Zones of Hatred?

[Kracheh, 10/10/23]

Only men drink at the bus station cafe. Again, I’m the only non regular, but it’s OK. Next to me is a regal old man in a well-tailored white shirt without collar and black pants, both neatly ironed. Hearing a joke from the next table, he laughs.

Again, I see that fat, complacent dog. Leisurely licking his glans, he suddenly pauses, as if arrested by some distant memory. Even from a distance, I can detect his dreamy smile. It’s incorrect, however, to conclude I identify with this happy creature. To say that I envy him, though, is slander. I have my Zionist lawyer on speed dial.

This week, I was lovingly featured by Mark Ashwill in a CounterPunch article, “A Vietnamese American Poet’s Slide Down the Slippery Slope of Hatred.” Over 2,969 words, Ashwill uses “hate,” “hater” or “hatred” 20 times. Without engaging with my ideas, he simply convicts me of hatred, including self-hatred, so Ashwill is not just a political commentator, but shrink.

Ashwill also attributes to me “Jewy government and media,” “Jewy media spin,” “Jewy press,” and “Jew jabs,” but I have never used “Jewy,” so right there, he’s inaccurate, if not lying. “Jewjab” I’m proud to have coined, but as one word. As for my readers, they’re “wing nuts and other assorted loonies.” “I wonder if he hears voices, too?” Ashwill asks.

Ashwill begins his article by quoting that shameless fabulist, Elie Wiesel, “Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone—and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.” Ashwill ends it with this statement of disgust, “Now excuse me while I take a spiritual shower and cleanse my mind of this ideological dreck.”

You challenge someone’s ideology by dismantling him, not by misquoting or name calling. The only task of criticism is to enlighten, not praise or condemn. This basic rule applies to everything, a book, painting, character, nation or face, whatever.

With amusement, I told Henry Herskovitz about Ashwill’s article. Ruefully, I did add, “Unlike you, I still don’t have a page at the Anti Defamation League. I’m still in the minor league!”

With typical insight, Herskovitz points out that Ashwill has lumped “hatred of Jews and Blacks together, implying it’s a hatred of skin color or religion. Not behavior.” That’s a crucial distinction.

In a second email, Herskovitz adds:

“reporters” from Palestine fall over themselves not to mention the J word

They learn from the fraud Ali Abunimah: 

“No matter how much Zionism does in its effort to blacken the name of Judaism, NEVER fall for its trick and blame Jews for Israel’s crimes...”

Until a decade ago, I published at CounterPunch. I didn’t know it was a limited hangout. My first inkling that CounterPunch wasn’t quite kosher was its persistent derision of any questioning of the farcical 9/11 fable. I also found odd its defense of Pussy Riot desecrating a church.

With Ashwill’s article, I revisited CounterPunch this week, to find it even more degraded. In Monika Zgustova’s “Tell Me Who You Hang Out With,” I noticed numerous lies. She attributes to Kim Jong-Un this statement, “Everything for the sacred war against Ukraine,” when he actually said, “Everything for the sacred war against the evil West.” Like Ashwill, Zgustova plays loose with quotations.

Of Cambodia’s Hun Sen, she says he “had helped organize the Khmer Rouge,” when Hun Sen, a mere battalion commander at age 25, had defected from the Khmer Rouge in 1977. Fighting with Vietnamese troops, Hun Sen helped to end the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal rule.

Of Bashar Al Assad, she charges he has plunged Syria “into a particularly virulent civil war in which he didn’t hesitate to use chemical weapons.” Just like Saddam Hussein, eh?

It’s evil Israel and its abject lackey, Uncle Sam, who are behind the war in Syria, and the cause of Syrian refugees spilling into Lebanon and Europe. Before this, Syria welcomed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, fleeing their own Jewish orchestrated destruction and mayhem.

Putin, Zgustova characterizes as “a pariah on the world stage and a wanted man by the International Criminal Court,” with his belated reaction against NATO’s encroachment a “war of destruction against a neighboring country.” Never mind all those countries seeking to join Russia and China in BRICS.

At least Zgustova is not as cartoonish as the recently fired Sarah Ashton-Cirillo:

Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths will foam in an uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist pay for their crimes, and this puppet of Putin is only the first. Russia's war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down, and justice will be served as we in Ukraine are led on this mission by faith in God, liberty and complete liberation.

They’re on the same level, though, with their analytical astuteness and grasp of history.

With its support for Jewish wars, CounterPunch must only appeal to those thoroughly brainwashed by a Jewjewed education and/or media. Ashwill can certainly quote me on that.

I finish this in Phum Cafe. It’s not even 9AM. On Friday, I will likely go outside Kracheh to stay at a private home for two days. This man is Christian. On the back of his tuk-tuk, it says, “JESUS MOBILE.”

On YouTube, there’s a video of an American being harassed by Israeli cops for preaching in public. Jumping in, an Israeli bystander explained that as idol worshippers, Christians should be killed.

American, “If you’re not involved, please go. Shalom, my friend, we bless you.”

Snarling Israeli, “You’re in my country.”

“You come to the United States, you can say whatever you want to say. That is the Free World, yes?”

“You’re not in the United States, you’re in Israel. You can’t say whatever you want here.”

After some back and forth, the exasperated American said, “Do you want to honor God? That is the Godly thing to do, we respect one another.”

Israeli, “The Godly thing to do is to kill you.”

“The Godly thing to do is to kill me?”

“That’s right. That’s what the Torah says.”

“The Torah says to kill us?”

“That’s right. The Torah says that people who worship idols, such as yourself, when there’s a Sandherin…”

“To kill us?”

“Yes, that’s what the Torah says.”

Christians have been spat on and attacked in Israel for decades, with American Rachel Corrie murdered with a bulldozer. As for Palestinians, they’ve been dispossessed, tortured and massacred in outrageous number with impunity.

To notice any of this is the opposite of hatred. Simple human decency demands our outrage at Jewish crimes.

Jewish thinking is a righteous zone of hatred.

Elie Wiesel, “Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate—healthy, virile hate—for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.”

People who oppose Jewish crimes are often branded Nazis. Sustained by a hateful ideology, they see hatred everywhere but in the mirror.

It’s 9:30AM, so time for a late breakfast overlooking the Mekong. Into the sunshine, I will walk. Daily in Southeast Asia, I’m surrounded by calm, sensible adults and playful children, often laughing. Of course, there are problems here, and abuses of the weak, but there is none of that agitation, rancor and hatred that have overtaken much of the West.

At dusk, I will again sit by the Mekong to watch kids playing soccer without a ball. Kicking their own flipflops, they’ll have a great time. There will be shrieks, but only in mirth. At my back, a red sun sinks in the west.

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