Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Berlin, London, New York, Montreal and Toronto?
Your unapologetic summaries of reality are a refreshing anecdote to the shameful coverage from main stream media.
It has been a month of rude awakenings. From the committed fanatics to the fashionably misguided, anti-Semitism in Canada can no longer be denied, dismissed or disregarded.
Our hate crime legislation has been laid bare for the fraud that it is. Unless you are from one of the designated oppressed groups, it doesn't protect you.
Sam Harris is absolutely correct and the enemy is now inside the gates.
The enemy has been inside the gates for some time. Problem is, most people don't know who the enemy is because they're bamboozled. As Mark Steyn wisely said some time back "Look at who you can't criticize. They are the ones with the power".
Hang in: The good guys will win, the others will go altho unfortunately,only to re-emerge someday when the fight will rage again - hatred never ends, just hides in tunnels for a while
“post-mortem accountings” and the “worst military and security failures since the Yom Kippur War.”
The post mortem for the Yom Kippur war, the Agranat Commission, actually absolved then Prime Minister Golda Meir as well as Moshe Dayan, the Defence Minister of personal responsibility for the intelligence failures. Eventually Dayan did resign.
A more interesting post mortem took place after the 1982 Lebanon War.
According to Zeev Maoz in, Defending the Holy Land, the prime objective of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon was to "Destroy the PLO infrastructure in Lebanon, including the PLO headquarters in Beirut.” Sounds familiar… now, substitute Hamas for PLO and Gaza for Lebanon and you have today’s humanitarian melt-down in Gaza. The Israelis managed to boot the PLO out of Lebanon, only to have them replaced by Hezbolla, the ones responsible for today’s rocket attacks of Northern Israel.
Returning to post mortems and the findings of the Kahan Commission after the Sabra and Shatila massacre that took place during the 1982 war. They recommended that Ariel Sharon resign as Defense Minister for failing to protect the civilian population of Beirut. He eventually did resign as Defence Minister but remained active in the Israeli Cabinet and eight years later was elected as Prime Minister of Israel.
Who is protecting the civilian population of Gaza?
Terry, as with your Mum, I was glad that my partner of 50 years who died this April, born 4 weeks after the Soviets attacked Poland, whose earliest memories were playing in her Disney designed Mickey Mouse gas mask and father's Home Guard cape, did not live to see these days.
We all look for reassurance about our physical environment, waking and hoping that gravity will still work, the sun will rise in the East, but also that we have some secure sense of our social surroundings. Since October 7, that sense has been destroyed.
Thomas Sowell's observing the "peculiar Western aberration to believe that all other peoples think as we do", which caused me to pull over and listen to his lecture by the side of the road, brought clarity to many foreign policy failures. Now it seems it extends to the domestic scene where Canada's "Two Solitudes" have metastasized into an entire series of soundproof echo chamber "safe spaces" for cultivating individual "truths" without disturbance.
There is an article, (perhaps by Theodore Dalrymple) mentioning the suicide of an older "Tea Lady" as rapid immigration so changed her London neighborhood that she could no longer feel any sense of belonging. In the illuminating glare of the last few weeks, I believe I can now empathize.
Grief is a sneaky bastard and I miss my ma a lot too. She lived long and it was not long enough for me I guess. Also this Hamas stuff is overwhelming and exhausting there’s a lot of OSINT and a lot of propaganda and a lot of egos stirring the pot and no leaders leading. I try to be optimistic and do feel a bit doomy tho. I am gobsmacked at the way October 7th bashed my brain and the intellectual and spiritual effects I am still processing.
The media keep talking about “pro-Palestinian protests” (or demonstrations, or rallies…) But I haven’t seen one yet. A pro-Palestinian event would necessarily feature prominently anti-Hamas, anti-Hezbollah, anti-Islamic Jihad, anti-Iran, etc. denunciations, since these are the source of all of the Palestinian problems.
All I see is a lot of Jew hatred at what the media call “pro-Palestinian protests.”
Your analyses are always so brilliant and beyond comprehensive. But lately I'm tempted to not read anything or consume any media. You said it, "Despair". The carnage is overwhelming but the group- think lemmings and the evil who walk among us are also hard to endure. Thank you for your work.
Thanks for this Terry. You made me tear up about missing your Ma. Also I am wondering what has happen to our once tolerant country. Perhaps we are still tolerant to some but not too others. There is a reckoning coming unfortunately our current government is playing catch-up as usual.
Take care and take courage, Terry, if I may call you that. And if you have time and inclination, see my post, “It’s about cycles,my friend” Next year in Jerusalem.
Thanks for hanging in there. Hold fast, I pray you have the strength to endure.
On another note, too true it won’t stop with the Jews. I hope your readers all noted the show at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the one manufacturing consent to genocide whites as well in the National Post and TrueNorth. The third city in Canada to show it but only now is it being exposed.
Until and unless the Palestinians turn on Hamas, the war will continue and make no mistake, this is a war. It needs to be concluded as wars must. Canada has a different crisis to deal with and until there's a change in government there will be no leadership to stand against the fools and the scoundrels.
Thanks Terry.
Your unapologetic summaries of reality are a refreshing anecdote to the shameful coverage from main stream media.
