A Question for Leftist Jews: Why Do Munich’s Failures Trouble You More Than Benghazi’s?
Perhaps the cruelty of an attack during what is otherwise an earnest event is why it still aches, and so much deeper than similar horrors. But the 1972 Munich Olympics slaughter, the planned, political murder of 11 members of the Israeli Olympic delegation, deserves mention as an apt parallel to the Benghazi embassy lynching. The two events were facilitated by the same incompetence unique to politically correct, Progressive motivations of this and last century, and intellectual honesty demands that the same derision you harbor for the West German organizers should be directed towards Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy and national security failure.
Recall that the West German organizers of Munich wanted to produce a “carefree” Games, intended to reinvent the country’s image following Hitler, with no visible security or military presence to give the world any notion of the former dictatorial military state. The degree to which they were committed to such an environment at the Games was stupefying: when a police psychologist hired to predict possible threat scenarios came back with 26 situations worth preparing for, he was asked to redo his report with less terrifying scenarios. Organizers simply did not want to have the type of security presence that his report would require. This stupidity proved to be deadly: his “Situation 21” predicted almost precisely what occurred on September 5.
The Israeli delegation complained about the placement of their quarters and requested additional security even before arriving in Munich; they were in turn told that extra precautions would be taken. There is no evidence that this happened. Further, just this year Der Spiegel reported that an informant tipped off the West Germans three weeks prior to the Games.
Imagine that: the lesson they took from Hitler, from the worst slaughter in human history, was to prevent recurrences by being less vigilant. For visualizing the idiocy of such logic:
Judge: “Prior to sentencing, is there any statement the defendant would like to make to the court regarding why he burglarized the property?”
Defendant: “Because they locked the door.”
If that example spurred a grin, then for the sake of intellectual consistency don’t you dare vote for Obama.
Acting like the Libyan lynching is a one-time error, an administrative lapse, or the result of a video is palliative. The truth is that Obama and Hillary Clinton have, just as the West Germans did, consistently left your life in danger for the sake of their utopian daydream. Your life: when traveling abroad, they certainly would never place themselves in the position Ambassador Stevens was in. Further, risking your life by hoping the devil died with Hitler appears to be the only unifying theme of their foreign policy and national security platform.
Hilary Clinton called Bashar Assad a “reformer.” Admiral James Clapper said the Muslim Brotherhood was “secular.” The massacre at Fort Hood was recorded as “workplace violence.” A ruthless KGB-trained dictator was trusted with a “reset.”
Candidate Obama wanted to chat with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with “no preconditions,” and Obama refused to side with the anti-Ahmadinejad protesters following a sham election. Obama and Clinton then put real reformers and moderates in danger by shepherding al-Qaeda operatives to power in Libya and the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt.
The Benghazi consulate was vulnerable to attack by a mob, but likely could have fallen to a mob of young boys. The State Department had days, perhaps weeks of warning about September 11, 2012, yet refused to institute new protocols. My company, PJ Media, published a warning that we found circulating in Arabic-language media on September 10 — how did we manage to be more vigilant regarding your safety than State?
So: why aren’t you boiling like you were after Munich? Perhaps you are satiated by statements such as this one, which appeared in a New York Times editorial on August 31, 2012 (moments after Mitt Romney concluded speaking at the RNC):
For decades, the Republicans were able to present themselves as the tougher party on foreign and military policy. Mr. Obama has robbed them of that by being aggressive on counterterrorism and by flexing military and diplomatic muscle repeatedly and effectively.
Do they think you’re stupid?
Are you?
A great article – timely & accurate. Unfortunately, the people who need to read it, probably won’t. They don’t read, watch or listen to PJ Media, National Review, Fox News, etc. They read, watch & listen to the mainstream liberal media. It always seems to be this way. We’re always preaching to the choir. How do we reach those not in the choir?
Failing to reach them via the ballot box, the justice system or tar and feathers, bullets are generally required.
Easy there Bob. Violence is a liberal trait.
Be careful what you say! You are very likely being watched, and that comment could land you on their list of “terrorists.”
Leftist Jews are a breed unto themselves. They are incapable of learning historical lessons, let alone extrapolate how point A leads to point B – regardless of how many advanced degrees they have!
In fact, the best book on this dangerous, Orwellian mindset is ‘The Oslo Syndrome:Delusions of A People Under Siege’ by Dr Kenneth Levin.
And, it gave me no pleasure, yet much pain, to write the following commentary. But no matter. Desperate times call for desperate measures. And, these are desperate times!
