Vivek on Israel: That’s Not a Question for Later. That’s a Question for Now
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has given clear direction as to how to approach this disaster in the Middle East, offering an encouragingly nuanced approach to his rhetoric. At the New Hampshire GOP First in the Nation Leadership Summit, he remained consistent with what he had said on Tucker Carlson’s show earlier in the week.
Of course, since the tragedy took place he has been under attack for daring to offer such non-tribal insight into the Israel-Hamas War, instead of just “leveling the place,” as Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was suggesting. Graham’s words are all an appeal to emotion to get patriots and their sense of duty riled up to go defend the innocents of Israel. What they forget and Graham ignores is the innocents of other places too–including us, the American people. We know where that money goes, Lindsey Graham.
To bolster the warmongers’ bloodlust, Mockingbird media has been working to discredit any voice of dissent, any voice of reason in this case, just as it always has. Ramaswamy was forced to defend what he actually said:
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy lashed out Thursday against a report about his remarks on Israel from his Monday interview with Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson.
“This is vile,” Ramaswamy wrote on Twitter. “There’s plenty of actual anti-Semitism in the world, as has been made painfully clear with Hamas’ murderous assault on Jews & the reaction by their apologists, whether it’s @blmchi or @harvard student groups.”
This is vile. There’s plenty of actual anti-Semitism in the world, as has been made painfully clear with Hamas’ murderous assault on Jews & the reaction by their apologists, whether it’s @blmchi or @harvard student groups. Anti-Semitism is morally outrageous. For this pathetic… https://t.co/gFReB6S4el
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) October 12, 2023
The response was to an article by the Washington Free Beacon titled “Ramaswamy Says GOP ‘Selective Moral Outrage’ on Israel Driven By Money, Lobbying Groups.” The Free Beacon’s piece extracts quotes from Ramaswamy’s interview with Carlson questioning the GOP’s apparent lack of outrage on other international issues, like the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as drug trafficking across the southern border.
“Anti-Semitism is morally outrageous,” Ramaswamy continued. “For this pathetic ‘journalist’ to suggest I believe otherwise and then pull quotes out of context from my discussions with @TuckerCarlson about Armenia & Ukraine is an outrageous, offensive lie.”
This is nothing new as Americans are well aware that Mockingbird strawmans their political opponents just for kicks. Case in point, Donald Trump. The problem is that people know it intellectually, because of the times they’ve looked back on similar issues, but still too many don’t connect the dots when these issues are actually happening. It is precisely the reason I have chosen to write the arguments I’ve written this week, even though there are so many other thoughts I could have explored, including yes, my boiling anger toward evil terrorists:
To the American Government: Get Out of Israel’s Way
The Lie is Happening Now. Let’s Not Wait (Yet Again) to Look Back to See It
You Pose Some Good Questions, Senator, But We the People Will Be Watching
So Ramaswamy believes in nuance as well. Hm. Maybe now, as some RVIVR writers have already been suggesting, there is an emerging new “case in point” to join the likes of (I hope) President Donald Trump and Senator Rand Paul.
What Were Vivek’s Remarks That Were So Bad?
Critical thinking is a good thing. Not hopping to one side of the tribal divide because of politics and money is a good thing. Pausing before we lash out based on emotion is a good thing–something we learn in elementary school, or are supposed to. It is a topic Tucker and Vivek discussed early this past week. We know that Israel was attacked, but how could that have even happened? It is an eerily similar question to what truth-seekers have been investigating for 22 years since 9/11, a catastrophic event that Vivek also claims is suspicious.
Said Vivek on Tucker:
“There’s one element of this that no one is talking about. What the hell went wrong with U.S. and Israeli intelligence and Israeli defense that allowed this to happen? Everybody seems to be punting that as a question for later. I think it’s a question for now. Get to the bottom of what allowed this gaping hole in intelligence and defense that even allowed this to happen before feeding that beast. If a doctor told you his job was to keep you from getting cancer and you got cancer, don’t trust that same doctor to remove your tumor. Those answers have to come now. That’s not a question for later.”
Of course, this is intelligent and valid questioning from–forget presidential candidate–a concerned US citizen. It is a conversation we should all take part in. Given the fact that truth-tellers and question-askers who have been over the target in recent years have typically been witch-hunted and discredited by the insidious government-media apparatus, Vivek’s concern should alert every American patriot to one of many pieces of circumstantial evidence in this case, to the possibility that there is much more to this story (on the Israeli government’s side) than meets the eye. Americans should, at the very least, consider it.
For instance, one cause for concern is this: Egypt alleges a report claiming that Israel ignored its repeated attempts to warn them of something “big” coming from Hamas. From The Times of Israel:
Mounting questions over Israel’s massive intelligence failure to anticipate and prepare for a surprise Hamas assault were compounded Monday when an Egyptian intelligence official said that Jerusalem had ignored repeated warnings that the Gaza-based terror group was planning “something big” — which included an apparent direct notice from Cairo’s intelligence minister to the prime minister.
The Egyptian official said Egypt, which often serves as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, had spoken repeatedly with the Israelis about “something big,” without elaborating….
“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the content of sensitive intelligence discussions with the media, told The Associated Press.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied the claim and called it “fake news.” Israel, in opposition to the Egyptian official, claims this, reported by Reuters:
Israel concedes it was caught off guard by an attack timed to coincide with the Jewish Sabbath and a religious holiday. Hamas fighters stormed into Israeli towns, killing 700 Israelis and abducting dozens. Israel has killed more than 400 Palestinians in its retaliation on Gaza since then.
“This is our 9/11,” said Major Nir Dinar, spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Forces. “They got us.”
“They surprised us and they came fast from many spots–both from the air and the ground and the sea.”
If this indeed was Israel’s 9/11, does that include, in addition to the initial “surprise” attack, the propaganda, the lies, the twenty years of a useless traipse through Afghanistan as well? What really is the fake news here–because someone is lying. Vivek Ramaswamy is not the only frontline political figure raising questions about 9/11 (see Trump again), and now he is raising them about 10/7 and Israel as well. If somehow these Egyptian reports could be known for sure, when combined with Ramaswamy’s question, it could strongly suggest what so many of us suspect already, which is likely why Ramaswamy is raising the question in the first place. He probably knows the answer, and maybe so do we.
Here is the full video.
May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
