I realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school.
I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil.
What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to anti-communism.
To my amazement, a great many people—specifically, all leftists and many, though not all, liberals—hated anti-communists far more than they hated communism.
Because of my early preoccupation with good and evil, already in high school, I hated communism. How could one not, I wondered. Along with Nazism, it was the great evil of the 20th century. Needless to say, as a Jew and as a human, I hated Nazism. But as I was born after Nazism was vanquished, the great evil of my time was communism.
Communists murdered about 100 million people—all noncombatants and all innocent. Stalin murdered about 30 million people, including 5 million Ukrainians by starvation (in just two years: 1932-33). Mao killed about 60 million people. Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians) killed about 3 million people, one in every four Cambodians, between 1975 and 1979. The North Korean communist regime killed between 2 million and 3 million people, not including another million killed in the Korean War started by the North Korean communists.
For every one of the 100 million killed by communists, add at least a dozen more people—family and friends—who were terribly and permanently affected by the death of their family member or friend. Then add another billion whose lives were ruined by having to live in a communist totalitarian state: their poverty, their loss of fundamental human rights, and their loss of dignity.
You would think that anyone with a functioning conscience and with any degree of compassion would hate communism. But that was not the case. Indeed, there were many people throughout the non-communist world who supported communism. And there was an even larger number of people who hated anti-communists, dismissing them as “Cold Warriors,” “warmongers,” “red-baiters,” etc.
At the present time, we are again witnessing this phenomenon—hatred of those who oppose evil rather than of those who do evil—with regard to Israel and its enemies. And on a far greater level. Israel is hated by individuals and governments throughout the world. Israel is the most reviled country in the United Nations as well as in Western media and, of course, in universities.
Israel is a liberal democracy with an independent judiciary, independent opposition press, and equal rights for women, gays, and its Arab population (20% of the Israeli population). Its enemies—the Iranian regime, Hamas, and Hezbollah—allow no such freedoms to those under their control. More relevantly, their primary goal—indeed, their stated reason for being—is to wipe out Israel and its Jewish inhabitants. Hamas and Hezbollah have built nothing, absolutely nothing, in Gaza and Lebanon, respectively. They exist solely to commit genocide against Israel and its Jews.
Why did so many people hate anti-communists more than communism? And why do even more people hate Israel more than Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah?
The general reason is that it is emotionally and psychologically difficult for most people to stare evil in the face. Evil is widely described as “dark.” But it is not dark; it is easy to look into the dark. What is far harder to look at is blinding bright light. Perhaps that is why Lucifer, the original name of the Christian devil, comes from the word “light.”
Why this is so—why people will not call evil “evil”— is probably related to a lack of courage. Once one declares something evil, one is morally bound to resist it, and people fear resisting evil. The fools who mock Christianity—whether through a work of “art” like “Piss Christ” (a crucifix in a jar of urine), the Paris Olympics opening ceremony that mocked the Last Supper, or the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” (men in drag dressed as nuns)—would never mock Islam. They fear Muslim wrath; they do not fear Christian wrath. Yet Islamic wrath has done and is doing far more evil in our time than Christian wrath.
And there is one additional reason for hating Israel—one that is specific to Israel—rather than those who seek to exterminate Israel: Jew-hatred, better known as anti-Semitism. The people who introduced a judging God and gave the world the Ten Commandments have been hated for thousands of years. Not those who systematically violate those commandments.
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Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and columnist. His commentary on Numbers, the fourth volume of “The Rational Bible,” his five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible, will be released in November 2024 and is available now for presale on Amazon. He is the co-founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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Spot on analysis and not a fact that will change any time soon. In the meantime though - the best we can do is hang on.
Until we get President Trump back in office and have real leaders - not traitors in Democrat/Communist clothing - running the country - nothing substantive nor definitive is going to occur in terms of dealing with Iran - because?
Because anything that weakens America’s and our true allies’ positions anywhere in the world - that goes against the grain of rhyme and reason, rational thought and moral integrity - is the goal of our Imbecile in Chief and his Word Salad second in command - both being puppets of Obama and cabal.
