If the New Right (or whatever you want to call it) had a Funk & Wagnalls of their own, I think "globalist" might be defined as such: n. one who seeks to undermine the sovereignty of nation-states with the goal of establishing a system of supra-national or global governance.
The Trump administration endorses billions to Argentina and Israel to counter the "globalist" opposition that would have those states cowed by international pressure or diktat.
Re the six-year old that you mentioned: I reminds me of when I was walking with an elderly friend in the tiny, isolated town of Lakeview, Oregon. We spoke to a young visitor, and he asked my friend, "Have you lived here all your life?" My friend smiled and replied, "Not yet!"
To the Village Idiwitt, We the people of the United States do indeed have a government as good as its people…that is, the people who actually voted for an Il Duce wannabe meets Tony Soprano in the flesh…screen life imitating the real political world. What is the appeal of this goon that braggadocioly, literally shittes on a golden toilet…and how did President Duterte, I mean Trump become so rich and famous…popular and powerful. The Roman Colosseum/speedway no longer seats 100,000 people wanting to be thrilled, but the boob tube sure does hold 100,000,000 skulls full of mush glued together just dying to see their hero take out another kulak. And that is just it, from The Don to the House of Thani to the Haus of Saud to Chairman Mao, I mean Xi…to Putin, monsters, I mean mobsters play by different rules rules, shamelessly pull from the bottom of the deck and will throw off anybody of the deck of the ship to get ahead in life. The Don definitely knows the code of the school yard and would never take on someone bigger than him…shows much respect to those that are strong, regardless of why and how…and he will always pick fights with those that are weaker…and pay tribute to anyone he can that roots for him. Last body count in the so called war on drug is fourteen people executed without due process and their is no scholar at the Heritage Foundation that could give a flying…let alone that the knuckle draggers that stormed our nations sacred Capital chanting HANG MIKE PENCE at the behest of a sitting President…five years years gone by, they Proud Boyz are not in jail, but hailed by The Chief…from the the Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office.
We are not fascist Italy now, but we the people have a government as good as Herman Goring’s, I defecate you negatory, purported last words…make Germany great again. Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment and the shameless, mendacious, narcissistic, megalomaniac, crony capitalist pig, two bitconman, casino card shark magnate, FTX, I mean NFT huckster, reality tv porn star, WWE heel, GOP Crasher, anti Truth Neo Nationalist Sociopath, formerly the world’s biggest midnight tweeker, I mean tweeter on the soft political porn cite XXX, formerly known as Twitter and Americas Now andddd is still your President”….Donald J Trump!!! God HELP U.S. We the Living in Idiocracy. Here we are now, Trump entertain U.S. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward…I cannot say enough good things about you Jay as you refuse to look the other way at the Casino the White House “Ace” has turned it into…Peace through superior mental firepower
"I have some further questions: Does favoring international trade make you a globalist? Does favoring alliances? Collective security? Does an interest in other peoples, other cultures, and other languages make you a globalist? Liking spicy food?"
Yes to all. Maybe even a cosmopolitan globalist, though being a Cosmopolitan Globalist takes being Claire Berlinski –
The kid has much to learn about golf, and life. What one says about the other would also be a great symposium topic. Best of luck to him from someone who still struggles with both 60+ years ahead of him.
Mr. Nordlinger, good piece. Language is often used as a political whip, and I am a big fan of understatement. If you have to use a bunch of hyperbole to prove your point, it is a weak point.
I, at this point, only support aid to Israel if it can be ascertained that they are not violating the rules of war or acting in an inhumane manner, and if they are advancing a better solution, that considers the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinians, not Hamas, but the average non political citizens who living in a police state which Hamas runs, did not ask for this war. My favorite quote is Nicholas Kristoff who said "“If your moral compass is attuned to the suffering of only one side, your compass is broken, and so is your humanity.”
I am no more a Hamas apologist than you, but I take seriously violations of conduct of war, and I think the principled conservatives, like Jonah at Dispatch, have refused to grapple with that, I have heard David French mention it, but most of what I see is cherry picking the real, but not the whole picture, apologism for the terrorists while avoiding the avoidable suffering of the civilian population. And I agree, since we are talking language, that it is not the hyperbole of genocide, which imo is a stupid argument, but neither does it make it right.
