Raw Deal 8: The Clinton that Wouldn't Go Away (Updated)

Michael Lumish 

{Update: It has been brought to my attention that I made a factual error in this post. Hillary intervened in 2012, during Operation Pillar of Defense, not Operation Defensive Shield. The essential thesis, however, stands.}

Heya guys,

This is Michael Lumish talking atcha in the Oakland hills this dreary and cool morning, October 11, 2016.

Like many of you, perhaps most, I cannot friggin wait for Nov 9^th to arrive because this has absolutely been the single most excruciating presidential campaign that I have ever subjected myself to.

I mean, it’s just disgusting.

On the one hand, we have a crazed egomaniac that the Democrats have successfully painted as some vile cross between Adolph Hitler and the Marquis de Sade.

On the other hand we have Hillary. Oh, joy. Y’know, there are just certain politicians who simply will not go away. Year after year, decade after decade, there they still are.

These ghostly presences that shadow our lives.

I cannot even begin to tell you the sheer horror  I went through at the conscious realization that from this very moment until the day I die a Clinton is going to be shoved into my face by the media on almost a daily basis.

I don’t know if I can take it.

And don’t get me wrong, I voted for Bill Clinton twice.

Although, when I think about the history of Oslo I get a little nauseated at that fact, but there it is.

But with Hillary we are getting the Sec of State who rushed to the defense of Hamas once Israel finally responded to the hundreds of Kassams and Qatyushas that were damaging the lives of everyone living anywhere near S’derot or Ashkelon and giving the kids post-traumatic stress disorder because they were constantly racing into bomb shelters in the middle of the night.

As soon as Israel stood up to fight back in Operation Protective Edge during the summer of 2014 – bam! – Hillary was on a jet for the purpose of allegedly bringing peace to the region.

Pure bullshit, of course. Peace will come between Israel and Hamas when Israel eliminates Hamas. Period. There is no way around that. I wish that there were, but there isn’t.

All that Hillary did was intervene on the behalf of Hamas so that this heinous, genocidal Jihadi organization did not get the ass kicking that it so richly deserves. She did not intervene to bring peace. She intervened to save Hamas’s butt and thereby, whatever her intentions, to prolong war.

What’s most galling from my perspective, tho, is the absolute inability of Obama or Clinton or anyone in their administration, or virtually anyone within the Democratic Party, as a whole, to seriously acknowledge the significance of the rise of Political Islam.

Most of our friends on the Left would rather have root-canal surgery than honestly discuss the meaning of Political Islam or Jihadism or Islamism or whatever you want to call this fascistic political movement arising from the Middle East and infecting Europe with its love.

What this means, of course, is that after Hillary wins the election we will get 4 to 8 more years of denial and avoidance and deflection on this issue because to do otherwise would be to spit in the face of the kind of progressive-left dogma that to so much as name the unnamable is to court disaster and reveal oneself as a racist of the worst order.

Whatever anybody might want to say about Donald Trump – and boy do people have plenty to say about this guy - he’s right on that score.

I believe Sun Tzu said it about a million years ago. You cannot defeat an enemy that you cannot name. The reasons for this could hardly be more obvious.

If you refuse to name an enemy than you cannot study that enemy because what is there to study? And if you do not know your enemy you are in no position whatsoever to defeat it. Right?

Of course, the Obamabots and Clintonistas don’t care because they tend to support Political Islam, anyway – much to my never ending astonishment – and they don’t really believe in even the concept of enemies.

I tell ya, it must be nice to come from an air so rarified and so cozy and so safe that to even mentally evoke the notion of “enemy” is to make one go queezy with guilt.

Y’know, I was talking to a guy the other day about this kind of thing and at one point he looked me square in the eye and said, "But what is this to you? You’re not an Israeli and the likelihood of you getting blown to smithereens by a terrorist are virtually nil.” I paraphrase, of course, but that was essentially it.

What he failed to understand is that Jewish people throughout the world feel a connection with one another that transcends cultures or borders or politics or, even, religious beliefs.

If someone were to say to me, “Hey man, why do you bother with this crap?” The only answer I could possibly give – aside from all that cool Zionist cash that Israel deposits in my account each month – is that I feel a gut-level connection to my fellow Jews around the world and most particularly those under siege in Israel, but also in Europe.

The rise of Political Islam matters, tho, not only because their ideology is essentially genocidal toward all non-Muslims, most particularly Jews, but because al-Sharia cannot peacefully co-exist with western secular forms of jurisprudence.

These are mutually exclusive legal ideologies and the west is slowly allowing the erosion of fundamental civil liberties, such as rights to freedom speech, in the face of that challenge.

This is not so prominent in the United States where we mainly only face a little self-censorship – for the moment – by elite forms of media.

But aside from the direct threat to Jews by the rising Jihad, there are also the not so small facts of Yazidis buried alive as their twelve year old daughters are sold into sexual slavery. The genocide of the Christian population throughout the Middle East, complete with church burnings, riots, kidnapping and forced conversions.

Just ask Raymond Ibrahim. He may very well have something to say on the matter.

And, finally, there is the matter of what the progressive-left aversion to even discussing Political Islam means to its ideological core.

What it means is that the progressive-left, as a political movement, no longer believes in its core reason to be and that core reason is the promotion of universal human rights.

The Left can redeem itself anytime by simply opening their eyes to an important reality that is staring them directly in the face, but I do not see that happening anytime soon.

Certainly not with Hillary in the White House.