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Damage after an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City on Oct. 9, 2023.

The Fiddler on the Roof was taking a big chance after 2,000 years of hate
Cal Thomas, who seems to hate a lot in a journalistic and broadcasting career where he expresses his conservative views, wrote in a Fargo Forum column that “you have to be taught to hate.” 

He has had a lot of terrific teachers. He has been a political analyst and contributor on Fox Lies. He was a panelist on Fox Lies Watch, a Fox Lies Channel that critiqued media news coverage. He also hosted his own program on Fox Lies called “After Hours With Cal Thomas.” He also is on ultra-conservative Salem Radio with a daily show emphasizing Christian political talk, music and news/talk. 

Cal has been a columnist for USA Today paired with liberal Bob Beckel, a political opposite in what is described as a point-counterpoint type of show. I read their columns for 10 years.

Cal, an evangelical Christian, was vice-president of the Moral Majority, a conservative religious organization dominated by founder Jerry Falwell, Sr., and Pat Robertson, for five years. He is a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Falwell brought in alt-right characters such as John Birch leader Tim LaHaye, a leader of Christian ministers opposed to gay rights, and former governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Fox Lies fame. Cal has written 10 books on religion and politics, including one about the role of the Moral Majority in “Christian” politics.

I have been reading and listening to Cal Thomas for more than 50 years. He has been both entertaining and maddening. He was a Trumper before Trumpistan was a MAGA cult. He has accused Barack Obama, a Harvard graduate, a hater of Israel. Harvard graduates do not hate; they analyze and empathize. He wrote that Muslims should not ever build another mosque! He has always been opposed to the LBGTQUIA+ community who make up 10% of the world’s population.

I can’t let Cal get away with crap he expressed in his “hate” column: “Until president Trump began depriving Harvard and other elite schools of federal grants, these institutions were getting away with effectively being accessories to murder. Would these university presidents, who have done little or nothing to curtail the hateful demonstrations have tolerated KKK rallies on their campuses? Not likely.” 

First, if Trump is going to become Dictator-Big Brother of America-Oceania, he has to put higher education under his total control like Hitler and Orban did. 
Second, what the war criminals of Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Front and the war criminals of Israel and Netanyahu have done to each other deserve strong demonstrations. 

Jew, Palestinian and Christian 
leaders have become dehumanized
For some reason, the Middle East lacks that essential characteristic for human tribes to get along with each other. It’s called empathy. 

The war crime of October 7,2023 committed by Hamas, raping girls and women and killing an estimated 1,200 and taking 250 hostages, deserved a strong war crime response. 

But Prime Minister Bibi N. went ballistic. He has built a prison named Gaza to house two million Palestinians – including 600,000 children. He constructed concrete walls and military checkpoints everywhere. So far, he has destroyed most buildings in Gaza, including hospitals, clinics and schools. He has killed more than 55,000 people doing it. And, there may be thousands of rotting bodies under rubble. 

In the last two days Bibi the Bloody has killed 60 and wounded hundreds of Palestinians storming well-armed distribution sites so children, at least, won’t starve to death.

 The Jews and Palestinians have had 78 years to come up with a two-state solution and an international zone for the city of Jerusalem. But a civil war has consumed both Arabs and Jews since the UN made the decision to create a Jewish state in the Middle East. 

I have followed this civil war closely for years and have a thick file on the Holocaust. Every time a solution was possible, radical right-wing Palestinians would kill right-wing Jews and right-wing radical Jews would steal and build homes and farms on Palestinian settlements. 
Netanyahu is expert at this and gained support of our presidents because they needed Jewish votes in Florida and New York.

Empathy has been destroyed by both parties, that is, if they had any to start with. 

Bibi has become a Trumper who wants to starve all Palestinians out of Gaza so he and “The Chosen One” saved by God can build resorts in Gaza for billionaires. And Bibi wants to stay in office so he won’t be charged in four cases of corruption in accepting expensive “gifts.”

Famine is now covering Gaza with a black pall. A formula developed by food experts called the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification predicts that 470,000 people of a population of two million “are facing death from starvation, destitution and extremely critical malnutrition levels.” 

The cost of baby formula has quadrupled, a can of peas is up 1,000% and cooking gas is up 2,400%. Most community kitchens have been forced to close. Prices of groceries in May in Gaza are shocking: (a kilogram is 2.2 pounds) 1 KG of rice – $10, 1 KG of sugar – $22, .5 KG of butter – $25, 1 KG of baby formula – $28, 1 dozen eggs – $43, 25 KF of flour – $558. 