Now with the peace plan hopefully things will change, but my prior take was that before we continue to supply Israel, and, as opposed to say Ukraine, they are quite capable of defending themselves, we should make sure that there is no systematic violation of the conduct of war and that there is a minimum of civilian harm.
Hi Wolfy, I actually share your sentiment that many of my conservative heroes of mine do not seem to adequately address the alleged abuses of the some Israelis…let alone some seem to give Netanyahu a free pass when it comes to tragic human and geopolitical costs of his policies…But, just to restate, I should like you to challenge Jay more so….than alluding to his former colleagues at a formerly distinguished publication…”Against Trump” has turned into a damn near immorally, insufficiently anti Trump, political porn mag…and I am not talking about American Greatness…as what’s left of The Editors all to often just look the other way because…they still like many of his policies and ignore they are literally swimming in a putrid wake of Trumpism that is draining into a cess pool that will be the ruin of U.S. if the whims of a megalomaniac, anti Truth Neo Nationalist Sociopath are not put a stop too…But don’t get me started on The Dons crimes against humanity… and his willing Capos represent…as Jays commentary suits us so well we are both happily willing to pay…But that is a topic for another day, but it is analogous to the creep show that is Netanyahu…and much like the Democracy that still is the United States…the two on again, off again, on again Commanders and Chief…I still have not given up when they are out of power, both will be finally held accountable by the new powers that be…But, when it comes to war casualties, just as I don’t fret about “‘what about Dresden’…’what about Hiroshima’”…I will repeat my play on a kids game called hide and go seek “Hamas…Hamas…come out wherever you are with your bloody hands up”…But this I do fear, as much as I would not like to believe…the Palestinians are nothing like my fighting Irish Catholic brethren…The I.R.A. was a terrorist organization, but it sure as hell was not endorsed by any legitimate authority that I can remember, and the I.R.A. sure as hell did not have hundreds of thousands of people’s parading in the streets, hooting and hollering with joy after one of their armies bombs went off at a mall. I don’t want to get all Hitchens on you, but unlike Christianity, Islamism does kinda poison the well from which a super majority of Palestinians seem to have happily partaken from…hence I do not see many Gazans coming out on the streets and yelling to the I.D.F…”look, look, over here..Please get these P.L.O. out of here, I mean Hamas” (When you have a one party terrorist cell in charge for three quarters of a century…again, you reap what you sow). We both should hope and pray the Palestinians make like the Germans, unconditionally surrender and admit 100% guilt for the bloody war they started…and participated in…for this I do believe…if the Palestinians were to do as the Germans and Japanese did…There will be no more blood, malice towards none and charity for all…and even the crazed Zionists will be held accountable for their unforgivable deeds thinking some Scriptures legitimate their crimes against humanity…And like the Irish, a super majority of Israelis are not diehard religious fanatics, like the Palestinians…I wish you could say I am wrong…I would like to be proved wrong…by a simple experiment…Go anywhere in Gaza and start railing against “the joozes” being the cause of all the worlds problems and tell me how much protestations you will hear from the populace…speaking of hyperbole…I don’t think it is an exaggeration you will hear a lot of hooting and hollering. The more things change, the more things stay the same in Palestine, for a very bad reason (when Hitch called it a “grotesque plagiary of the Old and New Testaments” he could say it without any riots breaking out at the local bookstore). Thanks for engaging. And God bless the U.S.A. that we can and always will be able too, in spite of the powers that be here…The Dons time soon will pass, forgive me Jesus, the sooner the better. Gotta run on 🍺✌️
Respectfully Wolfy, as I have attempted to engage with you this past early August…when you took a cheap shot across the bow at Jonah via Jay’s Substack…and you did not much care for my not agreeing with you that Jonah is insufficiently critical of Israel…therefore…
But, to the Village Idiwitt this is not hyperbole- HAMAS…HAMAS come out from wherever you are, with your bloody hands up…and then there will be peace in Palestine…The problem is Wolfy, like the Germans fighting to the bitter end, they know they are right and still blame all their worlds problems on (hat tip Jonah) The Joooozes. Like Germany with the Nazis, Palestine needs to be de Hamasified, and sorry to say, collectively they reap what they sowed. I grieve for the innocent children…but not any of the stoneage Romeo’s that is a super majority of Palestinians that again, blame all their worlds problems on, speaking of a bunch of hyperbole….the jooozes…Gotta run on. 🍺✌️
