Op-ed:
Religion in War...A Factor Overlooked
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google  

...And while both “Abrahamic” religions...Judaism and Christianity...do believe in but one God who rules over all...monotheism it's called...the belief in one God alone does not make it fact nor does it negate what many believe to be fact, thus continuing the ongoing centuries old argument between believers v. nonbelievers.

 

But this article is not about ones personal religious beliefs nor is it about any of the religious collectives to which one might or might not belong, yet religion itself is this article's core topic as it relates to the realities of war...including Iran's ongoing war chant “death to Israel, death to America,” and how it's the calling card for Iran's what they believe to be a “Holy War.” And this key factor is being overlooked by far too many folks as this is the most dangerous type of war for when ones enemy believes that God is on their side alone, they think they can do no wrong. Read entire article here. 

Op-ed:

Religion in War...A Factor Overlooked

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google  

Religion...“organized religion” to be more precise...has a long and somewhat sorted history...man-made to those who are non-believers...the “One Most Holy” who has dominion over us all to those who do believe. And yet neither side, to date, has been able to offer tangible here and now proof positive of either the existence of God or the lack thereof.

And while to the Christian faithful the Holy Bible is all the proof they need of God's existence, yet that proof is actually not tangible proof for the Bible in reality is but the words of mortal men...men “inspired” by the words of God yet not written by the hand of God. That deed alone belongs to the Jewish faith...which preceded Christianity by thousands of years...for it was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who, with his own hand, set the words of the Ten Commandments upon rock tablets giving them to Moses after he led the Jews out of bondage in Egypt. And while both “Abrahamic” religions...Judaism and Christianity...do believe in but one God who rules over all...monotheism it's called...the belief in one God alone does not make it fact nor does it negate what many believe to be fact, thus continuing the ongoing centuries old argument between believers v. nonbelievers.

But this article is not about ones personal religious beliefs nor is it about any of the religious collectives to which one might or might not belong, yet religion itself is this article's core topic as it relates to the realities of war...including Iran's ongoing war chant “death to Israel, death to America,” and how it's the calling card for Iran's what they believe to be a “Holy War.” And this key factor is being overlooked by far too many folks as this is the most dangerous type of war for when ones enemy believes that God is on their side alone, they think they can do no wrong.

In fact, history itself has shown that religious “tensions,” if you will, is what contributed to the rise of extremist ideologies as witnessed by the Crusades, what was the Papal initiated religious wars of “reclamation” fought during the Middle Ages; the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) between Catholics and Protestants; and islam's numerous still ongoing wars of hoped for“islamic conquest.” But the most vile of all wars having religion as one of its driving forces was, in my opinion, World War II, for not only did one evil man promote anti-Semitism to justify what was to become the “Holocaust,” but he, Adolf Hitler, deemed an entire group of people...the Jewish people...to be “sub-human” and in need of “extermination,” thus claiming that in doing so it would help to “purify” the so-called “Aryan race.” Remember, Hitler was obsessed with “racial purity” and used the word “Aryan” to describe his idea of a “pure German race.”

And Hitler's personal hatred for the Jewish people...the people he identified as “enemies of the state”...became the very people he foolishly held responsible for both Germany's economic and cultural decline. And when it was coupled with Hitler's all but consuming jealousy of the Jews economic and personal successes...the Jews fate was sealed. And when Hitler's hate fueled rhetoric morphed into his selling the justification for murdering six million+ Jews, even the most devote and faithful of religious believers legitimized and gave credence to what was truly the saddest chapter in this, the most unholy of wars.

Simply, Hitler was able to unify the vast majority of the German people together in an act of cleverly crafted preordained hate, thus laying the groundwork for the creating of selectively targeted victims hidden within a most vile of masqueraded causes, while at the same time negating...or at the very least masking...for way too many of the faithful the guilt factor that some must have carried...guilt for their having remained silent about the unspeakable acts knowingly being committed while they willingly and shamefully looked away.

And Hitler did relish in using the influence of Christian religious leaders...religious leaders too afraid to stand up against the man who literally threw aside the Biblical concepts of knowing right from wrong, good from evil... and did so to garner their help in keeping the faithful in line...as in loyal to Hitler's party line that is. And so the clergy became but one of the propaganda arms of the “Third Reich.”

