{"id":1207,"date":"2023-10-08T05:57:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T05:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/sam-harris-on-the-moral-difference-between-israel-and-her-enemies\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T05:57:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T05:57:37","slug":"sam-harris-on-the-moral-difference-between-israel-and-her-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/sam-harris-on-the-moral-difference-between-israel-and-her-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Harris on the Moral Difference between Israel and her Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this topic Harris is right<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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 \u201cO Muslim, there\u2019s a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.\u201d This is a political document. We are talking about a government that was voted into power by a majority of Palestinians. <\/span><\/p>\n

The discourse in the Muslim world about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there widespread Holocaust denial\u2014there\u2019s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real<\/span> if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should<\/span> have happened; it didn\u2019t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children\u2019s shows in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of martyrdom and about the necessity of killing Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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\u2019s critics just don\u2019t want to believe the worst about a group like Hamas, even when it declares the worst of itself. We\u2019ve 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. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014and of Muslims throughout the world\u2014would. Needless to say, the Palestinians in general, not just Hamas, have a history of targeting innocent noncombatants in the most shocking ways possible. They\u2019ve blown themselves up on buses and in restaurants. They\u2019ve massacred teenagers. They\u2019ve 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\u2014not just in Israel but everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Related<\/em>: America's Betrayal of Israel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Watch this video<\/a>. That\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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The stage for this attack was not set in or by Israel. It was set by the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But even worse, and not only for us, is America's betrayal of America<\/em>. Our borders, Southern but also<\/a> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Islamist enemies want to destroy the Little Satan, but even more, the Big Satan. You might want to think about that.<\/span><\/p>\n

You might also want to think about why there is a mere inquiry<\/em> into the possible<\/em> impeachment of Joe Biden which, you know, is not the same as<\/em> 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<\/em> 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:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Article 4, Sec. 4 of The United States Constitution makes it clear<\/a> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

"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."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, … Continue reading “Sam Harris on the Moral Difference between Israel and her Enemies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}