You would have to define cheap shot, and as an espouser of understatement you might just say you disagreed. I bring up Jonah, because, as somebody I respect and subscribe to Dispatch he is an intelligent guy, and he reflects the general view of the conservative non Trumpers on Israel which Jay might entertain, but as I see much on the right they only acknowledge the problems on one side, which I dont deny. It is worth opposing the Hamas apologists and Intifada fan club, but that doesn't mean not holding Israel to account for their negligence in causing civilian harm. The question remains is Israel following the rules of war and minimizing civilian harm, and since neither of us absolutely knows, there is no press allowed, but our taxes support the IDF, shouldn't we ascertain that. Not to mention the situation on the West Bank where armed settlers harass the population and land continues to be expropriated.
I don't oppose the need to degrade Hamas, though I think Netanyahu is deluded that he is going to wipe them out as much as we will ever rid the world of ISIS or drugs.
Back to Jonah, my disagreement, and I dont think that it is cheap, is that nobody is considering how bad Netanyahu's policies are because you can cherry pick how bad Hamas is or argue that it isn't genocide which I dont think it is. Genocide implies intentional where I just think Israel is negligent. At a minimum Israel has lost most all support in the world, and even in the US for the first time majorities don't support Israel. Opposing Netanyahu is not opposing Israel or supporting Hamas in the same way that opposing Trump is not opposing America.
Comrade (the right wing progressive in me, a.k.a. Libertarian in my youth always liked that word…much as it has been bloodied…literally…)…Respectfully, a cheap shot behind a man’s back…or online…could be writing of a man who cannot speak for himself, all the while expecting another man to speak for another man…just because their comrades. You and I are too Dispatchers…in reading and in writing about…But last I checked, this is not an understatement…this is someone else’s Substack. Just as it is understatement to say you read something that I disagreed with…with you! Get it….I know why you brought up Jonah and clearly said so….Jonah is so insufficiently questioning of our paid ally in the Middle East…He does not acknowledge what you acknowledge and attack him on…Don’t need to restate this, but non Trumpers are Republicans to…But the majority of Trumper voters are “Rightist”, like a super majority of Sandernistas are “Leftist”, not really Democrats…As to the 64 thousand dollar question, to the Village Idiwitt…once Hamas control of Gaza is neutralized, the Israelis will do everything to fix what they had to break and yeah…war criminals will not get away with it anywhere close to the ones on the Left Bank, I mean Gaza will always be celebrated by their Stone Age Romeo’s friends and neighbors…i mean most Palestinians…So, can you really blame the jooozes (not saying you are Wolfy, just want you to know, not an understatement, how you sound to my big ears when I think who really started on October 7th…and how it reminded me of the O.J. Verdict…whitey got what was coming to him). I ain’t got nothing to defend the jackwads that dress like the Amish and act like the polish egged on by Nazis…the West Bank probably should be returned to Jordan and a free pass given to anyone that wants to cross Israel to be with their band of brothers…and all costs should be beared by the House of Thani and Haus of Saud (the last sentence is pure political pipe dreams…but talk about paying for war)….as to Isis and drugs, fitting you compared the, as I know neither will be wiped from the face of Mother Earth….but it sure as hell is worth trying…until bad karma gets U.S. first! But as yo7 might be able to tell I really don’t understate my political world views, like I have always been telling my very liberal friends, going back thirty years…who tried slipping me the what the world thinks card…like I should have to slide over to them all my chips…to Witt, it goes without saying…Fifty million Hitler fans can be wrong! And finally, I made no mention of Netanyahu…so, like Jonah, should not have to speak for him…Just as, ironically, I made no mention of the black elephant in the formerly beloved party of mine…but nothing, absolutely nothing i brand The Don with in any of my comments is understated, because I only tell the truth as I see it…which, it my not so humble opinion is called the truth. Thanks for your comments on my comments Wolfy. Gotta run on. Peace through superior mental firepower🍺✌️
Okay Benjy, I will take your inclination that dumping on Noah was a bit snarky. My take off was Jay's comments re Israel and it is not that many of the principled conservatives are wrong about Hamas or the cosplaying Fedayeen at the Ivies, but that they never seem to address the behavior of the IDF and Netanyahu's policies. It is not enough to just say that they don't believe what Hamas says. Various abuses have been documented by numerous NGOs and third parties, and until we are convinced that this is not a systemic behavior, then being the leading donor to the Israeli military, we are culpable.
