by Dror Eydar
radical left-wing organizations -- have penetrated the heart of the Democratic Party and are dictating the discourse, so even fair Democratic elected officials aren't able to oppose the stupidity without encountering a media lynch.
1.
The lines between the
different political camps are becoming more and more clear. The herd of
individuals, where everyone things exactly the same and there is no one
who will so much as peep out of tune with the chorus, vs. the free
thinkers, who are not giving in to the media's violent attempt to
educate us about what to think and to what extent we should observe the
commandment to be horrified.
U.S. President Donald
Trump did not condemn the riots in Charlottesville in the exact manner
that would have satisfied the political correctness crazies. Indeed, if
it had been up to me, I would have written him more stringent remarks.
But the thought that he did not address neo-Nazism severely is utterly
ridiculous (he went back and explained his intention) and aimed at
delegitimizing him and the people who voted for him. We are very
familiar with that tactic.
2.
The more I went back
and watched his response to the incident, the less I got the impression
that his remarks were "the strongest defense of racism and white
supremacy by a senior American politician since the 1960s," as
journalist Nadav Eyal irresponsibly wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth. It was
certainly no "defense of American Nazism," as Eyal went on to say with
appalling righteousness. Eyal didn't rest until he had compared Trump to
Nero (!), the same tyrant who according to legend fiddled while Rome
was burning. Nothing less. What will happen when all the possible
comparisons are used up -- will we get to Hitler?
As crazy as it sounds,
even this was heard in the storm of insanity that gripped the leftist
media. Hemi Shalev lost it in the "defeated" family newspaper Haaretz:
"He [Trump] gave the supporters of the Ku Klux Klan and fans of Adolf
Hitler a present more valuable than gold." Nice, right? And here's more
of Shalev's nice spirit: "The president of the U.S. helps Nazis,
anti-Semites, and racists." Take a look at his article and you'll see
that there wasn't a curse or insult Shalev didn't include in his
ridiculous piece against Trump.
3.
The joke is that for
decades, this righteous bunch -- which moralizes to everyone other than
themselves -- were the main propagandists for the biggest murderers of
Jews since World War II. PLO founder Yasser Arafat was, for them, an
innocent statesman who wanted to make peace, while Israel was
responsible for preventing it. The leaders of the worldwide Left
worshipped almost every regime of terror that opposed the West: They
supported Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hezbollah, Hamas, and more. For them,
Israel is worse than the Nazis. At almost every left-wing demonstration
in the U.S. and Europe, no matter what it's about, we can find
anti-Israeli-ism, which is just anti-Semitism in disguise.
True, we need to fight
neo-Nazis without compromise and condemn them in every way possible, but
sick individuals like David Duke can be dealt with easily. He will
remain on the fringes of the American Right. The same cannot be said for
radical left-wing organizations: They penetrated the heart of the
Democratic Party and are dictating the discourse, so even fair
Democratic elected officials aren't able to oppose the stupidity without
encountering a media lynch.
4.
What disturbed the Left
was the accusation that they were violent in Charlottesville, too. It's
true; leftist violence also exists. Do you remember the violent
demonstrations immediately after Trump was elected president or at the
G-20 summit? And it's not just physical violence: Who is it that
silences conservative and right-wing lecturers on university campuses --
Mother Theresa? Who consistently and evilly fights against the
existence of the only Jewish state and against its right to defend
itself from its enemies -- the Ku Klux Klan, or the multitude of
left-wing organization that hide behind hazy "human rights," which mean
rights for everyone except Jews?
Here's the rule: When
everywhere you turn you see unity and an ideological phalanx that force
us to think one way and not another and try to force us to see reality
in only one way, you need people of truth who will battle this
steamroller of consciousness and present alternative ideas.
5.
It's hard to believe the moral
horror that is enveloping us from every side. We didn't see it in other
cases, for example when former President Barack Obama addressed the
terrorist shooting in the Hyper Cacher market in Paris in January 2015
that murdered several Jews as "random shots fired at a group of people."
What was that, if not politically correct forgiveness for an
anti-Semitic murder? Would you have imagined a front page like the one
we saw from Yedioth Ahronoth on Thursday, with its hollow headline "The
disgrace"? They won't give us a moral stamp of approval. Our sages
taught us: "Adorn yourself before adorning others" (Bava Batra 60b),
that is, act properly before requiring others to do so.
Dror Eydar
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=19711
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