I sadly think that the war is lost. Just the other day, Gavin Newsome (Governor of California, and future candidate for President), slurred Israel with the apartheid label. He has not walked back his comment as of today, nor do I anticipate that he will. The Democratic Party in the U.S. is moving increasingly rapidly in the same direction as Labour in the U.K., and its base is in love with words like "genocide", "apartheid", "Zionazis", "baby killers", etc., with these words being directly solely at Israel and Jews. There is no pushback in the political ranks. The media echoes these accusations with no critical analysis whatsoever.
I share your depression, but we must believe that by our advocacy we are making a difference. The problem is that very few are focused on The Second War.
I am focused on the War on Truth, too. It makes me feel like I’m living in someone else’s hallucination.
Khamanei had a special doomsday clock that predicted the year that Israel would be destroyed. He updated it not long ago. Israel would be destroyed in 2030.
With antizionism conditioning now embedded in US K-12 education, via critical frameworks and/or “Teach Palestine [lies]” curricula, and blatant revisionist Middle East history and the antizionist canon taught across university disciplines, the US has now produced 20ish years worth of antizionist eliminationist voters.
There are people fighting against the indoctrination and lack of viewpoint diversity, but I see no one making the argument that allowing professors to use their precious “academic freedom” to teach LIES, is a grotesque abuse of the purpose of the university.
The universities produce the K-12 teachers who are so ethically deficient that they believe that they are virtuous when they use their kindergarten or fifth grade classrooms as tools for social change - and the change they want is to “Free Palestine” because “no one is free until everyone is free” and other nonsensical platitudes. Teaching that “Zionists are white oppressors” to children makes the Jewish kids ashamed of their identities and the rest of the kids into “virtuous”, self-righteous bullies.
So back to Tehran’s antizionist doomsday clock. My theory is that Khamanei’s 2030 prediction for the destruction of Israel was based on the number of years it would take to create a passionately Israel-hating US electorate, who would demand an end to the US-Israel alliance. This same group of Americans would also become the slate of candidates.
My second theory is that Khamenei was predicting how long it would take for Muslim migration and dawah to put a 12er Shia in the WH, who would either back all Arab states in a massive attack on Israel or would launch a nuclear attack on Israel.
What do these theories have to do with the War on Truth? They are the natural outcomes of an education system that indoctrinates ideological clones by teaching lies, distortions, and inversions and rewarding those who take the message to the outside world.
If the teachers colleges, universities, and K-12s are stopped NOW, and Truth is reestablished as a core value of education, then we win the war. If it isn’t, then the US becomes a dystopian hell for people like me.
Israel has already pivoted away from US dependency, so unless the first 12er president launches an attack himself, I don’t think the loss of US allyship spells the end of Israel.
None of this is to say that the Death of Truth isn’t dystopian in and of itself, even without the tangible downstream effects, but it’s the downstream effects that keep me up at night. That and the fact that I’m flummoxed at how little anyone seems to care that our schools are exploiting the developing minds of children and young adults, hijacking their free will and their lives to attain a stupid, false millenarian end.
written with clarity and depth, elements most humans disavow and lack, reflecting on fate and accomplishments and how it could have been strengthened the resolve and clarity and depth of our experience as the extraordinary undefinable intergenerational eternal Jew, I came across the term cosmic indifference last week regarding Israelis and no one else has it, the confidence resiliency and ability to shrug with a gfh I don't care every accusation has been flung none of them matter it's on you conclusion strengthening the resolve and clarity
Gaza is Israeli Jewish land and Trump and sons are meddling interfering and seemingly progressing with a un 2030 City with IDF guarding degenerate Jihadi spawn in luxury accommodations instead of sovereign Jewish territory being inhabited by Jews not being told what to do by the UN or meddling interfering outsiders
for those who are inundated with the deranged replies the accusations discussed of proof 🤦🏼♀️?/ liar 👀/so what 🤷🏼♂️ trigger the already triggered and
turn the tables with disengagement and the onus of it's on you
I've embraced the schopenhauer meets schadenfreude aspect, stupid uninformed people have always existed we've never had the power to slap back, as the chief Rabbi of the nation of Alan my chairmanship of the committee of consequences and distributions of kosher saltings into the gaping self-created pre wounded idiots are satisfying🤗
The blood libel, demonising, vilifying, gaslighting the Jews is two thousand years old.
