One of my deepest observation regarding this "progressive regression" is that it is predominantly an Anglosphere phenomenon. It is played out by people who have no historical memories of a true survival struggle. People on the continent do - particularly Eastern Europeans, obviously Israelis do (as do Jews in general). The lack of such a survival mentality is a luxury, that of seeing the world as benign place instead of a dangerous one with limited resources that must be fought for.
On a psychological level the behaviour is identical to a rebelling teenager who wants to distress her parents by committing self harm like getting tattoos, taking drugs or having sex with bikies. But unlike an individual the teen rebellion brings the harm onto the whole population of the Western world.
Agreed. One of my very good friends grew up in communist Romania. She is very worried about the rhetoric and developments she has seen in the US and beyond.
Well written piece with a lot of depth. There us a growing awareness that this is not a single issue problem. This is a non-kinetic war on western values. The sheep need to wake up and become tigers.
Thank you Peter. I think there are some of us awake, but most have their heads in the sand. And I have zero faith in any of our current leaders to make the hard calls to turn things around.
Indeed. But at least deport the illegals and all those convisted by justice for various crimes. In France, this latest category accounts for 700000 people , yes seven hundred thousznds peole convcted by justice, ordered to leave the french territory nbut this order has not been implemented. And ….. they have bettr social covrage than the ordinary citizen who works and pays taxes. Among other things, universal medical coverage! Costs one billion euros to the tax payer !!!
Actually it is a war on the whole Western democracies. In some northern european countries there seems to be the beginning of an awareness about the deadly threat paused by the pervasive totalitarianism of radical Islam deeply and subtly embedded in all the layers of our liberal democracies. In countries like France of GB too , but not followed yet by some serious political actions
Europe is in trouble. It’s very hard now to pair back Muslim immigration when their birth rates of the current way outnumber those of the original citizens. Ignoring the issue has not made it go away.
A Well said, covered, detailed, objective, perceptive, factual overview….. Sadly though, So many people just latch onto a propaganda spill and get themselves sucked in, jump down a rabbit hole, without doing any background checks to even prove a single thread of what it is they’ve gotten themselves into and aligned with. Their journey after hitching a ride on a bandwagon of false narratives and agendas that leads them into a mental quicksand state a quagmire of ignorance, and devoid of reality, joining the throngs, of easily led dumb sheep, into bands of hateful ideologies, caught up in a frenzy of mobster outrage, not having a single clue, they’ve been brainwashed and indoctrinated. It is a contagious condition that is in free fall and spreading rapidly & rabidly.
If it were not for the saner minds that prevail, being the breaths of fresh air that they are….. one could easily suffocate, but carry on they must, for where there is Vision there’s Hope.
Two men look from behind the same bars. One see mud, the other sees Stars 🤩
Our enemies play the "long game", their goals of domination are always the same whether it's a year, 10 years, or 10 generations out. Most in the West can't be bothered to understand more than a hypnotizing sound bite. You're 100% right Kelli, we're in danger. Thank you for your brave clarity.
Good read that, you are a very good writer thanks Kelli👍🏻. It’s easy to forget what Iran and Afghanistan were like before the Islamic butchers bludgeoned them with their medieval beliefs. There are whole generations now growing up not realising these countries were once prosperous and free lands. You are bang on re Isreal, our government should be shouting support from the rooftops and its shameful they aren’t, the Islamic terror machine is already the gates.
Thank you Martin. The sad irony is the Islamists have colonised the Middle East and North Africa and more. And make no mistake, we are next. But nobody wants to talk about that. Thank you for reading 🙏🏻
The more I look at the situation, the more it seems that delegitimization of Israel is the blunt instrument used to bash in the door of the West. Just like Hitler relied on antisemitism to be his central weapon in his world domination plan, so too have the Islamists used Israel to win the hearts and minds of the left.