So here the question then becomes, why did the majority of Germany's religious leaders...why did the majority of Europe's religious leaders...not stand up against the evil that walked amongst them? The answer is really not at all that surprising in that once Nazi Germany was able to manipulate both religious rhetoric and its clerical deliverers, churches became gathering places by which Hitler successfully spread Nazi propaganda while instilling in the faithful what he believed to be the “legitimization of his actions.” And he did so while at the same time fostering a sense of what some call “divine support” for the eliminating of those deemed “unholy”...as in the Jews...the now easily and frequently blamed “Christ killers.”

And so for too many countries of Europe “Jew hatred” became a then quite acceptable norm for way too many folks, while the systemic murdering of six millions Jews...babies and children amongst them... morphed into a complex play between Biblical teachings of religious doctrine, and the fact that on some level both the German people and the people of Europe had to know what was really going on. Why so...because Nazi Germany became experts in manipulating religious rhetoric to help propagate its hate filled ideology and propaganda.

Simply, Hitler was successful in using religious musings to turn neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, all in an effort to not only place blame on those who were actually blameless, but to use the religious faithful as one of the means by which to help spread the doctrine that became known as the “Final Solution.” Churches across Germany and Europe were forced to align their teachings with Nazi state rhetoric and propaganda, and unfortunately too many of the faithful did fall sheepishly in line no matter that the smell of death reeked even inside houses of worship, And while some stood strong against this most perverse style of indoctrination, those who did so were also deemed “enemies of the state,” and like the Jews they tried to protect their bodies joined that of Jews piled high inside the anything but “work camps.”

And Germany of the 1930s and 1940s clearly shows that when religious idealism and fervor is entwined within the reasons for war, a most dangerous of combinations is created for it causes divisions and hatreds amongst people that might not have existed before. And this in turn gives birth to radical extremism which can easily morph into immeasurable suffering and loss of life with God's holy name becoming anything but holy. And when a U.S. president is faced with such a quandary their actions, or lack thereof, becomes part of history itself with both religious and secular history melding into one and the same.

Such is the case with then war time President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) who simply ignored what was deemed to be the “industrial scale killing” of Jews taking place in Europe. Believed by some to be an anti-Semite, FDR's actions...or lack thereof...did speak for themselves then as they do now that history has been written.

FDR was a practicing Episcopalian who not only embraced a “Jesus based theology,” but one who mentioned God and religion in his war time speeches,  yet he literally turned his back on Hitler's systemic annihilation of Europe's Jewish population. And in Roosevelt's taking no actions to help save the Jews, his disdain for the Jewish people and their faith was on full display for all to see if only their eyes had been open.

And so, the claimed to be “man of faith”...never once publicly spoke out against Hitler's systemic murdering of Europe's Jews not even after “The Auschwitz Protocal”* was released to the American press in the fall of 1944. Briefly, this document described, in detail, the atrocities committed at Auschwitz and Birkenau by three camp escapees, and how Auschwitz and others like it needed to be bombed. In fact, in the summer and early fall of 1944, the “World Jewish Congress” along with the “War Refugee Board” (WRB) forwarded requests to bomb Auschwitz to the US War Department. These requests were denied by both the department and by FDR himself. And this was no matter that the US Army Air Force had recently carried out a heavy bombing raid of the I.G. Farben synthetic oil and rubber (Buna) factory which was less than five miles away from the “Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center.”

A truly sad commentary indeed, and no excuses made can mask the fact that the plight of European Jews was of little to no concern to Roosevelt or to those in his eyes closed administration. 

Simply, religion...the Jewish religion...did indeed color the landscape of WWII and in the way we fought. And while our military shoulders no blame, the fact remains that World War II...especially in the European Theater... was indeed a religious colored war, making this war even uglier than it already was. In fact, if it was not for the “extermination camps” still operating unimpeded, and Roosevelt not allowing the bombing of said camps or the rail lines continuing to bring Jews to what he well knew were the gas chambers...the war might have been over sooner and countless Jewish lives would have been saved, and the children murdered would have been able to grow up.

