Lessons Not Learned
On Valentine’s Day, a sociopath protected by Obama’s restorative justice opened fire. He murdered students at a public high school in Parkland, Florida. The Woke superintendent implemented policies designed to stop the “school-to-prison” pipeline. He replaced common sense with communist psychobabble. Rather than contact the police when a student violated the law, the administrator activists failed to act. Rather than confront the fact that the murderer was a well-documented threat to all who knew him, he permitted a special education student to sign up for rifle practice. The demented officials protected the perpetrator, but not his victims.
The Chief of Police, absurdly derelict in performance of his duty, permitted a scenario of widespread slaughter to play out. Who told the truth about what happened? Andrew Pollack, father of slain student Meadow, wrote a scholarly, well-researched book in which he described the components of a serial killing. His book should have served as the template for every school in the country. Instead, David Hogg, big-mouth, profanity-spewing opportunist, ingratiated himself with leftwing Harvard. He refused to meet his initial commitment to testify about what took place at Parkland. He put his future first. How typical! He took the simplistic route - blame the gun.
One of the primary lessons of Parkland was already known. At Columbine High School, it was established that law enforcement must rush in immediately. To wait is to enable the shooter to increase the body count. You do not take time to set up a perimeter as law enforcement did at a similar school shooting in a small Texas town. You do not delay negotiating. You storm the facility and take out the shooter. Neutralizing the shooter is the only way to stop the slaughter. You do not wait while evil reloads.
Having learned a lesson that is too often ignored, Americans failed to apply that lesson to Gaza. At Babi Yar, Soviet poet Yevtushenko commemorated the innocent Jewish victims who were forced to dig their mass graves in a ravine. Monsters of National Socialism sometimes stripped the intended victims of their clothes and belongings. On other occasions, they simply began shooting them in the head or back and watched their bodies fall into the abyss. Those who managed to survive their wounds were buried alive.
But that was the Holocaust. Never forget and never again became the lessons oft repeated but infrequently implemented. Here we are, in another century, and the psychopaths of Hamas have revisited the Holocaust. Hamas released videos of two Israeli hostages, starved to the point of emaciation, being forced to dig their own graves. Why are Israeli leftists and anti-Semites here and abroad arguing for negotiations, a ceasefire, or victory for Hamas? There is no pause in the torture.
If Israel hadn’t been bludgeoned and bullied into pausing at Rafah, they might have ended the Hamas occupation of Gaza and freed more of the hostages. Every subsequent delay gave Hamas the upper hand. Every day meant additional Israeli hostages faced torture, starvation, and death. It is estimated that only 20 still live; 30 bodies await repatriation for proper burial. Israel should follow the lesson of the Parkland, Florida high school. They should storm Gaza, Gaza City, and any other place in that hellhole to rescue any hostages still breathing. No member of Hamas should still be breathing. If the definitions of war crimes and crimes against humanity applied to the Nuremberg Tribunals, they apply to Hamas.
Who took the hostages? Hamas, in an act of war, seized civilians and soldiers and held them captive for almost two years. They used them as human shields and as bargaining chips. They exchanged some in return for reinforcements. Israel agreed to release hundreds of convicted Palestinian terrorists in exchange for some senior citizens. Sinwar was one of a thousand terrorists released in exchange for Gilad Shalit. He repaid that negotiation and Israeli medical care with carnage. Hamas savages murdered two babies with their bare hands.
You do not set up a perimeter. You do not negotiate. You do not swap terrorists for innocents. You do not give Hamas one more day to breathe. You storm their citadel. You kill them. That is the lesson. When people, Nazis or Hamas, promise to kill you, believe them. Act pre-emptively.
October 7, 2023, was a replay of the Holocaust. Hamas attempted to carry out its charter and kill Jews. The globalization of the Intifada demonstrates how deadly the delays have been. Jew hatred spread across the U.S. From the arson at Governor Shapiro’s mansion, where a Jewish holiday was being celebrated, to the execution of two Israeli diplomats by a Marxist, to the setting Jews aflame in Boulder, Colorado, the war against the Jews continues. Jews no longer feel safe in America. That fear reflects reality. They are not secure. And yet, many Jews continue to vote Democrat.
Now we have two mayoral candidates, Fateh in Minneapolis and Mamdani in New York City, both Islamist apologists and activists, preparing to take over two consequential cities. We are rapidly deteriorating into Mogadishu or the Uganda of Idi Amin, in which Jews captured by Islamists and their European accomplices had to be liberated by Jonathan Netanyahu in the Raid on Entebbe.
Stupid transgender activists support Gaza, apparently unaware of Islamism’s antipathy for homosexuals and women. Stupid Americans profiting from capitalism support a Marxist intent upon destroying Western Civilization. Whites without wisdom persist in self-loathing, virtue-signaling support of DEI that relegates them to the back of the bus.
The Three Stooges, Macron, Starmer, and Carney have all come out in favor of a Palestinian State. The Australian dhimmi just joined the suicide pact. Would they have favored letting Hitler establish a Nazi state if he had lost World War II? These pathetic globalist communists are in league with Islamists who have essentially occupied their nations.
They relinquished their sovereignty, spat on the indigenous Europeans whose cultures are being denigrated and outlawed, and provided enemies of Western Civilization a place to operate with impunity. They lack the courage and commitment to defend their people. Let them relinquish territory of their own for a Palestinian state. Israel is one small nation. They are larger nations with smaller spines.
The widespread discrimination and pogroms against Jews on campuses did not elicit support or sympathy. Only people of color merit that blanket permission to engage in violence without consequences. Criminality has been legitimized as though Kristallnacht never occurred.
When the Texas Democrats fled the state legislature to deny the Republican majority a quorum and shut down business, they were repeating an earlier tactic. They did the same thing to Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin to stymie the democratic process. The Texans, encouraged by Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama and funded by Holocaust collaborator George Soros, decided to go AWOL to prevent the legislature from doing its job.
In the democratic process, legislators are free to express support or opposition to a particular bill. Then they vote. Those with the greatest number of votes prevail. They determine what will happen because they reflect the will of the people. Majority rule is the basis of democratic decision-making.
Texans voted for a majority of Republicans. That could change, but is unlikely to if people learn the lesson taught by Democrat saboteurs. They don’t care about how the system works. They don’t want it to work. They want to “resist,” which means they want a revolution. They will resort to violence, gerrymandering, and chicanery as blue states shed voters who flee to red states and try to replace them with illegals who are not eligible to vote and should not be reflected in the census. They will do anything necessary to prevail. The democratic process means nothing to them. They shred the Constitution while insisting they are defending democracy. How ironic!
What year is this? Is it 1939 or 1945? Is it 2023? Is it the original Holocaust or the Hamas sequel? Have we learned any of the lessons of WWII or history? Have we learned what to do when evil strikes? No ceasefires! No truces, negotiations, or pauses to permit the forces of evil to rebuild. No excuses for scapegoating Jews. We’ve been there. It never ends well for anyone—no more appeasement of totalitarian death cults.
Marxism and Islamism, fascism and Nazism have shown us what they are. Why do we applaud or elect advocates of those degenerate belief systems? How different are doctors performing genital mutilation on minors from Dr. Mengele? How different are we, the silent, from the “good Germans” who just followed orders? Bibi needs to take out Hamas. There can be no peace before victory. For Hamas to scream genocide is to deprive language of all meaning. We must learn the lessons of Columbine and Columbia University, of Auschwitz and Gaza. Lessons not learned are too costly.