In both cases, they have relied on the world's oldest hate to get support. They have bet on millenia-old disgust and suspicion of the Jewish people that leads to our dehumanization. This modern iteration of Islamic world conquest has been proven successful in the lack of global interest and sympathy around the events of October 7th in relation to Jewish suffering.
Once you have hypnotized enough people to irrationally hate a group, to believe any and all propaganda about them and to justify violence against them, then the masses are putty in your hands because they have glven away their humanity and autonomous thinking in exchange for blind allegiance to your leadership.
Your logic is flawed. I am a leftist who is neither anti-Semitic nor seeks the destruction of Israel. Israel has the right to exist and to defend itself against terrorist attacks.
But I strongly disagree with Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians and illegal occupation of the West Bank. One can support Israel without blindly supporting every act of the Israeli government.
Maybe you should read more of my long form posts, especially about the West Bank. And the continued misuse of the word genocide shows that you in fact don’t understand what is happening. Have a look at the civilian death ratio in Gaza compared to every other war in the past 1000 years then explain to me how it can possibly be labelled as genocide? If you hold Israel and Jews to different standards than you do others then that is bigotry or antisemitism.
If you accuse Israel of a genocide, you haven't apprised yourself of the facts. If you don't understand the current and historical geopolitical reality of the 'West bank', then you haven't researched enough to have an opinion that can be taken seriously. When leftists start bragging about not being antisemitic, I think that's a sign that we've hit the bottom of the barrel. That should be a given, not an exception. When you lit remember the hostages, the Oct 7th pogrom, the rockets from Hamas, the attacks from Hezbollah since Oct 8th displacing tens of thousands of Israelis, then talk to me about ending this war and how we do that. But your mass amnesia and cherry-picked outrage are hardly proof that you're not antisemitic.
The fact that Israel is a free democratic nation means it is always open to criticism - that's what the law there dictates. So don't play games suggesting anyone has a problem with criticism. It's your double standard that's the problem.
What we’re seeing now is the result of decades of planning and implementation. Absolutely agree. Israel is the first rung on the ladder. Do these protesters really think Iran would stop at Israel? Do they think it’s a coincidence that hundreds of thousands of military aged men are living throughout the West? You think “the patriarchy” is bad now Ms Ford? Give it another 20 years then tell us how much you enjoy living as a woman under Sharia law. ****ing moron.
First, these photos shown around of how women or Iranian people in general supposedly have lived before 1979, apply only to a small part of Iran/Persia, people that were well educated, "west-orientated" etc. - The majority of people in Persia/Iran a.o. West Asian countries have always lived "traditionally". The well-educated mostly have fled Iran in 1979 or afterwards, as a basic prerequisite for education is to be able and allowed to think freely.- - Israel is not just in a "battle of civilizations", but rather is an example of and how "different cultures" can live together. Arabians/Muslims and other ethnics with different beliefs are serving in the IDF, are sports champions for the country etc.; over 20% of the population is non-jewish, which means NOT only "Arabian"/"Muslim", but several ethnics, beliefs etc. - Among the Jewish population we have orthodox "right-believers", too, but in their belief there is a difference even, or especially when it´s "orthodox": the Jewish religion and culture (in) itself contains the seeds of permanent doubt in itself and oneself, in relation to "G*d", the world, in relation to all people and everything that appears "(un)clear" but must always be questioned. Most people cannot stand and cannot cope with this permanent "questioning": that is basically "why" Jews are "hated" so much - they represent what seems so hard to bear, that human existence is characterized by permanent doubt - "I know that I don´t know" ... Jewish culture was the first to introduce institutions and obligations for learning and studying from childhood onwards thousands of years ago. Therefore, Jewish culture can not only "endure" and "tolerate" other beliefs, other perspectives and cultures, but also especially deal with them. In other words, Jewish culture is the incentive and the basis for everything that makes up the so-called "West", but of which there has always been little awareness "in the West", just as little today as "in the past" - otherwise there would never have been all this persecution and extermination of Jews in the "West". We should therefore not allow anyone, neither "leftists" nor "orthodox" Muslims, nor Russians, Chinese or others, to persuade us into that there is a "clash of civilizations". Civilization is defined precisely just by the fact that different people with different lifestyles, preferences and ideas are able to live peacefully and in open exchange with one another. Jews have long provided excellent approaches and examples of this, which is why they have always been able to "adapt", find their way and integrate everywhere. That is why the Jews, that is why Israel, are the treasure of the world that must be preserved; not as part of war, but of peace. - Those who oppose and prefer to be enemies of Jews, are not able for peace and to cope with what human existence means.
