Opinion
By Sigrid Weidenweber
05-06-24
Let me begin my report with another Shakespearean quote, from Henry VI Part I, for it, too, says it well.
“Good Lord, what madness rules in brain sick men…” I would add to the quote, stating, “when much ado is made to frazzle and confuse the audience.” Yes, much madness is apparent. In the responses of the colleges and universities, who let this thing go on too long. By a silent president, who with his reticence, winked benevolently at the perpetrators, by the media, which showed destruction of Palestinian homes, but cunningly avoided to describe the horrors afflicted upon happy, celebrating Jewish people by invading Hamas’ jihadist troupers. Babies beheaded, bodies—male and female—stabbed, shot, breasts cut off, rape and pillage, shots to the groin, and then—those left alive dragged away to serve as hostages—bargaining chips in the Hamas playbook. No one in our Democrat government has confronted the demonstrating Hamas supporters with the ugly truth that their people, by 82% in the West Bank believe that Hamas was correct in launching the October attack on the Jewish villages. Perhaps they know that is also the mindset of the demonstrators With this mindset, how can they now scream and complain when Israel is fighting back?
Well, now we are learning the truth and reason behind the riots at our Ivy League Colleges and Universities. Apparently, the fervor exhibited at these places has little to do with a sudden outpouring of concern for the Palestinian people and their suffering but is more a communist/fascistic/Islamic assault on America, using the usual paid agitators Antifa, the veterans of campus protests and former Black Panthers. Examining the arrest records, police found that of 282 agitators at Columbia University, half were not affiliated with the university in any way. At City College, 60% of the arrested 170 were non-students. That fact alone speaks volumes of who is the driving force behind the unrests.
An article in the Wall Steet Journal (WSJ), states, “But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the results of months of training, planning and encouragement by longtime activist and left-wing groups.”
The article mentions the pro-Palestine Students for Justice, veterans of campus protests and former Black Panthers. These groups are paid to agitate, together with their made-for-cause props and banners.
Well, there you have it! Funding is provided by anti-Americans like Soros, by foreign interests like Islamic organizations, and China, with propaganda provided by Tik Tok. For a bout twenty years groups have championed the cause for Palestine with apparently little success. Now, with Hamas igniting fires, they see a chance to cause more damage to America. One needs to ask the question, why is Palestine a problem at all. America and Europe poured billions into the Palestinian state with little change in their living standard and culture. The money was used to put highly engineered tunnels under their cities and foster hatred in their madrassas. Why, one wonders, have none of the Islamic countries taken the 5.044 million Palestinians into their countries? The billions spend on Hamas and Fattah could have helped the move and alleviated all the turmoil. The dirty secret is that no government in the middle East likes the Palestinians. They look at them, as we look at antifa. Forever agitating, producing nothing good. There are lovely people among the Palestinians, my husband and I have met them, but they are harassed and taxed to the hilt because they have functioning businesses and are tightly controlled by Hamas and the Imams.
The last few months have made it abundantly clear that we need to understand that the reason behind this new student riot is nothing but hatred for America, its culture, its freedom and its independent people. If we want to live free and independent lives, we need to take action now and defend against a communist onslaught supported by many in the Democrat party and the Biden government.
Born in Germany in 1941, Sigrid Weidenweber remembers the horrific aftermath of Fascism. At the end of the war, she found herself living under Communism. Both of these totalitarian regimes left indelible marks on her psyche. She developed a healthy distrust of governments usurping too many powers in order to control people supposedly for their own good. MORE
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