Yesterday the Mrs. and I went out and ended up putzing around South Carolina’s nicest pawnshop where my wife got me an early anniversary present (19 Years on Jan 22nd!) the Charter Arms Patriot in .327 Federal Magnum. This is actually the first handgun I’ve owned, as I’ve been happy with my shotguns for home defense and having lived in NY, NJ and CT I’ve never felt like jumping through the bureaucratic hoops blue staters have created for law abiding citizens.
We had begun thinking about a handgun mainly because of the devolving political situation here in America, where a humble blogger like myself can attract dozens of death threats a year, and it behooves me to suggests to my Jewish friends they should be doing the same.
Since military operations began in Gaza the protests in Europe and here in America have been characterized by such extreme anti-Semitism that it is hard to believe that any Jewish citizen feels safe without the ability to defend themselves. These protests have united leftists and Islamist groups who are feeding on the nihilism and blood lust of each other in an ever escalating spiral of violent hatred. Don’t believe me? Here are a few links that will change your mind:
There were two car bombs targeting synagogues in France. The synagogues were full at the time so this was an attempted murder.
Pro-Hamas posters have been hung on synagogues in Los Angles.
Atlas is warning people of a Communist plot to riot at synagogues. Rise Up has sent out an email calling for activists to disrupt Jewish services and confront American Jews “with their clear responsibility- far more than complicity-in the mass murders, occupation, and forced starvation of the people of Palestine” in a stark statement reminiscent of neo-Nazi propaganda. Claiming Jews here are responsible for Israeli military operations is one step away from blood libel.
Also at Atlas, Jewish shops in Paris are being looted in organized anti-Semitic attacks. From The Chicago Sun-Times:
PARIS – Looters ransacked a Paris watchmakers and grabbed more than a quarter of a million dollars (200,000 euros) worth of stock in the wake of a protest against Israel’s Gaza offensive, the shop said Monday.
A manager of the Louis Pion boutique in central Paris’ Opera district said “40 vandals came in, in three successive waves at three-minute intervals,” on Saturday. Police confirmed they had opened an inquiry.
More than 20,000 demonstrators marched in Paris on Saturday to protest Israel’s assault on Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and, while most dispersed peacefully, between 200 and 300 went on the rampage.
Following the protest, mobs that peeled off from the main march overturned around a dozen cars, burning several of them, and smashed the windows of several shops on Paris’s iconic shopping street, the Boulevard Haussmann.
Jewish neighborhoods are also under siege in Sweden, a Dutch MP has called for an Intifada against Jews in his country and a new Pew Poll shows that in Spain a shocking 46% of Spaniards think negatively of Jews. Compare this to America where 77% of Americans have favorable views of Jews. According to the poll, Spain’s anti-Semitism has doubled since 2005.
One American without positive views of Jews is Ron Paul, who simply cannot bring himself to condemn Hamas rocket fire. Given how popular Paul is with the young, I find this worrisome.
The list goes on and on. Jews are being targeted by the Leftists and Islamists for violence while the world does nothing. It is the 1930s again, and we are months from a pogrom here in America. The time for debate is almost over. If my Jewish friends think liberals here will never allow anti-Semitism to get out of control they have not been paying attention to where the left has lurched to and who they now travel with. It’s time to think seriously about the defense of your homes and community. Buy a gun, learn to use it and be ready when the Brownshirts and their Mohammedan allies come for you.
And what of the rest of us? Do we sit idle while our friends and neighbors are attacked for their “clear responsibility” for the imagined crimes Jew-hating Marxists like to whip crowds into a frenzy with? Do we Americans, of various faiths, allow our fellow citizens to suffer a second Holocaust? Because that is what we are coming to. We cannot allow the Jews to be scapegoated, to become the target of a radical movement that has an ear in the new government. We must fight for our friends and stand up for what is right, physically if necessary, because the wave of violence against Jews, I fear, has just begun.
It seems Anti-Israel Leftists, along with also Hamas supporters, and those in Fatah are doing al-Qaeda a favor in targeting Jewish targets world wide. Back on my blog, I have a display of an article which states al-Qaeda is prepared to join a “Day of Rage” against Jewish targets world wide.
Sounds like Al-Qaeda has got a number of Useful Idiots working for them.
Great Britain is also a hotbed for anti-Semitic activity – at least 24 incidents, mostly in London, have been recorded in the last week alone. And these are not just crimes against property. There was an attempt to burn down a London synagogue and a Jewish man was pulled from his car by 3 men and physically assaulted. It would seem that this week, every day is a “Day of Rage.” The Daily Mail has more on these attacks.
I’m sure that you have already seen this but on http://www.foxnews.com a Palestinian protester told Israeli protesters in Fort Lauderdale that they needed to “go back to the oven.” The organizers of the protest did not defend nor disparage the protester’s dispicable behavior, instead Mr. Lopez of ANSWER – Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (Ironic isn’t it?) said that Zionism was barbaric and racist and the cause of all the problems in the middle east. The protest had to be broken up by the police. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that until one of these places is turned into a giant glass sculpture, they will try to kill one another. My vote is for Israel. Once the Jihadists get rid of the Jews, it is the Christians.Catholics, Budhists, Hindus, (Insert Religion here) and finally the atheists that make it all possible are the last to be exterminated.
You’re not kidding. ANSWER will happily follow the Islamists to hell, where their new friends will turn on them and cut their throats, and the sooner we realize the time for debate is over the better.
Mah29001’s blog Zionist Anti-Communist has a lot of info on the Leftist/Islamist alliance. You should check his stuff out.
Thanks for the tip.
I should also note, that Hamas was also using a U.N.-sponsored school to fire rockets into Israel. The U.N. was reportedly on the side of Hezbollah back in 2006, with its “volunteers” openly giving medical aid to the terrorists while doing nothing for the Lebanese civilians whom were being bombed and used as human shields by Hezbollah terrorists.
It’s no wonder why the U.N. hired Richard Falk, the Marxist shill to always go over there in a “fact-finding mission” only to condemn the Jewish state.