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In Norway, where I live, there is a very useful word: ukultur.
Kultur, of course, means culture. Ukultur is the word for a culture that lacks, well, culture.
Which is to say, a culture that preaches, and practices, barbarism.
There is no greater ukultur on Earth than Islam.
And in the entire Islamic world, there is no denser concentration of ukultur than in the Gaza Strip.
For decades, America and other Western nations have poured extraordinary sums of cash into that tiny area in the utterly misbegotten expectation that the savages who live there, if handed enough money, will choose to civilize themselves.
This notion has never been anything less than insanity.
Why? Here’s why.
Islam, even at its best, is nothing to write home about. It’s a violence-obsessed ideology, masquerading as a peaceful religion, that preaches the conquest and murder of infidels.
In some parts of the Muslim world, Islam is less violent than in others.
But in the Gaza Strip, under Hamas, the terrorist organization that has governed it since 2007, Islam dials up to eleven.
Being that close to the Jewish enemy – even though the Jewish enemy supplies everything from water to emergency health care to Gazans – must make the Jew-hatred just too much to contain.
Hence the walls and fences. Hence the Iron Dome, which apparently failed this time around.
And yet the dollars and euros and pounds and kroner have kept on flowing to these monsters with nothing but Jew-hatred on their minds.
And not just to Hamas, but also to Iran, which helps fund Hamas.
In 2016, the Obama Administration transferred $1.7 billion to Iran. In September, the Biden Administration sent $6 billion.
Biden’s people got Iran to promise that those funds would only be used for “humanitarian purposes” – as if anyone could trust the promises of the Iranian regime.
What proportion of those American funds, sent to Gaza and to Iran, paid for the weapons that murdered innocent Israelis yesterday?
Yesterday, photographs that were censored by the mainstream media could be viewed, if only briefly, on social media. They showed Israeli women and children being cruelly brutalized.
Israel does not treat Palestinians that way.
Not to descend into cliché, but since its founding in 1948, Israel has turned a desert into an oasis – a civilized hub of freedom, prosperity, and technological innovation.
In short, productiveness.
Meanwhile the people of Gaza, despite receiving perhaps the highest level of international humanitarian aid per capita on the entire planet, seem never to have been particularly motivated to be productive.
On the contrary, few places on the planet – certainly few places so small – have been so devoted to destruction.
In short, ukultur.
And the more money they get from the people they hate, the more determined they seem to be to use it to destroy those very people.
I’ve mentioned that I live in Norway. Yesterday the Norwegian state TV channel, NRK, began its evening news by citing the number of Palestinians killed up to that point. It proceeded to give time to an apologist for Hamas, after which NRK’s correspondent in Jerusalem said that young Palestinians are massacring Israelis because they see “no future” for themselves and NRK’s man in Beirut stated that Israel is getting “a taste of its own medicine.”
No surprise there. Many Norwegians, like many other Europeans, have been fed Palestinian propaganda since infancy.
The hell with them. The present conflict is as close as any human circumstance comes to being a black-and-white question.
Israel is civilization. Gaza is barbarism.
Not to bring out the heavy artillery here – or to cite statistical embarrassments that many, many others have pointed out before – but we’ve just been through Nobel Prize season. Jews make up 0.2% of the world population, but have won 22% of Nobel Prizes (even though Scandinavians can be notoriously anti-Semitic).
Meanwhile, Muslims make up 24% of the world population, but have won 1.4% of Nobel Prizes – and half of those were Peace prizes, including the one to Yasir Arafat.
I think I once joked in an article that, just as the SATs are purportedly unfair to certain ethnic groups because they expect you to know words like regatta, the Nobel Prizes are unfair to Muslims because there’s no award for, say, bombing children’s hospitals.
But I don’t feel like joking now.
This attack on Israel happened on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. I’m old enough to remember that war. At the time, I never imagined that a half century later Muslims in Gaza would still have failed to get their act together, and would still center their lives on trying to murder Jews.
Can anything positive come of this evil attack? Yes, if people pay attention and learn the truth.
It’s been said that yesterday’s attacks were Israel’s 9/11. Ever since America’s 9/11, apologists for Islam have done a terrific job of painting Muslims as victims, not terrorists.
