As calls become louder for the deportation of Ilhan Omar for a myriad of justifiable reasons, the wish arises that we could effect a one-for-one replacement for her.
If we were able to do so, there is a no-nonsense female Israeli journalist who would undoubtedly be at the top of our "importation" list.
Unfortunately for us, however, while this woman initially had walked among us here in the U.S., she departed to go to where her heart took her. While born into a Jewish family in Houston, Texas, in December 1969, Caroline Glick left for a new life in Israel after graduating college in 1991, becoming an Israeli citizen soon thereafter.
Glick recently made a statement that has earned her the title of "The woman with steel balls!" Her message was to the governments of Britain, France, and Canada, triggered by their condemnation of Israel for how it seeks to defend itself against Arab Palestinians operating behind the terrorist group Hamas—the three states also announced the imposition of sanctions.
Despite not being born in Israel, by her statement, Glick displayed an attribute that is in short supply here in the U.S.—she resoundingly demonstrated her love of country and adamant displeasure for those who dared criticize it, all the while ignoring the historic evolutionary journey its people have been forced to take in order to survive. Glick gets the immediate attention of the leaders of these three nations with her opening salvo:
You sanctimonious, hypocritical cowards. How dare you threaten the one Jewish state on earth — after everything your nations did to us! You dare speak of 'humanitarian values' while standing on piles of Jewish bones your ancestors buried beneath cobblestones, cathedrals and the charters of 'civilized' nations!
Glick then goes after the three nations individually before attacking them collectively at the end. Her individual attacks remind them of their inaction as Adolf Hitler rose to power, and their initial dithering while Jewish lives were snuffed out. She specifically pointed out, not only what they failed to do, but how they effectively assisted Hitler in achieving his goal.
She ends her criticism of Britain by telling its prime minister to basically stick it where the sun don't shine saying, "Shove your royal hypocrisy back into Buckingham Palace and deal with your own collapsing society — where knife crime, antisemitism and Islamic extremism are more common than fish and chips."
In her verbal attack against France, Glick reminds the French leader his country deported more than 75,000 Jews to suffer death during the Holocaust, shoving them into cattle cars while Parisians simply watched. She added that such an attitude continues as:
Today Jews are stabbed in the streets of France, synagogues are under military guard, and you still have the gall to lecture us about morality? You couldn't protect your own republic from a van full of jihadists, but now you want to dictate to Israel how it should defend itself against genocidal terrorists? You are morally bankrupt and culturally collapsing.
Glick opens up against Canada by addressing it as "America's cold, smug, spineless cousin." It was an appropriate shot as she reminded Canada of the role it played in 1939. Over 900 Jewish passengers trying to escape the Nazis onboard the German passenger ship St. Louis were denied entry at their destination in Cuba; Canada too would not allow them access. Having to return to Europe, 257 passengers ultimately died in the Holocaust.
The journalist concludes her statement with a verbal bombardment of all three:
Here is our answer. We are not the stateless Jews of 1942. We are the sovereign people of Israel — armed, aware and unapologetic. Your sanctions are a joke. Your threats are meaningless. Your moral lectures are garbage. We do not need your permission to live. We do not need your approval to fight. We are not going anywhere.
The leaders of these three nations ignore the obvious echo between the Hitler threat of yesteryear, and the Hamas threat of today. Just like Hitler initiated genocide against the Jews, the Islamic terrorists of Hamas have implemented the same genocidal initiative. The group's 1988 charter made clear this was its objective. Undoubtedly pressed by the West to change the charter's tone, in 2017 Hamas replaced specific reference to all Jews with the word "Zionists"—as if that would have had any impact on the actual outcome.
Furthermore, it is profound hypocrisy that these three nations demand Israel restrict its military actions against the terrorists of Hamas—they're exhibiting the same disregard for Jewish well-being today that they did in the 1930s. Such a demand, particularly as all three states have adopted overly friendly Muslim immigration and assistance programs and allowing these ingrates to destroy their very foundations—should be, but is not, a wakeup call. Sadly, we are witnessing the collapse of once great powers France and Britain, with less-great Canada not far behind.
The expression "Walk a mile in his shoes" encourages empathetic understanding for the problems of others while discouraging hasty judgments. But Israel isn't hastily judging; Jews have spent 1,400 years trying to survive alongside Muslims, the latter committed to annihilating the former, as mandated by the Quran. Why not try walking in the Jews' shoes?
Britain, France, and Canada have had historic evolutions which, while encountering some rocky roads, come nowhere near traversing the difficult roads the Jews have traveled. The unempathetic three today mirror the same elitist approach history credits the late 19th century French queen, Marie Antoinette, with taking.
Upon learning her subjects had no bread, she simply dismissed her concern with the words, "Let them eat cake." These words demonstrated her obliviousness to the suffering of her own people as few peasants had ever heard of the luxury food "cake." Antoinette's name became associated with the decay of moral authority in her country.
The queen's callous words ultimately caused Antoinette to lose her head in 1793, suffering a public execution at the guillotine. A similar fate of lost political authority may well await the leaders of Britain, France and Canada.
Antoinette's elitism towards the sufferings of others continues in France today. But, unfortunately, like the plague, this decay is in Britain and Canada too, where their leaders arrogantly disregard the ordeals of their own people.
Image: Caroline Glick, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, unaltered.
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