Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
One unexpected blowback from the medieval Hamas’s barbaric murdering of hundreds of Israeli civilians is the revelation of current global amorality.
More than 20 Harvard university identity politics groups pledged their support to the Hamas murderers—to the utter silence for days of Harvard President Claudine Gay.
Americans knew higher education practiced racist admission policies. It has long promoted racially segregated dorms and graduations. And de facto it has destroyed the First Amendment.
But the overt support for Hamas killers by the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd on a lot of campuses exposes to Americans the real moral and intellectual rot in higher education.
Democratic Socialist members of the new woke Democrat Party openly expressed ecstatic support for Hamas’s bloodwork.
Their biggest fears were not dead fellow Americans or hostages, or some 1,000 butchered Jewish civilians. Instead they were fearful that righteous Israeli retaliation might destroy the Hamas death machine.
Palestinians for years fooled naïfs in Europe and the Obama and Biden administrations into sending billions of dollars into Gaza.
These monies were channeled to tunnel into Israel, to obtain a huge rocket arsenal, and to craft plans to wipe out Jews.
The Biden administration has blood on its hands.
As soon as Biden took power, he resumed massive subsidies to radical Palestinians, canceled by the prior Trump administration.
He ignored warnings from his own state Department that such fungible moneys would soon fuel Hamas terrorism.
His administration dropped sanctions against Iran, ensuring that Tehran would enjoy a multi-billion-dollar windfall to be distributed to Israel’s existential enemies—another fact well known to the Biden administration.
If the Biden administration had announced overtly that it was rabidly anti-Israel, it would be hard to imagine anything it could have done differently from its present nihilist behavior.
Biden and company quickly restarted the defunct Iran appeasement deal—a leftover from the anti-Israeli Obama administration. No surprise, they appointed radical pro-Iranian activist Robert Malley to head the negotiations.
Malley allegedly has leaked American classified documents to Iranian officials and is under investigation by the FBI. He did his best to place pro-Iranian, anti-American activists into the high echelons of the U.S. government.
Biden was intent on forcing South Korea to release to Iran $6 billion in sanctioned frozen money.
That expectation of cash ensured Iran would be reimbursed for its present terrorist arming spree.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken shamefully tweeted that Israel should settle for an immediate ceasefire. No wonder he soon withdrew his unhinged posting.
That idiocy would be the moral equivalent of an American ally in December1941 urging the U.S. to seek negotiations with imperial Japan after its surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor—to avoid a “cycle of violence.”
The Biden team has drained strategic arms stockpiles in Israel, designed to help the Jewish state in extremis.
It recklessly abandoned a multibillion-dollar arms trove in Kabul, some of which reportedly made its way from Taliban killers to the Hamas murderers.
Once the mass murdering started, the amoral clarity of our “allies” was stunning.
NATO partner Turkey openly sided with the killers. It —along with Blinken—called for a cease fire—at the moment the Hamas death squads had finished, and Israel was ready to hold Hamas to account.
Qatar, where the U.S. Central Command is based, proved little more than a Hamas front.
It offers sanctuary to the architects of Hamas killing. And Qatar ensures a safe financial pipeline to Hamas from Iran and the radical Arab world.
Some of the most vehement current supporters of the Hamas death squads were immigrants to America from the Middle East.
Oddly, they apparently had fled just such illiberal Middle East regimes to reach a tolerant, democratic, and secure United States.
Yet they now endorse the Hamas butchering of Jewish civilians. Its savagery is aimed at executing, raping, and beheading Jews, and then mutilating their bodies.
Hamas apparently hopes to shock the Israeli government into voluntarily committing suicide—in line with the ancient Hamas agenda to destroy the Jewish state.
In a strange way, this reign of death has become a touchstone, an acid test of sorts that has revealed the utter amorality of enemies abroad and quite dangerous people at home.
It is past time that Americans deal with the medieval world that was revealed this week rather than keep dreaming in the fantasy world of our government.
Americans need to stop illegal immigration and restore their southern border, while ceasing all immigration from unhinged, hostile nations.
The military must return to its deterrent role and fire its woke commissariat.
