Ilana Mercer on the "seething snake pit that is Gaza"

In 2005, with great enthusiasm from the Israeli Left, Gaza was given over to the dogs of war, Hamas and their avid constituents.  Despite the fertile, coastal land they were handed, the precious ground water they sit on, and generous international assistance, the place soon went to the dogs.  Egypt, Jordan and Israel are all terrified to open their borders to the seething snake pit that is Gaza.

It matters not whether you think the cauldron of cruelty that is Gaza created its inhabitants or whether it’s the obverse.  The reality is that every nation in the region fears the Gazans.  Nobody in the region wants immigrants from Gaza...

~ Ilana Mercer, "Hamas, Israel and the Anatomy of State Treason," The Unz Review, October 12, 2023

Ilana Mercer on smashing traditions: Mao's China vs. Biden's America

Core curriculum and Western classical texts have been all but purged from American schools.  In China, the number of “classical texts to be taught in schools has increased from 14 to 72.”

[...]

In 1949, during “the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese to smash anything old.”  À la Antifa, “Gangs of Red Guards swarmed Qufu, Confucius’s hometown, and blew up his tomb.”  Americans have arrived at that point.  They are purging their foundational teachings and obliterating memorials and mementos to their spiritual fathers.  Been there; done that, say the Chinese.

~ Ilana Mercer, "CNN’s Sinophobic Expert Is Clueless: China Is Reactionary, Returning to Confucianism; Not Communism," The Unz Review, December 16, 2021