Good Sunday morning, Threadheads, Threaders, and all in between. Woke up a little later than usual, after a good night sleep. Coffee is running hot and black, lots of sugar.
Yesterday was a rough day.
I had to come to terms with the reality of war, in what was initially a two part series, that required a part 3, unintended, but necessary. Funny how things worked out. Looking back at it, it seems like it was meant to be a trilogy all along.
The whole thing started with a meme I created, in response to so many who ignore the nature of war, and live in a fairytale where Palestine was heaven on Earth before “the Jews” came along, and “started killing every Arab in sight”. They know that, in 1948, the Arabs tried to push the Jews to the sea and finish what the Nazis started, and as a result of their humiliating failure, Israel was born stronger, forged not in the ovens of Auschwitz, but in the battlefields of Judea.
Most people are ignorant, some willfully so, and they don’t realize, or want to admit, the war now raging in Gaza started 76 years ago, when Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt attacked Israel. Saudi Arabia sent a formation that fought under the Egyptian command. British trained forces from Transjordan eventually intervened in the conflict, but only in areas that had been designated as part of the Arab state under the United Nations Partition Plan and the corpus separatum of Jerusalem.
It’s not something the Israelis started dealing with on October 7, 2023. They live with it since May 13, 1948. On the eve of May 14, the Arabs launched an air attack on Tel Aviv, which the Israelis resisted. If the date seems familiar, it’s because it’s the day David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. May 14, 1948.
War is a constant of every Israeli’s life since. It never stopped. A 76 year war, this coming Yom HaAtzma’ut.
Yom HaAtzma’ut… Day of Independence.
Imagine that. Imagine a 76 year war. Every day.
Imagine how it was possible, despite the efforts of more extreme sectors of Israeli society, for Israel to have become a democratic state, and not a military dictatorship. Think about that for a minute. From my knowledge of history, it is very easy for a country permanently at war to become radicalized, succumb to delusions of authoritarian rule, fall into the abyss. But not Israel.
So the fucking war I am talking about on my poor meme “Don’t want a war, don’t start one”, started 76 years ago. Yeah… It really did.
I knew I was stirring a hornet’s nest. I knew I would get flak from both sides. But guess what happened. My pro-Palestinian “friends” blocked me, and my pro-Israeli followers asked me why, seeking understanding, and once I published part 3 of that series, they realized I was not advocating for more IDF casualties, but for a less cruel war.
At the same time, I was reminded everyone what war is. And it’s hard to recognize that even wars fought out of the need for survival are still just wars. And war is always destructive, unfair, and most of all, cruel.
The result of my three part War series showed me what I already knew. Must Jews wish to engage in meaningful discussions, soul searching is embedded in their culture. And, regrettably, most pro-Palestinian folk are radicalized to the point where they have no return.
It’s perfectly fine to feel for the plight of the Palestinians, I do too, but it is not okay to fall for the fallacy Hamas is an underdog freedom fighter organization. They are not. They are Goliath’s tip of the spear, and Israel, regardless of her present might, is still David.
It’s so easy to logically prove this point, so obvious. They throw words like “genocide” around, or “apartheid”, ignorant fools…
And when you remind them of their own contradictions, they pout, get their football, and go home. I mean, it took the Nazis 6 years to kill 6 million Jews. One would think that, were genocide a real Israeli goal, they would have achieved it around 1954. You don’t need 76 years to kill 6 million people. Seriously, even now, if suddenly genocide became Israel’s goal, with her current capability, the Palestinians would cease to exist in about two weeks. So get over it.
So I got thoughtful dialogue from Jews, and blocks from propals. Please stop pretending antisemitism is not real. It’s everywhere. And you need to pick a side. As I did.
As for the pushback, I love it. I love being blocked by antisemitic fucks who can’t find words of compromise. Fuck’em. Smells like victory.
Stay strong.
Am Yisrael Chai.