If this atrocity can lead Americans, and others, to realize just how grotesque a lie that is – well, good.
As for Israel’s retaliation, yesterday an old friend of mine noted online that “[w]hen Dresden commemorated the fortieth anniversary of the city’s destruction by British bombers, the German leadership did not blame the Allies.” Quite rightly, they blamed Hitler.
So, my friend added, whatever Israel does in response to yesterday’s attack, “[t]he blood is on Hamas’s hands. Every drop of it.”
Yes, indeed. Every drop.
Genesis 12: 2-3. I will make you a great nation and I will bless you. I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse whoever curses you I will curse.
The funding of Israel.’s enemies, Hamas and Iran is going to be a curse on Israel’s enemies. God’s word holds true, nobody can ever change his word, his will, or his plan for Israel. Where does this leave America? Cursed!
when the Bible says “an eye for an eye” – it means how God will judge and punish the wicked; not how men should treat each other. So, if U.S. funding of Iran and Hamas results in 1000’s of Jews being killed in this war, the question becomes will God then allow 1000’s of U.S. citizens to be killed by the illegal aliens that are now invading our country.
William Koenig’s book “eye to eye” documents how every time the U.S. has twisted Israel’s arm to give up some of their land for peace, natural disasters then occur in the U.S. – usually within 24 hours.
Mr. Koenig is one of the few “news prophecy” people whose Israelology is spot on. If you enjoy his work, you can see his most recent contributions at watch.org.
There are no new prophecies – stop looking.
Maybe, Israel can help us with our illegal border crossers and terrorists. The level and timing of this propaganda is silly. Especially, considering the origns. They should consider awarding academy awards for this level of script acting. Let’s take care of the American people first and others second. If or when this happens, the propaganda will go down easier.
All,
Yes, what is happening in Israel is tragic. What is happening in America is even more tragic. For instance, deaths caused by abortion, veteran suicides, fentanyl, etc. The deaths of 9/11 were tragic, but pale in comparison to the mostly preventable deaths mentioned above. The death and destruction being aloud to come across our American border is also tragic; all of these tragedies happen every day. So, please stop referring to 9/11 out of context. Its very disrespectful and disingenuous.
All,
Correction: allowed
You, mean through the Messiah, the Christ. I would recommend not cherry picking and to provide context. This, is why you find yourself in this predicament to begin with; a hard heart.
Why no 2nd Amendment?
All,
Where is your outrage for American atrocities? Without the US (which affords, still, more freedom to its citizens than Israel) we would not be on this forum.
All,
Brotherhood should be reciprocal. Weigh your thoughts, writings, and speech accordingly.
its kill or be killed time.
(see Youtube post by Caroline Glick, please).
Yes, it is time. Pure defense has to fail against time.
Second most idjit comment of the day.
Israel must ground herself in the Promises, dedicate herself to the Lord and effing kill every enemy within her borders.
May God expand her territory, protect her people and most especially her women and children now in captivity. May the Lord reveal Himself as her God and Messiah that all the world may know and be blessed, and especially His people Israel.
Cat says – Thank you for the reference to Caroline Glick on YouTube
regarding the Hamas attack because I always like what she writes.
She is 100% right in every word she says in the video.
She happened to address several things that Mr. Bawer covers in
today’s article. There are many of them. I love how he says the
hell with those who shill for Gaza Palestinians and why. I love
when she denounces the idea of a Cease Fire because Hamas
had agreed upon rules in dealing with Israel and broke every one
of them.
Bawer addresses the barbarity meted out by Hamas to Israeli
women and children and the dearth of pictures on this for the
public. Ms. Glick had a bit of trouble composing herself when
she spoke of the pictures she was able to see of Hamas cruelty
to the children.
Bawer and Glick have expressed powerfully their opinions on
a tragedy akin to the 9/11 attack on the tiny Jewish state. I agree
with them totally. God help Israel in her hour of greatest need.
Yes well stated!
I agree. So why is Israel still supplying water and electricity to the nation that is in the process of killing Israelis? If I were the PM of Israel, the FIRST thing I would do is shut off the water and electricity.. Netanyahu doesn’t even mention doing that. He says this is a war but he is treating it as something entirely different. And frankly, I don’t believe this attack came as a surprise to him and many IDF brass.