I do agree with you on this. The battle in the Middle East is between Secularism and Islam. The trouble with the Shah of Iran was that he kind of imposed Secularism on the people, many of whom rejected it, rather like Atatürk did. Shi'i Islam in Iran is nothing like the extreme form of Wahhabi Sunni Islam promulgated by The Taliban, Al-Qa'ida and Hamas etc
Kelli, Every time I read anything from you I cannot help but draw the same conclusion. I don't want to make you feel pressed or pushed in any way, but I feel compelled to direct you to a particular portion of Scripture.
Everything we are seeing going on in Israel was prophesied to happen, as God foretold His Prophet Ezekiel way back in the old testament days. The way that their enemies are surrounding them, the course the war will follow and spoiler alert, God is going to fight this war for Israel. Just check out Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39.
Thank you Kelli. This is so true. I just thank God for Jesus because in my view what I see happening in the world today is ‘end times stuff’. We dispense with western Judeo-Christian values at our peril. It is so sad to see.
One of my deepest observation regarding this "progressive regression" is that it is predominantly an Anglosphere phenomenon. It is played out by people who have no historical memories of a true survival struggle. People on the continent do - particularly Eastern Europeans, obviously Israelis do (as do Jews in general). The lack of such a survival mentality is a luxury, that of seeing the world as benign place instead of a dangerous one with limited resources that must be fought for.
On a psychological level the behaviour is identical to a rebelling teenager who wants to distress her parents by committing self harm like getting tattoos, taking drugs or having sex with bikies. But unlike an individual the teen rebellion brings the harm onto the whole population of the Western world.
On the mark Fredro
Agreed. One of my very good friends grew up in communist Romania. She is very worried about the rhetoric and developments she has seen in the US and beyond.
Well written piece with a lot of depth. There us a growing awareness that this is not a single issue problem. This is a non-kinetic war on western values. The sheep need to wake up and become tigers.
Thank you Peter. I think there are some of us awake, but most have their heads in the sand. And I have zero faith in any of our current leaders to make the hard calls to turn things around.
Whether it is too late or not we have to fight this domestic war
Indeed. But at least deport the illegals and all those convisted by justice for various crimes. In France, this latest category accounts for 700000 people , yes seven hundred thousznds peole convcted by justice, ordered to leave the french territory nbut this order has not been implemented. And ….. they have bettr social covrage than the ordinary citizen who works and pays taxes. Among other things, universal medical coverage! Costs one billion euros to the tax payer !!!
Yes we do.
Actually it is a war on the whole Western democracies. In some northern european countries there seems to be the beginning of an awareness about the deadly threat paused by the pervasive totalitarianism of radical Islam deeply and subtly embedded in all the layers of our liberal democracies. In countries like France of GB too , but not followed yet by some serious political actions
Europe is in trouble. It’s very hard now to pair back Muslim immigration when their birth rates of the current way outnumber those of the original citizens. Ignoring the issue has not made it go away.
Exactly. This is what I meant when I said I hope it isn’t too late. I’m not sure what the answer is.
Spot on .. the death of the west without one rocket being fired
Yep!!
Who wants the USA, Canada, Europe to look like Iranian society today? Be careful.
Exactly!! We are treading a dangerous path.
