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Life is messy

 
People admire a painting by Jackson Pollock at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (Photo: Shutterstock)

LIfe is messy. Sex is messy and so is childbirth, and raising adolescents is messy too. And there are people who are messy and yet with hearts of gold, loyal friends to the end, while others impeccable and slick, quick to betray at the moment of crisis. 

No, life is not art placed neatly within a perfect golden frame. But there are those naive dreamers that would have it so. They promote such ideas as communism as the model for a happy and equitable humanity, ignoring the fact that generations living under that ideology have suffered only poverty and loss of all freedom, while being killed by the millions under Soviet and Chinese regimes. It is a failed experiment.

Those same ideologues would have only nice clean wars, demand perfectly equal use of firepower between opposing parties, with no possibility of civilian casualties. But war is messy too. And they forget that the evils of Nazi Germany and Japan were brought to an end only by massive and overwhelming firepower and unconditional surrender, which in turn brought peace and friendship with those nations.

Those same critics and judges today condemn the tiny nation of Israel, formed from the devastation of the Nazi Holocaust, for using military force in defending its population against openly genocidal enemies who attack it. Those same critics even go so far as reversing reality, falsely accusing Israel of ''genocide". Whereas the surrounding Muslim nations in coalition have regularly attempted to annihilate Israel since its inception in 1948, failing each time, even to this day. They even go further by accusing Israel of apartheid and racism, even though a quarter of its equal citizens are Arabs and other non-Jews, whereas Jews are entirely forbidden from residing in any Arab area.

The world media daily dispenses propaganda to the world, often reporting figures as facts obtained from such terrorist organizations as Hamas. This inverted reality has fanned the flames of antisemitism around the world, again endangering Jews even in England and America. And the one tiny Jewish nation, among around fifty Islamic nations, is made out to be an illegitimate and rogue pariah. And now Iran, the modern iteration of Nazi Germany, with the same evil intentions, is left to perhaps regroup and rebuild by the islamic tactic of takyyah.

But life is indeed messy, and so Israel will have to go on trusting in its one Secret Weapon.

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