Tikkun Olam means executing terrorists

Israel just killed a top Hezbollah terror fiend. Let's hope it continues on to the other heads of the snake.

Israel just engaged in an important act of tikkun olam by executing one of Hezbollah’s top rocket chiefs.

According to the IDF, Ali Naeem “was considered to be a significant source of knowledge in the terrorist organization and leader in the field of rockets. He was also one of the leaders for heavy-warhead rocket fire and responsible for conducting and planning attacks against Israeli civilians.”

Obviously, the IDF isn’t discussing its plans regarding Hezbollah, but this may be an indication of the path it intends to pursue. It doesn’t want a two-front war (quite understandably), so it’s going to take the opportunity offered by Hezbollah’s ongoing aggression to degrade the genocidal Iranian proxy as much as possible until the Gaza operation is (hopefully) satisfactorily wrapped up.

Given that it’s almost certain that a military operation against Hezbollah of some kind is coming, targeted executions of its war criminals are probably the right way to go. Ever since Operation Wrath of God in the 1970s, which executed most of the Palestinian fiends involved in the monstrous 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, such executions have proven to be an extremely effective (perhaps the most effective) tactic against terror groups. It’s not a coincidence that it’s been adopted by numerous other countries, perhaps most famously by the US when it executed Osama bin Laden.

It’s pretty clear why this tactic is effective: If you want to kill a snake, cut off its head. Bash out its brains. Executing terror leaders does precisely this. Terrorist groups like to cultivate an image of invulnerability, but this is nonsense. Every dead terrorist leader is a massive blow, robbing these organizations of the cunning and skills of those members with the most talent for evil.

That’s called repairing the world.

Let’s hope that Israel’s execution policy soon moves on to the heads of the heads of the snake, namely Iran’s terrorist leaders in the IRGC and then the leaders of the theo-Nazi regime themselves. As for that regime, delenda est.

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My latest column at JNS asked a question that’s long troubled me: Why haven’t American Jews turned to violence?

Some people would like them to and others wouldn’t. Personally, I’m in favor of active but legal self-defense. But in my column, I try to take a dispassionate view of the situation.

I conclude that, given that various American minorities have turned to violence for a great deal less than the current wave of systemic antisemitism in politics, culture, and especially the educational system, it’s quite odd that American Jews have not done so. This is especially puzzling because the antisemites have been unspeakably violent for quite some time and largely gotten away with it.

In the end, I don’t have a good answer to this question, but I attempt to present some possibilities.

Read it all here.

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In a very interesting development—and one that is more significant than I think most people realize—filmmaker Steven Spielberg has acknowledged that the situation of the American Jewish community is fairly dire and that the professoriate regime is a major reason why.

“We see every day how the machinery of extremism is being used on college campuses,“ he said.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” he added. “And I am increasingly alarmed that we may be condemned to repeat history, to once again have to fight for the very right to be Jewish.”

“The creation of the other and the dehumanization of any group based on their differences is the foundation of fascism,” Spielberg asserted.

This isn’t a revelation to anyone who’s been paying attention over the last six months. What’s important about the statement is who made it.

Spielberg isn’t just the most successful filmmaker in history; he’s also an icon in the American Jewish community. He made the single most influential film on the Holocaust with Schindler’s List and he’s also one of the most prominent Jewish liberals in America. He ticks all the ecumenical and progressive boxes, long trying to cultivate the culture of universal benevolence he and many others believe is the essence of Judaism.

Now, however, he’s saying something very different. He’s calling out the professoriate regime, which means he’s calling out not just the educational system, but everything that comes with it: The antisemitic faculty, administration, campus groups, individual activists, and the entire ethos of the totalitarian progressivism that rules the campus.

By definition, then, Spielberg is indicting all the institutions, organizations, and individuals American Jews once thought were their allies. He’s also saying American Jews may have to fight these people in order to remain Jewish.

In other words, he’s acknowledging the betrayal. And he’s doing so in his capacity as a cultural icon and one of the most prominent Jews in America. That is what we call a sea change.