A Well said, covered, detailed, objective, perceptive, factual overview….. Sadly though, So many people just latch onto a propaganda spill and get themselves sucked in, jump down a rabbit hole, without doing any background checks to even prove a single thread of what it is they’ve gotten themselves into and aligned with. Their journey after hitching a ride on a bandwagon of false narratives and agendas that leads them into a mental quicksand state a quagmire of ignorance, and devoid of reality, joining the throngs, of easily led dumb sheep, into bands of hateful ideologies, caught up in a frenzy of mobster outrage, not having a single clue, they’ve been brainwashed and indoctrinated. It is a contagious condition that is in free fall and spreading rapidly & rabidly.
If it were not for the saner minds that prevail, being the breaths of fresh air that they are….. one could easily suffocate, but carry on they must, for where there is Vision there’s Hope.
Two men look from behind the same bars. One see mud, the other sees Stars 🤩
Well said Paul 👏🏼👏🏼
Our enemies play the "long game", their goals of domination are always the same whether it's a year, 10 years, or 10 generations out. Most in the West can't be bothered to understand more than a hypnotizing sound bite. You're 100% right Kelli, we're in danger. Thank you for your brave clarity.
Thank you Thomas 🙏🏻
Good read that, you are a very good writer thanks Kelli👍🏻. It’s easy to forget what Iran and Afghanistan were like before the Islamic butchers bludgeoned them with their medieval beliefs. There are whole generations now growing up not realising these countries were once prosperous and free lands. You are bang on re Isreal, our government should be shouting support from the rooftops and its shameful they aren’t, the Islamic terror machine is already the gates.
Thank you Martin. The sad irony is the Islamists have colonised the Middle East and North Africa and more. And make no mistake, we are next. But nobody wants to talk about that. Thank you for reading 🙏🏻
We're the greatest prize of all.
The more I look at the situation, the more it seems that delegitimization of Israel is the blunt instrument used to bash in the door of the West. Just like Hitler relied on antisemitism to be his central weapon in his world domination plan, so too have the Islamists used Israel to win the hearts and minds of the left.
In both cases, they have relied on the world's oldest hate to get support. They have bet on millenia-old disgust and suspicion of the Jewish people that leads to our dehumanization. This modern iteration of Islamic world conquest has been proven successful in the lack of global interest and sympathy around the events of October 7th in relation to Jewish suffering.
Once you have hypnotized enough people to irrationally hate a group, to believe any and all propaganda about them and to justify violence against them, then the masses are putty in your hands because they have glven away their humanity and autonomous thinking in exchange for blind allegiance to your leadership.
Exactly right.
Your logic is flawed. I am a leftist who is neither anti-Semitic nor seeks the destruction of Israel. Israel has the right to exist and to defend itself against terrorist attacks.
But I strongly disagree with Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians and illegal occupation of the West Bank. One can support Israel without blindly supporting every act of the Israeli government.
Maybe you should read more of my long form posts, especially about the West Bank. And the continued misuse of the word genocide shows that you in fact don’t understand what is happening. Have a look at the civilian death ratio in Gaza compared to every other war in the past 1000 years then explain to me how it can possibly be labelled as genocide? If you hold Israel and Jews to different standards than you do others then that is bigotry or antisemitism.
Maybe you should do some more research before you put together your long form posts.
Why? What do you dispute?
If you accuse Israel of a genocide, you haven't apprised yourself of the facts. If you don't understand the current and historical geopolitical reality of the 'West bank', then you haven't researched enough to have an opinion that can be taken seriously. When leftists start bragging about not being antisemitic, I think that's a sign that we've hit the bottom of the barrel. That should be a given, not an exception. When you lit remember the hostages, the Oct 7th pogrom, the rockets from Hamas, the attacks from Hezbollah since Oct 8th displacing tens of thousands of Israelis, then talk to me about ending this war and how we do that. But your mass amnesia and cherry-picked outrage are hardly proof that you're not antisemitic.
The fact that Israel is a free democratic nation means it is always open to criticism - that's what the law there dictates. So don't play games suggesting anyone has a problem with criticism. It's your double standard that's the problem.
