The gap between North American media and media based in the middle east seems to be enormous. The glaring differences in detail and accuracy is of great concern to anyone who values ans accurate picture of what is happening with Israel and its opponents. If you have time, listen to the full podcast, it is well worth it.
How Israel is thinking about Kamala vs. Trump:
“BW: How is Israel looking at the present state of American politics? Who does it want to win the election?
HRG: It’s an election. It’s not about Israel, and it’s not about Gaza. You want to end the Gaza war? You want to prevent a war in Lebanon? You want to end the terrible civil war in Yemen and bring the forces to the table in Yemen that have starved 85,000 children to death and devastated that country? You want to fix the Middle East? It’s about Iran and it’s only about Iran. And it will only ever be about Iran. And until you solve Iran, nations will continue to be demolished. And America has to do that.
Everything I have seen from Democrats says they cannot, will not, don’t know how. They don’t have a vocabulary of foreign policy that allows them to seriously take up that challenge.
I wish I could say that the Republicans do. Some Republicans do. Will the Republicans in power in a new Trump administration know how to do any of that? I have no idea.
But on Iran, the Democrats have failed.
There are these quotes from Obama from back in 2015 that lifting sanctions will not cause Iran to become a dominant power in the region. If there’s any power in the region that is dominant in any way today, it’s Iran. So Obama’s own predictions about his own policies have proven completely incorrect.
Everybody’s lives in the Middle East depend on ending the Iranian regime’s crusade that has so far conquered and destroyed or is in some state of demolishing four different Arab countries and wants to destroy my country and says so publicly and will not stop until somebody stops it. And if America doesn’t have a policy on that—and Democrats do not—then America is part of the problem.”
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August 8, 2024 at 6:31 pm
tildeb
I cannot help but think the way the institutions of the west including education have done their part to inculcate generations of people to believe in righteousness of an ideological framework through which this information is passed, a framework that warps whatever passes through it beyond truthfulness, beyond reality,. and into delusion. It scrambles the moral compass. It is hard to grasp the scope or effect of the distortion unless one goes and sees for one’s self what is real, what is true. And then it is mind-blowing. How could we have been so fooled and for so long and to such an extent that we cannot differentiate the moral intentions of a terrorist death cult from those who stand against it? It seriously raises doubt to the final conclusion of the saying, “You can fool some of the people some of the time…”
There are some clues available to expose just how poisonous is the ideological milk of deceit from which the west’s legacy media and so many institutions suckle when both the Iranian Ayatollah and the Hezbollah political leader literally thank the students and demonstrators and supporters including the occupiers of western campus tentifadas for their ‘good work’ helping them to spread their gospel of hate and loathing towards both Jews and their western satanic allies. Seriously.
Today’s world of living out Poe’s law doesn’t even begin to grasp the extent of the decline needed to get to right here, right now. And I think it’s going to take another world war to change it and by then it will be too late for the generations living today.
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August 8, 2024 at 8:33 pm
The Arbourist
@tildeb
The fight for our society’s institutions needs to be the battleground. The institution are the society making machines, and we to see real progress, will have to reverse the long march the activists have been making through out all of them. I look at the amazing work Chis Rufo has done in starting and making the University of Austin a place of actual learning and free though.
These small wins give me hope in an otherwise bleak picture.
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August 8, 2024 at 8:59 pm
tildeb
I would love to believe these small gains would or even could reverse the civilization decline but with the widespread loss of liberal values already fought and lost in the culture wars, I suspect what we see in England these days is but the tip of the iceberg. At best, I see authoritarianism bearing down on us from all political angles and a complete loss of unifying values in multicultural societies now that the culture embraces every form of warfare except violence (lawfare where the process is the punishment, deepening partisanship, steep decline in birth rate, greater separation and time between young bonding males and females, increased censoring, generational change to the locus of control and the rising tide and consequences of deteriorating mental health, near majorities favouring restraints on every kind of guaranteed freedom, the massive rise of ‘positive’ rights that increase every kind of discrimination, loss of history, and of course social media vilification and expulsion and the capture of every public institution that are no longer guardians of liberal values but agents of their dismantling, to name just some of the declines). Lest we forget? What a joke. We never learned the lesson. And we see this playing out everywhere.
I don’t think we have the time necessary to correct except through some extreme but self-surviving unifying event like a global war with a clear enemy to break through the delusion created by our extreme foolishness. We’ve lost the guardrails.
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