“So why is Israel still supplying water and electricity to the nation that is in the process of killing Israelis?”
The answer is suicidal, self-sacrificial, ALTRUISM. The same suicidal altruism that made America and the West hand over the oil, oilfields, and oil technology to the Muslims in the 1950s. The same suicidal altruism that motivates Europe today to invite Muslims to invade it and live off their altruist welfare-states.
Self-preservation requires a moral foundation of RATIONAL SELFISHNESS not self-sacrificial altruism.
Ah yes, altruism and rational selfishness, your two favorite buzzwords, which you apply to everything you don’t like.
In reality rational selfishness is simply a cover so you can be your usual selfish childish, bratty pile of shee-it. Altruism is your cover for your hatred of Jews and Christians.
Why don’t you show us how un-altruistic and rationally selfish you are. Go to Gaza and help the Muslims fight the Israelis. Your true love of Islam is starting to become apparent.
Well, it’s time to revisit Daniel Greenfield’s post to you on 9/29
Daniel Greenfield says
September 29, 2023 at 9:14 pm
“The idea that you and your particular belief system, for which you are an absolutely terrible representative, represent ‘reason’, is as much of a fallacy as the idea that Fauci represents science.
You are only as good as your arguments.”
Good essay, Bruce. We cannot and should not mince words for the sake of niceties and political correctness.
The ideology of “Submission” is an intrinsically and immutably supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent and hate-filled ideology, It’s pathologies are obvious to the rational-minded.
Arab Muslim, so-called “Palestinians” in Gaza and the West Bank are the modern-day equivalent of German National Socialists, and, they should be treated as such, by Israel and by the west.
they will be treated as such – I think this time Bibi will completely destroy Hamas.
Internal infections won’t heal until you take all the anti-biotic. Miss one, yur done.
My black humor joke is that if only Israeli Jews chose to fly hijacked airliners into office buildings, drove trucks into crowds of pedestrians, shot up concert halls and magazine offices and took and beheaded hostages, they might be as popular among American Dhimmi-crats and European, Leftist dhimmis as Muslim supremacists and terrorists currently are.
The black humor just might fit a bit better if Israel also had black gold. Dhimmis like to lick bare sandy oily feet.
Idjit comment of the day by TruthLaser.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is,a terrible cancer infecting the entire planet with the devoted assistance of O’Biden.
That comma is a typo
Calling to mind the book title: Eats Shoots and Leaves, wrongly written “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” – or was it the reverse?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves
Does it really matter to the comma toes?
Iran never promised to use the funds for humanitarian purposes. Quite the opposite. They said, “screw you, we will use the funds for whatever we want.” Biden and his people make up B.S. as naturally as they breath.
plus, Iran has ramped up oil sales to China under Biden. Trump did not allow this to happen. So the $6 billion that Biden just gave to Iran last month is a small number compared to Iran’s income from oil sales. Hamas gets their funding from Iran, so the 5000 missiles that Hamas just fired into Israel could very well be stamped with the words: “paid for by our favorite infidel, Joe Biden.”
All at Queen Barry’s direction. He hates Why Tea. Believe it now?
Mr Bawer:
This is not a negative comment, but raises a matter of concern to me that Israel is not as protective as it ought to be of Israeli Christians, and indeed their military seems to make efforts to injure them.
I raise this because of a recent article by Michael Warren Davis on “Israeli Christians” at the American Conservative website. I’ve always – ever since the 1967 war when I was a teenager – been an ardent supporter of Israel, but more important to me as an adult is what M. W. Davis says about how Israel is treating my co-religionists, which if true, is going to be very bad for that country.
perhaps the Daystar tv network from Dallas will help the situation. Daystar, a Christian tv network, broadcasts into Israel 24 hrs/day on all Israeli tv networks – and what is surprising is that the Israeli gov’t invited Daystar into their country to do this.
Just when I worry that FPM is being distracted by esoteric culture war issues, this blast of moral clarity from Bawer restores my respect for FPM.
Civilization vs. barbarism! As clear as night & day. Enough said!