What we’re seeing now is the result of decades of planning and implementation. Absolutely agree. Israel is the first rung on the ladder. Do these protesters really think Iran would stop at Israel? Do they think it’s a coincidence that hundreds of thousands of military aged men are living throughout the West? You think “the patriarchy” is bad now Ms Ford? Give it another 20 years then tell us how much you enjoy living as a woman under Sharia law. ****ing moron.
100%!!!
First, these photos shown around of how women or Iranian people in general supposedly have lived before 1979, apply only to a small part of Iran/Persia, people that were well educated, "west-orientated" etc. - The majority of people in Persia/Iran a.o. West Asian countries have always lived "traditionally". The well-educated mostly have fled Iran in 1979 or afterwards, as a basic prerequisite for education is to be able and allowed to think freely.- - Israel is not just in a "battle of civilizations", but rather is an example of and how "different cultures" can live together. Arabians/Muslims and other ethnics with different beliefs are serving in the IDF, are sports champions for the country etc.; over 20% of the population is non-jewish, which means NOT only "Arabian"/"Muslim", but several ethnics, beliefs etc. - Among the Jewish population we have orthodox "right-believers", too, but in their belief there is a difference even, or especially when it´s "orthodox": the Jewish religion and culture (in) itself contains the seeds of permanent doubt in itself and oneself, in relation to "G*d", the world, in relation to all people and everything that appears "(un)clear" but must always be questioned. Most people cannot stand and cannot cope with this permanent "questioning": that is basically "why" Jews are "hated" so much - they represent what seems so hard to bear, that human existence is characterized by permanent doubt - "I know that I don´t know" ... Jewish culture was the first to introduce institutions and obligations for learning and studying from childhood onwards thousands of years ago. Therefore, Jewish culture can not only "endure" and "tolerate" other beliefs, other perspectives and cultures, but also especially deal with them. In other words, Jewish culture is the incentive and the basis for everything that makes up the so-called "West", but of which there has always been little awareness "in the West", just as little today as "in the past" - otherwise there would never have been all this persecution and extermination of Jews in the "West". We should therefore not allow anyone, neither "leftists" nor "orthodox" Muslims, nor Russians, Chinese or others, to persuade us into that there is a "clash of civilizations". Civilization is defined precisely just by the fact that different people with different lifestyles, preferences and ideas are able to live peacefully and in open exchange with one another. Jews have long provided excellent approaches and examples of this, which is why they have always been able to "adapt", find their way and integrate everywhere. That is why the Jews, that is why Israel, are the treasure of the world that must be preserved; not as part of war, but of peace. - Those who oppose and prefer to be enemies of Jews, are not able for peace and to cope with what human existence means.
I do agree with you on this. The battle in the Middle East is between Secularism and Islam. The trouble with the Shah of Iran was that he kind of imposed Secularism on the people, many of whom rejected it, rather like Atatürk did. Shi'i Islam in Iran is nothing like the extreme form of Wahhabi Sunni Islam promulgated by The Taliban, Al-Qa'ida and Hamas etc
Girl, you said it!
Thank you Nani 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Excellent. Reflects my thoughts exactly. So many people appear so unaware, sadly, because they're not affected personally at the present time.
Thanks Sarah. Exactly!
So well said. We are indeed our own worst enemy.
Thank you Ian.
Kelli, Every time I read anything from you I cannot help but draw the same conclusion. I don't want to make you feel pressed or pushed in any way, but I feel compelled to direct you to a particular portion of Scripture.
Everything we are seeing going on in Israel was prophesied to happen, as God foretold His Prophet Ezekiel way back in the old testament days. The way that their enemies are surrounding them, the course the war will follow and spoiler alert, God is going to fight this war for Israel. Just check out Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39.
Thank you Linzy. I will.
Thank you Kelli. This is so true. I just thank God for Jesus because in my view what I see happening in the world today is ‘end times stuff’. We dispense with western Judeo-Christian values at our peril. It is so sad to see.
Thanks Terry.