As usual, Blumenthal has it wrong: Blumenthal, CT religious leaders call for more funding for security
In trying to appear even-handed, he betrays his hate. I don't think anyone is really concerned about attacks on mosques or muslims (the shooting in Burlington is reprehensible, but no evidence of a pattern), the doors of muslim students are not being tagged, nor do we hear about bomb threats on mosques, or pro-genocide professors being mobbed by Jews.
He wants to give $9.6 billion in aid to Gaza. The billions given so far have built an army intent on the destruction in Israel. We didn't start helping to rebuild Germany or Japan until the threats emanating therefrom were eliminated. At this point, the elimination of the threat from Gaza should be our only concern.
He laments hate speech, but ignores its source. And he somehow thinks that it is the government that is supposed to provide the security for religious institutions.
Hate is human. To hate is not prohibited. Hate speech is as protected as love-speech.
What fuels the hate is the big lie that is underneath it all, and our toleration of it, and its dissemination by the likes of Senator Blumenthal, too many of our university professors and faculties, and the main stream media.
So Blumenthal says we need more money. Instead, we need truth. Don't lament our death if you are not willing to speak clearly against its cause, things like:
- hatred for and resentment of the Jew (especially the version advanced by much of the Islamic world),
- the simplification of everything into an oppressor/oppressed narrative where the Jew is always the oppressor, even though there are only 15.2 million Jews in the world (still down from the 16.7 million in the world before World War II) to the 1.9 billion muslims,
- the tolerance of terms like “apartheid state” and “open-air prison,”
- the idea that there is a “partner for peace” apparent anywhere on the side of the revolting arabs attacking Israel,
- our lamentable faculties of education, indoctrinating rather than educating or challenging
The best way the government, and Blumenthal's government can protect us is screaming the truth, distancing itself from the haters and truth-deniers in Congress (maybe Tlaib and Omar should go the way of Santos).
The other thing that he could do is empower us to defend ourselves. Instead of trying again and again to restrict our right to carry arms, he should instead make access to military grade weapons available to our synagogue security services, or just those who'd like to defend themselves, like our university students and threatened faculty.
Monsters are not deterred by our protestations of peaceful intent. They may be deterred by our power and willingness to use it with extreme prejudice when they attack.