It has been a month of rude awakenings. From the committed fanatics to the fashionably misguided, anti-Semitism in Canada can no longer be denied, dismissed or disregarded.
Our hate crime legislation has been laid bare for the fraud that it is. Unless you are from one of the designated oppressed groups, it doesn't protect you.
Sam Harris is absolutely correct and the enemy is now inside the gates.
The enemy has been inside the gates for some time. Problem is, most people don't know who the enemy is because they're bamboozled. As Mark Steyn wisely said some time back "Look at who you can't criticize. They are the ones with the power".
Glavin, a treasure.
Terry, your hard work and well-researched articles are worthy of the greatest respect. Stand tall, Sir!
Your ma wld be very proud of you
Hang in: The good guys will win, the others will go altho unfortunately,only to re-emerge someday when the fight will rage again - hatred never ends, just hides in tunnels for a while
God’s peace and comfort to you Terry. I agree with Milton Bogoch - you are a treasure.
Terry,
“post-mortem accountings” and the “worst military and security failures since the Yom Kippur War.”
The post mortem for the Yom Kippur war, the Agranat Commission, actually absolved then Prime Minister Golda Meir as well as Moshe Dayan, the Defence Minister of personal responsibility for the intelligence failures. Eventually Dayan did resign.
A more interesting post mortem took place after the 1982 Lebanon War.
According to Zeev Maoz in, Defending the Holy Land, the prime objective of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon was to "Destroy the PLO infrastructure in Lebanon, including the PLO headquarters in Beirut.” Sounds familiar… now, substitute Hamas for PLO and Gaza for Lebanon and you have today’s humanitarian melt-down in Gaza. The Israelis managed to boot the PLO out of Lebanon, only to have them replaced by Hezbolla, the ones responsible for today’s rocket attacks of Northern Israel.
Returning to post mortems and the findings of the Kahan Commission after the Sabra and Shatila massacre that took place during the 1982 war. They recommended that Ariel Sharon resign as Defense Minister for failing to protect the civilian population of Beirut. He eventually did resign as Defence Minister but remained active in the Israeli Cabinet and eight years later was elected as Prime Minister of Israel.
Who is protecting the civilian population of Gaza?
Terry, as with your Mum, I was glad that my partner of 50 years who died this April, born 4 weeks after the Soviets attacked Poland, whose earliest memories were playing in her Disney designed Mickey Mouse gas mask and father's Home Guard cape, did not live to see these days.
We all look for reassurance about our physical environment, waking and hoping that gravity will still work, the sun will rise in the East, but also that we have some secure sense of our social surroundings. Since October 7, that sense has been destroyed.
Thomas Sowell's observing the "peculiar Western aberration to believe that all other peoples think as we do", which caused me to pull over and listen to his lecture by the side of the road, brought clarity to many foreign policy failures. Now it seems it extends to the domestic scene where Canada's "Two Solitudes" have metastasized into an entire series of soundproof echo chamber "safe spaces" for cultivating individual "truths" without disturbance.
There is an article, (perhaps by Theodore Dalrymple) mentioning the suicide of an older "Tea Lady" as rapid immigration so changed her London neighborhood that she could no longer feel any sense of belonging. In the illuminating glare of the last few weeks, I believe I can now empathize.
Grief is a sneaky bastard and I miss my ma a lot too. She lived long and it was not long enough for me I guess. Also this Hamas stuff is overwhelming and exhausting there’s a lot of OSINT and a lot of propaganda and a lot of egos stirring the pot and no leaders leading. I try to be optimistic and do feel a bit doomy tho. I am gobsmacked at the way October 7th bashed my brain and the intellectual and spiritual effects I am still processing.
The media keep talking about “pro-Palestinian protests” (or demonstrations, or rallies…) But I haven’t seen one yet. A pro-Palestinian event would necessarily feature prominently anti-Hamas, anti-Hezbollah, anti-Islamic Jihad, anti-Iran, etc. denunciations, since these are the source of all of the Palestinian problems.
All I see is a lot of Jew hatred at what the media call “pro-Palestinian protests.”
Your analyses are always so brilliant and beyond comprehensive. But lately I'm tempted to not read anything or consume any media. You said it, "Despair". The carnage is overwhelming but the group- think lemmings and the evil who walk among us are also hard to endure. Thank you for your work.
Thanks for this Terry. You made me tear up about missing your Ma. Also I am wondering what has happen to our once tolerant country. Perhaps we are still tolerant to some but not too others. There is a reckoning coming unfortunately our current government is playing catch-up as usual.
Hi Terry, keep catching fish. The outdoors has a way of giving back as you know. Heart felt message we all can relate to. Cheers to our mothers!
Take care and take courage, Terry, if I may call you that. And if you have time and inclination, see my post, “It’s about cycles,my friend” Next year in Jerusalem.
Thank you
Thanks for hanging in there. Hold fast, I pray you have the strength to endure.
On another note, too true it won’t stop with the Jews. I hope your readers all noted the show at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the one manufacturing consent to genocide whites as well in the National Post and TrueNorth. The third city in Canada to show it but only now is it being exposed.
God have mercy!
Until and unless the Palestinians turn on Hamas, the war will continue and make no mistake, this is a war. It needs to be concluded as wars must. Canada has a different crisis to deal with and until there's a change in government there will be no leadership to stand against the fools and the scoundrels.