Why do we expect something else?
There was a short silence after the Holocaust regarding the Jews who want to control the world, who are reptilians, or demons, or some other kind of vampires.
This silence is over. It was anyway only a blip of fifty to seventy years, in a history of two thousand years.
Let us stop to want to be liked, to be understood, to get justice.
Let us become stronger and stronger, and take well care of ourselves.
It will take hundreds of years until the world gets used that we are really, indefinitely, seriously, surely, not anymore the scapegoat for the darkest darkness in Christians, Islamists, Leftist, Rightist, atheists, racists, extremists, LGBTQ+++, rich, poor, achievers, losers, and all the others where darkness dwells.
Ian Mark Sirota and Ruth: take distance. As Jews, you are too precious to waste time on scum.
I would accept this conclusion Donca if we were trying, but as I say, Substackers (and Israel) seem too concerned about the first war over the second war even when ultimately the second war will decide our fate. I am one of the only - if not only - Substack that fights the second war as the priority.
I very much appreciate it, Daniel. This is why I read all your posts and chapters in your book. Very much appreciated.
But you preach for the believers. I doubt that any Leftist or Islamist has read even one line in one of your articles. Or in your book, for that matter.
The only solution I can think of is to win the war with Iran, topple Iran's regime, develop more weapons, develop AI, stand as a nation on our own feet, force upon our enemies the signing of the Cyrus Accord and of the Abrahamic Accord, continue to innovate, to flourish, to marry and have kids, to be happy.
I sadly think that the war is lost. Just the other day, Gavin Newsome (Governor of California, and future candidate for President), slurred Israel with the apartheid label. He has not walked back his comment as of today, nor do I anticipate that he will. The Democratic Party in the U.S. is moving increasingly rapidly in the same direction as Labour in the U.K., and its base is in love with words like "genocide", "apartheid", "Zionazis", "baby killers", etc., with these words being directly solely at Israel and Jews. There is no pushback in the political ranks. The media echoes these accusations with no critical analysis whatsoever.
It is incredibly depressing and stress-inducing.
I share your depression, but we must believe that by our advocacy we are making a difference. The problem is that very few are focused on The Second War.
I am focused on the War on Truth, too. It makes me feel like I’m living in someone else’s hallucination.
Khamanei had a special doomsday clock that predicted the year that Israel would be destroyed. He updated it not long ago. Israel would be destroyed in 2030.
With antizionism conditioning now embedded in US K-12 education, via critical frameworks and/or “Teach Palestine [lies]” curricula, and blatant revisionist Middle East history and the antizionist canon taught across university disciplines, the US has now produced 20ish years worth of antizionist eliminationist voters.
There are people fighting against the indoctrination and lack of viewpoint diversity, but I see no one making the argument that allowing professors to use their precious “academic freedom” to teach LIES, is a grotesque abuse of the purpose of the university.
The universities produce the K-12 teachers who are so ethically deficient that they believe that they are virtuous when they use their kindergarten or fifth grade classrooms as tools for social change - and the change they want is to “Free Palestine” because “no one is free until everyone is free” and other nonsensical platitudes. Teaching that “Zionists are white oppressors” to children makes the Jewish kids ashamed of their identities and the rest of the kids into “virtuous”, self-righteous bullies.
So back to Tehran’s antizionist doomsday clock. My theory is that Khamanei’s 2030 prediction for the destruction of Israel was based on the number of years it would take to create a passionately Israel-hating US electorate, who would demand an end to the US-Israel alliance. This same group of Americans would also become the slate of candidates.
