Déjà Vu All Over Again
The spring protest season has bloomed as Palestinian and Hamas cheerleaders protest mainly on East and West Coast college campuses. Cow state campuses, so far, are apparently safe.
Taking a page from the Viet Nam war protest playbook during the late 1960s, the usual chants, slogans, pantomimes, and sit-ins predominate. These mini-melodramas provide high entertainment at least as hilarious as a Madonna concert when she was in her prime.
What have we learned? Well, it seems that the ardent peacemakers mostly mimic versions of the old and trite chant “Hey Hey Ho Ho [fill in a name] has got to go”. More than 50 years after the Viet Nam war ended and now with tuition pushing $90,000 a year at some colleges, you would think that someone who endured such an expensive education (or indoctrination?) would have the imagination to think of a new and catchy rally cry.
Even “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” sounds more like a short form geography lesson than a slogan to inspire social justice jihadis to do whatever their addled brains think should be done. Palestine! Free! or something like that.
It was a visual feast to watch the police at Columbia University surround the protesters, and the media surround the police. By early morning fewer casualties were reported according to reliable sources than casualties from the recent Superbowl tailgate party.
The most entertaining scene at Columbia of the recent evacuation from a building taken over by protesters was fat cops trying to crawl through a second story window to reclaim the university’s property from flag waving usurpers.
What solution have protesters with the ageless wisdom of 20 something students offered except hoary shibboleths about peace, goodwill, reconciliation, and the right to return. O come all ye faithful. Jews excluded.
Meanwhile our President, his eyes glued to the latest election polls, offers nothing but focus group tested verbal tripe spiced with solemn phoniness and faux outage about the need to respect whatever should be respected.
Dare to say, there might be a start to a final solution to the millennia of bloodshed that has flowed between the river and the sea, when the mothers and grandmothers, both Israeli and Palestinian, stand up to say that they are sick and tired of burying their children and grandchildren.