Admiration Becomes Destiny
By Tom Gilbreath
Human beings tend to take on the characteristics of those they admire. That can be a good thing. But it is bad when they come to admire terrorists. In a recent Instagram post, a US student activist group released a threat of violence that sounded just like their heroes in Hamas. It said, “Death to the occupation. Death to Zionism. Death to all collaborators.”
At the time of the post, Hamas had just promised to lay down its arms and give up control of the Gaza strip as part of their ceasefire agreement with Israel. They started breaking that agreement as soon as Israeli Defense Forces began to pull back from the area. They instigated a reign of terror with mass public executions justified by the phrase, “Death to all collaborators!” And, to Hamas, anyone who supports any group other than Hamas, is a collaborator.
Their American admirers in the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) parroted the death calls of Hamas. “Death to the occupation. Death to Zionism. Death to all collaborators.” This is not just sympathy for Palestinian victims of the war. This is more than just siding with Hamas over Israel. This is fully embracing terrorism, barbarism, and violence. This is a profession of faith in the death cult of Islamic terror.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week that, as director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, she knew something about the mindset of young people. She said that many of the students chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” have no clue about what river or what sea. She implies that they don’t realize that they are chanting in favor of a Jewish holocaust even worse than Hitler’s. He killed six million, but over seven million Jews live in Israel — a land that falls entirely between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Some chant in mindless ignorance, but some know exactly what they’re saying.
The United States is next. On the webpage, the NSJP describes itself as, “Supporting over 400 Palestine solidarity organizations across occupied Turtle Island (so-called North America).” In other words, this isn’t really America. It’s Turtle Island. That’s the name some Native American tribes gave to, not a continent, but all the land of earth. This name was used by just a few of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pre-Columbian tribes. The truly woke like to call North America “Turtle Island” — a name with no beauty or majesty, and with deep pagan roots.
But it’s not just “Turtle Island,” it’s “occupied Turtle Island” — kind of like “occupied Palestine.” We can only assume that “Death to the occupation” applies to us as well.
Interesting that they call the Holy Land “Palestine,” a name given the region by invading Romans as a way to impose their will on the area and on indigenous people there. Those people are called Jews because they hail from the region historically known as “Judea” — until occupying Romans renamed it in an attempt to erase Jews from their land.
The woke say they stand against “occupiers” and those who try to “erase” indigenous people. But anti-Jew hatred has become so great that they freely use the name given to the land by occupying Romans who renamed it for the express purpose of erasing the Jews. Is their problem really with “occupiers” or is it just Jews and Christians they hate?
It should not surprise us that their positions make no sense. Hamas doesn’t make sense either. Blind hatred does that to people. First, they admire terrorists. Then they emulate terrorists. This takes them well down the path to becoming terrorists.
