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| I can no longer forgive the Israeli Left |
| 2025-03-25 |
| [IsraelNationalNews] The grief of October 7th still haunts every Israeli soul. It wasn’t just a failure of security or intelligence; it was a shattering of our national innocence, the brutal end of a belief that goodwill could protect us. And yet, in the face of one of the worst atrocities in Jewish history, there are those among us — the Israeli leftist elite — who continue to point fingers not at the monsters who crossed the border with murder in their hearts, but at their own people. I can’t forgive that. The problem is not just Hamas. It is Israel’s own elites, the NGOs, the academic class, the so-called humanitarians — those who have spent decades undermining victory, pursuing policies of enriching and placating Palestinian Arabs based on "the hope that being nice will win reciprocal gestures." Each has spectacularly failed. Instead of acknowledging this failure, they double down, desperate to preserve their moral vanity. ...What’s more, the Israeli Left (a minority after all) has spent decades trying to convince the world, and the rest of Israel, that peace comes from surrender, that empathy will melt away hatred. That if we just humanize our enemy, they will stop trying to dehumanize us. It was a beautiful dream. But October 7th killed that dream. And the Israeli Left’s unwillingness to face that truth — their insistence on mourning the collapse of their ideology more than the collapse of our safety — is a betrayal I cannot overlook. On October 14, 2023 — exactly one week following October 7th — I said to my Israeli cousin: "Just watch, in a few weeks or months the Israeli Left will take to the streets, wailing and screaming about how the real crime isn’t what Hamas did to us, but how our own government responded. They’ll say the hostages are being forgotten, that the war is immoral, that Bibi is the devil, and that somehow, somehow, Israel is to blame for all of this." ...In their worldview, the true enemy isn’t Hamas or Hezbollah or the Houthis — it’s the right. It’s the settlers. It’s the religious. It’s the Zionist who believes in Jewish power and defense and sovereignty. And that hatred has blinded them. It has made them incapable of unity, incapable of reflection, incapable of change. This has nothing to do with holding leaders accountable and everything to do with salvaging a broken ideology. They do not oppose the war because they think it’s unjust. They oppose the war because it confirms what they most fear: that their decades-long program of appeasement, withdrawal, and moral relativism has utterly failed. |
| Posted by:Grom the Affective |
| #2 Much of the left realized their folly during the 1st intifada beginning 1987. Others in the second intifada beginning in 2000. Others in the collapse of the W Bush negotiations in 2007-8. If you can survive that many times when your thesis was proved false, you probably can survive anything. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-03-25 17:36 |
| #1 Sadly yes. I would be furious, but I haven’t the energy for it. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-03-25 12:44 |