Requiem For The Progressive Media's Cracked-Out Fever Dream

Children Of Israel Are Never Alone

Hey, beloved tribe.

Anyone here seen the movie Goodfellas? Do you remember that scene where Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta) is in the shower and he hears the news of a wildly outsized heist — one unprecedented in daring and scope — on the radio?

Nobody knows for sure just how much was taken in the daring pre-dawn raid at the Lufthansa cargo terminal at Kennedy Airport. The FBI says 2 million dollars, Port Authority Police say 4 million dollars…

As the newscaster talks, you can see comprehension, incredulity, euphoria break slowly across Henry’s face, and then finally the rest of the broadcast is drowned out by his exultant scream. Jiiiimmmmyyyyyy!

Well, the entire past week and a half was like that for me.

From the very first headline I saw in NYC — Hezbollah Pagers Explode Across Lebanon — I’ve been screaming in my own virtual shower at exactly the same pitch. Mossssaaaaaddddd!

When the beepers blew up. When the walkie-talkies went next. Then hundreds of rocket launchers taken out along with a lot of other military infrastructure. Followed by the death of Ibrahim Akil, Hezbollah’s military commander. Then finally, Nasrallah.

And all this is to say nothing of Israel’s elimination of Nabil Kaouk, Ahmad Wehbe, Ali Karaki, Mohammad Surour, and Ibrahim Kobeissi, each of them other leaders of Hezbollah taken out by Israel within the same 12 days.

As usual, not everyone shared my excitement. A friend posted this ethical query to his Facebook page:

“What do you think of this biblical decree in light of Nasrallah’s death?

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles. Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and He turn away His wrath from him.

Proverbs 24:17-18”

I wrote that I couldn’t hear the question over the sound of champagne corks popping all over my house.

I won’t apologize for celebrating the death of those who never stop trying to annihilate us. I’ll drink to the demise of every last one and I will forever be shameless on this front. I bow to the saints in our midst but I am not among them.

In the spirit of almost every Jewish holiday on the calendar: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat. And drink! L’Chaim!

I love imagining the same comprehension dawning on all our haters, only with the opposite set of emotions. Can you imagine realizing, again and again and again in immediate and dizzying succession, that your enemy is a thousand times smarter than you’ll ever be and can destroy anyone in your chain of command at will?

Truly, what Israel has managed to do in under 2 weeks’ time is nothing short of extraordinary.

Of course, her handiwork is unappreciated by our moral betters in the media, government and the hallowed halls of academia.

As I posted on my own Facebook page yesterday, reading the fawning eulogies in the New York Times and Washington Post (among too many other places), you might come away with the impression that Israel took out the MLK of the Middle East instead of the Butcher of Beirut.

Mr. Nasrallah was opposed to Israel, which he called “the Zionist entity,” and maintained that there should be one Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews and Christians. A powerful orator, he was beloved among many Shiite Muslims, a historically marginalized group in the Arab world, and created a state within a state in Lebanon that provided social services, the NYT gushed, in a cracked-out fever dream memorialized by the editorial board and running under the headline: Protestors Mourn Nasrallah’s Death Around The World.

Not to be outdone, The Washington Post had this to say about the man who helped Bashar al-Assad dispatch thousands of Syrian women and children with chlorine, sarin and mustard gas:

Among his followers, Mr. Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, a moral compass and a political guide. He was lauded as the man who empowered Lebanon’s once downtrodden and imoverished Shiite community and protected it from Israeli incursions by turning Hezbollah into a formidable deterrent force.

Nasrallah famously referred to Jews as the spawn of apes and pigs. In a speech in honor of the Shia festival of Ashura, he stated: “If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.” On another occasion, he remarked, “If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”

But sure, New York Times, he was a social justice warrior committed to tolerance and equality.

It’s also worth noting that nearly every article reporting Israel’s actions of the past couple of weeks refers to her “escalation” of the regional conflict. In other words, Hezbollah can spend nearly an entire year sending more than 8,000 rockets into Israel, but when the Jewish nation finally responds, she’s the one escalating the tensions in the area.

If you want to see how deep the Jew-hating insanity runs, have a look at this clip in which Iranian journalist Mariam Saleh sobs [at 2:35 within the clip below]: “Today, I as a mother — and many other mothers, they can tell you — we wish that God would take our children and bring [Nasrallah] back.”

This is the death cult we’re dealing with. They would sacrifice their own children to have the terrorist-in-chief brought back to life. This is why no negotiation or reason can prevail in the region.

Jihadist Jew-hatred is really no different from Nazi Jew-hatred. To me, Magda Goebbels’ murder of her own children for Hitler was the most haunting scene in the iconic film Downfall. And Hitler himself preferred to lose World War II rather than let a single Jew remain alive in Europe.

Jackson Hinkle and Shaun King might represent polar opposite ends of the U.S. political spectrum, but they’re equally devastated whenever Israel kills a leading jihadist terrorist.

We can’t control the media, fam, even if everyone thinks we already do. But what we can do is refuse to be gaslit. Israel’s responses to Hezbollah over the last 2 weeks have been more than justified, wildly effective, dazzling and brilliant. I can’t and won’t pretend I’m not proud. I hope Sinwar is next and I won’t mourn the Ayatollah either. And I’m even daring to hope that if Israel can take down the brutal Iranian regime, we might see inroads of normalization throughout much of the Middle East much sooner and more widespread than we might have dared to hope just a month ago.

I’ll be back with you Wednesday, with content to usher in a new and hopefully much better Jewish year. Much love to you all in the meantime. Chazak v’ematz.

Am Yisrael Chai.