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Nov 20, 2023Liked by Eugene S. Robinson

I believe the cry in Charlottesville was "Jews (plural) will not replace us." But pretty much the same thing.

I have ceased to be even slightly interested in what new foibles Elmo has engaged in lately... he has billions, does little or nothing to enrich the world with said billions, and evidently thinks he can take it with him when his brain is transferred to the robot body he is - no doubt - paying some wunderkind to create. :/

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Click-click-click! Salutations! Long time listener, first time caller. I noticed that you’ve peddled a few Zionist trinkets here and I thought I’d point them out for the folks in the back with the short stacks. Put it all on red!

‘It is risible were we not living in a Post-October 7th world (curiously a day after German-American day) where the world witnessed parasailers (sic) machine gunning music festival goers to death and Hamas raping and then subsequently kidnapping hundreds of other semites, in this instance Israelis. A turn of events that would have activated violent existential responses from all but the most-already defeated countries were it to have happened to them.’

You forgot the beheaded babies or perhaps thought better of including a claim that has since been debunked. But what troubles me is the attendant ‘raping and subsequently kidnapping hundreds of other semites’ claim. This isn’t a Jewish narrative, racial or religious. It’s not an Israeli narrative. It’s an IDF/Netanyahu narrative. And you amplified it.

And what exactly is a Post-October 7th world? Because from where I’m sitting it looks a lot like a Pre-October 7th world. Framing the massacre of Israelis on the better side of a concentration camp fence as an isolated anomaly is straight out of the Zionist handbook. ‘After all we’ve done for them!’

While there is no doubt but that you have a deeper understanding of the demographics that constitute your readership than I do, I’m having trouble believing that a great number of your subscribers are at this late date still unsure of Elon Musk’s moral fortitude. The South African trust fund baby who pushed Twitter’s head into a toilet is an anti-Semite? Most of us would have bet good money on this being true months or even years ago.

Printing a J’Accuse against an increasingly irrelevant billionaire while fathers search for the corpses of their children in IDF sponsored rubble sounds a lot like ‘Hey! Don’t forget the Nazis!’ as if any of us could given Israel’s deliberate attempts to emulate them.

Shalom, Eugene! I will remember you fondly as one of the greatest unrecognized lyricists of our generation. No need to replay the piece, Maestro. I can hear the quacking just fine.

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Ah...a paying customer. Whose longstanding interest in the Middle East and Middle Eastern politics is well known. A panel at the Hague? A seat at the UN? Or just a guy with a laptop and an opinion? Who knows and what does it matter? What matters is that you feel that I've done the Palestinians dirty and that the response to having parasailers machine gun concertgoers, that is that a reasonable response to Gaza and Hamas is to first understand how badly they've suffered, that the suffering was caused by the people who then have caused more suffering in retaliating and that unlike the Egyptians who have a wall and a locked border with Gaza because of their concerns about terrorism, Israel needs to....eh...I think that part is missing. In any case Hamas, the PA and even the PLO have not been honest brokers, so we have no idea what the average palestinian thinks as they are poorly represented by all three however if the Irish and the Brits can solve their contretemps I'd guess that it could happen here too...if not for the suicidal death spiral that will destroy them all. So this is what I see...everyone dying. If you have a preference for only Jews dying then I understand. But as I said even if all of the Jews are dead and Israel ceases existing as a country there will still be no peace in the middle east (witness: lebanon)...and the massacres were transactional and designed to scuttle the Saudi rapprochement with Israeli which it effectively did. So score one for Hamas. Where I am, and I think you are too, is "now what?" If you have a reasonable answer I'll be glad to hear it. Otherwise it's all just old guys in dirty underwear screaming at their laptops.

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Thank you for this!

Did you check out John Oliver's recent show about the war?

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