Our leaders must accept that in the last three years of the Biden administration, serial American appeasement abroad, disunity at home, and social chaos have encouraged an entire host of enemies —China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Middle East illiberal regimes, and former friends like Turkey and Qatar.
And our enemies dream of doing to us what we just saw in Israel.
I don’t understand why knowledgeable people cannot figure out that Obama is
in control in this country in his 3rd Term of office serving as puppet master of Biden and accomplishing the agenda he started
during his first 2 Terms! 🤔 🤦♀️ 😞
I do not understand how knowledgeable people could think Obama ever controlled anything, he was the creation of his ONE Advisor Valerie Jarrett behind the scenes power for Obama / Biden. She had Obama purchase a DC home and promptly moved in to continues the control in DC & now the Biden Administration.
Valerie Jarrett, David Axlerod, Ron Klain, Susan Rice, and, oh yes, grandpa and Frank Marshal, and encouraged by his friendship with the “hateful” Louis Farrakhan. Mention will not be made here of his 20-year relationship in a pulpit listening to the “rev” Jeremiah Wright vomit hate and max racism ;-). Such roots ran deep and wide. Neither will mention be made here of the teachings of Mercer Island’s (Washington) little Annie Dunham. No, no mention of those influences here.
You’re absolutely correct, I have been saying the same!
I keep saying the same since January 2021.
Stop calling on Biden and mentioning his name when this is a fake criminal organization under the operative sleeper cell named Barack Hussein Obama.
I disagree that Obama was ever in charge, even during his presidency. He’s not very bright. His entire career was to be a token black pseudo-intellectual face for his far-left masters like Soros.
I see no evidence that Obama is not very bright.
This is what liberals do. They immediately name call. Trump is stupid or a liar. He is neither. And I don’t think it serves our purpose just to dismiss the successful Obama as not very bright. He was intelligent enough to know how to bring down our country. He was furious that he didn’t get his third term in a Hillary win, and helped to do all he could to try to make Trump unable to govern. On that score at least, until Covid, he was unsuccessful. But now he has his puppet and he is at the ready to finish his job.
But who is running
O’BAMA? He was a proxy president himself.
And those who support Hama’s Einsatzgruppen actions in Israel call those of us who oppose the woke agenda . . . what?
Bloc,
Great point! The Left projects its own totalitarianism all the time.
Mr. Davis overlooks, as always, the permanent affliction of Jewish-Aryan relations, namely the unendurable essence of the Jewish semite personality. These two races must eventually prove immiscible, requiring either separation or a holocaust-like disaster for Jews.
It’s hard to remember that until 1960, America was 90% white, a utopian dispensation in which members of the superior race were able to feel they were “at home”. Now, tragically, no American tribe will ever again be able to feel that way.
Most liberals have no moral center because they are humanist secularists. They create fantasies of “good” motives and think they can create a world accordingly. “Give Peace a Chance”, “Love Not War”, Imagine. Despite massive evidence of Human Nature individually and collectively being eternally flawed they deny reality. As VDH argues elsewhere, elite liberals cling to their worldview despite the dissonance. Mostly it doesn’t affect them directly, but oftentimes they refuse to adapt their moral center even when it does. Sadly for us all, the cumulative impact can be destruction of Nations and Cultures or de-civilization.
Well said.
Thanks you for being a lighthouse in the current darkness of this country. Your analysis has been a combination of sobering and inspiring- we need to heed your wise counsel.
Islam is the only major religion not to experience a reformation, which accounts for the barbarous, Medieval mentality. As well, one has to question the literacy of these people, though Muslim professionals in western countries seem to be fine; indeed, they often don’t want to associate with their uneducated brethren. Where’s the leadership?
Sir. I am 84 years old and I cannot say how much I find your commentaries to be so factual, I am not ashamed to tell you that I think you are a beacon to our country of the utmost blessing ,that God has bestowed on the USA and all who hear or read your writings and will realize what dire straits we as a country are experiencing,and become the God fearing Patriots necessary to save this greatest country ever formed by the Lords hands. Be safe and well. Thank you again
The on-going delusion of the arrogant left and its useful idiots, definitely including corporate media; as if such were to buy credits with the butchers that praise butchery in the name of Islam, indicates they are on-track to eliminate themselves from the modern human species gene pool. By the time they wake up to reality, it may be too late. Kinda reminds one of the Soros’ long agenda. Anyone that votes for a lefty invites bad karma.
