As the conflict in Israel with Hamas continues, I am confident I speak for countless numbers of Jews and our friends who have had enough of so much of what has transpired in the time since the events of October 7.
Enough of the calls for cease fires that would simply allow Hamas more time to resupply and rearm and regroup.
Enough of the victim-blaming of the deaths of Palestinians on the Israelis when all know that the cause of this death and destruction is Hamas and its enablers.
Enough of the arm-chair quarterbacking of the IDF’s operations. This is not Munich, a tragic event that took the innocent lives of 11 Israeli athletes in a far away country over 50 years ago and which took years to punish some of the perpetrators.
Enough of demanding what Israel’s plan is for “after”; did FDR have a plan on December 31, 1941 for post-war Tokyo or Berlin?
Enough of the lamenting of the lack of supplies for the people of Gaza when Hamas continues to refuse to share its hoards of food, water and other essentials while the world suggests incredibly that this should be Israel’s responsibility.
Enough of the failure to report the ongoing and ceaseless missile attacks against Israel, aimed at her civilians, by Hamas.
Enough of the hypocrisy of the other Arab leaders who violently repress their own people and use Israel as the bright-shiny object to distract their own people from their endless suffering and destitution that is brought upon them by their own despotic leaders who live in luxury.
Enough of equating Zionism with racism in a country that is more diverse and socially more progressive than the United States with approximately half of its Jewish population alone comprised of people from the Middle East, Africa and other non-“white” parts of the globe.
Enough with the false “contextualizing” that seeks to rationalize 10/7 based on “50 years of occupation” when those 50 years have seen countless attacks on Israel by Palestinians and their Arab brethren with the undisguised aim of eliminating the Jews.
Enough with ignoring the repeated efforts by Israel for over half a century to negotiate merely a right to peaceful co-existence by exchanging land captured in defensive wars, as Israel has demonstrated its willingness to do, but the Palestinians refuse to consider.
Enough of pretending that Israel did not offer painfully deep concessions to Arafat in 2001 only to have him abandon the talks to preserve his own power and incite the second intifada, killing countless Israelis and Palestinians and ushering in an almost constant right-wing government in Israel.
Enough of likening Israel to a colonizer or an apartheid state when Jews have always lived in the Holy Land and seek to build and improve it, not plunder the land of its resources for some far away empire-building monarchs.
Enough of the Europeans pretending to be so virtuous when their own heinous acts over centuries have left irreparable damage in countless parts of the world, including in the Holy Land itself, in addition to their own innumerable atrocities committed against Jews and other minorities.
Enough of the pundits posing as journalists who either know little of the long history of the Jews or, more likely, just care not about it.
Enough of the ratio of numerous stories about Palestinians and their problems to an occasional article about the beyond-inhumane acts of Hamas that continue with the holding of innocents as hostages.
Enough of the United Nations and its blatant anti-Israel agenda, including the use of UN-produced textbooks that contain incitement to violence against Israel and hatred of Jews, funded in large part unwittingly by U.S. taxpayers.
Enough of the perversion of the First Amendment and the broader concept of free speech to be used as a justification for violence against Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel on college campuses and elsewhere.
Enough of the double-standards that allow for the unabashed defamation of Jews while forbidding any legitimate criticism of any other group.
Enough of the debate over whether Jews and others with a moral compass should have any hesitation over withdrawing support for institutions that tolerate or even promote hatred in the progressive-acceptable form of anti-Zionism.
Enough of us as Jews being afraid to use our voices and our resources and our moral compasses to stand up against such evil as we were unable to do in Germany and elsewhere.
And, finally, enough of the lie that all of the above is about anything other than hatred of the Jews.
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