The Toughest School in the World — Hard Knocks

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“Liberal regimes have always suffered from this paralyzing antinomy: Liberalism implies openness to other points of view, even those points of view whose success would destroy liberalism. Tolerance to those points of view is a prescription for suicide. Intolerance betrays the fundamental premise of liberalism, i.e. openness. Of course (may I say “of course”?), there is a sense in which the antinomy is illusory, since any robust liberalism, i.e., a liberalism buttressed by a core of conservative backbone, understands that tolerance, if it is to flourish, cannot be synonymous with capitulation to ideas that would exploit tolerance only to destroy it. The “openness” that liberal society rightly cherishes is not a vacuous openness to all points of view: it is not “value neutral.” It need not, indeed it cannot, say Yes to all comers. American democracy, for example, affords its citizens great latitude, but great latitude is not synonymous with the proposition that “anything goes.” Our society, like every society, is founded on particular positive values—the rule of law, for example, respect for the individual, religious freedom, the separation of church and state. Islam in its current configuration denies those values.”
— Roger Kimball, January 9th, 2015 (pjmedia.com)

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Ever since its War of Independence (1948), Israel has been pressured by the political Left of the world to open its borders to its neighboring political entities. The latter populations have openly stated their desire for, nay their holy mission in life to be, Israel's complete destruction, along with all the Jews in the world at large. Israel's majority are Ashkenazi Jews. They are not known for their suicidal tendencies, which is how they have survived their haters' wrath for millennia. They know something's rotten in Denmark when they see it (mixed metaphor intentional). Hence, their response to all the Left-leaning Western democracies has been an unwavering, "You first".

Predictably, the foolish Left-leaning Western democracies went first — they opened their borders to the barbarians at the gates. The result of such self-destructive policy may be summarized as The Universal Law of Easily Foreseen Consequences. One well known example of this law is commonly referred to in computing as, "Garbage in; garbage out". As applied to unimaginative immigration policy it may be termed, "Barbarians in; barbarism out".

If this pathetic Leftist saga is ever brought to film (who better than Hollywood to produce such a "blockbuster") a good title for it would be "This Time Will Be Different".

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