Most commentators focus on how jihadi Arabs fight–targeting civilians with brutality, while Israel uses restraint. What Bawer does above is makes the more important distinction: how they live. Hamas in Gaza is a primitive totalitarian repressive theocratic state. Israel is a prosperous rights-respecting liberal order. Savages vs. civilization!
To maintain civilization it is necessary to destroy the criminal barbarians by any means necessary.
When Western civilization was on the way up……….this was understood.
But now that Western civilization has chosen suicide……….it no longer has the required psychological resolve to do what needs to be done.
EVERYWHERE around the world the decent and law abiding are preyed upon by the criminal barbarians.
Judeo-Christian “compassion” without God leads to pacifism and suicide.
Israel today is an object lesson in that reality.
America will also be another object lesson in this within the next year.
Evil is prevailing because we will not pick up the gun and kill it.
How many innocent people will have to die to re-learn the ancient lesson?
May God have mercy on the citizens of Israel.
The mass expulsion of the population of Gaza must be at or near the top of Israel’s “to do” list.
Israel is certainly not perfect. As this is clearly the universal condition that actually defines everyone and every nation. However, if faced with the choice of being placed with Islamists and Israel – send me to Israel. So – yes, I stand with Israel, and will continue this policy. Not because is perfect, but that is always ends up being better than mindless hate.
“Mindless hate” I wonder were that comes from? Ah yes, their Holy Book, The Koran.
This is just a small selection.
The Quran Dehumanizes Non-Muslims
and Says that They are Vile Animals
The Ayatollah Khomeini, who dedicated his entire life to studying Islam, said that non-Muslims rank somewhere between “feces” and the “sweat of a camel that has consumed impure food.” Small wonder. The Quran dehumanizes non-Muslims, describing them as “animals” and beasts:
Those who disbelieve from among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures. (98:6)
Surely the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight are those who disbelieve, then they would not believe. (8:55)
Verse 7:176 compares unbelievers to “panting dogs” with regard to their idiocy and worthlessness.
Verse 7:179 says they are like “cattle” only worse.
Verse 9:28 says the unbelievers are unclean.
Verse 6:111 says they are ignorant.
Verse 4:76 says they are helpers of the devil.
Verse 5:60 even says that Allah transformed Jews of the past into apes and pigs. This is echoed by verses 7:166 and 2:65.
A hadith (Bukhari 54:524) says that Muhammad believed rats to be “mutated Jews” (also confirmed by Sahih Muslim 7135 and 7136).
Verses 46:29-35 even say that unbelieving men are worse than the demons who believe in Muhammad.
According to Islamic law, non-Muslims may be owned as property by Muslims, but – in keeping with Islam’s supremacist message – a fellow Muslim should never be (unless they convert to Islam after they are enslaved).
Christians and Jews are not considered fully human in Islam. The penalty for killing one of them is limited to one-third of the compensation due for unintentionally killing a Muslim. Muhammad made it clear that a believer cannot be put to death for killing a non-believer, since they are not equal (see Conclusion). Thus, killing kafir is less serious than engaging in a consenting sexual relationship outside of marriage.
To a greater understanding of Islam, use this website.
https://thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/quran-hate.aspx
Those who have savings are earning zero interest. They are deliberately screwing up the western world because of climate change which is the same excuse that every left wing group has used for totalitarianism.
“One side is civilization – the other is barbarism.” – maybe they can put that on our tombstone.
OK Una, that’s a good one 🙂
Islam is the most disgusting evil philosophy ever devised – invented by a a war-mongering, woman-hating paedophile, rapist and slave trader
Some of my acquaintances say all religions are bad and thus equal. I point out that as Muslims copy their prophet the more evil they become. The more Christians follow THEIR prophet the better people they become. Cultures are not equal.
Scenario: Israel nukes Hamas. Russia nukes Ukraine and trashes NATO. China takes a stab at locking down Taiwan and the South China Sea. Biden declares Martial Law. Russia takes back Alaska. America’s military draft is reinstated…all basic training moved to Disney World. Every stripe on the American Flag ordered to be a different color. Stars must have glitter. The year 2024 becomes a Biblical milestone. And Texas needs rain.
