It’s all about national suicide.
Polling shows that more Democrats under 50 have a favorable view of Iran than of Israel.
That comes fresh off the Islamic regime massacring tens of thousands of its own protesters after helping perpetrate the Oct 7 massacre inside Israel. The victims of both sets of atrocities, from the protesters in Tehran to Nova music festival attendees in Israel, were young and liberal.
And yet the young liberals of America have chosen the old theocrats who ordered their deaths.
It’s a reversal of sympathies that baffles Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel activists, but it shouldn’t. The Islamic takeover of Iran was horrendously bad for civil rights, freedom and any kind of liberal society, but had nevertheless been advocated for by marxists and socialists as part of the grand march of decolonization across the world that saw them support Communist genocides across Asia, Islamic terrorism in the Middle East, brutal dictatorships across South America and Africa, and black nationalist terrorists in America among many other evils.
Along the way they made common cause with Latin American drug cartels, clan-based tyrants in Africa, the mass murder of millions in China, North Korea and Cambodia, and the Islamic repression of millions from Pakistan to North Africa. Some of the regimes they backed described themselves as socialist, but very few were anything more than tribal and military dictatorships with the serial numbers sawed off. Their current end stage, oligarchic capitalism in China, a family cult in North Korea, Jihadis running amok across the Muslim world, doddering dictatorships in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela propped up by drug money and slavery, have anything progressive or particularly leftist about them, but that never mattered. And still doesn’t.
The logic of decolonization required leftists to support the most brutal, tyrannical and murderous regimes as long as they appeared to be reversing Western world power and colonialism. Their crimes against their own people and even fellow leftists in their own countries were irrelevant. Faced with atrocities, they minimized them, covered them up, excused them, and smeared those who reported them liars and reactionary slanderers, a fate experienced by a range of journalists reporting on leftist genocide from George Orwell to John Barron, to protect the killers.
Is it really any wonder that a movement which tried to spin the Ayatollah Khomeini as a wise and moderate leader, that cheered on the terrorists who took Americans hostage, and has been shilling for the Islamic Revolution for nearly half a century, is still pushing its propaganda.
Decolonization, the destruction of western civilization, its power, culture and existence, is the supreme leftist cause, and anyone aiding in that cause, no matter how otherwise abhorrent, from Stalin and Mao to Khomeini and Maduro, is to be protected, not necessarily because of what they stand for, but what they stand against. And that is why Israel is the enemy.
Some leftists had once justified Israel as an agent of decolonization, but while Israelis were an indigenous people who reclaimed their own land, they did not do so to wage war on western civilization, but to build a complementary civilization living in harmony and partnership.
The Soviet Union, which as far back as Lenin (and for that matter Marx) had rejected the legitimacy of Zionism and Jewish peoplehood did not take long to turn on Israel. Its third world alliance targeted Israel, along with South Africa, Rhodesia and various moderate South American, African and Asian countries for ‘decolonization’ through subversion and terrorism. Some of these targets, like South Africa and Rhodesia, were chosen because the arguments for destroying them made for an easy litmus test while paving the way for destroying the rest.
A Democrat party ideologically in thrall to leftist radicals has made the destruction of Israel into the latest litmus test for decolonization. Israel’s crime isn’t to be found in any of the lies about genocide or famine. Its real crime is that it continues to resist its own destruction.
The scope of that destruction does not end at the borders of the third world, but has swept on into the heartlands of the great cities of western civilization, London, Paris, New York, and making an example out of Israel, like Hungary, is vital for finishing ‘decolonization’ by having Muslims colonize and destroy the rest of the west. Hating Israel is really a death wish.
And that is the whole point.
The campaign against Israel is about picking a target, personalizing it, polarizing it and making it as hated as possible not just to destroy it, but what it represents: resistance and the refusal to submit. The propaganda of Islamic colonialism breaks down each of its targets into a ‘unique case’ in which a greater power (Israel being about as small of a ‘great power’ as can be imagined) is oppressing a Muslim minority. Then comes India. And the entire western world.
That is the final objective. It’s why the left easily chose Iran over Israel, just as it chose Iran, the Taliban, Qatar, the Houthis, the Khmer Rogue, the Viet Cong and the USSR over America, just as it chose Pakistan over India, Pakistani sex grooming gangs over raped girls in the UK, and why it will always choose those who are destroying western civilization over that civilization.
