Tag: Thought

Thank G-d we have names

I was not surprised to see the 750 journalists signatures under the letter condemning Israel. Most of the scribblers claim to be independent. Some of them represent big outlets such as The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, HuffPost, The Guardian, etc…

They’ve made history together with my day, my week, my month – stretching (hopefully) into the future that looks so bright that I should wear shades. I wish they have not, but they had!

Brave and relentless men and women, they are fighting injustice and oppression of the “apartheid” state along with its “killings” of their colleagues to the left, to the right, and maybe to the center.

Brave and relentless men and women, they’ve climbed the three-step ladder, reached the Black Friday’s finish line (3rd year in a row) and joined the Sisyphus team against all odds.

They’ve succeeded kicking out mass competition on the way to an ultimate success.

They’ve outmanuevuered the freelancers embedded (by some outlets) with the “curious” Hamas “tourists” who evidently stopped for food and fuel in Southern Israel on the way to Tel-Aviv for a sneak peek of the new Gal Gadot movie.

Is it save to presume that the Hamasniks call to the media was necessary due to their frustration with the high ticket prices?

Brave and relentless men and women, they’ve outclimbed the apes hanging from the balconies of the Grand Central Station instead of enjoying hospitality of the Bronx Zoo, proving to non-believers that Mr. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is alive and very much kicking.

By hook or by crook these unknown keyboard warriors for “tolerance and non-biased coverage” had finally managed to make history.

The kind of history that (sadly) brought to fame Frederick T. Birchall and Anne O’Hare McCormick, the NYT foreign correspondents in Nazi Germany, their colleague John Elliott, the New York Herald Tribune’s Berlin correspondent and many others.

The latter names are largely forgotten now, and today (less than a week after being published) the public will find it hard to recall a single name out of those 750 who signed the letter.

Some will say, rightfully so. I don’t agree. Writers and journalists had, have and will have an ability to influence, incite, moreover, to “kill” more people than any single soldier is capable of taking out on a battlefield.

Indirectly, the choir of the soft and/or praising voices had led Hitler to a bloodthirsty crusade. The “Free Radio and Television of the Thousand Hills” in Rwanda was instrumental to the Hutu led genocide against the Tutsis.

We should make an effort to remember the names of the 750 journalists-signatories of the infamous anti-Israeli letter. For the sake of history that they’ve surely made!

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I love excuses. Especially, when it comes to Israel. Especially, the ones related to the words “peace”, “civilian population concerns”, “escalation”, “regional war” and “first amendment.”

There are three issues that come to mind when assessing the White House stance on the situation in Gaza.

Issue N1. What prevents the Biden Administration from adding the Gaza enclave/Strip either to the U.S. FTO or the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism lists as a terrorist entity/territory?

Based on what I read, the WH will come up with at least three major points against the aforementioned proposal.

A. HAMAS doesn’t represent the whole population of Gaza;

B. Collective punishment is not an option;

C. We should not allow this conflict to escalate into a regional war.

Well, let’s briefly deal with the above.

A. The residents of Gaza had free elections in 2006. Their choice was Hamas!;

Currently, 64% of the Gaza and 50% of the West Bank residents would vote for the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. This is according to the recent poll quoted by Mark Mellman (the Mellman Group) in his opinion piece published by The Hill (10.25.23);

B. If collective punishment is not an option, how come Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, etc… are recognized as terrorist States by the U.S.?

C. Conflict Escalation into a regional war.

1. The same way of thinking prevented all (but one) modern US administrations from officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In other words, the WH needs to grow beizim (cojones) to explain a few things to its Arab friends;

2. The recent U.S. bombardment of Iran’s military facilities in Syria served as a warning to Teheran or an escalation?

IssueN2.

After the infamous report of the “Israeli bombing” of the Gaza hospital the gullible NYT decided to apologize for its pro Hamas reporting. It took about a week for “the decrepit lady” to produce a whisper of an apology. During the week in question, the U.S. saw mass and violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations, literal hunts for Jewish students in different colleges, etc…

in my book, the NYT has an indirect responsibility for the above and many other actions of the numerous crowds and individuals who are supporting Hamas under the cover of the Free Palestine slogans.

