Israel.  Anyone who puts out info is talking about her.  I studied religion in college and so I know something about the history of Israel and the region.  It’s so complicated that I would venture to say that nobody knows exactly how things went; but I do know that even the videos I’m seeing, and which I trust, contradict one another in some ways.  I freely admit that I am not an expert; and I freely admit that Harvard is not the go-to place for information.  They are wrong.  The place to go to is the people whose roots go deep there, and you don’t stop digging just when you find what you want the excavation to say; you keep digging until you dig all the way to the origin.  All the way.  And dare I say?  Even if you get to the actual bottom, you will NEVER know what went on behind closed doors of negotiations, ANY negotiations.  So don’t act like you know.  Stop yelling and hopping around and study history.  Outside the echo chamber.  And learn from a source outside of your family, by the way, or you professors: They are prejudiced.  And you don’t just kill a people. That’s genocide.

What I am an expert on is massacre.  And no, I didn’t study it.  I am a human being.  You just KNOW.  I just know that to spring a massacre on women and children, to specifically target them, is unconscionable and in fact, it is a deliberate act of war.  It is a deliberate decision to ignite a world war.  Did you get that?  And it is what happens in an echo chamber:  You start to think you are stronger, better, more right, smarter than you actually are.  That is the danger of closing off yourself from other voices that have a different perspective, a different opinion; dissenting voices have just as much right to them as you guys in the silo, listening to your own voices echoing back telling you how right you are.  Now, in the words of Benjamin Netanyahu, you are also ‘dead men’.  I hope America is able to dig down into the dangers of the echo chamber mentality; But I also believe these lessons will fly over the doddering heads of USA government like a bird protecting its nest.   Perhaps the bird will make one of these old fools fall up some stairs, or freeze their speech, or fall out of their wheelchair.

Side note:  How can you think putting a transvestite in an ad for US military recruitment would NOT ignite the passions of Hamas?  Or Hezbollah?  Regardless of your personal beliefs, you must know that the culture of the middle east would view that as great weakness of our military and also outright enrage them to murder as they laugh.  Their culture does not allow for this kind of behavior.  I get it; people want to be heard and be whom they are, but you can NOT ignore deep-rooted cultural norms of other countries.  You want to be global, here is lesson one.  Know where the land mines are and at least try not to step on them, unless your actions are part of a larger plan.  Unless you are trying to bring down a great nation. The problem is, none of the people making these advertisement decisions have ever studied history, and/or they only care about themselves…another American effort to ask to be defeated.  Only strong people can look outward at reality and face it.  The rest are cowards.  People, some other cultures view you as a freak who needs to be eradicated.  You had better know it.  

Radicals in America need to know they will be eliminated first if we are attacked.  Your special rights will mean nothing to the ones who started this war.  They will kill you.  But I digress.

The problem with this love of murder and violence is that you don’t foist it upon yourselves or upon your like kind; you visit it on people who are just living their lives.  I live in the US and for God’s sake I disagree with 90% of what our ‘government’ does.  But I am a good person, I work hard, I don’t even like killing insects.   Now, in spite of that, I expect this middle east violence to come home to me.  In fact, I’ve expected it for a long time because my government embarrasses me; they are weak and ridiculous and they do not represent Americans.  Bumbling, stammering outright pandering and corruption sent out a bat signal to terrorists.  I believe this current weak America has a lot to do with Hamas and its comrades starting this war, because I believe they stopped laughing at us and started building weapons.  And collecting money from the current administration…and I use that word very loosely…in America.  How is this behavior not part of a plan to create war? 

It’s hard to watch Biden slurring through a lie, while he knows he just gave 6 billion dollars to Iran; and knowing if he keels over, Kamala Harris and her cackling word salad ineptitude would step up to that microphone to further embarrass us.  We’re so screwed, and we are also responsible.  Oh don’t act surprised or offended.  If you have a working brain, you know this.