In a time when I, as a conservative Democrat, seek an alliance with principled traditional conservatives, I am just encouraging people in general to not just follow their orthodox allegiances, in this case, the right to Israel, but to be freethinkers, just as I spend much time elsewhere on my more liberal blogs railing at the Dem orthodoxies with their Identarian obsessiveness.
I also am Jewish and have relatives in Israel I see the historical reasons and justification for Zionism but I also think the continued move to the right by the government similar to Trump here is not helping Israel. I dont see the Palestinians locked into their militancy forever, any more than the Irish Republican Army and the FARC were, and it would help everybody to see an alternative Palestinian structure emerge. I think in Iraq Petraeus was very successful with that and that motivating the emergence of Palestinian opposition will be more effective than just bombing them into oblivion.
No need to apply labels or call names.
Just read Shirer, and the words of the fellow whose rise and fall he recorded:
"... from an old, familiar score."
Hi Jay,
I've been missing you since you left "The National Review" back in May.
So happy to find you here on Substack!
I just subscribed, and as a concerned Conservative as well as a professional musician, I am very much looking forward to your wit and wisdom!
All the best from Prague,
George Collins
For an updated version of politics and the English language, I think you would be a good candidate to write it. I also think Jonah or Charlie Sykes.
If the New Right (or whatever you want to call it) had a Funk & Wagnalls of their own, I think "globalist" might be defined as such: n. one who seeks to undermine the sovereignty of nation-states with the goal of establishing a system of supra-national or global governance.
The Trump administration endorses billions to Argentina and Israel to counter the "globalist" opposition that would have those states cowed by international pressure or diktat.
Sadly I don’t think there ARE any modern day Orwells. Leftists will continue to debauch the language to serve their narrative.
Re the six-year old that you mentioned: I reminds me of when I was walking with an elderly friend in the tiny, isolated town of Lakeview, Oregon. We spoke to a young visitor, and he asked my friend, "Have you lived here all your life?" My friend smiled and replied, "Not yet!"
America has the government it deserves. God help us.
To the Village Idiwitt, We the people of the United States do indeed have a government as good as its people…that is, the people who actually voted for an Il Duce wannabe meets Tony Soprano in the flesh…screen life imitating the real political world. What is the appeal of this goon that braggadocioly, literally shittes on a golden toilet…and how did President Duterte, I mean Trump become so rich and famous…popular and powerful. The Roman Colosseum/speedway no longer seats 100,000 people wanting to be thrilled, but the boob tube sure does hold 100,000,000 skulls full of mush glued together just dying to see their hero take out another kulak. And that is just it, from The Don to the House of Thani to the Haus of Saud to Chairman Mao, I mean Xi…to Putin, monsters, I mean mobsters play by different rules rules, shamelessly pull from the bottom of the deck and will throw off anybody of the deck of the ship to get ahead in life. The Don definitely knows the code of the school yard and would never take on someone bigger than him…shows much respect to those that are strong, regardless of why and how…and he will always pick fights with those that are weaker…and pay tribute to anyone he can that roots for him. Last body count in the so called war on drug is fourteen people executed without due process and their is no scholar at the Heritage Foundation that could give a flying…let alone that the knuckle draggers that stormed our nations sacred Capital chanting HANG MIKE PENCE at the behest of a sitting President…five years years gone by, they Proud Boyz are not in jail, but hailed by The Chief…from the the Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office.
