The state of Israel is in a continued paralysis internationally because of its actions against Hamas. This is despite the incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq that followed significant attacks on New York City, and the support that such Western powers have also since showed to those who topple regimes that are no longer communicative.
The secular church of protest has its way of response, which is often exclusionary and insistent of its message. We know the feeling now. They’ve already decided the Jewish state is a genocidal aggressor, and we better get on side or be on the wrong side of their history. It’s a course in denial, dismissal, and division of the population itself.
According to their lore, we’ve been here before. The evil empires of the past, and the religions that started all of them, couldn’t be worse villains. Yet here they are, dictating their wishes and defining their outcome – which we must accept. They drag us into their controversies and throw us back out again, having roughed us up – and denied us dignity.
They’re apparently good people, yet their way of politics denies it. They don’t come forward with policies that will work, or budgeted plans, or ideas we can all adopt. They strike out with the same old antisemitism, a now-familiar anti-religious hate, and a threat to tear down our national security. These are the fathomless errors of our age, and it needs to stop.


