"As A Palestinian"

A Real Life Story

Here’s how I see it.

Some of the hostages, mostly females, look as if they were treated reasonably well: not starved, beaten, or raped. But one woman was starved and murdered and who knows what happened to her before they put a bullet in her neck? Maybe she was “difficult,” maybe the luck of the draw assigned her to even more sadistic than usual captors, I don’t know. Noa Argamani doesn’t seem to have had that bad a time. Sharabi et al looked like they came out of Belsen. It was inconsistent. I can’t account for it. I hope that someday, someone will try to put the pieces together and see if there are any patterns.

Shir, Kfir, and Ariel were high value hostages dead or alive so there was no particular reason to keep them alive.

I find the timing of their deaths, November 2023, when negotiations were quite intense, to be very suspicious. The “Palestinians” really thought that the war was going to end then, why not kill the family, just to twist the knife?

They’re clever devils. Either Shiri and the babies were deliberately put in harm’s way so that Hamas could say, “The Israelis did it” or they were shot in the head and then put in rubble. Or placed in a building that was a sure target. A lot of the bombing (as in Vietnam) was repetitive. It was all targeted and Hamas knew where the Israelis were going to bomb. Pin the blame on Israel. This is how they think. Then their monster-myrmidons in the Western left lap it up and use it for propaganda.

I don’t think Hamas or whoever was holding them was trying to shield them as bargaining chips. Even beyond the fact that they were in peril because they were ABDUCTED, they were deliberately put in harm’s way.

That’s my belief.

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Here is what I know: you can teach an old canine new tricks.

I now read my credit card statements.

And I have learned to hate.

I never really hated anyone before this.

I thought I did, but I really didn’t. Everything was either trivial or abstract. I never hated the Germans or the Japanese. Even the two shitheads who mugged me on the subway, various assholes I’ve met along the way (haven’t we all?)… minor, inconsequential.

I hate the… I don’t even know what to call them. I hate everything about them, including their fake name.

I hate calling them “Palestinians.” Palestine is a legitimate geographical concept and identifying a people, or peoples, by it, is also legitimate. A regional identity doesn’t have to be a country to be real. You can be a New Englander, a Midwesterner, a Geordie, a Yorkshireman, a Calabrian, a Breton, a Ruthenian, a Bavarian… in fact, I’d say that those designations are actually more authentic than nations, which are mostly a product of political upheavals in the 19th and 20th centuries.

But a “Palestinian”? Bah, humbug. It means nothing. I’d rather call them Eskimos, except that Eskimo is an exonym that’s now considered a slur by the people it used to describe.

I don’t only associate “Palestinian” with terror, stupidity, and psychopathy. I associate it with a blissful, bovine, massively inflated self-regard, an arrogance that is truly breathtaking.

I worked with an “As a Palestinian” once and it was awful. She had a slew of massively annoying affectations.

Everything was “As a Palestinian.” When she’d say it, she would tilt her head and her face would assume an expression of ineffable self-regard, as if being a “Palestinian” conferred sainthood. It was an obvious LARP.

Then, she would pronounce the word “Palestinian,” without aspirating the initial “p” so it came out as “Balestinian.” So fucking annoying! Was her native language Arabic and native Arabic speakers have a hard time with the “p” sound? Nah. She was raised in the US. She did it to sound sort-of-authentic, like the leftist bitches who use the word “habibi” and pronounce “Gaza” with that guttural “gh” sound. A total fake.

And the most sickening part of her shtick was that she was Kuwaiti-Palestinian! She was born there and inflicted on the US at some early age.

In case you don’t remember what happened, Kuwait kicked their “as a Palestinian” asses out of the country in 1991.

They didn’t, uh, read the room, did they? Can you imagine what was in Arafat’s head? It takes a kind of next-level arrogance, gall, chutzpah, to do what Arafat did. And Kuwait didn’t take kindly to it, so they coolly expelled several hundred thousand of the vermin.

And “Palestinian” is so fucking long.

The “Palestinians” remind me of that woman in the Flannery O’Connor story.

“They’d be good people of it had been somebody there to shoot them every minute of their lives.”

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Yes, I’m writing this because of the Bibas family but also because of Shlomo Mansour.

The four hostages I cared most about were the Bibas family, for obvious reasons, and Shlomo Mansour.

I know this sounds illogical — at 86, Shlomo had already lived a great life. I clung to a slender shred of hope that with his Arabic language skills and obvious personal charm he had somehow melted the hearts of the psychotic monsters and survived captivity. I was looking forward to seeing him freed, bloodied but unbowed.

He looked like Every Grandpa.

He was from Iraq.

He had survived the Farhud.

I loved the guy.

But it was not to be.

They murdered him on October 7, 2023.

And now the virtual confirmation of the Bibas family — and the monsters justifying this, saying it was Israel’s fault.

And this. I came across this video on Telegram. The US has mega-churches. Britain — Britain! — has mega-mosques!

It’s too much.

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Look: there comes a point where the few reasonable people in the world recognize a festering abscess, an infection in the body politic which prevents health, and it has to be lanced and removed.

The abscess isn’t just Gaza, it’s Islam in the West. Russia and Muslim countries know how to handle Islam (outlaw and contain it) but we don’t. It’s metastasizing here. And Gaza is a cesspool, always has been, always will be.

I know that the moment the boil is lanced never happens without a precipitating crisis and sorry, October 7, 2023 wasn’t it.

What will be?