Mr. Davis overlooks, as always, the permanent affliction of Jewish-Aryan relations, namely the unendurable essence of the Jewish semite personality. These two races must eventually prove immiscible, requiring either separation or a holocaust-like disaster for Jews.
It’s hard to remember that until 1960, America was 90% white, a utopian dispensation in which members of the superior race were able to feel they were “at home”. Now, tragically, no American tribe will ever again be able to feel that way.
What we are witnessing worldwide and predominantly in the middle east lends credence to the accuracy of biblical prophecy. As the spiritual forces of evil continue. the plan as projected to totally annihilate Israel and take its God given land, God himself wil eventually step in to save them and Israel will finally know that Christ is their Savior and Messiah.
It would be wise for individuals to take this opportunity while there is still time …to commit their lives to the God of the Bible and his son Jesus Christ because collectively the nations who have turned their backs on him and his special people of Israel will soon experience the coming wrath of God . Things are progressing as biblically projected .The end of days hammer is about to strike iron. Where will you be standing when it does?
Amen
Well said, and the Biden administration is still trying to find a way to reward these individuals with student loan forgiveness. They deserve nothing, they contribute nothing.
Gaza be Gone! What kind of creatures behead babies in cribs and kidnap infants after killing their parents? When asked by interrogators why and for what possibly could be gained, Hamas savage butcher responded to”Dirty Them” Let that sink in…….this is who Israel and the West is up against. We are living in the last days and this is Evil Incarnate and they all have to be dealt with with extreme prejudice! There are no innocents and what so sick they are here in Dearborn and Minneapolis and college campuses across our country and flooding into our nation thru our southern border care of the clown and freak show that sits in DC! God Bless Israel and the IDF obliterate Gaza and then head north and do the same to Hezbollah!! They have to be Gone!
Agree! Oct 7 simplified what was, on Oct 6th, a complicated historical entanglement of two peoples struggling with one another. On Oct 6th there may have been Palesinian innocents. On Oct 7th we know there are none.
ANYONE who denies O’Bummer is still calling the shots just is either mentally unbalanced, or is a flaming idiot.
The sadness is nearly unbearable. To think that, since Obama, US taxpayers are complicit in it, equally unbearable.
Mr. Davis overlooks, as always, the permanent affliction of Jewish-Aryan relations, namely the unendurable essence of the Jewish semite personality. These two races must eventually prove immiscible, requiring either separation or a holocaust-like disaster for Jews.
It’s hard to remember that until 1960, America was 90% white, a utopian dispensation in which members of the superior race were able to feel they were “at home”. Now, tragically, no American tribe will ever again be able to feel that way.
It is hard for some to accept the fact that some people are bad through and through. The potential for goodness factor is part of western civilization with both good and bad effects. Think of what we call prisons – “penetentaries” assuming those incurred will become penitent. It is a sad irony that our best beliefs about human nature can have such dreadful outcomes.
Totally agree. Biden doesn’t have the capability to engineer these radical programs. Most Liberals don’t even try and figure out Obama takes the lead along with some input from Hillary. They choose not to deal with reality.
IMO, this is a teachers created American Hitler youth. As they grow and take jobs in government & industry, we will have scores of Adolph Eichmanns for the American Nazi party, formerly known as the Democrat Party.
Unfortunately none of what we’ve watched occur here in America since Biden moved into the WH has been an accident. I just wonder why so many ppl in DC hate his country so much they want it’s destruction. And I wonder why the states can’t seem to see it & fight back. Only God knows I guess.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
“Oddly, they apparently had fled just such illiberal Middle East regimes to reach a tolerant, democratic, and secure United States.”
Surely that is not what most seek, or see only as a side benefit. As a group, coming here for the economic benefit is low on their list. Many, if not most, are coming to America to help weaken/destroy the people of the Great Satan, which has always helped the Little Satan!.
