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| An Act of War, One Year On |
| 2024-10-08 |
| We didn't have Mark Steyn here for a long time [SteynOnline] Today is the first anniversary of the worst one-day slaughter of Jews since the Second World War, and the start of what John Derbyshire calls the Israel-Iran War, on multiplying fronts. There will be many observances of October 7th today. You might think that, if one's principal concern is the "disproportionate" nature of the Israeli reprisals, one might schedule the protest marches for the first anniversary of the Zionist Entity's counter-attacks, its first strikes on Gaza. Instead, in almost every major city across the west, the big parades are happening on the anniversary of October 7th - which risks giving the unfortunate impression that what they're really commemorating (indeed, celebrating) is the big pile of Jew corpses, plus the attendant hostage-taking, baby-burning, mutilations, decapitations and industrial-scale gang-rape. Four weeks from US Election "Day", the Democrat candidate for president is disinclined to be caught on camera expressing any public support for Israel lest it cost her Michigan. She seems pretty confident that American Jews will vote for her anyway, even as the monsters their party has incubated have made their feelings plain on every university campus you've ever heard of. The pitiful rationalisations of wealthy, assimilated Jews in the Germany of ninety years ago are recycled even more pitifully by lifelong Jewish Democrats on the Upper West Side: This will pass. It won't. For western Jewry, the electoral arithmetic is brutal - in the US, in Canada, Britain, France and beyond. Here are the scenes from my hometown, as described by "journalist" Samira Mohyeddin: Tens of thousands marching in Toronto to mark one year of Israel’s relentless bombardment and genocide in Gaza. I can’t see the beginning or end of the procession. ...It is a melancholy fact that His Majesty's Constabulary, from Ottawa to London to Sydney, has been hollowed out by Islamic appeasers. Among the general public, a big chunk of the western left is turned on by the bloodlust of Islam; a significant portion of the western right, on the other hand, increasingly blames Jews for transforming their nations into semi-Islamic dumps. ...The Jewish state's present international isolation will worsen in the years ahead. Then again, their prospects are not as grim as, say, Canada's. Although many questions remain about how October 7th was permitted to happen, the Zionist Entity appears to have recovered its mojo in recent weeks, knocking off Hizb'allah bigwigs on a daily basis and ensuring that the footsoldiers no longer feel safe carrying any pocket gizmos. |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |