How the Israeli left dehumanizes us

The so-called "compassionate ones" are nothing of the sort

After October 7, say a week or so, after it became verboten to say anything bad about the leftist extremists in the Gaza Envelope, some of whom had only a week earlier been professing their love and empathy for the vermin who would wind up murdering them — who had been vilifying the right in Israel for not being willing to bare our necks to the barbaric human beasts who took good advantage of the bared necks of the delusional leftists — I was feeling bitter.

Why bitter? Because I knew in my gut that had this foul massacre taken place against Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria, there would have been no outpouring of sympathy. On the contrary. There would have been equal measures of “Why were they living there anyway?”, “Muh settler violence!”, and “I’m not going to say they deserved it, but…”

I mentioned this to a few people, and the vast majority were horrified. And told me in no uncertain terms that I was full of it. That had October 7 happened to right wing or religious (or God forbid both) Jews, the State of Israel would have responded precisely the same way they were responding after the massacre of leftist elites.

I was angry at this reaction, of course, but not too angry. The perfidity of the left is matched by the naivete of the center-right in this country. I would have been surprised had they not reacted that way to what I said.

So imagine the magnitude of my shock when I read this article in Israel National News today:

I am blown away by the moral courage of this man. I grieve for him that he had to learn this lesson the way he did, but he clearly understands the lesson he learned, and is even grateful for it.

This man, who lost his wife, his son, and his leg, said this:

“I will say something tough. It’s lucky that the massacre happened in Be’eri. I think that if it had happened in Gush Etzion, at that moment, I would have said, ‘Why are they living there?’ I probably would have said, ‘They deserve it,’ I would have said all the harshest things in the world. It’s lucky that it happened at my home. It’s lucky that I paid a lot to learn this lesson. I’m lucky to have learned this lesson.”

I don’t know if I would have had the spine to say something like this. To even think something like this. I know, from what I’ve read in interviews, that his view is rare among the victims of October 7.

It is certainly rare among the left. They hate us. They consider us less than fully human. All of the things they accuse us of thinking of them and others reflect their views of us.

That’s why scum like Ehud Barach, Israel’s answer to George Soros, the filthy rich former Prime Minister whose cowardly retreat from Lebanon was matched only by Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan, both in mindless virtue signalling and in its treason to the victims they left behind, will do anything to pull down the government of the people. Because he doesn’t see us as people. He has no qualms about fomenting civil war, and sees the prospect of blood running in the streets as a wonderful thing, because the blood he envisions is right wing and religious. Not human blood at all.

In a couple of days, we’ll be celebrating Hanukkah. The festival commemorating the defeat of the Ehud Barachs and Benny Gantzes and yes, the Ronen Bars and Hertzi Halevys, who were beaten by the Maccabees, and left to rot in the Akra prison in Jerusalem. When I think of the Hellenist High Priest Jason, I’ll be thinking of Ehud Barach. When I think of the Hellenist Jews who lost their lives at the hands of the mercenaries the Syrian Greeks sent in, I’ll be thinking of people like Vivian Silver, who spent many a Shabbat going with B’Tzelem to Judea and Samaria to incite against the Jews living there and report to the international media about how horrible we are. Vivian was murdered by the very Nazis she preferred to her own people on October 7. Some might call that a very complicated suicide.

I like to end my blogs with some sort of resolution. But I don’t have one this time. I don’t know what to do about the fact that there are a shrinking, but still significant, population of Israelis who hate the Jewish State with a passion, and want nothing more than to see it replaced by a secular “Palestine”. I welcome people like Avida Bachar, who have woken up from this mindset, and I’ll welcome anyone else who does so. But those who don’t? Screw ‘em.