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/08/leftism-lethal-to-jews-their-overall-health-others-too-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Tragic.
Why doesn’t anyone ever reply to Adina? I don’t think she ever sleeps!
Given that Leftist Jews supported the Molotov-Ribbentrof Pact I would say that their life in the leftist dreamworld is not subject to revision.
Ms Kutnicki, bounced over to your blog (as I have before) and I wondered why I haven’t done it more often.
Marvelous article. You answered some questions I’ve had about Jews and their affinity for the Democratic Party.
While I say this in jest, there is some seriousness here., “Are they crazy?”
My wife thinks I’m a rabid rightwing idiot. Were I Jewish, I would be worse. It amazes me.
Wouldn’t mind seeing your articles here ON PJMEDIA.
The word is not “crazy.”
The word is “evil.”
In their own way, they are as obsessed with death as the Muslims.
They are also as misogynist as well, denying the true nature of women, which is nurturing and life-affirming.
Agree tommyg. Not reachable. Why would one want to reach “them” anyway? JFO (Jinos for Obama)cannot be trusted having no credibility. G-d knows I have tried most of my long life to reach my fellow “chosen”. Apparently, we are chosen as an example of how not to treat G-d. Anyway, David, thanks for trying. Oh, to be young and idealistic again.
Great point, tommyg.
The sad answer is that because of ever-present emotional components such as fear, envy and resentment, the majority of these leftists are and tragically will always be beyond reach.
The good news is that a portion of these same leftists and near-leftists are indeed listening, paying close attention and doing some serious reconsidering. And the very same phenomenon I believe is happening on the edges of every single voting block in America.
And cumulatively, this effect will in my opinion provide the Romney/Ryan ticket with the necessary margin of victory.
Only then, however, will the real work begin. But this time America will not forgive, nor will it forget… if we squander the opportunities, drop the ball and fail to push through the necessary reforms.
And as a growing number of Americans are coming to grips with the fact that all our futures are at stake, I have a strong sense that Mitt knows that his family name is on the line… and will not want it to live in infamy.
you can only reach those who are open to being reached. And you give Fox and some of the other allegedly conservative media way too much credit as they, too often, are shoulder to shoulder with the usual suspects in manufacturing reasons to criticize Romney. They did it during the primary season because he was not fire-breathing, or Catholic, enough; they continue doing it now in treating tax returns with the same degree of relevance as an ambassador’s murder.
I would add forcing Israel to remove roadblocks in the territories, not to mentions all sorts of other ways that the world and Israeli Lefists ensure terrorist victims.
But the real Munich to be concerned about is the one with Chaimberlain, Deladier, and Hitler. At least they were embarrassed about it – only to be greeted with cheers at home, until it all fell apart in WWII. Or, in other words, the view of the world of both Obama and Ron Paul.
purposely, but incorrectly, conflating Obama and Paul only makes you sound uninformed. Was Paul cheerleading for bombing runs over Libya? For the forced ouster of Mubarak? No and no. But stick to your talking points; that way, you never have to try thinking.
The short answer to the question; Yes.
The long answer to the question; Yes, indeed.
The Jews will support Obama. Do not doubt it. There may be a handful more that vote Republican, but that is it.
I’m afraid that you’re overlooking the Prime Directive – “The enemy of my enemy is my ally”. If you’re a Leftist Jew then the enemy is freedom. The modern embodiment of freedom is the United States as it was founded. So, your ally is anybody who opposes the United States and the Constitutional Rights of her citizens. Thus, your allies are the murdering thugs in both Munich and Benghazi. Granted, those thugs may not fully represent your views but they agree with your core principle “freedom must be crushed”.
are troubled with the munich olympics murder of jewish israeli athletes? they side with the plo killers
in fact they side with the plo and hamas killers of any and all jewish israelis, and can’t wait for iran to drop that bomb
I think it is Michael Savage who originated the phrase that “liberalism is a mental
disorder.”
Apparently he is correct.
In NYC there are tens of thousands of residents who formally lived in communist nations (e.g., USSR, Eastern Europe, Cuba, etc.).
Also in NYC is the national headquarter of the CPUSA.
One would think that CPUSA members would seek out and chat with just a few of their fellow New Yorkers; those that formerly lived in communist nations and just ask them a simple question, “what was it like living in a communist nation.”
But CPUSA members will not do this.
Why?
Because they are simply NOT interested in hearing anything that may conflict with their religious belief in communism. In fact, the millions of people exterminated by Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, etc., have ZERO, ZILCH affect on the belief system of CPUSA members.
Jewish lefties are simply no different. They will vote for a liberal democrat independent of what that liberal lefty stands for.
Liberalism and its cousins are simply mental disorders.
Leftists
The CPUSA ignores the millions that communist regimes have killed, simply because the CPUSA is ready to do the same here, against any it perceives as enemies, should they ever attain power.
From the headline I thought you were writing about the Munich of Chamberlain and comparing that to Obama’s “Arab Spring.”
Same idea though…
Perfectly said:
“Pretending there are no enemies, just troubled, wronged people who wish to be made whole — and who can be made whole by a proper apology – is an irrational, unreasonable assumption.”
That sentence sums up the whole lefty, “we are the children…”, therapeutic world view.
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Jews who can see and understand what’s going on should go where the major problem is: Reform and Conservative temples that are hothouses of “progressive” sentiment and that are sleepwalking toward another vote for O. They should go and try to talk to some sense into their “landsmen.” As a gentile, I can’t do this. You can.
Side note: I’ve been sending articles like this to my (non-orthodox) Jewish friends for years. Most of them now are still on track to vote for four more years of the man who is on track to destroy Israel, America and the West and still prefer to get their “news” from the New York Times and New Yorker. I’ve given up on most of them because the leftist delusion seems to have a total stranglehold on the Jewish mind.
This is exactly my experience. I have despaired of ever seeing them give up their notion that communism could be great if done “correctly”.
My oldest friend is a devout Orthodox Jew – a walking stereotype, really: A liberal, Jewish, intellectual, social-worker. We’ve been friends for 50 years, and have argued politics frequently over that time. Since Obama was elected, he’s ignored my e-mails of items like this, or others about Obama’s ineptitude, foolishness, or outright malevolence. I’ve come, sadly, to the conclusion that, now that “his guy” is in office, he refuses to respond to or even consider facts or arguments that reflect badly on our own Emperor Palpatine…the kind of arguments we’ve had countless times over the decades. I still love him, but I’m compelled, very reluctantly, to conclude that there is simply nothing that could happen – short, perhaps, of Palpatine’s ordering US troops to join Iranians in an attack on Israel – and nothing that could be said,that would persuade my dear friend to repent his support for this guy? Why? Don’t know, but I fervently wish I did.
Obama has often (and incorrectly) been called the first black president. Clinton was the first black president; Obama is the first Jewish president.
I have two email groups. One consisting mainly of conservatives, or people sympathetic to conservative positions. And one consisting of people who I have worked with on community issues; most of these people are democrats.
I recently sent out a link to a ‘New Ad Implies Obama is Cozy with Muslim Brotherhood’. I received a reply from one of the latter group, a Jewish woman:
“Please do not share this kind of info with me. It is not my way of thinking.”
I replied:
“I do not understand what you mean by ‘It is not my way of thinking’. What has way of thinking got to do with facts ?”
“Do you deny that Morsi said that he wants ‘Millions of martyrs to march on Jerusalem’ ?
“Do you deny that Ahmadinejad has half a million Iranians chant ‘Death to Israel’ ?
“Do you deny that Muslim Brotherhood documents state that their goal is to take over Western civilization from within ?
“Do you deny that Obama has invited Morsi and other terrorists to the White House, but that he cannot find time to meet with Netanyahu ?
“Do you deny that Obama wants to maintain aid to Egypt after the burning of the US embassy there ?
“[name of person], you are an intelligent person. I can only conclude that when one has a way of thinking that forbids being exposed to facts that person is not thinking.”
I received another reply, in which all but the fourth question were ignored:
“Perhaps Netanyahu doesn’t have time for Obama
“Perhaps Netanyahu needs to rethink his rhetoric
“I believe that the people who live in what they call Palestine are human beings
“I support the people of Israel but not its government”
To which I sent a very long reply challenging her statements and including a summary of Islamic-Dhimmi history going back to the 7th century.
I have not received another reply. Nor do I expect to.
But I think the heart of the problem in reaching these people is contained in my two statements:
“I do not understand what you mean by ‘It is not my way of thinking’. What has way of thinking got to do with facts ?”
and
“I can only conclude that when one has a way of thinking that forbids being exposed to facts that person is not thinking.”
A threshold has been set in the brains of these people – and nothing can pass it.