My second theory is that Khamenei was predicting how long it would take for Muslim migration and dawah to put a 12er Shia in the WH, who would either back all Arab states in a massive attack on Israel or would launch a nuclear attack on Israel.
What do these theories have to do with the War on Truth? They are the natural outcomes of an education system that indoctrinates ideological clones by teaching lies, distortions, and inversions and rewarding those who take the message to the outside world.
If the teachers colleges, universities, and K-12s are stopped NOW, and Truth is reestablished as a core value of education, then we win the war. If it isn’t, then the US becomes a dystopian hell for people like me.
Israel has already pivoted away from US dependency, so unless the first 12er president launches an attack himself, I don’t think the loss of US allyship spells the end of Israel.
None of this is to say that the Death of Truth isn’t dystopian in and of itself, even without the tangible downstream effects, but it’s the downstream effects that keep me up at night. That and the fact that I’m flummoxed at how little anyone seems to care that our schools are exploiting the developing minds of children and young adults, hijacking their free will and their lives to attain a stupid, false millenarian end.
Very well said.
written with clarity and depth, elements most humans disavow and lack, reflecting on fate and accomplishments and how it could have been strengthened the resolve and clarity and depth of our experience as the extraordinary undefinable intergenerational eternal Jew, I came across the term cosmic indifference last week regarding Israelis and no one else has it, the confidence resiliency and ability to shrug with a gfh I don't care every accusation has been flung none of them matter it's on you conclusion strengthening the resolve and clarity
Gaza is Israeli Jewish land and Trump and sons are meddling interfering and seemingly progressing with a un 2030 City with IDF guarding degenerate Jihadi spawn in luxury accommodations instead of sovereign Jewish territory being inhabited by Jews not being told what to do by the UN or meddling interfering outsiders
for those who are inundated with the deranged replies the accusations discussed of proof 🤦🏼♀️?/ liar 👀/so what 🤷🏼♂️ trigger the already triggered and
turn the tables with disengagement and the onus of it's on you
I've embraced the schopenhauer meets schadenfreude aspect, stupid uninformed people have always existed we've never had the power to slap back, as the chief Rabbi of the nation of Alan my chairmanship of the committee of consequences and distributions of kosher saltings into the gaping self-created pre wounded idiots are satisfying🤗
Thank-you for your kind feedback and detailed reflection.
The only place safe for Jews is Israel.
The blood libel, demonising, vilifying, gaslighting the Jews is two thousand years old.
Why do we expect something else?
There was a short silence after the Holocaust regarding the Jews who want to control the world, who are reptilians, or demons, or some other kind of vampires.
This silence is over. It was anyway only a blip of fifty to seventy years, in a history of two thousand years.
Let us stop to want to be liked, to be understood, to get justice.
Let us become stronger and stronger, and take well care of ourselves.
It will take hundreds of years until the world gets used that we are really, indefinitely, seriously, surely, not anymore the scapegoat for the darkest darkness in Christians, Islamists, Leftist, Rightist, atheists, racists, extremists, LGBTQ+++, rich, poor, achievers, losers, and all the others where darkness dwells.
Ian Mark Sirota and Ruth: take distance. As Jews, you are too precious to waste time on scum.
I would accept this conclusion Donca if we were trying, but as I say, Substackers (and Israel) seem too concerned about the first war over the second war even when ultimately the second war will decide our fate. I am one of the only - if not only - Substack that fights the second war as the priority.
I very much appreciate it, Daniel. This is why I read all your posts and chapters in your book. Very much appreciated.
But you preach for the believers. I doubt that any Leftist or Islamist has read even one line in one of your articles. Or in your book, for that matter.
The only solution I can think of is to win the war with Iran, topple Iran's regime, develop more weapons, develop AI, stand as a nation on our own feet, force upon our enemies the signing of the Cyrus Accord and of the Abrahamic Accord, continue to innovate, to flourish, to marry and have kids, to be happy.