In fact, in a February 2013 edition of the Jerusalem Post, former South Dakota Senator and 1972 Democrat presidential nominee, George McGovern spoke about his having piloted a B-24 “Liberator” in December 1944, and how his squadron bombed Nazi oil facilities less than five miles from Auschwitz. And in an earlier interview in 2005, McGovern stated that, “There is no question we should have attacked Auschwitz,” adding that, “ There was a pretty good chance we could have blasted those rail lines off the face of the Earth, which would have interrupted the flow of people to those death chambers, and we had a pretty good chance of knocking out those gas ovens.”

Could have, should have, would have...no tangible reason not to have bombed both Auschwitz and the rail lies except for the “no-go” from Roosevelt himself with his flimsy excuses being that our priority was to defeat the Axis powers before anything else. Sure some “collateral damage” would have happened, but that would have been a small price to pay for the “ovens” and “crematories” to be permanently rendered out of commission.

So when some say there was no basis in religion for WWII...when some evil sorts still say the Jews got what they deserved and that the job Hitler started needs to be finished; when supposed men of God throw their faith aside in order to focus on the perpetrators instead of the victims; remember that religion is indeed a first, last, or somewhere in the middle...and probably forever...factor regarding all aspects of war.

And really why shouldn't it be for God seems to have done nothing to help stop hate, war, or injustice. God basically walked away from us after (what some believe) to be creation for it seems, at least to me, that “He” never intended to be “hands on” if you will, as “free will” was given to us for a reason. Case closed.

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Footnote 

* “The Auschwitz Protocol” was originally published as “The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau,” and is a collection of three eyewitness accounts from 1943–1944 about the mass murder that was taking place inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War. The eyewitness accounts are individually known as the Vrba–Wetzler report, Polish Major's report, and Rosin-Mordowicz report. Read the actual “The Auschwitz Protocal” here.

Copyright © 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

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Op-ed:

The Political Pratfall of Indoctrinated Hate 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.

...Fact #1: no people throughout both ancient and modern history have been more vilified and persecuted than the Jewish people...not black slaves nor the sum total of Christianity for neither has ever truly experienced or even come close to experiencing the true horror known as the “Holocaust.”

Fact #2: Both Jews and Christians share in the belief that there is but “One God.” However, what knowingly seems to be forgotten is that if not for Abraham becoming the first Jew, Christianity nor even islam might exist today. Without Abraham having cast aside the idolatry and paganism of his day, we might still be worshiping a golden statute with the body of a man and the head of a bird. Simply, it's our Judeo-Christian belief in “One God” that separates our mindsets from those of the ancients, and yet that belief has not only laid the groundwork for the hatred of Jews that still exists today, but it has allowed for the “believe as I do or else” crowd's mentality to permeate and corrupt the current religious and political discourse. Read entire article and see video here.

Op-ed:

The Political Pratfall of Indoctrinated Hate 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google. 

Fact: as per the Anti-Defamation League's “Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2023” report, the number of antisemitic incidents occurring in the U.S. between the beginning of 2014 to the end of 2023...saw in 2014, 912 antisemitic incidents being committed against American Jews with that number steadily increasing to 8,873 incidents by the end of 2023, with 5,204 of those occurring after Hamas' October 7th attack on Israel. A sad commentary indeed.

And as if on cue the protests are back...not the BLM protests coupled with actual riots taking place in the months leading up to and after the 2020 presidential election...but protests calling for not only the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel and in many cases the Jewish people themselves, but protests tinged with anti-American rhetoric as well. But mostly it's fervent antisemitism on display as those taking part in said protests deem Israel the oppressor regarding all things Gaza while heralding Hamas and their Palestinian supporters as being the victims of a war Hamas themselves started on what will forever be known as “Black Saturday.”

And as pro-Palestinian/pro Hamas protesters took over a number of major U.S. college and university campuses, our Democrat leaders, for the most part, remained eerily silent. Why so...because they foolishly thought that in their silence they could play both sides against the middle, and come out unscathed come the November election.

