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Sam Harris on the Moral Difference between Israel and her Enemies

On this topic Harris is right.

The truth is that there is an obvious, undeniable, and hugely consequential moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The Israelis are surrounded by people who have explicitly genocidal intentions towards them. The charter of Hamas is explicitly genocidal. It looks forward to a time, based on Koranic prophesy, when the earth itself will cry out for Jewish blood, where the trees and the stones will say “O Muslim, there’s a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.” This is a political document. We are talking about a government that was voted into power by a majority of Palestinians.

The discourse in the Muslim world about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there widespread Holocaust denial—there’s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should have happened; it didn’t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children’s shows in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of martyrdom and about the necessity of killing Jews.

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What do we know of the Palestinians? What would the Palestinians do to the Jews in Israel if the power imbalance were reversed? Well, they have told us what they would do. For some reason, Israel’s critics just don’t want to believe the worst about a group like Hamas, even when it declares the worst of itself. We’ve already had a Holocaust and several other genocides in the 20th century. People are capable of committing genocide. When they tell us they intend to commit genocide, we should listen.

There is every reason to believe that the Palestinians would kill all the Jews in Israel if they could. Would every Palestinian support genocide? Of course not. But vast numbers of them—and of Muslims throughout the world—would. Needless to say, the Palestinians in general, not just Hamas, have a history of targeting innocent noncombatants in the most shocking ways possible. They’ve blown themselves up on buses and in restaurants. They’ve massacred teenagers. They’ve murdered Olympic athletes. They now shoot rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. And again, the charter of their government in Gaza explicitly tells us that they want to annihilate the Jews—not just in Israel but everywhere.

Related: America's Betrayal of Israel

Watch this video. That’s a Hamas drone taking down an Israeli Merkava tank. A drone operated by an organization sponsored and trained by Iran applying both Iranian tactics and, most likely, Iranian hardware to attack Israel. This happened weeks after America sent Iran $6 billion, and one week after we learned that the American government had over the past years ceded whole parts of its own intelligence units to Iranian spies.

The stage for this attack was not set in or by Israel. It was set by the United States.

But even worse, and not only for us, is America's betrayal of America. Our borders, Southern but also Northern, are open to every terrorist and every criminal group in the world. They are busy establishing their sleeper cells and installations in the homeland, all with the tacit approval of the Director of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas and his boss Joe Biden. Tacit approval by action, or rather inaction, masked by explicit and brazenly mendacious denial. That is your government at work, with your tax dollars, working to destroy your country and way of life. So long as you remain Democrat you go right along with it.

Our Islamist enemies want to destroy the Little Satan, but even more, the Big Satan. You might want to think about that.

You might also want to think about why there is a mere inquiry into the possible impeachment of Joe Biden which, you know, is not the same as his removal from office, on the ground of bribery and influence peddling when there is a much more grievous "high crime and misdemeanor" for which he ought already to have been impeached and removed, namely, his violation of his oath of office and dereliction of duty. I refer you to the U. S. Constitution which Biden took an oath to uphold and defend:

Article 4, Sec. 4 of The United States Constitution makes it clear the Federal government must stop such an incursion of foreigners into the country exactly like the one we are seeing. Here is what was written by our Founding Fathers concerning our republican form of government.

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."


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16 responses to “Sam Harris on the Moral Difference between Israel and her Enemies”

  1. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    Evil is all connected and if you are a part of it you cannot claim that you are only a ‘little’ part, you are in to the max if you are in at all, yeah I’m talkin’ about you, Joey Biden.

  2. BV Avatar
    BV

    Biden is a phony, a fraud, and morally corrupt to the core. Not to mention physically and mentally unfit for office. But can your wife see that? Your sons? If not, why not? What explains the support of so many for someone who is so obviously a destructive POS?

  3. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    We generally have never talked about politics in my immediate and extended family, and this for as many generations back as I can remember, so I can’t really say too much about what they think. My youngest boy (the physics major) came up with the idea that there should be time limits for political parties & they should be disbanded after a few decades, though. Grandpa Cass was “D,” and grandma Castruccio was “R,” and my dad and mom were the other way around, strangely enough, but we never talked politics at dinner when I was growing up. Sanity prevailed. It may be a lost world, time will tell. “D” support now must be some atavistic, early-formed mental thing, I think.

  4. BV Avatar
    BV

    >>”D” support now must be some atavistic, early-formed mental thing, I think.<< I think that's right, Joe. Most Dems are useful idiots living in the past. It is not that they are inherently stupid, though many are; it's that they are lazy, inattentive, and wrapped up in the petty particulars of their petty lives & distractions. Some have an excuse: they are struggling to stay afloat financially 'thanks' to the wonderful benefits of the Biden economy.

  5. Dmitri Avatar
    Dmitri

    Only a miracle would prevent a major world war. The enemies of the West feel weakness of Western leaders & are jumping on the opportunity from all directions. Since these scumbags don’t care about people’s lives including their own people, they will push with all their might. And they have military resources that the Western useful idiots helped them to build. We were very lucky to live in the times of relative peace since WW II. It’s over unless — and here comes the miracle part — some countries in the current axis of evil suddenly implode or we will find out, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, that there are more people who share at least some classic Western values in Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and China. I sincerely hope to be wrong in this bleak forecast.

  6. BV Avatar
    BV

    Well said, Dmitri. I fear that you are right. I will add the speculative counterfactual: Had Trump been in office, the present crisis would not be upon us. My contempt for Biden supporters grows greater by the hour. But my contempt for the ‘squad’ scum is even greater. See here: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/8/squad-urges-israel-show-restraint-adds-political-p/

  7. BV Avatar
    BV

    Diana West shows pictures of Palestinian brutality that the NY Rimes will not show you: https://gab.com/realDianaWest

  8. BV Avatar
    BV

    Via Diana West:
    1) For a Hamas covenant-refresher, see Article 7 for the canonical Hadith that begins: “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him …” [This is a traditional, but not quranic, attribution to Mohammed; therefore, not strictly authoritative for Muslims. He who invokes it, however, let alone acts on it, invites capital punishment. AGF]
    https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

  9. BV Avatar
    BV

    Here is an interesting article that may fire you up: https://newrepublic.com/article/176057/democracy-israel-attack-trump-authoritarianism
    >>I don’t know how much thought Hamas’s leaders gave to domestic U.S. politics before they launched this offensive. But I bet they gave the topic some consideration. They are corrupt, destructive, violent people, and like all corrupt, destructive, violent people around the world, they presumably want Trump back in the White House. This is partly because he’s a corrupt, destructive, violent kindred spirit. And it’s partly because they know, as Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin know, that Trump will bring more chaos and instability—and chaos and instability, particular in the United States, are exactly what they want.<<

  10. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    A complete 180º lie, as in the quote from the New Republic posted above by our Esteemed Blogmeister, is convincing evidence to my mind, that the New Republic is possessed by Lucibello.
    Lies can go off at 30º, or 45º, but when they are at 180º, it’s the devil speaking.

  11. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    And It is not just the Jews who are the target. It’s all of us. The global elite think that the carrying capacity of the earth, which is the idol they worship, is only 500 million people. Anyone more than that, they think is “bad for the planet.” How many people do they want dead? You do the math.

  12. BV Avatar
    BV

    Dmitri,
    Did you tell me that you lived in Israel for a time? I am wondering if you have any comments on the accuracy of the 2018 Times of Israel gun article. Scroll up a bit.

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