Yes, agreed, it’s a pretty weird theory. And I’d not try to insist that it explains all. But I would insist that it explains some. A whole country proved that the revolution called for at Tooting Broadway does not, in fact, work. Is not what humans living their actual lives gravitate to – and proves this after the best damn try anyone’s ever given the ideas.
Wolfie wouldn’t hate Jews after this but others? I’m sure it’s a part of it.
Not to replace this. Too much fun being snide etc. But the Substack, I think, for the newspaper articles I want to write but aren’t actually comissioned. Sign up, do, it’s free for the moment at lesat.
Kibbutzim, and I’m sure the substack will work as well for you as Expunct and Continental Telegraph. 🙂
I thought kibbutzim was the plural of people who lived on a kibbutz. So what’s the plural of kibbutz?
Nope, not buying that. Most of the anti-Jew brigade wouldn’t even have a clue what a kibbutz is, or how it operated. Hell most of the Left aren’t even socialists any more, they may nod that way, but then they suck on the teat of the global capitalists, and would be appalled if you started to take their stuff away. Most of the modern Woke Left are the privileged trying to make out they aren’t, attempting to turn their boring middle and upper class existences into something exciting and hip, and (to them) morally justified. Their hatred of the Jews as being driven by nothing more than centuries old anti-semitism of the basest order. They need an ‘other’ and the Jews will do nicely.
Idk, but Israel has lost the propaganda war, and badly.
They should be concerned, because like apartheid South Africa they are highly dependent on the goodwill or otherwise of other countries.
@ Steve
Fortunately the Israeli’s DGAF that they have lost the propaganda war. It was asymmetric in any case with the Biased Broadcasting Corporation believing the numbers of dead/injured from Hamas without question whilst assuming anything from Israel was an outright lie.
They can even keep going for a while once the US abandon them. Hopefully Hamas will be meat chunks by that point.
Joe Smith – Yarp, I know Israeli morale is high.
They will of course easily destroy Hamas.
If the US were to suddenly stop sending multi billion dollar subsidies and weapons to Israel they’d be in deep shit. I doubt that’ll happen anytime soon, but it’s already showing up in internal Democrat politics: suddenly it’s a “controversy” that Biden describes himself as a Zionist, and the Ivy League are now openly pro-Palestinian.
Signs and portents. Things that would have been impossible just 20 short years ago. I’d pay attention to that if I were them: Rhodesia and South Africa also looked stable back in the day.
” It was asymmetric in any case with the Biased Broadcasting Corporation believing the numbers of dead/injured from Hamas without question whilst assuming anything from Israel was an outright lie.”
Yes its very noticeable that the BBC now have a ‘Fact check’ stamp on stories (such as the video showing Hamas prisoners giving up weapons) where they go through it all with caveats ‘Well we don’t know what this actually shows, and it may be staged’ etc etc. All of which was nowhere to be seen when that explosion happened in that hospital carpark early on in the war.
What Jim says. None of these people have a clue about Israel’s history of socialism.
The easier explanation for Owen Jones types is blank-slate-ism. Their domestic policy is “criminals should be rehabilitated, not punished”. This then translates into “Hamas should be treated with kid gloves, not bombed into oblivion”.
Leftie views rarely survive a personal contact with reality. “Criminals should be rehabilitated, but the guy who stole my bicycle should be locked away for good.” Unfortunately for Israel, none of these lefties are ever likely to be Hamas targets.
I don’t think it’s going to be too many years before the imported diversity is giving the likes of little Owen free base jumping lessons off Londonistan skyscrapers. Parachute technique is the 2nd lesson.
Yarp, I also give it about 10 years before we have serious problems with Hamas UK.
MP’s will just cancel all interactions with the general public and try to hide from the consequences. That won’t work either.
“There really were kibbutz (is the plural kibbutzes?) where everyone got the same wage”
This is the thing I can never understand about Socialism. What if I want to save up for something? If I’m paid the same regardless of what job I do and how much work I do, how on earth can I progress in life?
Socialist: Ah, but the *entire* *point* is that everybody should be equal.
jgh
Yeah but that’s the point of being in a kibbutz. It is a self-sustaining community. OK they have to buy in tractors and stuff, but everything is on this community level, so that individual wants ( rather than needs ) are subsumed into the collective. Therefore there is no need to “progress” because veryone has the same anyway.
Now I consider the kibbutz model to be a very admirable attempt at a true socialist society. Bloody hate to live in one though.