Why would Democrats choose Israel over Islamic terrorism when they won’t even choose America over Islamic terrorism, Latin America drug cartels or foreign tyrants? Shedding Israel and Jewish voters is another bump on the road on the way to the party’s absolute radicalization. Having already shed the South, and working class white voters, the Democrats are dispensing with their entire former identity leaving nothing except a hollow shell filled with far leftist politics.
Like many of the European parties, the Democrats are rapidly becoming a generic socialist party untethered from their past history and animated by the third world internationalism and broad front ‘resistance’ movements invented by Soviet Communism during the Cold War.
These coalitions redefined the old Marxist paradigm of an alliance between intellectual elites and the working class to smash capitalism into an internationalist paradigm in which western leftists were the elites and the third worlders were the working class on a joint mission to destroy western civilization. It’s this murder-suicide pact not socialized medicine, a four-day work week or any of the other hollow promises of socialism that truly defines the postmodern left.
Iran wants to help murder the West. Israel doesn’t. And the Democrats want murderers.
Wellington says
What will it take? No, I’m not here referring to the cessation of making excuses for Islam, the worst religion of all time, but rather the necessity of mass abandonment of the Democratic Party in order to save America.
Yeah, what will it take because presently, and with no end in sight to this suicidal madness, the modern Democratic Party is destroying America within far more than Islam is.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I look at Israel, where the Labour Party is now extinct. It happened during the Obama years, when Israel was struggling against jihad attacks from Gaza as well as Judea/Samaria and Lebanon, and the Israeli people, regardless of where they stood, clearly saw Labour as trying to destroy them as a country
I would have thought that Biden’s presidency would have convinced most Americans, but apparently, there are still deep blue states. Also, the fracture on the Right b/w conservatives vs antisemitic Americans haven’t helped the GOP, and could result in losing both House & Senate this year
PRCS USN (ret) says
Yes. And concerning.
ploome says
a lot of minority “Americans”….vote according to racial and cultural identity, and are very proud when someone of their skin color of immigrant background gets elected
to perpetuate the agenda that convinced them to leave their homelands for a better life, in the lands of the infidel and in spite of the “white supremacy” they complain about and that provides that
see the islamic mini states created in and around Detroit Hamtramck, Dearborn and Chicago, Minneapolis, Lewiston…and so on….
recreating their toxic cultures paid for by Americans
somehistory says
Written centuries ago, describing the times in which we live.
” But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—”
Has anyone else noticed how many parents and their significant partners are murdering their children….babies as young as 1 month….the adults screaming at the child, beating, throwing, burning, starving, poisoning, etc….up to and including 12 years, starved, beaten, poisoned, caged, left in their own bodily secretions until they die?
No surprise that so many are choosing the evils of islime over a nation which has a remarkable history of accountability and sense of right and wrong. If so many care nothing for their babies, and take demonic pleasure in hurting the little ones, it is not a surprise to read that those same ones root for islime.
muzzies aren’t prosecuted for murdering their children.
PRCS USN (ret) says
So, what will happen to Nepalese Buddhiists when the ‘end times’ end?
Asking for some Buddhist friends.
Bob says
Read the book of Revelation it will explain what happens to everyone who rejects Jesus.
Tim gallagher says
Life under that backward, primitive and inhuman regime in Iran is fit only for knuckle draggers. It was 7th century arab life. Zero rights for women, etc. you really to be completely fucked up mentally to favour that over a civilised society such as Israel. It staggers me that anyone could support that Iranian regime.
Ralph says
As George Santayana said so clearly over a century ago, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Patton says
That might just be both the saddest and the most telling article that’s ever been published on this website. It is a challenge to remain optimistic, knowing that so much of this world and so much Of America has turned into a mortal toilet. What can only have a faith in God (the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible, not the bullshit allah of Shit Slime; and hope at the end of the day, the good guys, with God‘s help, will prevail. I always have a hard time imagining what my father, father-in-law and a grandfather who fought in world wars, one and two would think of this country now. I’m glad they didn’t live to see it and my guess is they would not think much of it. Truly sad. Tough times folks.