Oh how wrong they are, but before I get into that let me expose some of the outright lies and misinformation that helped fuel the indoctrinated hate against Israel and the Jewish people in general...hate that's been around, as per biblical scholars and historical evidence, since Friday, April 3rd, AD 33, at approximately 3 PM, the day when Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross on orders given by Pontius Pilate alone. Simply, the Jews played no part in Jesus' death except for the fact that this was the very moment in time when they became a “scapegoat.” But first three key facts.

Fact #1: no people throughout both ancient and modern history have been more vilified and persecuted than the Jewish people...not black slaves nor the sum total of Christianity for neither has ever truly experienced or even come close to experiencing the true horror known as the “Holocaust.”

Fact #2: Both Jews and Christians share in the belief that there is but “One God.” However, what knowingly seems to be forgotten is that if not for Abraham becoming the first Jew, Christianity nor even islam might exist today. Without Abraham having cast aside the idolatry and paganism of his day, we might still be worshiping a golden statute with the body of a man and the head of a bird. Simply, it's our Judeo-Christian belief in “One God” that separates our mindsets from those of the ancients, and yet that belief has not only laid the groundwork for the hatred of Jews that still exists today, but it has allowed for the “believe as I do or else” crowd's mentality to permeate and corrupt the current religious and political discourse.

Fact 3: When aggrandized lies told suddenly morph into facts believed, one not only loses their ability to think for oneself, but one actually allows hate to overwhelm and then overtake the sensibilities comprising that person's very soul. And when this happens how easy it is for evil folks who feed on pushing forward messages of hate to easily overtake the mindset of those too weak to not only push back, but those who blindly follow a cause without their having to learn if said cause is just or not.

And it's courtesy of the liberal media's one-sided propaganda machine coupled with liberal educators pushing their decidedly one-sided agendas on impressionable young minds that allowed the pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel movement to be born, and with it overt acts of antisemitism becoming, for some, an acceptable new norm.

And this new norm actually has roots in religion itself as it revolves around the Jews being made the “scapegoat” for Jesus' death. Simply, the Jews had nothing to do with Jesus' death as proven by what are “historical facts” including that with the Jews being slaves of the Romans they, as slaves, had no power whatsoever over who was or was not to be killed. Jesus..the man...the rabbi...who wanted to “reform” Judaism...if you will...not replace Judaism...was ordered to be killed for the simple reason that the Romans and especially Pontius Pilate, deemed him to be a “political threat” to their and his rule. And besides, the Romans were known to keep meticulous records and yet no...I repeat no...Roman records nor physical manuscripts bear any mention of a man named Barabbas existing let alone being released. In fact, except for the words in the New Testament there is no...again I repeat no...mention of a Roman or Jewish custom that demanded the release of a Jewish prisoner on the eve of Passover nor is there any mention of it in any Jewish texts.

Simply, Pontius Pilate ordered Jesus...who was born, lived, preached, and died as a Jew....to be killed out of political necessity and the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, written by the hand of man, fabricated the story...not of Jesus' actual death...but embellished it for need of a “scapegoat” to draw more followers to their cause. And unfortunately, with the Jews being but slaves they became the perfect scapegoat as Christianity grew both in numbers and power. And when power is craved “scapegoats” are needed even more, and the Jews served the narrative well...and still do for some even though in 1965 the Catholic Church published the “Nostra Aetate” releasing Jewish “responsibility” for the death of Jesus.

And while most Catholics have embraced and honored this document, sadly a number of other Christian denominations still have not which is why some of today's antisemitic acts committed sees too many remaining silent. Remember, silence at times sends a message of agreement, and for some said agreement simmers below the surface ready to be reawakened when and if need be.

And when agreement did resurface, which is exactly what happened a few weeks ago, some of our top universities and colleges started seeing antisemitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American protests, coupled with pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian supporters taking over their campuses. But what those students protesting along with, in my opinion, their George Soros funded instigators and supporters... whose numbers are way greater than the students taking part...choose to forget is that Israel's rightful retaliation on Gaza...which is Hamas' main base of operation... was in response to the October 7th savage and brutal murders that left more than 1,200 Israeli civilians dead and hundreds of hostages being taken.

