I have for Greta Thunberg that warm feeling of gratitude I reserve for people who vindicate my ideas.
The idea relevant to my theme today is that all those rebels in search of a cause don’t really care all that much about the cause, once they’ve found it. The cause is strictly secondary to their primary motive: hatred of Western civilisation.
They don’t care what weapon they use to strike at their bogeyman, as long as they do strike at it. Otherwise, it’s hard to find a logical link between climate change and Hamas, and yet it’s a safe bet that whoever fights against the former also fights for the latter.
Proceeding, as I often do, from language, I marvel at the ease with which zealots have replaced ‘global warming’ with ‘climate change’. That strikes me as a shift from being misguided to being deranged.
The misguided part is believing that our cars and aerosol sprays have made the climate warmer that it has ever been. I never tire of suggesting to anyone holding that view that he read Ian Plimer’s book Heaven and Earth, in which that prominent climatologist debunks that myth thoroughly, stacks of research data in hand.
However, campaigning against global warming may be put down simply to ignorance, not knowing the relevant facts. Campaigning against climate change, on the other hand, is so illogical that one can be forgiven for doubting the campaigners’ mental health.
Simple logic suggests that climate can change by becoming not just warmer, but also cooler. Hence, climate change zealots are in fact demanding that climate remain constant for ever, which is a demonstrable impossibility both logically and historically.
No one is so ignorant and stupid that he’d fail to realise this. And yet thousands of fanatics demand that Western governments duplicate a miracle so far only in God’s purview: “Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon…”.
That alone is enough to vindicate the idea that these people don’t really care whether or not the sun can stand still and keep its activity constant, which is one precondition for an unchanging climate. They simply use their zealotry to undermine the West in every way they can.
Without doing an extensive study, I am therefore sure that the same people who go on net-zero marches must also hate Israel, the sole oasis of the West in a desert of barbarism. That’s why they are eager to support any organisation, no matter how hideous, that works towards the destruction of that objectionable land. “Save our planet” and “From the river to the sea” are complementary slogans.
This brings me to Greta Thunberg, who has now blossomed from an evil child into an evil young woman. A vague, beatific smile of insanity never leaves Greta’s face, whereas one fails to see any sign of intelligence there.
Her deficit in that faculty explains why she doesn’t even bother to conceal her true motives. While haranguing against climate change, Greta honestly says that what bothers her isn’t just polluting industry that’s frying ‘our planet’, but especially the profits that industrialists make in the process.
Having dropped out of the news for a while, she has now barged back in to support the cause of Hamas, freedom fighters fighting gallantly against Greta’s pet hatred, Israel.
This time she ran a Gaza-bound boat carrying “symbolic” amounts of aid in defiance of Israel’s naval blockade. The blockade has been in place to stop the flow of arms into Gaza, in the hope of saving some Israeli lives.
The boat was flying a British flag, which stands to reason because it had been arranged by a London-based Hamas operative, Zaher Birawi.
The amount of aid was indeed symbolic, meaning negligible. But aid wasn’t the point, was it? The point was to create more pro-Hamas, anti-Israel noise, drumming up even more international support for the murderers.
On Sunday, IDF boarded and seized the Hamas boat, arresting Greta and her 11 accomplices. The Israelis’ plan was to deport the fanatics, but not before making them watch an “uncensored” 43-minute video of what the Times of Israel called “people being massacred and bodies mutilated during the onslaught.”
That was an understated way of putting it, but I’ll spare you the graphic description of the horrors perpetrated by Hamas on babies, children, women, old people and anyone they could get their hands on. These are in the public domain, and the sturdier people among you are welcome to satisfy their curiosity.
It has to be said that the Israelis didn’t invent the video punishment they planned for Greta and her gang of Hamas admirers. This honour belongs to the US occupation administration in Germany, 1945.
Surviving Nazis were forced to watch the footage of Auschwitz and other death camps, complete with skeletal bodies, piles of corpses and gas chambers. The idea was both punitive and rehabilitating: the Nazis were supposed to undergo some sort of moral catharsis.
I don’t know if the ploy worked on them, but it certainly didn’t work on Greta and her pals. They simply refused to watch the video, and again the Israelis displayed uncharacteristic softness by allowing the zealots to get away with it. I would have forced them to watch, not that I think that would have had the slightest effect.
As it was, Thunberg and six of her accomplices were put on a plane in Tel Aviv and deported to France, where I happen to be at the moment. I only hope she won’t linger around here for too long — to paraphrase an English judge of old, the air of France is too pure for the likes of her to breathe.
Incidentally, Thunberg had to agree to be deported, which five of her accomplices refused to do. All of them are French citizens, and France now has a judiciary fight on her hands.
These anomic savages are fortunate that Israel is indeed a Western, which is to say civilised, country ruled by law. A less benign government would have clapped them in a hellhole of a prison and thrown away the key. Oh well, the rule of law isn’t without its downside.
I do not know what begets this hatred of the West, but these zealots need to stop and think. They want to destroy western civilization. Why? What will replace it? If some non-western system is better, why do so many people from those countries flock to the West, risking life and limb to do so? Activism is just a hobby for the rich and bored. A father of five, working two jobs to support his family is far less concerned with how his electricity is generated than he is with the price of a gallon of gas or milk.
I don’t think these people rationally weigh pros and cons. They are slaves to their ideology and, unlike religious faith, ideologies are immune to reason.
The convergence (if there was ever a difference) between the Far Left and the Far Right is exemplified by the fact that Greta Thunberg’s opinions are increasingly difficult to distinguish from Adolf Hitler’s. She’s not quite there yet, but she’s about fifteen years younger than Hitler was when he completed Mein Kampf. Will she come to her senses or will she go on to publish Min Kamp?
Meanwhile, the British Government has “sanctioned” two Israeli Government Ministers for telling the truth about the “Palestinians” of Gaza, viz., that the “Palestinians” wouldn’t be there if they didn’t hate Jews, that it isn’t the Israelis’ fault if the Jew-haters have brought their wives and children with them, and that the besieged have no responsibility to feed their besiegers.
P. S. Here in Lincolnshire (a place which resembles Brian C’s Orange County in being less unpleasant to live in than adjacent counties), a spell of cool weather has been followed by a spell of warm weather, as a result of a change in the prevailing winds from Northerly to Southerly. I look forward to reading the BBC’s usual headlines about how this has been the hottest weather on any planet in the Universe since time began.
As is the case with Brian C’s Orange County, I envy you your Lincolnshire. Not so much for its being nicer than adjacent counties as for its housing one of my favorite cathedrals, THE favorite one in England.