17 Mar A Reply to Anti-Israel Hysteria…and to Joe Kent
The internet seems to be reaching Tucker Carlson overload, both pro and con. I’ve long been a fan of Carlson on most subjects; I think he’d be a great and interesting neighbor. But his takes on Israel and Netanyahu seem to be approaching hysteria.
The odds of him reading a ‘Dear Tucker’ post are slim, fat and none, so here are just a few big picture thoughts I’d share with any neighbor (and did share with one friend). See below. Seems especially timely in light of Joe Kent’s resignation today as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
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A very grave danger facing America—maybe the gravest of this age—is widespread ignorance and naivete among Americans regarding the nature and mission and threat to American freedom that is Islam. Twenty-five+ years ago I was ignorant and naive about Islam, but since then I have done a great deal of research, including reading the actual Islamic teachings. I think I am now reasonably well-informed.
There are moderate Muslims who are not individually a threat (and in many cases are nice people many of whom would like to be free of sharia), but there is no moderate Islam. The Muslims committing terrorist attacks around the world are not ‘extremists’ or ‘radical’; they are doing what their holy book tells them to do.
Islam/Muslims have for many years been such a minority in America that even serious thinkers simply dismissed any discussion of the subject as unnecessary. But that is changing, rapidly. And that’s a good thing.
Islam (again, not speaking of people but of the whole of its ideology or theology) is dark, depraved, violent and barbaric; and its ‘Allah’ is the opposite of the God of the Bible.
Islam is the antithesis of Christianity and Judaism; its presence and proliferation in America could upend and replace the Constitution and destroy this country and—if it is not resisted and removed—will eventually plunge all of humanity into an age of darkness like nobody living in western civilization can even contemplate.
It is the darkness of Islam that has literally surrounded Israel since its formation in the 1940’s. Few in America can contemplate what it is like to live in Israel—to be a Jewish state surrounded on every side by people whose holy book teaches them from childhood that an honorable purpose in life is to murder Jews, and in the case of Iran, by a theocracy that sees nuclear weapons as a wonderful tool by which to potentially eliminate all Jews in Israel at once.
It is utterly naïve to think the ‘twelver’ mullahs of Iran do not think this way or would not use nuclear weapons against Israel (and America) because of humane considerations. They would use them with relish; they think Jews are subhuman, and other infidel/non-believers are deserving of the same fate as the Jews.
This is the context in which to view the situation in the Middle East. And it should be viewed further in the context of the long arc of history, not the last few years or the next six months.
I have been physically unable to watch the videos of October 7 in Israel. Just reading the descriptions of what the Islamic jihadists did to innocent Israelis—including women and children—violates conscience and turns my stomach in a way that nothing else ever has. I find it hard to even conceive of such human barbarity. Millions of American patriots would agree, and say: “If this had been inflicted on ‘my’ homeland and ‘my’ people, and if I were in charge of the response, I would do everything possible to wipe the perpetrators off the map, and I mean everything and I mean all of them.” There is no negotiating with evil and barbarity; no possible compromise; no possibility of co-habiting with them.
Are there innocent Muslims, including children, who may be swept up and killed or injured under this approach? Yes–and that is a horrible, tragic but unavoidable consequence of war, just as there were many innocent Germans, including children, swept up in the final attacks necessary to destroy the Nazis. But there comes a point in the human scheme of things where there is no other way to destroy evil. In WWII the maniacal aggression of Hitler was evil, and in this era the maniacal and barbaric aggression of Islamic jihadists–who also use women and children as shields in war–is evil. The people acting out evil are responsible for the consequences.
On the subject of evil and responsibility, just how did the October 7 massacre happen? The approved anti-Trump, anti-Israel, anti-Netanyahu narrative is that Netanyahu gave a stand down order to the IDF because he needed the October 7 event to happen because reaction to it would draw America into his long-sought war on Iran. Trump the puppet, and Netanyahu the puppeteer; America does the bidding of Israel; the Jews own Congress; etc., etc.
But consider: Yuval Harari of the World Economic Forum and his leftist/globalist colleagues were orchestrating nationwide protests against Netanyahu prior to October 7 because of Netanyahu’s push to reform/put boundaries on the otherwise unlimited powers of the leftist Israeli Supreme Court. What if there is a leftist deep state in Israel and a bunch of leftists in the IDF–and they effected the October 7 stand down, in order to make Netanyahu look bad and hyper-boost the existing protest movement into Netanyahu being forced to resign?
But it backfired, as the Israeli people rallied to Netanyahu and welcomed his hardline response. (Any of this seem similar to the operations of the American deep state and US military leaders like Mark Milley…against President Trump, particularly in his first term?)
I don’t know which narrative is closest to the truth, or if the truth is more complicated than the narratives. But there is no doubt that the world of leftism hysterically hates Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump…and supports anything that opposes them, including Islam.
So…I am most interested in leaders and commentators who seem to understand the threat of Islam. Tucker Carlson does not imo have the slightest clue about the nature and danger of Islam. Just one example: Carlson absolutely rages against the evil he refers to as ‘blood-guilt’—which he seems to define as the idea of killing or shedding the blood of otherwise innocent people because of their human lineage. Yet Islam for 1,400 years and for as long it continues to exist teaches and encourages Carlson’s idea of blood-guilt in its multiple exhortations of followers to kill all the Jews. In other words, the Jews of 2026 are obviously not the Jews killed by Mohammed in the seventh century, yet according to the teachings of Islam, innocent Jews—men, women and children—are to be killed today for no reason other than their human lineage. That is Carlson’s concept of ‘blood-guilt’ built into the very foundation of the ‘religion’ of Islam. Why doesn’t he rage against that?
I don’t know if Carlson’s actual rage springs from honest ignorance on his part or if he is swayed by financial support from Muslims (or some combination of the two).
That does not mean his criticisms of Israel generally or Netanyahu specifically have no merit, but it does mean that he does not see the big picture accurately and is therefore severely skewed and off track in diagnosing the problems and bad/good actors, and identifying solutions.
I have no doubt that individual leaders in Israel and in the Mossad are capable of and have in some cases committed unconscionable acts in furtherance of their sense of the rightness of their agenda. I don’t have proof of any specific case, but part of the reason I have no doubt about it is that I am 100% certain that individual leaders in America and in the CIA have done so, including very recently. So I do not believe in the unwavering goodness or infallibility of ANY nation-state or its leaders.
No one should be blindly loyal to the state of Israel; they can and should be open to criticism just like any other nation, including the USA. But in that ‘long arc of history’, Judaism-Christianity seems fairly to have been a blessing to humanity, and Islam a curse…and that’s a wise guiding framework for viewing these problems. That’s obviously NOT Carlson’s guiding framework, so I have tended to tune him out on these issues. He’s not seeing the big picture.
Last observation/Joe Kent: the anti-Israel/Netanyahu/Jews rhetoric has been so sudden, so virulent, so traceable to specific voices repeating the same talking points, that it feels like an orchestrated psyop. Maybe it isn’t; but it certainly maps well onto an agenda to undermine and divide President Trump and his MAGA base. The biblical counsel seems worth remembering: “ye shall know them by their fruits”. And this counsel is doubly important in light of Joe Kent’s resignation as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Kent very publicly cited the Iran war as the reason for his resignation, including comments to the effect that the Israeli lobby in the USA is too powerful and Iran was not an imminent threat. To say Iran is not an imminent threat (assuming it is said free of bribery or other nefarious influence) is to say ‘I do not grasp Islam’. America needs a Director of National Counterterrorism who does.
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Eric Georgatos