There Are Only the Heroes and Villains

OPINION

VP Kamala Harris is dreaming if she believes Israel will yield to US pressure to enter into a two-state peace agreement with Hamas at this point. Taking the pressure off would inevitably lead to a resurgence of Jewish genocide.

Harris met with Netanyahu and ZeroHedge reported “The Israeli official also said Netanyahu was unhappy with the fact that Harris criticized Israel publicly for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and for killing civilians, especially at the current timing amid the hostage deal negotiations.”

Benjamin Netanyahu made Israel’s position very clear in his fourth address to the American Congress recently when he thanked America for supporting Israel following the devastating October 7 terrorist attacks and gave credit to four IDF members in the room who were heroes that day and during the days following.

“These are the soldiers of Israel, unbowed, undaunted and unafraid” says Netanyahu of IDF survivors in the audience. “The men and women of the IDF come from every corner of Israeli societies. Every ethnicity, every colour, every creed, left and right, religious and secular, all are imbued with the indomitable spirit of the Maccabees, the legendary Jewish warriors of antiquity.

“With us today is Yekhil Leiter the father of one of those Maccabees. Yekhil’s father escaped the holocaust and found refuge in America. As a young man Yekhil moved to Israel and raised a family of eight children. He named his eldest son Moshe after his late father. Moshe became an exemplary in one of our elite commando units. He served with distinction for two decades while raising six beautiful children of his own. On October 7 Moshe volunteered to return to combat. Four weeks later he was killed when a booby trapped mine exploded in a tunnel shaft right next to a mosque.

At his son’s funeral Yekhil said this “because of the courage of soldiers like my son Moshe Jewish people are no longer helpless in the face if our enemies. If the state of Israel had not been established after the holocaust the image engraved in our collective memory would have been the photograph of that Jewish boy in the Warsaw ghetto with his hands in the air with Nazi rifles pointed at him, but because of the nation of Israel we are no longer helpless in the face of our enemies.”

The men, women and children attacked on October 7 did not have the luxury accorded political observers such as the NZ politicians screeching “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free!” The Greens have no skin in this game, they are hollow husks of humanity draped with Palestinian scarves who should ask themselves, “Are we the bad guys?”

The war on Israel is not a war between race, religion, skin colour or any other fleeting DEI value. The purpose of this war is to sustain terrorism – the purpose and prize of terrorist organisations such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. Western values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness cannot exist where martyrdom is treasured.

If the disputes with Israel were about land and borders they would have been resolved decades ago. The repeated refusal to enter into a two-state solution disguises the true intent of terrorism, it is Jewish genocide.

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”
–Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906–1975)

Little wonder Netanyahu was frustrated with Kamala Harris’ simplistic statements that are based on lies.

A war is no place for casual observers: no one of consequence exists in between heroes and villains.

Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress.