I don't know why Lefties cannot adopt my reasonable, "nuanced" (a Jewish friend's characterization) stance on This Israel, viz, Netanyahoo has committed genocide and war crimes; no Palestinian state; end all Toilet Nation funding and arming of This Israel; intervene only to save This Israel from extermination. See? Simple lol.
It is pathognomonic of Toilet Nation politics that once one moves off dead center and leans either left or right, the lean sometimes leads to complete loss of balance and the turd falls with a splat onto the floor as if it were obeying Newton's law that a body in motion stays in motion. This interesting political phenomenon is captured by the maxim, "Scratch a liberal, find a communist; scratch a conservative, find a fascist."
I don't know why lawyers (my friend above and Ms. Kiros are lawyers), both those who are pro-Israel and those who are pro-Palestine, can't address their disagreements as they are trained to in an individual criminal case where the relevant facts are delimited by the four corners of the complaint; where prior bad acts evidence of the accused or the complainant for explanatory "context" is exceedingly rare; where a reductio argument is thereby prohibited and an endless trial avoided. Just the facts, ma'am.
The charging document at bar is confined to the actions of defendant Hamas on one date only, October 7, 2023.
Now, to the lawyer for defendant Hamas.
Melat Kiros was a lawyer at a New York law firm. She was fired in November, 2023 for refusing to take down her blog post that was in response to an open letter written by 100 top law firms (including her own) to the deans of elite law schools. The law firms' letter was 283 words long. Eleven of those words were enough to tip Ms. Kiros over:
"Over the last several weeks, we have been alarmed at reports of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism and assaults on college campuses, including rallies calling for the death of Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel. Such anti-Semitic activities..."
Ms. Kiros wrote a 1,999 word response, the opening paragraph of which contains the sixteen words bolded below:
"This letter rightfully rebukes the anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and bigotry of all kinds that has spiked in recent weeks, but then goes on (to my confusion) to cite “calls for the elimination of the Israeli state” as anti-Semitism."
She's confused. Ms. Kiros is confused that calls for the elimination of the only Jewish state in existence are deemed anti-Jewish.
Blink.
The entire sentence is 39 words long, leaving Ms. Kiros only 1,960 to write about...what? Second paragraph:
"Anti-semitism has fittingly been called “the longest hatred.” It has been so for thousands of years and has led to the death and suffering of millions of Jewish people around the world. To conflate such bigotry with the geo-political question of Israel’s legitimacy is one of the greatest travesties in this conflict."
I'm confused: How did we get from "elimination" to "legitimacy"? Is she using those terms synonymously? There are absolutely not synonyms, they are not even close. An "illegitimate" child is not "eliminated": euthanized, put to death, exterminated. And the other way around, to question Israel's "legitimacy" (if you would define a nation-state's "legitimacy" Congresswoman-to-be, that would be he'pful) is not ipso facto to call for its elimination. So I don't know what she's talking about.
Be that as it may, that's another 52 words. She has only 1,908 left!
This is how she begins her third paragraph:
"Take, for example, the accusation of apartheid."
OBJECTION!
Sustained.
Paragraph fo':
"There are deep, historical, and religious wounds that plague this conflict and cloud our ability to judge it clearly..."
Objection.
Sustained.
"Historic Palestine was promised by a brutalizing imperial power..."
Come sidebar.
Counsel for the defendant admonished.
"Colonialism, as we so intimately know, cannot take place without violence against its indigenous people."
Pause for contempt hearing.
"Instead of acknowledging their plight as a direct result of Israel’s occupation..."
Found in contempt of court.
"Corruption that led to the slaughter of 15,000 Palestinians, the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians, and the capture of 78% of Palestinian land in 1948."
Sentenced to seven days incarceration.
"Corruption that uses the excuse of “security concerns” to justify Israel’s apartheid..."
"Violence corrupts the soul, and it does so by breeding more violence. There has never been, in the history of the entire human race, a people whose land was violently taken from them, whose freedoms and rights were relegated to second-class citizenship, and whose very existence was systematically threatened by its occupier, who did not resist with violence in kind."
Jail sentence increased to 10 days.
"The most shameful chapters in our global history have always resulted from one group’s inability to separate another group’s identities and experiences from our shared humanity."
Huh?
"There is no justification for the attacks on Israel on October 7th, just as there is no justification for the disproportionate and collective punishment being waged on the Palestinian people by the Israeli government in retaliation, but it cannot be forgotten that violence does not occur in a vacuum."
Jury excused. Defendant Hamas asks leave of Court to make ore tenus pro se motion.
Permission granted.
Defendant Hamas avers that Melat Kiros has just "shot me in the head", argues that she is per se ineffective and asks Court to discharge Ms. Kiros, declare a mistrial and appoint new counsel.
Granted. Granted. Granted.
Judge modifies original contempt sentence to an increased 30 day minimum commitment to mental health facility.
Legitimates and Illegitimates of Denver, we give you YOUR NEXT CONGRESSWOMAN, MELAT KIROS!