So what exactly do these folks want as their anti-Israel and anti-Jew rhetoric continues to spread across our nation? They claim to want a cease-fire in Gaza and for Israel's killing to stop, while at the same time demanding that America's universities stop funding companies that they alone claim profit from or engage in Israel’s ongoing military campaign and occupation of Gaza. But again what the indoctrinated again choose to ignore is that Gaza has not been controlled nor occupied by Israel since 2005.

Simply, the ever foolish indoctrinated students along with their “bought and paid for” Soros instigators, continue to protest in support of a people and their government...as in Hamas...that they themselves did so willingly vote into power, and who, for the past two decades, has not only been “stealing the people blind”...but a government that has been one of the key instigators in the ongoing Middle East unrest. And this alone negates the protesters claim that Israel's counterattacks reached “disproportionate and inhumane levels.” Bottom line...the Palestinian's plight...the Palestinian death toll...lays squarely on Hamas'...not Israel's...shoulders what with the majority of Palestinians still supporting Hamas.

But something else forgotten...something critical to the entirety of the protest discourse...is the words of the First Amendment itself which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Reread those words carefully for the answer to actually stopping these protests, and with it their decidedly antisemitic rhetoric, lies within the words “the right of the people to peacefully assemble,” for the protests have now proven to be anything but peaceful. “Peacefully” does not mean one has the right to destroy property, take over another's property whether it be public of private property, nor does it give one the right to trash grounds nor physically injure others. “Peacefully” does not mean inciting violence, bringing weapons to “assemble,” nor does it give one the right to literally call for the deaths of those whose faith you find distasteful via instigation and incitement to do bodily harm, which no matter how one tries to twist it is not a Constitutional right.

And with the protesters also spewing “Death to America” chants, I believe they have opened themselves up to immediate arrest for those three words do not in any way petition for a “redress of grievances,” for with the word “death” they are...in my opinion...calling for the overthrow of our government...as in insurrection plans in the making. So with this let's circle back to this article's third paragraph where I speak about the silence from Democrat leaders trying to play both sides against the middle.

So here lets start with the fact that once New York police officers in riot gear were called in to remove the anti-Israel/ pro-Hamas protesters at Columbia University after they refused the university president's orders to “disband” their two-week pigsty of an encampment set up on university grounds, the stakes for Democrats grew much higher. 

How so? As the protests started spreading across college and university campuses nationwide, acts of antisemitism spread along with it as did the Democrats fear that the unease now being created could directly affect the November election. And while that fear is indeed justified it might not be in the way that most think. And why... simply because radicalized young people like the pro-Hamas contingency who do so like “talking the talk” while acting out an activist part, actually seldom go out to vote. It's the decent young people who vote...those going to college and university to learn... those not going simply to make radicalized political statements while garnering their 15 minutes of infamy.

So where exactly is the Democrats fear coming from and why their silence regarding both the condemnation of the acts being perpetrated and the agitators who are pushing the indoctrinated hate forward? The answer is really quite simple in that if Democrat leaders dare to bring even more focus on the mayhem taking place, it could actually backfire on them by uniting the growing collective of pro-Israel, pro-Jewish supporters together. The “from the river to the sea” nonsensical rhetoric does get old pretty fast, as does Biden's two-faced stance towards Israel including his statement that while he “condemns the antisemitic protests,” he quickly followed it up with words “condemning those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”

 

In other words playing both sides against the middle in hopes of garnering the votes of those who not only relish in hate, but those who help perpetrate hate. And this, my friends, is a scenario that more times than not never ends well for the party or parties involved. Case closed.

Copyright © 2024 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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Op-ed: 

Survival's Driving Force 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots Radio 

The Op-ed posted here is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com

WARNING...this article contains some graphic images that may be upsetting to some.   

Many deem history to be a cruel mistress for many do not learn from history...mistakes continue to be made and lessons remain unlearned...both personal mistakes and lessons and that of ones country.

And now as history again unfolds in the seemingly unending war between good and evil...Israel on the side of good and Hamas most especially on the side of evil... we here in the United States, and in many countries around the world, are bearing witness to anti-Semitism again rearing its ugly head.

