We have reached the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel.
Three years since the most horrific barbarity that can be inflicted upon a people in a day. Three years of the most abysmal antipathy that can be inflicted upon a people in its wake. And at its core, three years that have revealed the most abhorrently unabashed and perversely unifying entitlement by the world to one particular nation and its people.
Looking eastward first, we have the reigning royalty of authoritarian regimes through the “H” terror clique of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis, and their Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sugar daddy: all spilling over with entitlement to the life and death of both their own communities and their enemies, who over ancient conquests and modern terrorism have perfected simultaneously making absurd demands while committing outrageous atrocities.
There is the surreal selfishness to not only brutally invade a neighboring democracy and steal hundreds on hundreds of innocent lives through both massacre and hostage taking, but to force the grieving nation to bargain for the civilians who should never have existed in such a situation.
The arrogance to fund such slaughter of those 1,000 miles away, dreaming up war crimes from the worst nightmare available to humanity.
And, after everything done, the hubris to believe they still are entitled to reign in the territory they’ve destroyed and with which they’ve tried to destroy others … but more than that, enjoy an eternal reign of terror with neither punishment nor accountability.
If only such entitlement were limited to that region, but there is unfortunately more than enough to be shared, and this sociopathic narcissism has become the drawing board for their fawning echo in the West. As a result, we’ve had a front-row seat to watch those so removed from both the collective conflict and personal purpose in life desperate for an endorsed route to take out their self and worldly loathing onto others.
Through their arrogant arsenal of tantrums and “tentifadas,” not only have these Western junior varsity jihadis shown that they are fully intent on denying others basic legal rights, but they are equally determined to not be denied privileges never afforded to those carrying out blatantly illegal activity. In their attention-seeking dream come true, they feel completely at home commandeering public property for personal preferences and reject the idea of being arrested for occupying land that isn’t theirs, all while simultaneously calling for the removal of rightful owners of land across the world.
The level of misplaced esteem and bursting ego to consider themselves worthy of dictating how another country defends itself would be fairly impressive if not so utterly destructive. Somehow, they know better with their performative activism degrees than all of the military experts, historians, and common sense. They know better in such utterly removed privilege than those who live each day next to those that would, have tried to, and will try again to, wipe them off of the planet when given an inch. They, who have and likely never will have to face such a situation, yet feel such a compulsion to demand others bend to their unethical education and personal bigotry.
Blazing hypocrisy aside, all continue to feel entitled to keep pushing corrupt ideology while demanding special accommodations, as too many who should know better continue to enable the previous parties with their own brand of entitlement.
In what is possibly the most insidious arrogance of all, as it is the version coming from not just the only democratic category of the three, but supposed allies and moral parties as well, we’ve witnessed the dangerous display of Western governments not only plainly hindering Israel’s efforts and success, but then gaslighting them on top of that betrayal … all for selfish and sinister gains.
So many nations’ pathetic administrations have felt overly comfortable spinning an existential crisis into political chess, wielding such grotesque authority to play fast and loose with real lives for shallow desires. Watching elected officials lack the spine to fully stand up to their party’s clownery and stand by what is just, while simultaneously thinking that they have the right to dictate how a sovereign democracy conducts its essential elimination of jihadists that no one else wanted to touch, has been utterly atrocious, though perfectly in line with the rest of withering modern ethics.
While we are aware of the depths society can reach, it is still difficult to fathom the amount of childish narcissism one must possess to not only make such ignorant demands, but to make any of a sovereign nation at all. Yet when it comes down to it, in once again the bias reserved only for Jews and their state, all of these parties not only hold entitlement to how Israel carries out its operations, but entitlement to Israel’s own existence and entire future.
It is such a shame that we live in a reality where too many feel so entitled to hold Israel as both a nation and its people hostage over the years, whether through its living, breathing citizens as captives, or as the world’s singular Jewish democracy to the most ridiculous double standards. And it is such a shame that we live in a world where Israel is so dismissed and dehumanized that it is forced into daily required defense against an eternal offense.
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It is well past time for the rest of the supposedly civilized world to start giving Israel and Jews the basic respect and entitlement to life that has been and will always be afforded to all other disdainful parties.
And if that is somehow still too much of an ask for the Zionist-fixated circus out there, it’s time to turn the focus to themselves: to stop spinning Israel’s necessary response to terrorism into an outlet of validation for personal prejudices, and start asking why it is that there is such a problem placing the blame exactly where it belongs. Because until such morality frauds can prove capable of genuinely acknowledging the overwhelming truth at hand, not only do they lack any business feeling entitled to judge anyone else, but all eyes should be solely on themselves.
Sarah Kendis is an oboist and writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A proud Jew and radical feminist, she writes and speaks about antisemitism and women’s issues in the world today. Her work has been published in sp!ked, Skeptic, the American Spectator, and the Federalist.