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| The World is Freaking Out Because Its Favorite Victims Suddenly Became Human Butchers |
| 2023-10-29 |
| [JewishJournal] What do you do when a cause you deeply cherish betrays you? What do you do when you spend a lifetime fighting for the Palestinian cause, and then, overnight, it becomes associated with the butchering, beheading, raping and mutilating of 1400 people, including infants, babies, women, rave dancers, families and the elderly? How do you spin that? You might try to deny and downplay, but with all the graphic and gruesome videos out there, that’s not easy. And as much as you’d love to erase the word Palestinian next to the word Hamas, you know the connection is a fact. No, the only real option is to make so much noise that you drown out the horrible news about the mass murder of Jews. That’s why immediately after October 7, we saw global protests against Israel and in support of Palestinians. This was before Israel launched its counterattacks. And naturally, when Israel did go after Hamas, the attacks against Jews have only accelerated. On streets around the world and across college campuses, Jew haters are now out in full force. The slaughtering of 1400 Jews is all but forgotten; now it’s all about Israel’s reaction to the massacres. Whether it’s the media jumping to (falsely) blame Israel for the bombing of a Gaza hospital, or the global cries for a "ceasefire" before Israel has even entered Gaza to eliminate the terrorists and deter future attacks, the world is doing all it can to downplay the narrative of "Palestinians as butchers." The world’s most popular victims, after all, cannot be allowed to be butchers. For half a century, Palestinians have managed to charm the global elite with the seductive narrative of glorious, helpless victimhood. In a world that worships the oppressed, especially when they’re not white or western, Palestinians became the forever oppressed. The influential Palestinian scholar-activist Edward Said’s 1978 book, "Orientalism," which portrayed the West’s view of the East as demeaning and ignorant, helped shape and popularize the Palestinian narrative. As a revisionist movement began to associate the West strictly with the sins of colonialism, imperialism, racism and capitalist abuse, Palestinians became the Swiss army knife of causes for the virtue signaling set. Accurate or not, they had it all. Amazingly, Palestinians have managed to hold on to their elite victim status despite decades of terror attacks against Israel. No matter how many Jews they killed, victimhood has defined them. You could have millions of genocide victims somewhere in Africa, or millions of oppressed slaves in China, or millions of refugees in Syria— no group of victims has been able to dislodge the Palestinians from the top of the victim food chain. Because NOBODY is actually pro-Palestinian, they're all anti-Semites. And they have some, well trained, household Jews to obscure this fact. Of course, the Palestinians have always had an ace in the hole: the Jews. As long as their enemy was Jewish, Palestinians knew they would continue to have the world’s undivided attention. Have you noticed that we rarely hear about those millions of other Palestinians who live in much worse conditions in Jordan and Lebanon? Why should we? There are no Jews involved. The world’s oldest hatred, in short, has fueled the remarkable run of the world’s most coddled victims. ...Suddenly, for one gruesome day, Jews were the oppressed and Palestinians were the oppressors. This was no garden variety Palestinian attack where a few Jews get killed, or a few hundred Hamas rockets are neutralized by Iron Dome and bomb shelters. We’ve gotten used to those. No, this was the mass slaughter of Jews by Palestinians in the most barbaric way possible. This was evil in concentrated form. ...Indeed, October 7 was so horrific it threatened to ambush the Palestinian cause itself. These activists are not stupid. They’ve seen the videos. They know what happened. Because the savagery was done in the name of Palestinians, they saw the danger that their cherished cause could be forever contaminated. So what did they do to save the world’s most popular victims? They did what people have done for centuries: They changed the subject and blamed the Jews. That always works. |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #6 More Than 300 Pro-Hamas Morons Arrested at Grand Central |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-29 15:50 |
| #5 Lots of clarity coming out of the current festivities. I loves me some sunshine. It will have to do til branding and notches in ears come back in vogue. Hell, the people on the receiving end might even like it. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-10-29 12:09 |
| #4 They ain't pro-Palestinians, they are JEW HATERS. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2023-10-29 11:38 |
| #3 They are who we thought they are. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-10-29 11:18 |
| #2 Lots of clarity coming out of the current festivities. I loves me some sunshine. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-10-29 09:58 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Otto Gurly-Brown9938 2023-10-29 07:11 |