies to counter the release of the”Hunter Biden laptop story.”

[1] Framing as Potential Disinformation: shortly after the New York Post published its story on October 14, 2020, over 50 former intelligence officials released a public letter suggesting the laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” This narrative was cited by Joe Biden during debates to deflect questions about the laptop.

[2] Social media Restrictions: Platforms like Facebook and Twitter initially restricted access to The New York Post articles, citing concerns over misinformation and unclear provenance of the data. Mark Zuckerberg later revealed that Facebook acted based on FBI warnings about potential Russian disinformation.

[3] Media Skepticism: Many mainstream outlets hesitated to cover the story due to doubts about its authenticity and chain of custody, compounded by Giuliani’s involvement and prior Russian interference in US elections. These efforts combined with intelligence community statements and social media actions, helped limit the story’s impact in the critical weeks before the election.

Should not this obvious criminal act have brought Biden before the courts for criminality?