Rudyard Kipling is one of the greatest poets who ever lived! This poem by him written in 1919 was prophetic. Kipling was basically a clairvoyant who foresaw the malaise that Israel finds itself in today. The so-called "educated elite" of the western world don't think for themselves they just go along with the crowd. This is why the higher education system in the West is gradually on the decline, Jewish students and faculty's safety is under threat every day, universities are getting slapped with lawsuits left and right, and young people are more and more are spurning college in favor of going into the trades. The Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Hamas mobs on college campuses are just aloud to run around doing whatever they want. Administrators are so weak and spineless and so afraid of losing profits with how corporatized colleges have become, their afraid of losing money and bad PR. But the funny thing is, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy because ironically, they end up losing money and getting bad PR anyway. There's a reason donations to Ivy League colleges are way down.
The rest of the poem to me represents the international community's insistence that if Israel would just put down their weapons, negotiate a ceasefire, extend an olive branch to the Palestinians, and end all their security measures, everything would be hunky dory. But this shows how disconnected from reality they are. If Israel did all those things, here's what the result would be: Hamas would perpetrate another October 7th, this time on a larger scale with the assistance of the Palestinian Authority to finish the job the Arab countries started in 1948. This is exactly why Israel is doing what they are right now because they are threatened by a genocidal terrorist group. A group that on October 7th committed some of the most heinous war crimes in human history. They burned whole families alive, beheaded foreign workers, sprayed playgrounds with bullets, mass raped young women and stuck sharp objects into their vaginas to torture them, kidnapped hundreds of innocent civilians including men, women, children, babies, old people, Holocaust survivors, Israeli Arabs, foreign nationals, and tourists, shot dogs in the head for fun, sacked, burned and looted Kibbutzims, and did pogroms against Jews. The world seems to have forgotten that. Their too busy condemning Israel for defending itself and falling hook, line and sinker for Hamas propaganda.
I have a confession to make. I've changed my mind about the Gaza War. I now support the war and have come to see what the IDF is doing now in seizing Gaza and occupying it is the only option the Jewish state has at this point to once and for all eliminate Hamas and rescue the 24 remaining living hostages. Don't get me wrong, Benjamin Netanyahu and the current governing coalition are still terrible and a quasi-dictatorship that needs to go. But whatever I may think of Israel's leadership, Israel's very survival depends on what the IDF are currently doing. I don't want to hear excuses! "Oh, Israel's got nuclear weapons.", "Oh Israel's a regional power.", "Oh, they've got the strongest army in the Middle East." NONE of that changes Israel is still David going up against the Arab Goliath! Nor does it change they are fighting the Fourth Reich basically. Hamas ARE the modern-day Nazis! Make no mistake if this was the 1940s, Hamas would be fighting right alongside the Afrika Korps and their Italian allies!
A fascinating perspective Noah and interesting to hear about your change of heart on Gaza. I'm trying to compute the new reality too.
This poem speaks of so much that afflicts us from the genocides of the English language to the consequences of social policy to our low birth rates to following fashionable new ideas to...
Rudyard Kipling is one of the greatest poets who ever lived! This poem by him written in 1919 was prophetic. Kipling was basically a clairvoyant who foresaw the malaise that Israel finds itself in today. The so-called "educated elite" of the western world don't think for themselves they just go along with the crowd. This is why the higher education system in the West is gradually on the decline, Jewish students and faculty's safety is under threat every day, universities are getting slapped with lawsuits left and right, and young people are more and more are spurning college in favor of going into the trades. The Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Hamas mobs on college campuses are just aloud to run around doing whatever they want. Administrators are so weak and spineless and so afraid of losing profits with how corporatized colleges have become, their afraid of losing money and bad PR. But the funny thing is, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy because ironically, they end up losing money and getting bad PR anyway. There's a reason donations to Ivy League colleges are way down.
The rest of the poem to me represents the international community's insistence that if Israel would just put down their weapons, negotiate a ceasefire, extend an olive branch to the Palestinians, and end all their security measures, everything would be hunky dory. But this shows how disconnected from reality they are. If Israel did all those things, here's what the result would be: Hamas would perpetrate another October 7th, this time on a larger scale with the assistance of the Palestinian Authority to finish the job the Arab countries started in 1948. This is exactly why Israel is doing what they are right now because they are threatened by a genocidal terrorist group. A group that on October 7th committed some of the most heinous war crimes in human history. They burned whole families alive, beheaded foreign workers, sprayed playgrounds with bullets, mass raped young women and stuck sharp objects into their vaginas to torture them, kidnapped hundreds of innocent civilians including men, women, children, babies, old people, Holocaust survivors, Israeli Arabs, foreign nationals, and tourists, shot dogs in the head for fun, sacked, burned and looted Kibbutzims, and did pogroms against Jews. The world seems to have forgotten that. Their too busy condemning Israel for defending itself and falling hook, line and sinker for Hamas propaganda.
I have a confession to make. I've changed my mind about the Gaza War. I now support the war and have come to see what the IDF is doing now in seizing Gaza and occupying it is the only option the Jewish state has at this point to once and for all eliminate Hamas and rescue the 24 remaining living hostages. Don't get me wrong, Benjamin Netanyahu and the current governing coalition are still terrible and a quasi-dictatorship that needs to go. But whatever I may think of Israel's leadership, Israel's very survival depends on what the IDF are currently doing. I don't want to hear excuses! "Oh, Israel's got nuclear weapons.", "Oh Israel's a regional power.", "Oh, they've got the strongest army in the Middle East." NONE of that changes Israel is still David going up against the Arab Goliath! Nor does it change they are fighting the Fourth Reich basically. Hamas ARE the modern-day Nazis! Make no mistake if this was the 1940s, Hamas would be fighting right alongside the Afrika Korps and their Italian allies!
A fascinating perspective Noah and interesting to hear about your change of heart on Gaza. I'm trying to compute the new reality too.
This poem speaks of so much that afflicts us from the genocides of the English language to the consequences of social policy to our low birth rates to following fashionable new ideas to...
While Harvard loves them, NOT ONE Arab (20)or Moslem country(50)will take in any Palestinians. Why is that Harvard?