When It Comes to Israel, These People Are Idiots

I don’t pretend to be an expert on the history of the so-called negotiations between Israel and the Arabs who call themselves, and are known by the Western elites, as “Palestinians.”

Which isn’t to say I’m without perspective on a process which is considered, by those Westerners who engage in it, as “complicated.”

It doesn’t actually seem complicated at all. It seems quite simple. And to those who would impose the old Dunning-Kruger analysis on such an opinion, let me cut through the bovine scatology and offer a straightforward and obvious truth, which is this: the people in charge of the Palestinian Arabs, who at this point are not Arabs at all, have no discernible desire for peace with Israel.

On the contrary, they’re quite open in their desire to kill every last Jew in the Holy Land, or at least subjugate them and force them to pay the jizya (infidel tax) and live as second-class citizens the way other non-Muslims must in lands governed by sharia law. (READ MORE from Scott McKay: This Is No Longer The Presidential Race You Think It Is)

That isn’t a very peaceful position, you know.

Hamas is in charge of Gaza, or at least the parts of Gaza remaining which haven’t been cleaned out by the IDF in the months following the massacres of October 7 of last year.

Hamas is also in charge of a number of hostages taken during those massacres, some of whom are American citizens. There was a time when our government would move heaven and earth to free our people taken by hostile regimes, and a president whose tenure was not dissimilar to that of the current one essentially saw his administration crushed by an inability to free hostages taken at our embassy in Tehran by the jihadist revolutionaries who took over that government.

Those jihadist revolutionaries still run Iran, by the way, and they’re a cancer on the Near East in the same way that the communist revolutionaries in Cuba are a cancer on Latin America. The failure to adequately deal with such people has consequences.

In Israel’s case those consequences are existential. Because Iran controls Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi partisans in Yemen, and all three proxies are tasked with destruction of the common welfare — of Israel, of the “civilized” Arab world, and, in the Houthis’ case, of global commerce in the Red Sea.

None of this is complicated. It’s very simple. Israel faces an intractable enemy which refuses any lasting peace agreements. A Hamas or Hezbollah will agree to the occasional armistice when they’ve been bloodied badly enough that recuperation is needed. That doctrine dates all the way back to the Quran; it’s how Allah commands them to operate in war.

It seems like the Israelis know this. Bibi Netanyahu refers to it often.

But it doesn’t seem like our diplomats know it, or that they accept it as truth.

Which leads to what just happened…

Negotiations in Cairo to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage deal are still pressing ahead, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, adding that the discussions will continue on the working-group level for the next few days to iron out specific issues.

Speaking to reporters in a virtual briefing, Kirby pushed back on suggestions that the talks have broken down, and said, on the contrary, that they were “constructive.”

“The talks actually progressed to a point where they felt like the next logical step was to have working groups at lower levels to sit down to hammer out these finer details,” Kirby said.

Brett McGurk, U.S. President Joe Biden’s top Middle East aide at the White House who has been participating in the talks, will soon leave Cairo after staying an extra day to start the working-group talks, Kirby said.

One of the issues to be tackled by the working groups will be the exchange of hostages Hamas is holding and Palestinian prisoners that Israel is holding, Kirby said.

He said the details to be settled included how many hostages may be exchanged, their identities, and the pace of their potential release.

Months of on-off talks have failed to produce an agreement to end Israel’s military campaign in Gaza or free the remaining hostages seized by Hamas in the militant group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that triggered the war.

That followed what was essentially a walkout by Hamas from the talks in Cairo on Sunday.

Israel has been systematically cleaning Hamas out of Gaza, at the cost of an inflated, but still significant, death toll among the civilian population which (1) wholeheartedly still supports Hamas as their leaders and (2) are used as human shields in what is a directly-observable war crime. (READ MORE: Five Quick Things: The DNC-Free 5QT)

Why is our government attempting to treat with Hamas when they’re holding our citizens as hostages? Why are we providing humanitarian aid that we know will be stolen by Hamas thugs and used as military rations and supplies?

Are these people stupid?

To this day Israel’s adversaries refuse even to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. To this day those people deny that the land was Israel’s almost from the beginning of time. The Democrat Party opened their convention last week by promulgating a platform which began with a “land acknowledgement” that essentially claimed America is a nation built on stolen land, and yet the presidential administration that party bent the rules of American elections far past their breaking point to create, and now seems to want to disavow, cannot recognize that the Palestinian claims on historic Jewish land are not legitimate.

It comes off as a rejection of and refusal to defend Western civilization. He’s not part of the administration, and nobody really listens to him anymore, but James Carville managed to do a good job of giving away the mentality at hand last week…

Democratic strategist James Carville during a Thursday podcast said Republicans only characterize themselves as Israel supporters because Jews are more white than Palestinians.

Over 70% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents report having a positive view of Israel, while only 44% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents share this perception, according to Pew Research Center in 2022. Carville, on “Politics War Room,” said “racism” is what motivates the views of Israelis and Palestinians in response to a listener’s question regarding the Republican Party’s alleged embrace of “neo-Nazis,” which the listener suggested is inconsistent with the party’s pro-Israel stance.

“It’s really about the misogyny and the racism that drives the thing, and we got to recognize that. It’s not about any policy prescription. And the reason I suspect that most of these people describe themselves as pro-Israel is because the Jews are whiter than the Palestinians, which I think drives a lot of what they are,” Carville said.

Does it matter that most Israelis are Sephardic Jews rather than Ashkenazi? Apparently not, as that would invalidate the ethnic claims Carville makes. But that isn’t what matters here. The Israelis are an outpost of Western civilization and the Palestinians are antagonistic to it. They proved that by what they did to Beirut, another former outpost of Western civilization until the 1970’s, for example.

And somehow it’s a bad thing that Republicans respect Israel as a Western nation, because Western civilization, in whose bosom James Carville has prospered, is a bad thing.

Which is idiotic in its own right.

Just a little more than four years ago we had the Abraham Accords, in which a large chunk of the Arab world showed they were willing to break bread and normalize relations with the Israelis. Those negotiations came courtesy of a presidential administration unburdened by the failed “peace process” that our failure-addicted old-line diplomats had carried on for decades.

And now we’re back to the same old thing, begging Hamas for a cease-fire and demanding the Israelis tie their hands behind their backs rather than exhorting them to finish the job and grind the genocidal Hamas refuseniks into the dust they must become.

These people do not learn. It’s either that or they see a grift for the taking, because war and the “humanitarian” aid that comes with it offer lots of opportunities for the skim. And what we know is the Palestinians aren’t very picky about how much swag actually goes where it’s intended.

That’s awfully cold comfort for the families of our people still in Hamas, or even Iranian, captivity. It’s too bad our brilliant diplomats and the two-bit hack politicians supposedly controlling them don’t really give a damn.

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