By Eric Georgatos

J.D. Vance’s now infamous post-election X post, in which he blamed the mid-term election results on the not-yet-concluded war with Iran, included also his prescription for how to win back voters in the future, which in turn very pointedly stated that the US must ‘change our relationship with Israel’.

Anyone not brain dead can sense in this statement Vance’s ‘simpatico’ alliance with his pal Tucker Carlson, who has become hysterical and irrational in his appraisal of Jews as the source of all problems in the world.

So…about that reference to outrunning your headlights. It’s an expression borrowed from the engineering world, where teams of engineers are often tasked with coming up with technological breakthroughs to enable a new product or service to actually work. But under pressure to deliver the ‘impossible’, they need to guard against leaping to conclusions too soon—else they may miss the very step that will enable success. They outrun their headlights as to what they actually know and understand, and end up wandering around in an analytical darkness they can’t navigate through.

As applied to J.D. Vance, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Thomas Massie, and many others who have led the charge into blaming Israel for all evil in the world, guarding against outrunning your headlights means this: be absolutely certain that before you make or pronounce any judgment about Israel, that you in fact have and can demonstrate an A+ level understanding of Islam.

The reason this matters is that Israel’s stances on a multitude of issues including Iran are based on decades of relentless attacks on Israel by Islam in the form of Hamas, Hezbollah and in the form of their Muslim-controlled neighbors in the Middle East, and over a thousand years of Islamic brutality against the Jewish people all over the world.

It’s not enough to respond with glib, sweeping surface level statements like the First Amendment means America must unquestioningly honor Islamic law, sharia, or that sharia seems pretty cool, and Muslim majority countries seem pretty solid and upright in their culture. Prove you have studied and understand the 14 centuries of violent conquest Islamic behavior; that you understand Islamic commands to kill Jews and infidels and bring the world under the rule of an Islamic caliphate; that you actually know what has happened to the Jewish population in all countries taken over by Islam; that you know what Islam teaches about women’s rights, ‘FGM’, honor killing, apostasy and blasphemy; that you fully understand what Islamic imams in America are stating about their goals to take over America and replace the Constitution with sharia. Prove that you have read and understand this “Primer on Islam in America”.

If you’ve taken all these steps, you’ll be much closer to an A+ understanding of Islam. You’ll still be free to believe ‘changing our relationship with Israel’ is a key to winning future elections, but you’ll be able to explain your position in ways that give your listeners a sense that you actually have a grounded, balanced understanding of what is happening in the world today.

Because here’s the reality: no country in the world, including Israel and the United States of America, is run by perfect people who never engage in wrongdoing of any kind especially in an effort to protect their people and advance what they believe is in their country’s best interests. And when the evidence shows they have indulged in imperfect behaviors—and especially when doing so may have harmed the interests of others—it’s right and fair (and needed) to call them out for it. Nothing in this post should be taken to imply otherwise.

But in the larger context of history, throughout the 1,400 years of Islamic conquest and barbarism against Jews including by Muhammad himself, Jews have learned that devout followers of Islam are compelled to kill, convert or subjugate the “infidels” meaning all non-Muslims but especially the Jews. There is no such corresponding teaching in Judaism or in Christianity.

To the contrary, Judaism establishes a culture derived from the Ten Commandments. Those commandments include bans on murder, adultery, stealing, lying and coveting. That’s going to produce, over time though not without hiccups, a healthy culture. (It’s basically America’s culture.) And in practice over the last 250 years, Judaism has generally sought to be left alone, as opposed to conquering its neighbors. It simply doesn’t want to be driven ‘from the river to the sea’ and be wiped out forever by Muslims in the form of Hamas, Hezbollah or the violent “Free Gaza” movement.

In devastatingly stark contrast is the culture produced by Islam. What other culture is engaged in a still ongoing 1,400 year conquest mission to bring the world into submission to it? What other faith produced the plan to engage in relentless “civilization jihad” against America for the purpose of conquering America for Islam, as the Muslim Brotherhood wrote and endorsed in 1991? What sort of culture do you expect to emerge from an ideology that promises murderous jihadists an afterlife of 72 virgins in ‘heaven’? Former President John Quincy Adams warned nearly 200 years ago that Islamic teaching would ‘prolong the degeneracy of man’.

So, J.D.—go forward with your vision of a healthy and prosperous America, and say whatever you want to say about Israel. But don’t outrun your headlights. Make sure you really understand Islam and its record, teachings and history before making final judgments about foreign or domestic policy.

Eric Georgatos

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Originally published at America, Can We Talk?