I used to work in science and had the opportunity to do some work for Israel military once, through my company.  It was my first  experience with an huge ethical dilemma.  If I solved the problem people would most certainly die and if I did not solve it, people would die.  I felt nauseated.  I didn’t know the importance of my little part of the analysis until I arrived at the conference room to present my results.  But I did my job to the best of my ability.  I did find the reason for this ‘material failure’, and I presented it.

What I learned that day is that you just DON’T want to fuck with Israel military.  I learned it just from some presentation material I was allowed to see.  That material did NOT show the whole story, but it amazed me nonetheless.  I was also impressed because the lead scientist there was a woman.  I did not expect that, but it did show me that Israel was in the 21st century, not stuck in religious rules from the 19th century and earlier.

I’m so sad for the Israeli people and others who were massacred, and for their loved ones, and I’m also proud of Israel for taking a stand.  I believe that you really do reap what you sow, I believe what goes around comes around, I believe you don’t throw out massacre karma and expect to walk away from that behavior unscathed.  I feel the deep psychological irony of feeling glad that Israel is finally understanding that you cannot hug Hamas and expect anything other than murder in return.  It seems Israel is acknowledging, in front of the world, their understanding of the web of racism and a desire to commit genocide against the Jews.  I feel the prick of guilt about being glad Hamas are getting their comeuppance, finally.  And I feel proud that the IDF look sharp and well put together, barely breaking a sweat.

And I am still in data gathering mode as I watch the reactions around the world. Again, I am ashamed of my fellow countrymen; I stop short of calling them Americans.  I find some kind of satisfaction in seeing my predictions come true.  And I also can say that Biden might need yet a second war for his poll numbers, but it’s not working.  He needs to go to his basement permanently and let someone with a working brain and no connected puppet strings, take back our country, make us strong and respected again.  Everything Biden has done seems directed at destroying America.   Well, his puppet masters anyway.  Biden’s brain is on permanent vacation.

I also find it quite interesting that Egypt built a wall to keep the Palestinians OUT of their country, and that none of their Arab fellow nations welcome them either.  You are judged by the company you keep, and it seems that while you don’t embrace your ‘company’, you can surely use them to accomplish your murderous goals from ‘behind the scenes’.  I wonder why nobody wants to let the Palestinians in their country?  Well, Hamas is why.  And yes, not all Palestinians are terrorists, to be clear.  Again this is what happens when you let a so-called elected government take over a people for their own gain and their own goals.  Americans, are you listening? Are you seeing the outcome here?  

Now, Israel has announced that they are done, finished, over trying to exist and do the right thing for their people.  My very first reaction to the attack on Israel was, “Oh no.  Hamas has no idea what they have done.”  You don’t poke that sleeping lion.  You don’t fuck with Israel.  Israel do not care where they have to send their troops to cut off the head of the Hamas snake, and it makes me laugh that they ignore the whining “Oh let’s have peace” tired, old mantras.  Step aside crybabies.  There IS no peace with terrorists among us.  And as much as we dislike death, this is what has to happen to the terrorists.  And it does’t need to stop with Hamas.  And unless you applaud massacre, unless you want to starve, unless you want armageddon, you had better get that.  As for me, I believe average IQ continues to drop and we are seeing the results in living color.

Yes, this may lead to a third world war, which may make the crybabies in America happy, until they lose their wifi.  Which they will.  Until they are chased by murders who don’t respect their LGBTQ-ness, and instead find it a perfectly good reason for beheading. Until your atheist ways make you a certain target. Until they find that the ones chasing them don’t respect ‘me me me’ but rather respect their ancient culture.  This isn’t going to end well.  Hey, I’m a senior so I’m done, for sure.  I’m a part of one of the most blatantly discriminated against groups in America.  I get it.

Now, having said all of that let me reiterate:  You do not fuck with Israel.  One 20 year war correspondent veteran said of Israel’s tanks moving in: “I’ve never seen so many tanks in one place, ever.”  Told ya.  I laughed at that one.  

Now watch Israel work.