We are not fascist Italy now, but we the people have a government as good as Herman Goring’s, I defecate you negatory, purported last words…make Germany great again. Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment and the shameless, mendacious, narcissistic, megalomaniac, crony capitalist pig, two bitconman, casino card shark magnate, FTX, I mean NFT huckster, reality tv porn star, WWE heel, GOP Crasher, anti Truth Neo Nationalist Sociopath, formerly the world’s biggest midnight tweeker, I mean tweeter on the soft political porn cite XXX, formerly known as Twitter and Americas Now andddd is still your President”….Donald J Trump!!! God HELP U.S. We the Living in Idiocracy. Here we are now, Trump entertain U.S. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward…I cannot say enough good things about you Jay as you refuse to look the other way at the Casino the White House “Ace” has turned it into…Peace through superior mental firepower
"I have some further questions: Does favoring international trade make you a globalist? Does favoring alliances? Collective security? Does an interest in other peoples, other cultures, and other languages make you a globalist? Liking spicy food?"
Yes to all. Maybe even a cosmopolitan globalist, though being a Cosmopolitan Globalist takes being Claire Berlinski –
https://claireberlinski.substack.com/
The kid has much to learn about golf, and life. What one says about the other would also be a great symposium topic. Best of luck to him from someone who still struggles with both 60+ years ahead of him.
Mr. Nordlinger, good piece. Language is often used as a political whip, and I am a big fan of understatement. If you have to use a bunch of hyperbole to prove your point, it is a weak point.
I, at this point, only support aid to Israel if it can be ascertained that they are not violating the rules of war or acting in an inhumane manner, and if they are advancing a better solution, that considers the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinians, not Hamas, but the average non political citizens who living in a police state which Hamas runs, did not ask for this war. My favorite quote is Nicholas Kristoff who said "“If your moral compass is attuned to the suffering of only one side, your compass is broken, and so is your humanity.”
I am no more a Hamas apologist than you, but I take seriously violations of conduct of war, and I think the principled conservatives, like Jonah at Dispatch, have refused to grapple with that, I have heard David French mention it, but most of what I see is cherry picking the real, but not the whole picture, apologism for the terrorists while avoiding the avoidable suffering of the civilian population. And I agree, since we are talking language, that it is not the hyperbole of genocide, which imo is a stupid argument, but neither does it make it right.
Now with the peace plan hopefully things will change, but my prior take was that before we continue to supply Israel, and, as opposed to say Ukraine, they are quite capable of defending themselves, we should make sure that there is no systematic violation of the conduct of war and that there is a minimum of civilian harm.
Hi Wolfy, I actually share your sentiment that many of my conservative heroes of mine do not seem to adequately address the alleged abuses of the some Israelis…let alone some seem to give Netanyahu a free pass when it comes to tragic human and geopolitical costs of his policies…But, just to restate, I should like you to challenge Jay more so….than alluding to his former colleagues at a formerly distinguished publication…”Against Trump” has turned into a damn near immorally, insufficiently anti Trump, political porn mag…and I am not talking about American Greatness…as what’s left of The Editors all to often just look the other way because…they still like many of his policies and ignore they are literally swimming in a putrid wake of Trumpism that is draining into a cess pool that will be the ruin of U.S. if the whims of a megalomaniac, anti Truth Neo Nationalist Sociopath are not put a stop too…But don’t get me started on The Dons crimes against humanity… and his willing Capos represent…as Jays commentary suits us so well we are both happily willing to pay…But that is a topic for another day, but it is analogous to the creep show that is Netanyahu…and much like the Democracy that still is the United States…the two on again, off again, on again Commanders and Chief…I still have not given up when they are out of power, both will be finally held accountable by the new powers that be…But, when it comes to war casualties, just as I don’t fret about “‘what about Dresden’…’what about Hiroshima’”…I will repeat my play on a kids game called hide and go seek “Hamas…Hamas…come out wherever you are with your bloody hands up”…But this