Shows of anti-Semitism against the Jewish people in general coupled with pure hatred for the Jewish State of Israel is now all too commonplace on America's streets and on college and university campuses. Egged on by some in our Halls of Congress, the media itself helps spread the hate by giving these overtly antisemitic sorts even an iota of airtime by which to promote their hate. But something else noticed...at least by me...is that when anti-Semitism is in the forefront cries of self-perceived racism and inequality against blacks just seems to melt into the background of the 24/7 news cycle. Now being replaced by words like “communists,” “elitists,” and “globalists ”...the no longer veiled antisemitic “code words” for Jews in general and successful, accomplished, and wealthy Jews specifically...has taken over the public discourse.

Simply, some here in our country are once again, via their hateful uncalled for words and actions, helping to divide us from within, and the only one that will bear the scars is our beloved America herself as extremism is again born and thriving courtesy of “selective hate”...hate that will destroy us way before the “enemies from without” ever get a chance to.

And while there has always been a smoldering hatred...or should I say jealously...of the Jewish people here in our country by both the extreme right and the extreme left, the October 7th inhumane and savage attack by Hamas on innocent Israeli civilians...women and children especially...has brought what was smoldering to the surface. Jews were and still are the intended victims and victims do have a right to fight back. And while some cry for the Palestinians lost in Israel's rightful retaliation...especially the anything but innocent Palestinian children...there really is no need to cry for any of them because said children are but the next generation of indoctrinated Jew-hating terrorists in waiting, and their parents still unwavering Hamas supporters.

The now war between Israel and Hamas will be settled by Israel alone, only the specific timeline remains unknown. Hamas nor their “string pullers” in Iran are any match for the military might of Israel, and her arsenal of weapons. And if pushed too far Israel...as in Benjamin Netanyahu... will surely do what needs to be done for both Israel and for the Jewish people to survive. Simply, both will survive because both must survive...that is a given...for even Iran has to know that while their driving force is hate, the need for survival itself trumps hate almost every time. History has shown that to be true more times than not for in the end it really does seem that good tends to triumph over evil.

But ultimate triumph does not mean the battle will be easy nor that casualties will be light for when one is fighting an enemy who does not know what it is to “value life,” innocent blood will be spilled and will flow in the streets to stain the hands of many. A tangible reality of war that should strike fear in the hearts of Israel's enemies, for without the valuing of life itself the cause one was fighting for remains unjust. Hamas has yet to learn this while Israel has known this...as have the Jewish people...for longer a time than many.

The Jewish people, throughout all of history, have been persecuted and victimized more than any other group of people. In fact, black slavery and its aftermath does not even compare in scoop to what the Jewish people have faced.*

Briefly, from the time of their “bondage” in Egypt...which started about 300 years before the time of Moses...to the time of the Roman Empire, Jews were enslaved even while unrest and attempts at freedom were not uncommon. But unrest only goes so far, and when Masada fell in 73 AD the Romans expelled the Jews from what was then called Judea, thus starting what is known as the “diaspora.”** And yet the Jewish people continued to survive no matter the hatred, brutalities, and actions taken against them in the lands they were now forced to call home. Also, throughout the early years of Christianity the Jewish people were persecuted, faced expulsion, were slaves in many nations, and were massacred in vast numbers during the Crusades.

And with what became known as anti-Semitism taking hold throughout the Middle Ages, the massacres of Jews increased as the call for “blood libel”*** grew. Convert or die was the only option given as the Church grew more powerful in their hate. And with the Spanish Inquisition in 1480, the massacres and expulsions of Jews continuing on as did the hatred and fear of them. And when Jewish folks started emigrating to America, a degree of anti-Semitism started taking hold in our country as well.

And all this led up to something no black person has (thankfully) had to experience...as in the “Holocaust”... where six million Jews were simply “exterminated” for no other reason than they were Jews.

But why as a people are the Jewish people so hated even today? Beyond the obvious holdover that the Jews killed Jesus...they did not as the Romans and Pontius Pilate did...many are jealous of Jewish success...success due mostly to Jews stressing the importance of intact families, the importance of education, and of course hard work...a cultural pattern that defines Judaism as a whole. But when there's trouble in the Middle East, especially when it involves Israel, anti-Semitism again tends to rear its ugly head. And here in the U.S. the sad fact is that while Jews make up only 2.4% of the American population, they are the victims of 60% of all religious-based hate crimes...and that number is now growing.

