by Cherie Zaslawsky, Truth Be Told, ©2024
(Jan. 29, 2023) — On October 6th, 1973, as large numbers of American Jews attended temple services for Yom Kippur—the holiest day in the Jewish calendar—the shocking news broke that Israel had just been attacked by Arab forces from Egypt and Syria.
Amazingly, tiny Israel, even though blindsided by its hostile Arab neighbors, won this war in a mere three weeks. But this would not have happened without substantial aid from America, boldly authorized by President Nixon who refused to stand by and witness another Holocaust against the Jews.
This surprise attack, the Yom Kippur War, coming on a day when so many Israelis were in their synagogues fasting and praying, elicited world condemnation.
THE NARRATIVE CHANGES 180 DEGREES
Now, almost 50 years later to the day, on the holy day of Simchat Torah, Hamas invaded the country and proceeded to perpetrate the most savage, horrific massacre of Israeli civilians imaginable.
However this time around, Israel was afforded only a few days of commiseration before much of world opinion shifted to castigating Israel for its vitally necessary retaliation, and sympathizing with…wait for it… the Palestinians, i.e. the perpetrators!
This is largely the result of the worldwide “Left Turn” in the ensuing decades, as major news agencies, universities, politicians, and others who quickly turned the reality upside down, are mostly Leftists. Let’s not forget that the Soviet Communists themselves created a false narrative of the so-called “oppressed Palestinians” who were actually mostly disgruntled Egyptians and Jordanians who’d been mislead by their own leaders, and blamed Israel instead, as I’ve written about here.
However, there is also the fear factor, as cowardly and hypocritical Progressives know it is dangerous to criticize Muslims who are fond of beheading infidels, while criticizing Jews is not only fair game, but one finds a lot of support from troves of anti-Semites who like nothing better than to find new excuses to “blame the Jews.”
And there’s the added advantage of Progressive virtue-signaling by mindlessly calling for the “liberation” of the Palestinians, “from the river to the sea”—meaning the complete annihilation of Israel—a notion we’ve recently learned is very popular at Harvard and MIT, among other overpriced Leftist indoctrination centers, aka universities.
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