Thus - empowering and helping Iran; being lukewarm re Israel or, deliberately counter to - damning with faint praise - what they do as opposed to what we ought to say in the face of the tyranny of Iran - and her surrogates?
Serves better than best - the LEFT’s avowed and patently obvious purposes.
Destroying American and “helping” it to decline so that it can’t compete nor challenge the evil that is - has been - always will be - the hope and dream - of those the LEFT favors - be they the globalists in Europe - the CCP or any other member of the world’s conglomeration of the “Evil most foul and totalitarian” crowd - a world finally freed of “inconvenient”, disagreeable people willing and able to stand up and be counted and challenge their dictatorial, maniacal and insane lust for power.
In any event, one more thought till the next that suggests itself to me!
That, if Israel really wanted to hurt Iran? Doing so would be very easy. Simply, it should decimate their ports beyond repairs taking years - making the existence of their oil fields useless to them - and by doing so?
Not create an environmental disaster like we did with Saddam’s - by burning them to the ground (I do remember, realize that many of those oil well fires were not started by us, but deliberately set by Saddam’s people).
Yet - the net effect would be the same and then - when - hopefully the putrid stench of the current regime and its malevolent leaders is permanently with or without extreme prejudice removed?
Then - the good people of Iran wouldn’t be deprived of that resource.
Win/Win for the good guys - Lose/Lose for the bad guys.
And one last bit of something written - wise and well put from 135 years ago by Winston Churchill that is still as true now as it was back then re Islam.
Winston Churchill said of Islam in 1899
"In every country where Muslims are in the minority, they are obsessed with ‘the rule of law’ and minority rights. In every country where Muslims are the majority, there is no ‘rule of law’ nor minority rights.
I ask that anyone who is able to show where this is not true to please do so.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia [rabies] in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
– Winston Churchill (1899)
People hate in others and, tend to want to destroy (cancel) anyone who differs with them and their “truth”; anyone - who doesn’t support them in their hatreds and biases that?
Encourage others to think for themselves, move towards a more enlightened, freer, individualistic - kinder, nobless oblige way of thinking
- thus you have the Middle East - still a hellhole after all these years - and proud of it
I used some of one of your lines.
Anyone watch the VP debate? I did for only one reason. I know what Vance is about. However I never watched Walz and by watching I don’t mean listening to his policy advocation diatribe. I sensed something in Walz.
I suspect, a long time ago, that he was captured not by NAMBLA but by the LGBTQ crowd his wife is associated with. That did not happen to Mayor Giuliani whose wife was part of the Vagina Monologues. These people are now everywhere and for years I associated, and still do, with people in those communities both in real time and online because many are more constitutionally conservative than I am. I am not referring to Log Cabin Republicans or men and women who are born morphologically specifically different and psychologically reversed. I am talking about the predator class who like to prowl on the weak, the confused and mostly innocent and convert them. It’s become much more easy in a society full of emasculated males who no biologically and organically attuned woman would want to be with. It’s especially easy to create what NAMBLA likes to prey upon when young boys have effeminate fathers and progressive masculine mothers. Why and how is that becoming more common? I sometimes feel like Al Pacino in the movie “Cruising”. That movie would be banned today. It was ahead of its time. It is no different with predator women on the hunt. How many spinster “Cat Ladies” I still know and help are far fewer than when I was in practice but the number is still large. They represent a subclass and they are harmless other than in the way they vote. They have, more often, been victimized by a super predator class. These people, who are not “Cat Ladies”, never openly identify when on the prowl because their victims may spot who they are and become alarmed.
Walz himself is a victim. It is why he is so effeminate and weak. He is a like vampire who was made into what he is by his far more dangerous progressive feminist wife. I have always advocated the consideration of the character of wives when electing or installing men into positions of power because they often create men like Walz.
