A strange spectacle is now taking place on campuses in the USA: hundreds of thousands of people who see themselves as individuals, as rational and fighting for progress and the values of the Enlightenment, have become a blind, law-breaking and violent crowd in the service of a jihadist ideology and a genocidal terrorist organization.
What the h..ll is going on here?
After all, this is not about the fringes of society. These are not unemployed and drunk military veterans in the midst of a global economic crisis like in Germany in the 1930s. These are also not the Diplorbelz from the anti-Semitic wing of the extreme right in the USA.
This strange mass psychosis gripped the crème de la crème of the Western elite most of all.
Those who lead this sick hatred are professors of political science, sociology and law;
The arena in which the play takes place is the campuses of the Ivy League universities that fly on their banner "diversity, equality and inclusion";
And the money, organization and power come from countless "progressive" left organizations.
The average Israeli watches what is happening and asks himself: How is it possible that enlightened, rational and liberal people have completely lost the ability to distinguish between good and bad and between truth and falsehood?
How is it possible that such educated people succumbed to such inferior propaganda?
How is it possible that human rights organizations have become subcontractors of a genocidal movement like Hamas?
very weird.
But is it really that strange?
Should we as Israelis be surprised that people who consider themselves to be the progressive and rational elite of a Western country, have succumbed to inferior propaganda and turned into violent street gangs that wreak havoc and crush the foundations of society?
You understand where I'm going right?
I'm sorry to break the news to some of you, but what happened here in the year before October 7, and what is happening now on campuses in the USA, is exactly, exactly, you are a phenomenon: mass psychosis.
And those who succumbed to this mass psychosis and allow themselves to cross any red line are more or less the same social factors and forces: "the progressive, enlightened and liberal elite".
The claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is no more unfounded than the claim that Netanyahu and his opponent Levin tried to turn Israel into a dark dictatorship.
The claim that Israel is the embodiment of evil on earth is no more disproven than the claim that the right-religious coalition is the embodiment of evil on the land of Zion.
And the claim that Israel is an apartheid state is no more unfounded than the claim that Rothman and Litzman planned to turn the childhood of the secular public into slaves.
These are also the poor propaganda vanities that bought them a strike among those who see themselves as the most sophisticated elements in society.
And it's not just the surrender to propaganda nonsense that is similar. The practice and worship of the victims of psychosis are also almost exactly the same. The activists of the progressive left in the USA are sure that they are fighting for everything that is good and right and moral, so they allow themselves to cross red lines, just like our Kaplanists were sure that the contract was broken, and therefore they are allowed to incite resistance, block roads and criticize elected officials from the right.
So is what is happening now in the US really so strange?
And what can and should we learn from this?
🇸🇪 Sweden passes 'good behaviour' law to kick out misbehaving immigrants
Sweden's parliament passed a law on Monday allowing authorities to revoke immigrants' residency permits based on bad behaviour, such as having unpaid debts, doing undeclared work or links to extremist organisations.
The law, which covers pending permits but also retroactively already granted permits, is part of a wider tightening of immigration rules by the right-wing government and its support party, the nationalist Sweden Democrats, ahead of a parliamentary election in September.
The law has been criticised by the opposition and human rights advocacy groups as arbitrary because decisions would be taken on behaviour that has not been deemed criminal.
The law does not specify what types of behaviours are deemed unacceptable but the government has mentioned unpaid debts, not paying taxes, criminality and links to extremist organisations. The Migration Agency is tasked ...
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has fallen to 340.3 million barrels, its lowest level since 1983, after the government released another 8.9 million barrels last week.
The reserve has dropped 18% (75 million barrels) since the Iran conflict began in February.
The administration has used SPR releases to help keep oil prices from surging.
Source: CNN
After several hours of confusion and uncertainty, it’s time to bring some order to the situation.
What exactly did Trump agree to?
The agreement rests on two very lean principles:
“The Strait of Hormuz must remain open to free navigation, and Iran must not possess nuclear weapons.”
Trump has insisted in nearly every other post that Iran will not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons, while simultaneously pushing to keep the Strait of Hormuz open to unrestricted maritime traffic at any cost.
But why was Trump so eager to reach such a minimal agreement? Why did he pressure Israel not to interfere, even at the cost of merging the various fronts and exposing soldiers to greater danger? Why did J.D. Vance, who has opposed military intervention, suddenly move to the forefront while Rubio faded into the background? And why has no one managed to offer a convincing explanation beyond references to the World Cup, birthdays, the midterm elections, and other superficial reasons for this apparent obsession?
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