Life Matters - January 21, 2026
Those whom Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu called ‘Iran’s useful idiots’ were students, both foreign and domestic, protesting Israel’s war with Gaza as being ‘genocide’.
Genocide being; the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group, (Websters Collegiate) I can understand the seizing upon this word by Palestinian sympathizers. Gaza has been attacked by Israel, many Palestinian soldiers have been killed, with many civilians dying as well, and with time we may also learn about many injured oreven maimed for life. War is horrible.
War is horrible beyond measure when civilians are caught in the crossfire, suffering horrible conditions, attempting to shield children from those horrible conditions, hope being irresistibly, helplessly torn away, destroyed in the cauldron of bitter fighting.
This war, however, does not fall to the low level of genocide. At least not by Israel. Israel has proven its intention to target Palestinian Hamas fighters only, by warning civilians of strikes and giving them enough time to vacate the area. Hamas fighters have reportedly hindered or openly forbade civilians and kept them from leaving. That, besides Hamas using civilian infrastructure (including schools and hospitals) as a coverup for entrances to underground resistance tunnels and for ammunition storage makes the cries of ‘genocide’! look stupid.Add in the Hamas attack, killings, taking captives, targeting Israeli civilians in the horrific surprise attack in the early morning hours of October 7th, 2023, coupled with the reality that Hamas has the option of surrendering, and the outcries of ‘genocide’ look silly indeed.
Netanyahu’s ‘useful idiots’ remark was given in a speech he gave before the United States Congress on July 24, 2024 where he said this as a part of his speech; ‘I have a message for these protesters; (on upper echelon U.S. college campuses) ‘’When the tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair are promoting, praising and funding you, you have officially become Iran’s useful idiots.’
As a believer in the Biblical condemnation of homosexuality and believing the literal interpretation of 1st Corinthians 11:4-7 about the man being uncovered and the woman covered when praying or prophesying I can still sympathize with Mr. Netanyahu’s remark and possible frustration. These ‘entitled’ college ‘kids’ who never knew tyrannical rule for a day of their lives have no idea what they’re talking about. They should listen to those who have lived it. Perhaps it’s a morbid case of ‘everybody has their own truth’. No. They. Don’t. And the Leftist awakening would be swift indeed upon a Muslim takeover of the United States. The ‘woke’ would discover they were ‘asleep at the wheel’.
The hypocrisy of the ‘woke’ mob looks stark these days as they protest the application of law and order by Immigration and Customs officials while citing the 1st Amendment as protection for their protests, even in disrupting a church service in Minneapolis. I repeat; even as they protest the lawful removing of illegal migrants from the United States. All this while staying silent about tyrannical attempts to suppress protests in Iran where thousands of civilian protesters have reportedly been killed by the Islamic government.
The uproar about Palestine then, juxtaposed to the silence about Iran now, shows a willingness to get involved in overseas struggles with protests so carefully aligned with Muslim interests that one cannot but assume the presence of Muslim influence on U.S. soil. And why else is the ‘free Palestine’! crowd now silent as Iranian civilian protesters are being massacred by Islamic leaders? It has also become increasingly obvious that Communism via socialism has it’s deep-rooted influence in America via wokeism in politics and in its higher education system. And in grade schools via the National Education Association, (NEA) an American institution that embraces ‘woke’.
Which begs the question; As Islam and Communism (via socialism) unite in their desire to destroy the type of freedom that is historically American, how do they expect to peacefully co-exist once that destruction is, God forbid, accomplished? The answer of course is: they don’t, they can’t. They are about as ideologically compatible as either one is with America. The only unity they can possibly have is the mutual hatred, disdain, for Americanism with its historical respect for God and The Holy Bible. One could think that with a mutual rejection of Biblical values the ideologies of Muslim and Communist would become compatible. But no. It is another reminder that shared ideologies centered only upon a common enemy have nothing to unite them if and when the ‘enemy’ is overcome.
In the meantime, both Islam and Communism unite in the utilizing of a modern-day Trojan horse called woke and built by American Leftism. Thus, they take advantage of America’sfreedom and democratic process to infiltrate America’s education system via the NEA, now influencing American Left-wing politics, infiltrating if not defining Leftism, and possibly morethat I am not aware of. Remember; they don’t care about voluntary conversions, they do it by force. The goal is destruction of American life. By any means. Even means that don’t fit into any future wants they have. Remember; both kill those who don’t ‘convert’
As political Leftism digs in for ‘trench warfare’, whereby they ignorantly, or knowingly, enable both Islam and Communism, we can only hope and pray that it is digging its own ‘grave’. In a free society, such as America, sanity supports the restoration of law and order. We do, indeed, have a grave situation.
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