Years ago I figured these people out, who they are and how they hunt. They are not happy with a world full of gentlemen who will die to protect women and children. Pretty feminine girls have a biological derived sense and do not feel safe and secure with such men to make families and children who grow up content and make the world a better and safer place. Walz let Minneapolis riot and burn while he was governor. He hid and did nothing while his wife extolled her exhilaration over the smell of burning rubber. She created who Walz is. Such women will not let boys be boys and girls be girls. They argue with biology with the intent of making victims that NAMBLA and the LGBTA communities can feed upon. There is no compassion in their activities. They are selfish and delight in feeding on prey they personally create by converting.
Ask yourself how those interested in protecting women and children could stand down and allow a border to serve as a gateway for sexual trafficking of women by the Cartels in Chihuahua, Sonora, and Tamaulipas? America has become the sex trafficking center of the world and that includes, as Vance pointed out, the trafficking of children who are all neatly ignored by Walz. Should we trust Harris? She helped create this epidemic? How about Walz? He is a co criminal participant. So no, I would trust him with helping women and children as much as I would trust him with negotiating with China, which he visited over thirty times, where women are subjugated and little girls can be found in overwhelming numbers in orphanages where several of my friends adopted them.
The damage these people have done was articulated by Charles Darwin not only in his novel “Great Expectations” but also by his comment in “Ba, Ba Black Sheep” when he said: “ When one has drunk deeply from the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and fear, all the love in the world cannot wholly take away that knowledge”. He was speaking about himself and projecting. I might add that there are not enough psychiatrists in the world to undo the damage. And that is especially so now that medicine, and especially psychology, has been infiltrated by the same type of people that created Tim Walz. How is he on Islam? That religious farce has degraded sensualism and deprives women of any grace and refinement along with any dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Islamic law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, will delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of fundamental Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. From my perspective both Harris and Walz should not be allowed to become emissaries who will continue to install, and allow to be propagated, more sexually related societal carnage. And so far I have not even touched on Marxism because on this site it is not even necessary.
I am flattered! Feel free.
I am not enamored of notoriety and wouldn’t post things like any of what you see here for public distribution where those who might take umbrage to them - might wish to hurt one - could identify me.
But - if there’s something you like and feel it is worthy of being shared - have at it.
I have never understood people who want public accolades - and I school my “boys” on the fact that it doesn’t matter if anyone knows who you are, what you did - or that you were as Edgar Cayce said re reincarnation that, “You were in a past life buried under the cherry tree in the backyard.”!
The closest I will stray towards that state is when I publish my Next Great American Novel that I am working on and when I begin a YouTube channel.
That will share the insights needed by young men of virtue, “sand”, character and power who are wanting to come to America to “be all they can be” or, those that I happen upon here in America - albeit sadly few and far between.
The channel will teach them how to ultimately - when they come to America; to move and groove, shake and bake and be able to go where the elite meet to eat - Puttin’ on the Ritz.
Thus facilitating, accelerating and affecting that effect with a young man by mentoring him in the arcane mysteries of “being American”!
As opposed to them having to literally spend decades on their own alone acquiring it - together we can in about the five years transfer what they need to know from me to them what they need to move at the same (almost) speed that we, “less than young” guys - like you and me can
Able to move seamlessly - with the greatest of ease - like the daring young man on the flying trapeze, flew through the air, traversed space and time at altitude (SMS) and,
then be able to move through any and all levels of American society - unobserved, but observing and understanding more than most even know is there to be known.
Takes me about five years of concerted effort doing the transferring with them receiving.
So that, one fine day, in the middle of the night - they won’t need me anymore - to stop them - mid-sentence abruptly and in stentorious fashion - when they say something grammatically incorrect or mispronounce - and hear me thundering - say, “WHAT did you just say?!”
And then they can begin - using the lessons I will pass on to them - verbally only -not written down - since some knowledge is too powerful to codify and write down - the principles that I shared with them, taught them over the years without them even knowing suspecting (We would be Chinese - we wary sneaky) - to their “boys” on down the line - and so on and so forth - henceforth - going forth through the years! LOL