As we see these spoiled, entitled brat adults on college campuses playing Jihad for Justice, it occurred to me to do a quick search on the Internet to see if I was missing something. What was the thing I wanted to see if I was missing? What the major contribution to our species is from Palestinians.
It sounds odd because it is odd. It’s never occurred to me before to search for inventions from any group of people, mostly because I didn’t care. People are people, if someone of a different race or ethnicity came up with something, I didn’t spend any time thinking about it as a contribution to humanity by anything other than fellow humans.
It’s something that the Democratic Party and the world-wide progressive movement has made controversial – a color blind society.
But it was more than that, I not only didn’t look for skin color on things, I didn’t care. Still don’t.
You can’t miss it, obviously, because we have eyes, but who gives a damn about it? Leftists, that’s who.
They care deeply about it, and obsess about it the way a junkie thinks about whatever they’re addicted to. They are addicted to victimization and hate, and separating people is the easiest way to get what they want and to distract people from them doing it.
They march and chant for the people of Gaza as though they are the most oppressed humans on the planet, not people who, when they had the chance at self-determination went and elected terrorists who immediately took away their right to vote. They didn’t seem to be bothered, never having risen up against Hamas or even really given them anywhere near a majority of disapproval in any polls ever conducted.
When no water treatment plants were constructed by the Hamas “government” over the nearly 20 years they had control, but hundreds of miles of terrorist tunnels and an untold fortune was spent on rockets to randomly launch toward Israel, no one seemed to mind. A little weird, isn’t it?
That’s not to mention the lack of food production or anything a normal government would do to make its population self-sustaining and you might think empowering terrorists was not the brilliant idea people living in tents drum circle it to be.
So, I wondered what contributions to human existence came out of Gaza and the West Bank. Sure, it had to be some great, important things to make a people so worthy of uprooting everything in life over.
It turns out, there are reasons literally no Arab country in the world will take any Palestinian refugees, and it’s not that they’re all bigoted against them. Turns out, they don’t make the best guests.
Much like Ilhan Omar’s feeling of entitlement after the US was kind enough to rescue her from her own country, she favors the people oppressing her over those who saved her from them. The people of Gaza love Hamas. No matter how many are used as human shields, they prefer their oppressor. It’s hard to care about someone complaining about a headache when you’re watching them hit themselves in the head with a frying pan.
So, like I said, I looked up Palestinian inventions. Billions of dollars have poured into the hands of their leadership, it couldn’t have all been stolen, right? Sure, Arafat’s daughter is a literal billionaire living in Europe off what daddy, um, “earned” by walking away from an independent state, and the current leadership of Hamas is living in Qatar like platinum selling rappers, but surely some made it to the people and fostered innovation, right?
Not so much.
Granted, I didn’t conduct an exhaustive search, just a quick one. But the left-wing Wikipedia tells me there isn’t a while bunch. I hope you were sitting down for that, shocking as it must be.
Fully 10 of the 17 things listed under “Palestinian Inventions” are weapons, mostly various forms of rockets. The rest? No cures or treatments for diseases, no technological advancements, just a cheese, a soap (which the protesting mutants could use), a chicken dish, embroidery, a spice and the Arafat Head Doily. That’s it.
Maybe all that energy, good will and money – lots and lots of money – would have been better spent in other ways than terrorism. Maybe the time of these college mutants would be better spent extolling the virtues of freedom and responsibility rather than terrorism and victimhood. Crazy, I know, but when something is shown to not work, or to be destructive, smart people usually try something else. Then again, there’s the high probability that no one protesting is actually a smart person.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.