Monsters on the Loose: Israel is the Canary As goes the Jewish state, so goes the West. by J. Christian Adams
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Not long ago, the monsters were kept sealed up tight somewhere. Just a few decades ago, western values maintained the international order. But when the monsters escape, as they did on October 7, the monsters go after Jews.
Western values that governed international and domestic norms are being replaced by chaos and authoritarianism around the world, as well as here at home.
First Israel. What makes October 7 so sinister is that the monsters went after Jews in their place of ultimate sanctuary – Israel. They dragged them from their homes and murdered them in Israel instead of Berlin’s Scheunenviertel, the long vanished Jewish quarter, or any of the sites of other pogroms across history.
October 7 was different and illustrated how precarious Israel’s existence is.
The monsters seem to be on the loose around the globe, even in Europe. In eastern Europe the postwar international order is under attack, where even recognized international borders are meaningless.
Perhaps the very term “postwar” no longer has currency. Perhaps we are so far removed from that war which governed so much about the last eight decades – including Israel’s right to exist – that the term “postwar” is obsolete.
The West seems to have forgotten the lessons of 1914 or 1939. Land for peace is back in vogue, despite always being a fool’s gambit – whether in the West Bank, Sudetenland or Donetsk.
Few in the West seem to understand how close to the cliff we are. Too many are too busy staring at their phones.
The only western-style democracy in the middle east is in an existential fight for survival. Meanwhile, domestic anti-Semites are raiding private homes of noted Jewish law professors and bullying students on campus who support Israel’s right to exist.
Initially firmly supporting Israel, since October 7 the radicals who staff this administration – whether at the State Department, White House or Department of Defense – have asserted their influence. Support for Israel in the executive branch is withering.
Meanwhile, the leader of a nuclear Russia is shouting caviler threats to use those nukes against NATO nations, openly and explicitly, and seemingly seriously.
At last we can confidently say that the west European peace movement of the 1970s and 1980s were actually Moscow front groups. Remember the millions who marched in Bonn, Paris and London in 1983 against the deployment of American Pershing missiles? Nuclear annihilation would befall the human race after NATO’s deployment of intermediate range missiles in West Germany, they warned.
Where are the European rallies now against Putin’s actual nuclear threats?
Why aren’t the peace activists of 1983 not marching in the streets again in Bonn, Paris and London? What of stooges like Jo Leinen who spoke in front of 100,000 other useful idiots in 1983 in Bonn proclaiming the Euro-peace movement would save Europe from the nuclear cowboy Ronald Reagan?
Another peace celebrity from 1983, German politician and Moscow stooge Oskar Lafontaine recently blamed the United States for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The silence of the European peace movement today makes it rather obvious who was buttering their bread back in the eighties.
Of course, if the west had the same spine it had in 1983, the world would be a safer place. But the Left has taken care of that.
American schools teach children to hate America. For good measure, schools tell children that bedrock civilizational and biological structures like gender are mere constructs. Racial hatred toward “people of color” explains the last 300 years. And the police are now the problem, so they teach.
If you were top security officer in Moscow or Beijing back in 1992 after the collapse of communism, you could hardly cook up a better comeback plan than what we read in the news every day.
I recently counted 30 Black Lives Matters signs hanging in the windows of just one side of the engineering building at a large public university. That was just one half, of one building – and engineering for heaven’s sake!
To further deconstruct the country, the Left has terminated the use of data and merit in college admissions by rebranding test scores as tools of oppression. Swarms of students, sometimes with fists raised in the air, accept terms like “structural racism” and spout pronoun orthodoxy when you meet them like youngsters in other places long ago snapped off salutes.
NATO militaries now offer sex change surgery to new recruits. Mutilation of children is commonplace at major American hospitals. Male and female are fluid, and the available manpower – (can I use that word anymore?) – to defend the West shrinks.
The Left has succeeded in slowing the development of American oil, coal and gas production, the energy that enabled America to win World War 2. Meanwhile, China and Russia laugh.
Some of you will read this and consider me, your author, crazy. Have at me. But answer this, is this the strong post-war America that guided the world to prosperity and unparalleled human achievement in the 20th Century? Are we capable of what our grandparents accomplished defeating evil? Have at me. Do you know enough history to know where your opposing ideas always end up?
It gets worse. Our universities and rotted Ivy League law schools offer courses that deconstruct American legal norms. Law professors nowadays openly advocate for the repeal of the Constitution on the opinion pages of the Washington Post.
Shakespeare wrote “let’s kill all the lawyers.” I’m more worried about all the academics and professors who created this mess than the lawyers they schooled to sustain it.
Two things stand out. As goes Israel, so goes the West. Israel is the canary in the mine. If western powers cannot preserve one of the few nations conceived from a moral imperative, rising from the bloodbath of World War 2, then what else is worth preserving?
Second, the structures, the culture, the tools that kept the peace for the last eight decades seem to be reaching life cycle, if not are altogether gone.
Institutions that created the prosperity and peace have been destroyed or are suffering lethal attack – even the traditional “nuclear family.” Long ago the monsters reduced that institution to an object of derision and mockery in our culture. Two parent families are now a form of white privilege. Leave it to Beaver, Donna Reed and Father Knows Best became Stepford Wives, Parasite and Handmaidens. Hollywood reduced the strong family to ridicule, or killed it off.
We are paying the price in our streets, where 12-year-old girls gleefully stomp an old man in a wheelchair to death.
When the monsters of October 7 are unleashed against Israel, other monsters across the globe smile, then snarl, and devour the rest of what is blessed and good.
Christian Adams is President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a presidentially appointed Commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights and a former Justice Department attorney.
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