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Fifth Column
The ANSWER Coalition of America's Enemies
2023-11-09
By William R. Hawkins
[AMERICANTHINKER] The large protest against Israel and in support of the Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
holy warriors on November 4 in Washington, D.C. was primarily organized by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). It has called for a wave of disruption across the country on November 9 to "Shut It Down for Paleostine."

This group was founded just three days after the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda terrorist attack on New York City and the Pentagon that killed some 3,000 people. ANSWER’s declared aim was to create "a massive antiwar movement" that would block U.S. retaliation against the attacks. So now ANSWER wants to block Israeli retaliation against the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks which killed over 1,400 people. They are not "antiwar" and certainly have no interest in "peace." ANSWER picks sides in conflicts around the world, protesting the actions of one side, and justifying the actions of the other. They want victory for their chosen side which is invariably the side acting against the United States, its friends, and its allies. That is the core nature of the Left.
ANSWER was the false nose and mustache for SANE/FREEZE, the "anti-nuke" commies who somehow consistently took the Soviet side in any argument. SS-21's in Warsaw Pact nations? Good. Pershing missiles in NATO? Insane provocation!
ANSWER chose against Israel long ago, holding a rally in April 2002 in Washington calling for the "liberation" of Paleostine, which means wiping Israel off the map. The chants heard today of "from the river to the sea" do not express any new objective. The only plan for genocide, the style of which was demonstrated in the torture and murder of babies on 10/7, has come from the Paleostinian terrorists, their backers in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
(who have threatened to use nuclear weapons to obliterate Israel), and their left-wing supporters on college campuses where barbarism has become the essence of enlightenment.

Israel withdrew from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
in 2005, as it had from southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
in 2000. Terrorist groups Hamas in Gaza and Hezb’allah in Lebanon (both backed by Iran) seized the open territory. Peaceful development has not been their priority. This hard experience explains why Israel cannot withdraw from the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, or its West Bank security wall. And why it must clean out Gaza. In the real world, the right to exist requires more than a scrap of paper to have meaning or endure. When enemies won’t stop, they have to be stopped.

The population centers of the West Bank are under the Paleostinian Authority. Israel does not want to govern large Moslem populations. Judaism is not an evangelical-universal religion like Christianity and Islam. Israel is meant to be a Jewish State, a sanctuary after the Nazi Holocaust. It is in the homeland of the Jewish people, who founded the first Israel in the 10th century BC. The Israelis just want to be left alone. Peace is their fondest hope. A sincere antiwar movement would embrace their cause as it would improve the lives of everyone across the entire region. In 75 years, Israel has turned a desert into a thriving free society whose achievements should inspire progress elsewhere rather than hatred -- except among those who are "triggered" by success.

As my previous column argues, there is more than anti-Semitism at work in the left-wing choice against Israel. Jerusalem is considered an outpost of western civilization, the real enemy. Thus, any aggression committed by enemies of the West is to be supported by opposing any defense against such aggression. This is in the name of a global revolution.

ANSWER thus supports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, holding a rally in Washington last March. Its lengthy list of coalition groups opposing aid to Ukrainian freedom fighters included several Paleostinian groups, as well as avowed Marxist organizations, open-border advocates, and climate change activists. The unifying theme of the Left’s many causes is to cripple, transform, and defeat America, the leader of the western world.
Related:
ANSWER Coalition: 2014-11-03 US empire trying to capture Ukraine: Activist
ANSWER Coalition: 2010-07-12 Boston city councilors backtrack on Arizona boycott bid
ANSWER Coalition: 2009-03-21 Internat'l ANSWER sponsors DC war protest, hundreds show up
Posted by:Fred

#2  anti-Semitism = hating Jews because (on the average) they're more successful

I suspect more that it’s the hatred of a failure for anyone deemed weak enough to be safely bullied. These people do not act as though they believe that Jews own the means of production and can/will fire them for choosing the wrong target. That’s half the reason why it’s important that the rich pull their big money from the universities for allowing the hatefulness and encouraging it to continue.

Consequences alter assumptions.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-11-09 15:00  

#1  As my previous column argues, there is more than anti-Semitism at work in the left-wing choice against Israel.

anti-Semitism = hating Jews because (on the average) they're more successful - despite the odds.

anti-Zionism = hating Jewish state because it succeeds where others would fail.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-09 03:27  

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