I do fear, as much as I would not like to believe…the Palestinians are nothing like my fighting Irish Catholic brethren…The I.R.A. was a terrorist organization, but it sure as hell was not endorsed by any legitimate authority that I can remember, and the I.R.A. sure as hell did not have hundreds of thousands of people’s parading in the streets, hooting and hollering with joy after one of their armies bombs went off at a mall. I don’t want to get all Hitchens on you, but unlike Christianity, Islamism does kinda poison the well from which a super majority of Palestinians seem to have happily partaken from…hence I do not see many Gazans coming out on the streets and yelling to the I.D.F…”look, look, over here..Please get these P.L.O. out of here, I mean Hamas” (When you have a one party terrorist cell in charge for three quarters of a century…again, you reap what you sow). We both should hope and pray the Palestinians make like the Germans, unconditionally surrender and admit 100% guilt for the bloody war they started…and participated in…for this I do believe…if the Palestinians were to do as the Germans and Japanese did…There will be no more blood, malice towards none and charity for all…and even the crazed Zionists will be held accountable for their unforgivable deeds thinking some Scriptures legitimate their crimes against humanity…And like the Irish, a super majority of Israelis are not diehard religious fanatics, like the Palestinians…I wish you could say I am wrong…I would like to be proved wrong…by a simple experiment…Go anywhere in Gaza and start railing against “the joozes” being the cause of all the worlds problems and tell me how much protestations you will hear from the populace…speaking of hyperbole…I don’t think it is an exaggeration you will hear a lot of hooting and hollering. The more things change, the more things stay the same in Palestine, for a very bad reason (when Hitch called it a “grotesque plagiary of the Old and New Testaments” he could say it without any riots breaking out at the local bookstore). Thanks for engaging. And God bless the U.S.A. that we can and always will be able too, in spite of the powers that be here…The Dons time soon will pass, forgive me Jesus, the sooner the better. Gotta run on 🍺✌️
Respectfully Wolfy, as I have attempted to engage with you this past early August…when you took a cheap shot across the bow at Jonah via Jay’s Substack…and you did not much care for my not agreeing with you that Jonah is insufficiently critical of Israel…therefore…
But, to the Village Idiwitt this is not hyperbole- HAMAS…HAMAS come out from wherever you are, with your bloody hands up…and then there will be peace in Palestine…The problem is Wolfy, like the Germans fighting to the bitter end, they know they are right and still blame all their worlds problems on (hat tip Jonah) The Joooozes. Like Germany with the Nazis, Palestine needs to be de Hamasified, and sorry to say, collectively they reap what they sowed. I grieve for the innocent children…but not any of the stoneage Romeo’s that is a super majority of Palestinians that again, blame all their worlds problems on, speaking of a bunch of hyperbole….the jooozes…Gotta run on. 🍺✌️
You would have to define cheap shot, and as an espouser of understatement you might just say you disagreed. I bring up Jonah, because, as somebody I respect and subscribe to Dispatch he is an intelligent guy, and he reflects the general view of the conservative non Trumpers on Israel which Jay might entertain, but as I see much on the right they only acknowledge the problems on one side, which I dont deny. It is worth opposing the Hamas apologists and Intifada fan club, but that doesn't mean not holding Israel to account for their negligence in causing civilian harm. The question remains is Israel following the rules of war and minimizing civilian harm, and since neither of us absolutely knows, there is no press allowed, but our taxes support the IDF, shouldn't we ascertain that. Not to mention the situation on the West Bank where armed settlers harass the population and land continues to be expropriated.
I don't oppose the need to degrade Hamas, though I think Netanyahu is deluded that he is going to wipe them out as much as we will ever rid the world of ISIS or drugs.
Back to Jonah, my disagreement, and I dont think that it is cheap, is that nobody is considering how bad Netanyahu's policies are because you can cherry pick how bad Hamas is or argue that it isn't genocide which I dont think it is. Genocide implies intentional where I just think Israel is negligent. At a minimum Israel has lost most all support in the world, and even in the US for the first time majorities don't support Israel. Opposing Netanyahu is not opposing Israel or supporting Hamas in the same way that opposing Trump is not opposing America.
