{"id":8829,"date":"2014-07-23T16:08:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:08:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-07-23T16:08:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:08:24","slug":"at_last_a_hashtag_for_middle_east_peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/07\/23\/at_last_a_hashtag_for_middle_east_peace\/","title":{"rendered":"At Last! A Hashtag for Middle East Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Well, ladies and gentlemen, the Israeli and Palestinian, slash, Hamas conflict has just reached a new level of seriousness with the low-information voters finally getting clued in. There is now a hashtag on Twitter. Can the end of this war be far behind? <\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends. Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone, as I am each and every day here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. As always, really just happy to be here with you. Telephone number is 800-282-2882 if you want to appear. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a hashtag. #JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies is the new hashtag, and, as such, we can expect peace to break out any moment. Now, I understand some of you, “Rush, why are you so cynical about people getting involved and showing how much they care and trying to help?” I know these are the questions that some people ask. To me those are embarrassing questions. They\u2019re embarrassing questions to have to answer. No, no. They\u2019re not embarrassing to have to answer. Well, they are in a way, but it\u2019s embarrassing that they\u2019re asked. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is what is becoming of what used to be serious thought. I mean, this hashtag is a direct product or a direct result of what has been said to be education throughout our public school system, conflict resolution 101, can\u2019t we all just get along, can\u2019t we all just be friends. At the root of it is the failure to accept and failure to believe that there are bad guys. And at the root of it is this ridiculous assumption that we\u2019re all the same, that we\u2019re all equal, that we all have equal amounts of goodness, and we all have equal amounts of badness. And if we can just get the excess of badness out of what are essentially good people then everything will be fine. <\/p>\n

So we can shame the bad people with a hashtag on Twitter. It doesn\u2019t work that way. It never has worked that way. It is a world governed by the aggressive use of force. It\u2019s not a world governed by words, doctors, clean water, speeches, or what have you. Now, I understand some people are just doing this \u2019cause they want to get in on the story. They want to be involved. But some people actually think that it\u2019s gonna matter. And that\u2019s another aspect of it, and this is understandable psychologically. Everybody\u2019s searching for meaning in their lives. The left uses that to great effect. Global warming debate, you name it. Tell people they\u2019re destroying something but they can redeem themselves with proper political ideological behavior, and bammo, you\u2019ve got instant supporters. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Speaking of, the first popularly known hashtag to resolve a conflict, of course, was the Boko Haram kidnapping of all of those girls in Nigeria. I have an update here. “In the three months since Islamic extremists kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, 11 of their parents have died, town residents say. The town where the girls were kidnapped, Chibok, is cut off by militants, who have been attacking villages in the region.”<\/p>\n

The hashtag apparently — well, they\u2019re mocking the hashtag over at Boko Haram. We had that audio sound bite from a little while<\/a> ago where the leader of Boko Haram is laughing at Goodluck Jonathan, the leader of Nigeria, and at the hashtag campaign, if you will, in general. <\/p>\n

“In the three months since Islamic extremists kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, 11 of their parents have died. … Seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies brought to the Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby village of Kautakari this month, said a health worker who insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals by the extremists. At least four more parents have died of heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses that the community blames on trauma due to the mass abduction 100 days ago,” of over 200 girls. <\/p>\n

So not only did the hashtag not get the girls back, the #BringBackOurGirls made famous by Moochelle Obama, had no effect. And now there\u2019s one for the Israeli Middle East conflict. What\u2019s appearing over there is an outrage. Again we have the unwillingness on the part of this administration, by the way, and countless others to recognize the good guys and the bad guys, an unwillingness to recognize that we have a long-standing ally. This administration seeks to blame our ally for the problem. And if you understand liberalism, it makes perfect sense why. Forget the details of the region, which just add icing on the cake. <\/line><\/p>\n

To understand this administration\u2019s lack of support for Israel all you have to do is take a look at the Middle East and try to find who a leftist would think the victims are. Because the victims are always what dominate everything. The victims are on whom and around whom policy will be based. Well, in the Middle East there is a singular power, and that is Israel. And, as such, they are the automatic “oppressors,” as liberalism looks at things. <\/p>\n

The “victims” are the poor Palestinians and Hamas,<\/a> and all they are doing is trying to protect themselves against this vicious, all-powerful, unfriendly invader known as Israel. The left will always side with the victims, and they will always try to manufacture victims. In that scenario, victims are incapable of committing acts of evil because all they\u2019re doing is defending themselves.<\/p>\n

All they\u2019re doing is responding to vicious, aggressive attacks by the evil power — the majority, if you will. In this case, it would be Israel. There\u2019s a total ignoring of what is driving this, and it is nothing more complicated than anti-Semitism, and it has been around since long before this conflict began. There is no solution in this conflict that can be found by any government policy from the United States originated by any liberal Democrat. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s simply not worldly possible, because they will not even admit what the root problem is. They will not assign Good Guy and Bad Guy status to the combatants. In both instances they\u2019re both bad guys, but the real bad guys — Hamas, the Palestinians, you name it — they get a break. They\u2019re cut some slack. “Because they\u2019re poorer and they\u2019re less educated and they\u2019re the chosen.