And nothing can reset that threshold to permit anything to pass it, especially any evidence or argument that has bearing on what the threshold has been set to exclude. As I see it, the only way to reset that threshold is to come in from a different direction, to sneak in with an argument that has apparently nothing to do with breaking down the acceptance of the leftist ideology but is in fact devastating to the threshold. Once the threshold is reset, they will be open to evidence, discussion and argument. This is a psychological challenge – not a political one. I hope to see some articles and comments on PJMedia thinking along these lines. Because just bemoaning the current situation will accomplish nothing.
By the way, people who do think are reading my emails. One staunch Democrat, a retired teachers union man, has said he will vote for Romney. One woman in synagogue has said she can’t vote for Obama. Every once in a while, I get a response from someone on the community email list who thanks me for the information. Some people who asked to be removed from the mailings (whom I did not) have not repeated the request.
The author of this piece brings Obama/Clinton and company to task for “making the same mistakes, dangling the innocent in front of the murderous as an experiment, quartering America in a vulnerable dormitory where you are to trust your safety to a failed and false idea.”
In a word, also from the article, we are being put in harms way and “Obama and Hillary Clinton risk your lives for their fantasies.”
Obama and Hillary Clinton risk your lives for their interests, not their fantasies. Obama and Hillary Clinton risk your lives for their alliances with those killing us. Yes they get chided now and then and have either to pull their punches or, the opposite, get tough.
But they can pull their punches or get as tough as they want. None of it goes to the problem which is their alliance with the anti-American, anti-Western and pro left forces.
There are always snippets here and there. In Egypt one of the Muslim Brotherhood compliant military officers asked what does this (the uprisings)have to with freedom of speech. The video has nothing but insults.
He was correct and that isn’t the issue either. The issue for us in America is the left. That is the issue. Their idealism is a motivational question only, their well documented past shows us their alliances will enough.
Before it was dangerous to admit – the Administration is in full damage control a defensive mea culpa mode – the Administration never even tried to hide their relationships with the Flotilla organizers – headed by Bill Ayers.
I don’t like the parallel.
There was an easy fix in Benghazi – the ambassador could have stayed home. But he went forward, bravely or stupidly, as the base may be. It was his job. There is no way sufficient security could have been put in place, it would completely have outweighed his need to be there at that particular time. Heck, he could probably have done whatever needed doing by telephone.
In Munich, presumably a modest amount of extra security would have prevented. Today any and all Olympics have that security (or pretend to). The Israeli team had to be there at that time in order to participate, and it would have been a major defeat if they had simply stayed home instead. So the parallel is, in both cases there was warning, and in both cases they went in bravely.
But the differences are great, too.
Oh yes, the other parallel? In both cases the perps were bloodthirsty Arab Islamists, just in case nobody noticed. Maybe the solution is really to go back upstream and eliminate the problem before it begins.
But WHY are Obama and Clinton doing these things? The answer is writ large, but no one sees it. How could it be made plainer that they want Islam to win and America to lose? Doesn’t all the evidence point that way? The decision to kill bin Laden was wrung out of Obama. Finally he saw that allowing it would be a useful cover for his real agenda. Obama has not failed, he has gone a long way to succeeding in rendering America weaker and poorer. Give him another 4 years and he’ll complete this task, to which his whole life has been dedicated.
Remember Hitler? The guy that didn’t have enough troops to face the allied forces and the Russians? What did he do? Well, bingo, get in touch with Mr Mufti and give him his own radio channel to spew his hate … make him a general of sorts and then assemble a bunch of terrorists from the middle east to commit crimes against humanity that Hitler could only dream of. Mufti’s task, along with Himmler was to mutilate and kill handicapped people and then Jews!!!! Dis any of those murdering Islamic bastards get caught or tried in a court of law? NO !!! They were left alone for fear of retaliation from the Middle Eastern Islamists. Sound familiar???? Eh? Sound familiar?? Heard of Basser al Assad of the b’aath party? How about Saddam Hussein? How about Achmedthenutjob (currently lecturing his classmates at the U.N.)?? They all come from a party that was established by a worshipper of the Mufti Hussein and his tactics of murder and mayhem – Michel Afluk (spelling). These are all men that HATE Jews and mimic Hitler in every way possible – including gassing their own people (Saddam), killing 25,000 of their own people, (Assad) etc. Munich is child’s play compared to these bastards.
To all Jewish people in Europe and elsewhere – Hitler is alive and well and his Babylonian buddies are on the march; so be VIGILANT. Is it any coincidence that, when mapped (check out Google), the latest violence against everything sacred perpetrated by Islam; is IDENTICAL to the map of the Ottoman empire.