Is it any wonder why Palestinians are killing Jews and Jews are killing Palestinians? 

The UN says “Gaza has become the hungriest place on earth” because Bibi and Israel has blocked food shipments for two million people for three months. Is it any wonder starving Palestinians have attacked trucks hauling food and attacked distributors just to get a scrap of food for their kids? 

Both parties have committed war crimes. The UN should send troops to Gaza, feed the population and arrest leaders and charge them with war crimes.

I depend upon one person in the Divided States of America government to tell the truth about Gaza and Israel. That’s Senator Bernie Sanders: “As the atrocities in Gaza leave many in a civil society dumbfounded, what is the long game here, I ask. ‘That’s a difficult question, and I don’t know the answer. I will tell you the U.S.. has had a long relationship with Israel, and there are many people who have intellectually chosen not to understand that Netanyahu does not represent the Israel of 20 years ago. The moderate democratic society is now controlled by right0-wing racist extremists who have done, and are doing today, absolutely horrific things to the Palestinian people in violation of American law and international law. They refuse to recognize that.” 

In other words, Bernie says the right-wing Israeli wackos display inhumanization and need rehabilitation to become rehumanized. 

It’s a complicated human problem that must be resolved. Even my buddy Shakespeare took a whack at Jews by having the witches in Macbeth throw a “liver from blaspheming Jew” into their boiling caldron. 
Joyce Denn, a Jew from Woodbury sums up: “We are being demonized because of the actions of the current Israeli government, actions with which the majority of us, American and Israeli Jews alike, find horrifying. I am a strong Zionist. I believe that Jews deserve and need a homeland of our own. Many will be surprised to learn that I also believe the Palestinians deserve a homeland also, but along the Jewish state, not as a replacement for it.”

The Old Testament has a lot of wars between tribes, countries and families. So does the New Testament.  
Does a war over economics have the same intensity as a war over religion? Remember the Crusades where streets ran deep in blood? Historians claim there were at least eight major Crusades and at least seven minor ones between Christians and Islam before 1400. They are still going on, but we don’t call them Crusades anymore. They are called wars or “incidents.”

Before my teenage days my French Catholic parents would make disparaging remarks about Jews, so when their favorite president Franklin Delano Roosevelt denied entry to the U.S. for the SS St. Louis carrying 937 Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany in 1939, I hardly noticed. 

When I was 15 and a sophomore at Little Falls High School, the United Nations decreed on Nov. 27, 1947, that Jews would have the opportunity to work toward a two-state solution in the land previously controlled by Great Britian known as Palestine. 

By that time, I had several Jewish friends in classes and in music groups. They were overjoyed about the decision, so consequently so was I.

Will churches evolve because 
evolution brought us gender fluidity?
There’s an interesting picture of eight California high school girls standing on seven platforms indicating how they placed in the state championship track meet. One White girl and one Black girl are standing on the first-place platform. They tied for first in the high jump. One is a transgender person the other is a Black person. 

Ab Hernandez at 16 years of age is known in sports circles around the world because the “two-gender” president of the Divided States of America is trying to keep her from participating in female athletics. 
By the way, six of the girls are Black. It shows how Blacks can dominate sports that are physically demanding. Although Blacks are only 14% of the total population, 70% of the National Football League players are Black and 80% of the National Basketball Association players are Black. 

In major college basketball with 10 players on the court, I’m really surprised if there are more than two Whites on the court at one time. But that’s another story.

There is no longer any doubt that at least 10% of the population is homosexual and represents gender fluidity. The bigoted and ignorant Trumusklicans think there are only two genders: male and female. 
Genetic experts have recognized 74 genders with possibly more to come. Among the LBGTQUIA+ community at least one percent of the general population is a transgender person, This means that the DSA is blessed with at least 33 million members of the LBGTQUIA+ community and a minimum 3.3 million transgender persons. 

Social science research shows that same-marriage and lesbian couples raise very happy and healthy kids. Google the subject. 

The Catholic bishops of Germany have decided that gays are not “disordered,” and have decided to form a Catholic system that welcomes gays. 

Because of churches refusing to live in the 21st century, people are becoming more dechuched and deChristianized

P.S.: As for the breakup of the Trump-Musk bromance, why not settle it with an old American duel with bump-stocked AR-15s armed with 100-round drums at eight paces? 

Maybe the president of the National Rifle Association and Attorney General Pam Bondi would act as seconds for the duel with America’s favorite rifle. Please, do the world a favor.