“The decrepit lady” has (indirectly) provided an umbrella of legitimacy to their actions, thus should be “enjoying” legal consequences, but there will be none!

IssueN3

It’s crystal clear that the so-called Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are (in reality) supporters and/or sympathizers of the Hamas organization in general and its crimes committed in Israel. The Free Palestine slogans allow them to abuse the Freedom Of Assembly, since Hamas is on the U.S. FTO list since 2009.

The Good News Aren’t Coming In Droves

By Mitya Indursky

In reality, we are so badly divided that the good news is going away rather than coming in. They aren’t like December-speedy Santa, people created to sweeten the bitter pill of surviving another “glorious” year. Thus, pretending to be amused, when receiving NORAD’s daily updates of the Old Man’s movements.

He’ll be here on time, thanks to Rudolph’s facelift and upgraded engine, the media yells into our ears, alerting Budweiser and Mercedes to take their “horses” out of the stalls. Succeed in squeezing one of them into a Christmas stocking, and I’ll consider it a real miracle!

I’m still surprised that either the NYTimes and MSNBC or Fox and the NY Post aren’t planning to send a crew to the North Pole to make an in depth report about Santa’s political preferences and code of behavior!

The newsworthy journey should result in a criminal case of immense proportions based on politically popular accusations of corruption; racism; pro-life or pro-choice; pro-gun or anti-gun stances; or an unlawful denial or an unlawful promotion of prosperity for all.

The updated and upgraded Rudolph will become a whistleblower accusing the Old Man of all manner of Heavenly and Earthly sins, simply because the buck is dead tired of carrying the load of crap, no deer is made to withstand.

What will happen afterwards is quite predictable. The NORAD will send the jet fighters to force the Holy carriage land in D.C.

The “Man” and his unruly Deer will be separated. Santa will be placed under house arrest in the WH basement, and forced to take polygraph and truth serum simultaneously twice a day.

The sleigh will be shipped to Area 51 for re-engineering, and Rudolph will start his endless journey on Capitol Hill.

The Holy Buck will be greeted and grilled by members of numerous committees, whose knowledge of deer existence is limited to Bambi’s tear squeezing hardship. Giving the gravity of the matter, the inquest will take place behind close doors.

The media will be relentless in covering the story, the WH will be forced to react, the people on the streets and in bars will go into verbal fights supporting either side.

The newly formed joint House and Senate investigation committee Representatives will be sent to the North Pole to further witnesses (such as seals, penguins and polar bears) to either confirm or deny the crimes committed by Santa.

After years of bitter political fights and endless deliberations taking place while the power shifted from one political party to another, the stalemate would be declared. As a result of it, both Santa and Rudolph will be released into the wilderness.

When relatively far away from us, they would use social media to announce that they aren’t planning to come back to our shores anytime soon.

Both political parties and their unbiased press will start pointing fingers at each other, accusing opponents of either “cancelling” the holiday duo forever or letting the criminal Santa escape!

Some insisted that Rudolph’s buck hood is in danger, because “only G-d knows, what vicious Santa would do to the deer.” To support the claim, unverified photos of Santa’s antlers collection are circulated on the web.

Another group of profound thoughts was trying to convince vulnerable citizens that Rudolph is phony. It posted questionable evidence that the buck was really a doe, and changed sex during the teenage years. After the terminated abortion that was performed by G-dless doctors in upstate NY.

The Pentagon was the only silent party amidst political mayhem, despite numerous witnesses’ reports of illuminated sleighs in the skies over Nevada…

…We are blanketed by the idiocy of our own making, still struggling to understand that the politicians are exploiting our weaknesses to the full extent of their abilities.

Nowadays it’s rather easy than complicated, considering that a good half of the country is using a Holy Book as a daily guidance, and another half has the quotes from Campanella’s The City Of the Sun inscribed on their foreheads.

It looks like the only difficult, if not impossible task is to find a significant group of charismatic people, who can help us find a compromise, thus stirring the good news towards us, but not away.