The Obama administration is wrong; very wrong; and these mistakes have been made before; by the British, and at the end of WW2; in that Islam was given a pass; out of fear of retaliation. Islam HAS to be faced head-on!!! No concessions; no compromise. Our prayers for this administration are needed now more than ever …
… this is WAY bigger than Munich.
Churchill (during WWII):
“… to fight this current war to victory requires understanding and accepting the similarities between the Nazis and the Arab-Islamic terrorist armies.”
Churchill (2012, if he were still with us): See above.
And make no mistake about it. Obama is in the process of throwing Israel under the bus as we speak. Obama has absolutely no problems with Iran getting a nuclear bomb, thinking that we can “contain” Iran once they do have one. I guess that foreign policy is going to work as well as the one we had in Libya or Egypt. And there are still people out there that want to give this guy another four years in office? Amazing.
“Obama is in the process of throwing Israel under the bus as we speak.”
Which is why we need to pray for Obama; because we’ve seen the results before. Anyone who says that the Holocaust can never happen again is a moron. Want proof? Compare the conditions now to the conditions prior to the WW2 Holocaust. Identical; and the 4th Reich is rising under our very noses; especially in Germany, ‘cos it never left.
This is the summer of 1939 all over again. The worst anti-Semite I ever met was a guy named Cohen. He hated his own people, he said, because they let it happen, they didn’t fight Hitler (or Stalin, for that matter). But it’s even worse now; secular Jews (i.e., those who mainly don’t believe in God) are still going to vote heavily for Obama. It’s almost like a suicide cult.
Barack Obama is the Mahdi.
For many years I have had one burning question, why are the majority of Jewish people Democrats? WHY? I was born during WWII in a country occupied by the Germans. As a result, I have continued to read extensively about this war and the Holocaust. Why were Jews so easily marched to their death. First the lost freedom of speech, they lost the right to use public facilities (parks, libraries), they lost the right to bear arms, but not the armband. They were told they were heading towards freedom. When I look at this and so much more all I can think of is the Democratic Party of today. I guess lessons from the past are not learned.
Why were Jews so easily marched to their death. First the lost freedom of speech, they lost the right to use public facilities (parks, libraries), they lost the right to bear arms, but not the armband. They were told they were heading towards freedom.
I’ve also studied WWII history in general and the Holocaust in particular for many years. I believe the Nazis were masters of psychological manipulation. At first, the laws were changed relatively slowly. Some Jews recognized the threat and fled to other countries while others believed it was just a passing phase. As things got gradually worse, they held out hope. Even as they were being deported (first to the ghettoes and later to the camps), they were told to pack a single suitcase to take with them. The Germans knew the Jews would pack their most precious items to take with them (making it easier to steal their belongings). This made the Jews easier to control. Had they been told they were going to certain death, many people might’ve attempted to fight back. However, if it was just another relocation, people would be more compliant. After all, why attempt to fight back against hopeless odds when there was a glimmer of hope? Ultimately, even the gas chambers were made to look like showers. Odds are many people believed they were going to get a shower up until the doors slammed closed and the poison gas flooded in.
I write this as my attempt to answer your questions. It isn’t meant in any way to blame the victims. They were innocent people murdered by the millions. This is just my understanding of how the Nazis were able to murder 11 million people (6 million Jews and 5 million others) with a relatively small number of personnel. Desperate people will cling to any sliver of hope. That’s just human nature.
Thank you for putting this in its proper light, or shall I say a different light. But it still remains, why is this happening today.
We would do well to revisit the 1930s with Winston Churchill. While Baldwin and then Chamberlain pursued disarmament, Hitler built up his armies. British public opinion was on the side of appeasement, and this is understandable given the devastating losses to Britain and France during WWI. However, after a time, Churchill found a way to address that public opinion and gradually led the public to understand the situation they were in.
Had they listened to Churchill early on, WWII could have been avoided. It seems that now we face implacable enemies, such as Iran, and our leaders continue to believe that we can stop them through negotiation. Ditto Baldwin and Chamberlain. B&C maintained that position through the conquests of the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and I believe it was not until the invasion of Poland that the Brits agreed to take serious action.
How long will we dither, I wonder? Neither Syria nor Iran, nor perhaps pretty soon Egypt and other of our “close allies” in the region understand anything but force, and the sooner we realize this and the sooner we apply it, the better off we will be.
Churchill frequently said that WWII should’ve been called “The Unnecessary War” for exactly the reasons you mentioned.
If it weren’t for the power of the Jewish lobby within the Democratic Party, Obama would have sold israel to Iran by now.