Yesterday, the news media, interrupted the Oklahoma vs. Texas football game with a news bulletin, Biden said he supports Israel. Deplorables arent idiots, I figured most of the football fans knew it to be lies.
After those most recent bloody murderous jihadist attacks by Muslims by Muslim terrorists of Hamas , an Israeli government official said “They made a big mistake.”
The jihadists of Hamas did ,indeed, did make a “big mistake.” For it’s very fitting and even necessary that the Israeli military and police need to and have to engage in extensive measures of retribution for those Hamas terror /murder attacks.
For it’s very obvious that the jihadists who make up Hamas only understand the language of violent brutal force, therefore that’s exactly they should be dealt with.
Oh no, you’ve got it all wrong. Iran is a force for stability in the Middle East. The Sunnis must learn to “share the neighborhood” with it. Haven’t you been listening to Obama and Biden? Doesn’t anyone else remember this but me? Doesn’t anyone recall that Sen. Joe Biden’s recommendation after 9/11 was to give Iran hundreds of millions of dollars? Doesn’t anyone remember that one of Biden’s first acts as President was to remove the terrorist designation from the Iranian puppet Huthies in Yemen (who responded by committing a mass drone and missile attack against the Saudi oil facilities at Ras Tanura, Rabigh, Yanbu and Jizan). Doesn’t anyone else remember that Obama had Robert Malley as an advisor and briefly sidelined him when it became public that, contrary to U.S. law, he was having talks with Hamas or that Biden pledged to rebuild Gaza after they lost their last campaign against Israel? The Democrats have been sympathetic to Iran and it’s vile proxies for decades. If Americans paid the same attention to the malign and delusional policies of successive Dem administration as they do as to who Taylor Swift is dating this country and the world would be much better off.
Concerning those most recent jihad attacks by Muslim terrorists of Hamas.
It’s very important and necessary for the Israeli government to launch retaliatory strikes against Hamas.
The reason why this is so had been explained over 200 years ago by a US President , Thomas Jefferson, who had wisely declared “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
Islam is against all civilization and culture.
They destroy all culture and civilization in any country they invade.
& they then implant their barbaric culture & religion on the Infidels.
After 50 years of serial terrorism from Gaza it seems well past time to level the place, bulldoze the rubble, and redevelop the area is Israel waterfront. Otherwise the terror from Muslim barbarians will continue.
This is a retaliation from the New World Order elitists for the Knesset stripping the Supreme Courts power to declare Government decisions unreasonable as it was a step back for Global Totalitarianism .
And getting around Iron Dome was no accident .
JMHO
Any nation that mocks God, and sticks a finger in his eye, or the Apple of His eye, (Israel) is subject to destruction. Maybe people will think twice about their rubuke of the truth and the One True God, until everything is finished and irreparable.
Where are all those individuals who shouted “Islamophobia” not so long ago?
Bruce,
Thoughtful but a bit cautious writ, methinks. Why not mention Israel was caught w/ the pants down – Iron Dome down, Mossad asleep, no warning, not yet learning hard lessons since the Yom Kippur war 50 y ago! Will Bibi shot off water & electricity to Gaza? Doubt it.
A quick trip down memory lane. The jihadis & islamists always follow historic dates. This barbaric attack by Hamas happened on the date of the famous naval battle of Lepanto in Greece in 1571. Ali Pasha got whupped & beheaded. Further, Gaza is the place where the famous Samson & the Philistines took place. Knew that story even as a young conservative atheist wishing I could do the same to the barbaric commies.
An aside, why do you live in a woke & socialist leaning Norway? Poland, Hungary are more sane.
However, glad you mentioned ukultur. In German it’s Unkultur, in Czech pakultura. Will never forget ukultur in 1972 SOG in Munich. During the volleyball game Japan v Czechoslovakia, we have seen the 2nd Palestinian attack on the Israeli athletes. Cowards w/ ski masks & AK47 murdering unarmed Jewish civilians in Germany! Been a hardliner against the jihadis/islamists ever since. As an orthodox Christian for 43 years, still have the same ‘Weltanschauung’ – I want these barbaric fanatic creeps dead, yesterday. May the Lord forgive me.
