Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to the plodcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. I'm glad you decided to come along.

Good to have you here. This is episode 326. All right, so what I want to talk about, I know I've touched on this before, but I want to talk a little bit about Israel and Hamas and all that.

Okay? Israel, Hamas, and all that.

So, I have seen in recent, over the last year so, a very sobering uptick of views on the

conservative right that I would regard as either anti-Semitic or suspiciously like anti-Semitism.

And so before we get into this topic of Israel and Hamas, I want to say just a word about that.

It is not anti-Semitic to wish that someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu were the prime minister of Israel.

So there are people chattering on X on Twitter

about how they don't like Netanyahoo's approach to the war

in Gaza and what he's doing and etc.

That by itself is not anti-Semitic because Netanyahu's political opponents in Israel hate him with the heat of a thousand sons and they're

not anti-Semitic, they're Jews.

So you can have a disagreements with NetN Yahoo and not be anti-Semitic.

That doesn't make you right or wrong.

That just means that it's possible to have political disagreements with the Jew without being anti-Semitic.

So if you're not a scientist, that doesn't make you anti-Semitic.

If you disagree with the policy that Israel is pursuing with regard to the

war, that doesn't make you anti-Semitic and so on. But with that said, we need a little bit of clarity on what's happening in Gaza.

There are many people who are being very vocal about the humanitarian disaster that is happening in Gaza, Israel has fought back, has invaded Gaza,

and is fighting against Hamas with the avowed purpose of eradicating Hamas. And this of course of eradicating Hamas and this of course because Gaza is densely

populated and there are a bunch of people there civilians women and children

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