Comrade (the right wing progressive in me, a.k.a. Libertarian in my youth always liked that word…much as it has been bloodied…literally…)…Respectfully, a cheap shot behind a man’s back…or online…could be writing of a man who cannot speak for himself, all the while expecting another man to speak for another man…just because their comrades. You and I are too Dispatchers…in reading and in writing about…But last I checked, this is not an understatement…this is someone else’s Substack. Just as it is understatement to say you read something that I disagreed with…with you! Get it….I know why you brought up Jonah and clearly said so….Jonah is so insufficiently questioning of our paid ally in the Middle East…He does not acknowledge what you acknowledge and attack him on…Don’t need to restate this, but non Trumpers are Republicans to…But the majority of Trumper voters are “Rightist”, like a super majority of Sandernistas are “Leftist”, not really Democrats…As to the 64 thousand dollar question, to the Village Idiwitt…once Hamas control of Gaza is neutralized, the Israelis will do everything to fix what they had to break and yeah…war criminals will not get away with it anywhere close to the ones on the Left Bank, I mean Gaza will always be celebrated by their Stone Age Romeo’s friends and neighbors…i mean most Palestinians…So, can you really blame the jooozes (not saying you are Wolfy, just want you to know, not an understatement, how you sound to my big ears when I think who really started on October 7th…and how it reminded me of the O.J. Verdict…whitey got what was coming to him). I ain’t got nothing to defend the jackwads that dress like the Amish and act like the polish egged on by Nazis…the West Bank probably should be returned to Jordan and a free pass given to anyone that wants to cross Israel to be with their band of brothers…and all costs should be beared by the House of Thani and Haus of Saud (the last sentence is pure political pipe dreams…but talk about paying for war)….as to Isis and drugs, fitting you compared the, as I know neither will be wiped from the face of Mother Earth….but it sure as hell is worth trying…until bad karma gets U.S. first! But as yo7 might be able to tell I really don’t understate my political world views, like I have always been telling my very liberal friends, going back thirty years…who tried slipping me the what the world thinks card…like I should have to slide over to them all my chips…to Witt, it goes without saying…Fifty million Hitler fans can be wrong! And finally, I made no mention of Netanyahu…so, like Jonah, should not have to speak for him…Just as, ironically, I made no mention of the black elephant in the formerly beloved party of mine…but nothing, absolutely nothing i brand The Don with in any of my comments is understated, because I only tell the truth as I see it…which, it my not so humble opinion is called the truth. Thanks for your comments on my comments Wolfy. Gotta run on. Peace through superior mental firepower🍺✌️
Okay Benjy, I will take your inclination that dumping on Noah was a bit snarky. My take off was Jay's comments re Israel and it is not that many of the principled conservatives are wrong about Hamas or the cosplaying Fedayeen at the Ivies, but that they never seem to address the behavior of the IDF and Netanyahu's policies. It is not enough to just say that they don't believe what Hamas says. Various abuses have been documented by numerous NGOs and third parties, and until we are convinced that this is not a systemic behavior, then being the leading donor to the Israeli military, we are culpable.
In a time when I, as a conservative Democrat, seek an alliance with principled traditional conservatives, I am just encouraging people in general to not just follow their orthodox allegiances, in this case, the right to Israel, but to be freethinkers, just as I spend much time elsewhere on my more liberal blogs railing at the Dem orthodoxies with their Identarian obsessiveness.
I also am Jewish and have relatives in Israel I see the historical reasons and justification for Zionism but I also think the continued move to the right by the government similar to Trump here is not helping Israel. I dont see the Palestinians locked into their militancy forever, any more than the Irish Republican Army and the FARC were, and it would help everybody to see an alternative Palestinian structure emerge. I think in Iraq Petraeus was very successful with that and that motivating the emergence of Palestinian opposition will be more effective than just bombing them into oblivion.
Maybe this peace deal will work.
Good article. I'd like to be a "globalist," but I don't think an occasional visit to South Carolina qualifies me.
"Remember how ill educated people are."
That made me snicker.