Were I Bibi, would let the civilians leave & then wipe out Hamas & Hezbollah in Lebanon w/ IDF spec-ops/Mossad in urban warfare. And, annex Gaza & the West Bank to Israel as it was after the Six Day War in 1967. Let the corrupt antisemitic UN & the klintonistas & obamabots in the corrupt Pepe Chicon Bidon (not a typo;-) pound sand. Peace for land, two state solution, et al, are sick chimeras. Elohim Baruch HaShem & Baruch Hashem Yisrael. Maranatha, too.
What we don’t know is how much bigger this can become, more than just dealing with Hamas in Gaza. How many fronts Israel can be facing very soon? If Iran is truly the instigator, a second front with Hezballah in the north. Iran itself. Some of the rockets fired into Israel are coming from the abandoned U.S. base in Afghanistan, which somehow travelled to Gaza (in addition to the billions provided the girl murdering Islamic Republic of Iran) while Taliban fighters are trying to get to Israel to join in the jihad. Will the other Arabs and Arab nations smell blood and also join in? Arabs in the “West Bank”, Arabs in Israel? Remembering, all Muslim peace treaties follow the example of Muhammad, which is they can be broken the moment it is to the advantage of the Muslims. Whether it is Hamas or Saudi Arabia,
I would hope Israel would call this experiment to living with Hamas, an enemy dedicated to your extermination, over, and eradicate it once and for all. I fear there will only be a “proportional response”, especially with so many hostages taken. The longer it takes to move ground troops into Gaza, the less likely the eradication becomes, which will be seen as a great victory for the jihad,
The security and intelligence failure here is mind boggling, coupled with the sick irony of the “peace festival” interrupted by murdering jihadists. Israel needs to understand, once and for all, this is a religious war with no political solution. Only a military one,
Great article Mr. Bawer. You have forgotten the $8 billion that Barack Insane Obamao gave to the Iranians: https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-media-us-unfreezes-8-billion-in-assets/amp/
Didn’t want to tout our family’s horn. However, we support Israel since before the Six Day War for two reasons. 1. A small nation surrounded by its enemies has a right to exist on moral ground alone. Just like the Czechs squeezed btw the Nazis & the Soviets. 2. The # of Nobel Prizes won by Jewish scientists & scholars is astounding.
We are a unique gojim family. Mother-side wealthy bourgeoisie & devout conservative Catholics. Father-side 4 gens of conservative STEM – applied science guys w/ oodles of common sense & atheists. Have always befriended smart conservative Jews while rolling our eyes in disgust re: so many radical Leftist Jews, i.e., Stalin’s regime, the Frankfurt School, our mass-media, Tinseltown, et al.
Grandpa was a dean of the faculty of nuclear, bio & medical physics (studied in Berlin under Otto Hahn); uncle was the dean of the faculty of biochemistry & molecular biology; dad was an inventive & innovative organic chemist; yours truly is a lowly digging-in-mud geologist/geophysicist. We have always respected practical & innovative brain-power including among the Ashkenazi in EU. In our book, it is the foundation of civilization – improving one’s state, station & human condition. Islam & the woke regressive mob & elitists want humanity back in Plato’s cave. No, thank you!
Memo to Bibi: bury the Hamas thugs in their own tunnels!
It is impossible to live alongside Morlocks except as food. What happened Saturday in Israel will be repeated over and over into eternity unless the Jews empty Gaza of the inhumans living there. I’m not recommending genocide—that’s a Muslim game. But living conditions must be made so intolerable that none of the current residents choose to remain. Cut off the electric supply. Limit groceries and water to a bare minimum, or even less.No more work permits in Israel. No more medical treatment in Jewish hospitals. If Hamas military headquarters is hidden in the sub-basement of Gaza’s largest hospital it must be taken out. What’s the worst that can happen?The Jew-hating grandchildren of Europe’s Nazis will call the Israelis the new Nazis?
It should also be noted that amongst the Muslims who won Nobel Prizes are Yasser Arafat and crypto Muslim-Marxist Barack Hussein Obama. They certainly didn’t deserve one, any more than infamous Jew hater and pathetically inept and sanctimonious Peanut Dhimmi Carter. They just “checked a box” or two.