Growing, thanks to the hateful rhetoric of some in Congress and certain groups on today's major collage and university campuses...campuses like Harvard where 34 Harvard University student organizations recently signed a statement that they, “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” and that Israel's “apartheid regime is the only one to blame.” Simply, I know Israel is not to blame as much as I know that the hate perpetrated against both the Jewish people and Israel herself, are today's tangible realities. And when hate turns into fear...fear that many Jews now face on a daily basis...it becomes fear not seen since the days of the Holocaust...fear that “Never Again” will indeed happen again.

And while many nations have vowed “Never Again”...for most it's proven to be but politically correct lip service at best...as anti-Semitism continues to grow worldwide. In fact, to one degree or another the hate has never really stopped. And yet many continue to cry over a useless, terrorist supporting people whose own blood brethren don't want to take into their countries. They know who and what these people are...a people whose children have been indoctrinated solely to hate...a people who bred and still breed the next generation of terrorists...a people who cheered Hamas' savagery when they returned to Gaza with both brutalized victims to display and hostages taken. These are the very people the world is crying over...so it now seems. And how sad is to see that those who made the “desert bloom” are deemed the “bad guys” while those relishing in killing are the ones to be pitied.

Israel is the only country in the world that warns enemy civilians to get out of harms way many days before harm is inflicted, while the enemy that is Hamas kills their own people who try to heed those warnings. Hamas is the only one who places rocket launchers and munitions inside and next to schools and hospitals while using their own people as “human shields,” thus deeming their own cowardly and miserable lives to be more important than that of their fellow so-called Palestinians. And yet again, these are the people who many in our country are crying for while shedding not a tear for Israeli babies beheaded and burnt alive, not a tear for whole families slaughtered nor for the atrocities committed on their person both before and after death. These are the forgotten Israeli victims whose only peace comes in the fact that they no longer have to witness a world gone mad, and whose unspeakable deaths, for some, are but media generated propaganda and fodder that they want you to believe never happened.

These are the people whose deaths, in my opinion, sees Barack Obama's hands stained with their blood as well. How so? Obama knew what the outcome would be when as president, his Iranian nuclear deal emboldened Iran into becoming a terrorist supplying powerhouse. Also, by then putting the hoped for normalization between Israel and moderate Arab states in jeopardy, Hamas was able to become Iran's “annihilate Israel” proxy army of sorts. And while Obama's goal has always been to see “political islam” becoming the dominant force in the Middle East...which would then allow the “Levant” to come to fruition...it should come as no surprise that he recently stated,“Both sides are to blame for the Israel-Hamas conflict and nobody’s hands are clean.”

Really Obama, sticking up for your brethren yet again it seems while urging Americans to “take in the whole truth.” Well, here's some truth for you Obama and for those of your ilk...if you had not emboldened Iran...and hence terrorists everywhere...with your aforementioned Iranian nuclear deal; if you had not pushed for a two state solution knowing well that what you called Palestine as a muslim homeland never existed; if you had not stabbed Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu in the back every chance you had...Hamas would not have become as strong as it now is, and Iran would have better been kept in check.

This is reality as I see it for the Hamas initiated war with Israel has truly become a war of survival for both Israel and the Jewish people...and maybe even for Western civilization itself. And with the growth of anti-Semitism taking over both common sense and the media discourse, we here in our country again see the Jews wrongly being blamed for all the world's woes. And it's all courtesy of the far-left's indoctrinated version of hate that sadly seems to have taken over our country's very soul.

But no matter the misplaced insanity of some wanting evil to triumph over good, the fact remains that Israel and the Jewish people will not only survive but thrive. And why.. . because the Jewish people were God's chosen people who have well proven themselves to be survivors. And when those out to destroy what has become the very driving force that is survival...a force deeply ingrained within Jewish blood... they not the Jewish people nor Israel, will find themselves to be the losers in the end. Case closed.

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* Click to read an actual timeline of the persecution the Jewish people throughout history.

** Diaspora relates to the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland; Today it's usually used in regards to Jewish people living outside Israel.

*** Blood libel is the overtly false and maliciously perpetuated accusation that Jews murdered non-Jews in order to use their blood in rituals. 

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