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What Should I Be Writing About Right Now?

More of Same--Something Entirely New?
Mar 31, 2025

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Dearest People:

I am editing and rewriting and agonizing over a new book of mine on another subject entirely, a rather shocking work, and one that breaks many taboos. It is a Memoir of sorts. I will say no more about it at this time. But this is the ONLY reason that I began to post some earlier articles of mine which most people have probably never read. They go back to the 1980s, 1990s, and to the early 21st century. Some seem to have been written for all time; others document themes that continue to plague our world.

One reader thought that I might be ill. Well true, I did have the worst, most wicked cold in the West--but I managed to keep editing and writing anyway.

Another reader thought that I'd "run out of juice." Did I need a break, time off, a furlough from the never ending wars?

Ah, I think about that a lot. And why? How many more times can I expose and critique the lies of the major left-liberal media? For example, this past Saturday, March 29th, 2025, the New York Times has a headline which reads: "Israel Attacks Beirut Suburb for First Time Since Truce With Hezbollah." Written by Euan Ward and Aaaron Boxerman, the opening paragraph reads: "The Israeli military launched airstrikes in the southern outskirts of Beirut on Friday for the first time since a U.S. brokered cease-fire came into effect in November....

But the second paragraph reads: "The bombardment came after rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebananese territory earlier in the day, setting off air-raid sirens in three communities near the border. The Israeli military subsequently ordered residents of the densely populated Hadath neighborhood of Dahiya...to evacuate."

Unbelievable, yes? The second paragraph should have preceded the first, yes? And the headline should have reflected the order of events, yes? And, by the way: Who fired the rockets from Lebanon? Martians? Hezbollah? Iran--the head of the Jihadi snake? The article fails to clarify this—but it does continued to blame Israel for having broken previous cease-fires.

Perhaps the fact that Israel first ordered the Lebanese residents to evacuate before they retaliated might have been made headlines, or at least a pull quote, yes?

And the photos--five column's worth of Lebanese "rescuers" amid the rubble and a smaller, three paragraph photo of smoke rising somewhere in southern Lebanon.

Who is paying for such propaganda? Who is writing it--but not for money, just because they believe this is the best way to represent the approved anti-Israel narrative?

I've been writing about such anti-Jewish propaganda since 2001-2002; I may have already written at least fifty articles or more just about the New York Times. It has changed nothing. Well, one does not always write to change something; one also writes because one must, and because one must share the truth with others. And, in the hope that it will strengthen others who are also doing such work.

The price for speaking out on all the subjects that have consumed me, and in which I've pioneered is very high. In the 21st century alone, I've critiqued faux-feminism, Islamic gender and religious apartheid, terrorism, Jihad, honor killings, legalized surrogacy, prostitution, pornography--and I've strongly defended Western Civilization--especially Israel. For doing so, I've lost colleagues, friends, relatives, neighbors, and lecture, publishing and funding opportunities, etc.

Would I like to retire from the front lines of the cognitive war? Whenever I consider doing so, I think of all the young Israeli soldiers who have been fighting now for at least a year and a half. How can I step back completely? Maybe I do need a break...And then I'm reminded of that Jewish saying, namely, that we are not obligated to complete a great task, but only to do what we can in our time.

And then I think of all the heroic feminists and dissidents in Iran and around the Muslim world and do not think that in good conscience, I can desert them.

What do you all think?

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