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https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/12/17/on-the-passivity-of-jews/

Jabotinsky was one of the founders of the Jewish state. He was a Russian Jew living in England. He enlisted in the British Army during World War I, and negotiated, with the British government, to allow Russian-immigrant Jews to fight in the Mideast, known then as “Palestine.” He succeeded in getting a special but limited dispensation for the Jews: They would not be allowed to fight, but could be enlisted as mule drivers. They were formed into the Zion Mule Corps under the direction of a Colonel Patterson, fought at Gallipoli, and, reconstituted as the Jewish Legion, were, it seems, responsible for most of the victories attributed to Lawrence in the dime-novel journalism of Lowell Thomas.

Jabotinsky was the colleague of Josef Trumpeldor, an ex-colonel of the czarist army. Trumpeldor was the first Zionist to advocate, and practice, self-defense as an inalienable right. He, a Jew, rose to high rank in an anti-Semitic army through determination and strength, and he quite simply did not understand how his fellow Jews hoped to thrive in a hostile world without these qualities. Jabotinsky was his protégé. He said, “You can take the Jew out of exile, but you can’t take the exile out of the Jew.”

We Jews, individually, are human beings capable of heroism; but as a group, we are trained, first and most importantly, to escape notice. For notice has, for thousands of years, equaled death. I exempt from indictment for “camouflage” not only the Jews of Israel but the Orthodox communities of the Diaspora. And now my exemptions are complete.

I was stunned, last year, to see a television commercial proclaiming the universal appeal of its product. There were happy young and old, black and white, straight and gay, and, mirabile dictu, a young Jewish couple, identifiable by the man’s yarmulke.

Who had seen the like before? Not I.

Were Jews, in violation of all historical norms, being presented as human beings? No. They were being appealed to as consumers.

https://dianebederman.com/front-line-medical-workers-exhausted/

I watch NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. During the pandemic he has introduced us to many “essential” front line health care workers who share their stories with us. Holt, like so many in main stream media, seems to be using the plight of health care workers to take us down a path to submission where we give up all the hard won freedoms bequeathed to us.

Many front line workers are exhausted. They tell us about their exhaustion. One told us that her children cannot come and hug her when she comes home. She has to shower first. One ICU doctor shared his mental distress, the trauma of so many sick people and those who die.

Odd.I don’t remember Lester Holt interviewing the men and women of the armed forces on a daily basis so they could share their angst when in war. No one seemed too concerned about their lives. Their fears. Their exhaustion. Their mental health. I assume when soldiers volunteered during peace time, many had no idea that war would be coming. But when it did, they went to war.

Dear essential health care workers, you signed up to care for sick people. And a pandemic arrived. And you are serving.

These medical people, who have such angst, are still alive. True, some health care workers, sadly, have died in the line of duty, unlike non-essential people who have taken their lives because their livelihood was taken away – so that health care workers would not be overwhelmed. Non-essential people lost their jobs, their businesses, their families, their dignity.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-patrick-gaspard-george-soros-biden-cabinet

After a lifetime of serving the Democratic Party, Joe Biden has no fixed beliefs. He can’t have any; the party has changed too much.

Joe Biden became a Democrat back when Democrats represented America’s working-class wage earners, heavily Catholic and concentrated in the big cities and industrial states. Democratic voters of that era tended to be populist on economic matters –they liked Social Security and Medicare — but they were basically conservative on social questions. They believed in biology, and most of them got married and went to church.

That’s the world Joe Biden grew up in. His “Joe from Scranton, son of a coal miner” shtick is a relic from that era. He still whips it out occasionally at events, but only for nostalgic reasons. After all, 1962 seems like yesterday. But in fact, it was a long time ago. That Democratic Party has been extinct for decades.

The modern Democratic Party no longer represents wage earners. It is now funded almost exclusively by Silicon Valley and the finance establishment, the billionaire class. Its foot soldiers don’t work in factories. They’re community organizers. They’re members of interest groups that have coalesced around a specific race or sex or sexual orientation.

None of these groups exist for the benefit of the United States. They exist only for their own benefit. Their purpose is very clear: To leverage our political system in order to collect as much money and as much power as they can for their own members and for their members alone. This is called identity politics and it is the most divisive way possible to run a government.