James Lincoln says
A well-written – and accurate – feature article by Mr. Greenfield.
And profoundly disturbing…
John Pepple says
I cheered when the Shah of Iran left. It was the ardent wish of us leftists that he be gotten rid of. But a month later, the new regime began murdering leftists, and I was aghast. Maybe the Shah hadn’t been so bad after all. Of course, what I had been expecting was a secular and socialist regime, not an ultra-conservative religious regime. Anyway, once they began murdering leftists, I naturally concluded that they were enemies of the left. And I assumed that every other leftist had been as horrified by the murder of leftists as I was, and it wasn’t until much later that I learned that they weren’t horrified at all.
They are suicidal, apparently. I’d tell them to see a shrink, but probably the shrink is just as suicidal as they are.
Wellington says
John Pepple: Rather like the situation with Czarist Russia. Under the last Czars (Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II), the Czarist secret police, which I believe was referred to as Department #8, knocked off a few hundred political dissidents every year. But once Lenin and his fellow Communist thugs took over it was, conservatively speaking, some 15,000 a month who went to some promised land. Eventually, and even before Lenin died in 1924, some 5 million had been murdered. And then came Stalin.
My overall point here is that, yes, those on the Right can do terrible things but those on the Left will do far more terrible things. You can see this in Russia around the time of WWI, with Iran once the Shah fell in 1979, with the Somoza regime in Nicaragua versus the Sandinistas who came afterwards, with the Batista regime in Cuba versus Castro from 1959 onwards, etc.
Those on the Far Left are even more an enemy of freedom and morality than those on the Far Right. We see it now in Western Europe and also most certainly here in America.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
John
I recommend watching Goldie Ghamari, an Iranian expat in Canada who covers events in Iran daily. She explained that there was nothing wrong w/ Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and that the reason he fell was that he was unwilling to unleash a bloodbath to stay in power. His advisers tried to urge him to crack down on the revolutionaries, but he told them that he wasn’t willing to hang on to power by massacring his own people. Had he been as determined as the current regime, he too could have stayed on in power
Problem w/ today’s Leftists is that if they did a purely objective assessment of the islamic regime, they would have loathed it w/ the power of a thousand suns. However, they see that that regime loathes the West, and that apparently trumps their principles when it comes to opposing theocracies
You cheered the ouster of the Shah, but Iranians, whose country it was, mourned. Just like you probably cheered Castro as well, except that Cubans in America, like Humberto Fontova, pointed out what monsters he and Che were. As a Leftist, you should stick to pushing it within your country, but not tell people in other countries what’s right for them
OLD GUY says
What’s with these elected members of our government supporting Iran who would enslave us and murder us in a heart beat. They are breaking their oath of office and should be arrested as traitors.
Pedro Afa Orbunde says
Islam is for the mentally deranged. Always shouting the name of allah when killing the humanking is barbaric and otherworidly.
D.C. Watson says
That arrogant insect Omar looks like a walking Q-Tip. What a stupid hat.
somehistory says
Her husband has shut down his wine business because the government is looking into her money claims.
Kepha says
There is a reflexive “hate America and all its allies” mentality on the Left.
Further, back in the Silly ‘Sixties and Sillier ‘Seventies, we were fed a constant stream of nonsense about “Islam enhancing the dignity of the black man and other oppressed people blahblahblah{. We also turned into a classic the “Autobiography” of the reprehensible Malcolm X. Hence, well-heeled fools in Manhattan thought it the chic and “liberal” thing to do to elect a Communist-leaning Muslim as mayor.
There is also a studied ignorance of the negative side of Islam. We are told of a supposedly wonderful “conviviencia” in Ummayad Spain (never mind that Dhimmi status was enforced) but never the bigoted Almohads. We are told how Beyezid II welcomed the expelled Sephardim, but chiefly because he saw a new cource of jizya rather than any real humanitarian feeling.
As for Communism, the Left long blamed everything bad on Stalin, as if Lenin and Trotsky weren’t also thugs. And I’ve seen Trotskyites praise Castro’s Cuba, conveniently looking past how Ramon Mercador was always welcomed as “an honored guest of the Cuban people and their Revolution” after he finally got out of a Mexican prison.
gravenimage says
Why Democrats Chose Iran Over Israel
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Utter madness.