JVLV: THE BANALITY OF EVIL, OTTOWA AND JERUSALEM by Jiri & Leni Friedman Valenta

One single Muslim convert has just succeeded in paralyzing the  executive and legislative branch of Canada.  The parliament building has been locked down for many hours.  A Canadian soldier has been killed.

On the same day  is another news item of concern; the car bomb killing of an American citizen and his child in Jerusalem.  That´s the city where Hannah Arendt  began crafting her seminal work, The Banality of Evil, while observing the trial of   Adolph Eichmann – an organizer of Europe´s holocaust. 

Little attention has been paid to the killing in Jerusalem.  But then, the killing of innocent Israelis has been going on for decades and worldwide through the deadly acts of the PLO, Hamas and Hezbollah. 

 Following two of the world´s great evils, Nazi-ism and Communism, Israel is, of course, is in the vanguard of the struggle against the third one, Islamic fascism.   Just as not all Germans were followers of the Nazi poison preached in Mein Kampf, however, only segments of the Muslim world  are influenced by the  radical interpretation of some  parts of the Koran. Yet the source of evil is unmistakable.   Nor are the Israelis alone in being under attack.  The time has come to understand that we, together with our traditional friends and allies, Canada, Great Britain and Australia, but also hopefully Russia, China, India and others, are facing Islamic fascism.  Moreover, this is  a brand of Islam that believes other faiths have to convert or be killed, and that women are no better than chattel. 

While the Nazi objective was to maintain a thousand year Third Reich, the Muslim fascists seek to build caliphates based on Sharia law.  We, together with our close allies, are now all facing attacks on our military personnel in retaliation for our  support of anti-ISIS and anti-Al Qaeda operations.  That’s why some other NATO members are afraid to contribute in full to our war effort.  The Islamists, with their strategy of war in the Middle East and terrorism, including converts in the homelands, have already succeeded in presenting a two pronged challenge to America and her allies.

Long, protracted war days lie ahead of us.   As long as we continue our campaign against ISIS, we are facing further attacks on our military, security personnel and ordinary citizens.  We must protect ourselves not only by re-asserting  control over our southern borders, with the present massive immigration from  Mexico and Central America, but also our Northern  borders with Canada.   We should also provide tight security aid to our at times neglected democratic ally in the North.  Recall that Canada fought with us against the Nazi and communist menaces in the past.

The survival of the democratic West is at stake as it was  during WWII and the Cold War.  We must face this challenge as we did twice before and mobilize our country spiritually, educationally and security wise. We must get on a war footing immediately, something the CIA warned about a few months before 911 and was neglected to our sorrow.  New 911-type tragedies must be prevented.  The West must stop pestering our only Democratic ally in the Middle East, Israel, by forcing her into unsavory agreements with the Islamists.  The day the Palestinian leaders acknowledge their readiness to live with the Jewish state, Israel will initiate its own two-state solution. 

As on the eve of WWII, when we faced the march of the brown colors in Europe, we must counter the  march of the black flags in the Middle East and their Fifth column in America.  We are once again approaching an intense and prolonged world struggle against a new banality of evil.  Let us not delay in embracing the challenge with courage, determination and resolve.  Past experience has shown that we cannot either elude it or avoid it.  Jvlv.net

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