John Barth once described American Pragmatism as a cheerful Nihilism. It is certainly more energetic if at bottom equally meaningless. Hence the difference between an American and a French bookstore.
American bookstores: Loud covers with a focus on business, self-help, and celebrity memoirs.
French bookstores: Calm covers with a focus on classic literature, esoteric philosophy, and critiques of the modern world.
🇲🇦 Today, thousands of migrants were literally brought in the backs of trucks and unloaded right at the Spanish border, all under the watch of the local police.
If someone had asked me before October 7th what I wanted to be remembered for, I would have said that I wanted people to know that I was a good father, husband, and friend; a fair judge; and a model American citizen.
But October 7th was a watershed moment in the history of Western civilization—not because of what happened thousands of miles away, but because of what happened here in our supposedly sacred institutions.
Hamas killed 1,200 innocent people. They butchered them in their bedrooms. They beheaded them at their dance parties. They blew them up clutching their families in their bomb shelters.
And yet, at my alma maters, in our universities, we Jews became the oppressors. Hamas raped dozens and dozens of Jewish women and girls, mothers together with their daughters. That's now clear beyond peradventure. You can go home tonight and watch the videotaped confessions of Hamas terrorists admitting to these unspeakable acts. They committed the crime of kinocide.
This was just announced in a recent report by an international NGO on May 12th of this year. It is the first documented use of kinocide as a weapon of war anywhere on the planet since Rwanda in the 1990s.
And yet, in our Western media outlets, we Jews became the aggressors.
Egyptian analyst Mohammad Nour, reacting to Egypt's FIFA World Cup defeat to Argentina, claimed: "FIFA and Israel prevented Egypt from winning; Argentina is an 'Israeli team par excellence'; Benjamin Netanyahu is 'best friends' with President Milei; Yair Netanyahu brought Messi to play for Inter Miami."
Would it be ok if Israel sold its own military technology to Russia? Would that upset us? That would be a betrayal.
When we sell our top jets to Turkey, which is close to Russia and threatens Israel. (and others), what’s that?
Alliances work both ways. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
And Netanyahu should shut up about it. Just go along with it. I guess we all should. Not happening. This completely changes the balance of power in the Middle East.
And how will we stop Turkey from sharing our stealth and other top technology with Russia? Paper assurances? Turkey works with Russia. It bought their S-400 SAM mobile missiles. It already has violated its obligations to NATO and our country. That’s why it has been sanctioned.
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The Holocaust and Armenian genocide are rightly remembered as horrific examples of mass slaughter in the modern era.
Yet they pale in comparison to what happened in India between 1000 and 1550 AD… the largest genocide in human history, in which Islamic invaders killed tens of millions of Hindus and shattered an ancient civilization.