It’s what the regime wants.
Chaos and decline is the name of the game.
They think everything is going well.
That’s why they can’t understand all the bad press and polls.
Despicable
“The military must return to its deterrent role and fire its woke commissariat.”
Thanks Victor for mentioning, and it should start first with the military. ASAP.
Victor, you have always applied common sense and truthfulness to your articles. It has never been more evident than what you have presented here. Clearly, the biden regime hates America and Israel equally. It’s seeking to perfect its destructive techniques with Israel so they can be confidently applied here in America even though poppies grow in Flanders field.
Make no mistake. What just happened in Israel will soon happen here in America also. I have no doubt that the musslems in America will soon rise up and start some shit. Along with our other enemies. Nows the time to get off our ass’s, and prepare to defend ourselves…
There are still too many everyday citizens who are clueless. They swear the border is secure. They swear Palestine is justified. They don’t see anything wrong with ‘the wrong’ because they see ‘the right’ as being wrong. It’s become Opposite Day every day anymore. I don’t know who to trust, and I don’t know what to believe. My employer has a new woke CEO pushing DEI and who just appointed a Venezuelan as his VP who believes in bilingualism for the workplace and America. Our citizenship is dying. Be safe. Tomorrow is Jihad Friday. I’m staying home.
Thank you really got every single point cover in this article. I took the liberty to post some section and make sure is yours. Thank you so much, you are awesome.
The depth of concern I am feeling for our country has never been greater in terms of our national security.
My husband and I, both military past, have always felt our leaders and our military could handle what ever our enemies threw at us. Neither of us feel that way today.
Our own government is leaving the country vulnerable and all the while playing dumb with us.
I am in a state of complete and utter disgust with our current leadership.
I am trying, without appearing insane, to encourage friends and loved ones to be alert, to think about preparedness, to have enough to hunker down if the time comes for such an event.
The WHO just published the Pandemic Plan.
Outlining mandatory and complete control of decisions concerning management of medical events, the protocols to be used, the medications to be used, all vaccine use, other health issues that effect the economic welfare of the majority, CO2 protocols, mandatory subjugation of autonomy over medical care and decisions.
An unelected, faceless entity that requires the agreement and acceptance of terms by all nations. Many nations have already said yes to this insanity, why? Because penalties will apply to those who don’t agree and worse to those individuals who don’t comply.
The citizens of our country need to wake up and realize that we are all being set up for a grand take down.
Only the pugnacious, and sometimes offensive, Donald Trump has the proven track record of successfully dealing with Israel’s adversaries.
We, for the sake of western civilization, need to give him a second term. There is no need to take a chance on a promising, but untested candidate.
What have I been saying for the past many years! Finally, awakening….., I hope it’s not too late.
“… Americans need to stop illegal immigration and restore their southern border, while ceasing all immigration from unhinged, hostile nations …” Millions of Americans were demanding this even prior to 911 — an event that presumably should have caused Washington D.C. to get its act together. “Surely they’ll seal the border now,” we reassured ourselves then. But no. George W. Bush still pursued amnesty with Vicente Fox, and by 2014 illegal immigration under Obama had grown worse. Today we are in a far more vulnerable position than before 911. An open border notoriously declared by the Wall St. Journal in the 1990s and unceasing massive immigration are here to stay.
Amen!
I totally agree.
The great VDH has once again given us a clear headed and accurate column.
“If the Biden administration had announced overtly that it was rabidly anti-Israel, it would be hard to imagine anything it could have done differently from its present nihilist behavior.”
How correct is that? I always used to say Obama hated America and when people were shocked when I said this, I would say,”If Obama did hate America, how would he behave differently?”
Biden talks a good game to the public. But, as Caroline Glick said on a podcast, privately he pressures Netanyahu that if he wants bunker busting bombs and other weapons, first he has to give aid to the civilians of Gaza. This is nuts. To use your example, That is like ordering FDR to supply aid to Japanese civilians before he could be permitted to use aggression to retaliate for the attack on Pearl Harbor.