The Modern Battlefield
With apologies for offending people yesterday with my criticisms of Israeli Settlers and the Peter Thiel/Yoram Hazony National Conservative Movement, so no criticism here, but only positive news of their recent activities in defending the "supremacy of Jewish values.” So just feel-good news here: And Thiel’s sharing of those values: https://jewishinsider.com/2022/11/peter-thiel-jd-vance-blake-masters-national-conservatism/#:~:text=Thiel%2C%20who%20once%20identified%20almost,his%20name%20to%20a%20starkly "They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.” "One is Peter Thiel, the billionaire who helped fund NatCon and who had just given the conference’s opening address. Thiel has also funded things like the edgelordy and post-left–inflected New People’s Cinema film festival, which ended its weeklong run of parties and screenings in Manhattan just a few days before NatCon began. He’s long been a big donor to Republican political candidates, but in recent years Thiel has grown increasingly involved in the politics of this younger and weirder world—becoming something like a nefarious godfather or a genial rich uncle, depending on your perspective. Podcasters and art-world figures now joke about their hope to get so-called Thielbucks. His most significant recent outlays have been to two young Senate candidates who are deeply enmeshed in this scene and influenced by its intellectual currents: Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance, running for the Republican nomination in Ohio, and Blake Masters in Arizona.” (Both out of Thiel’s Private Equity conglomerate. Thiel has a long record of sharing that “supremacy of Jewish values” belief so he’s no “Johnny Come Lately,” just because of 10/7:
Silicon Valley chiefs urge Pentagon procurement overhaulOpen letter designed to apply pressure on US government to open up $886bn defence budget to start-ups |
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This doesn’t give sufficient credit to Thiel, whose “Founder’s Fund” helped get a few of these high-tech defense companies off the ground. Literally in the case of Anduril with its drones, engaged over the skies of Ukraine and Gaza/West Bank as I write this: |
"What's happening in Israel is just another instance of the same type of evil that's been going on for a very long time. And I think it reflects very poorly on our billionaire class that you're not seeing a whole of country effort to become involved and to speak up about these issues, hedging on condemnation of Hamas for fear of saying the wrong thing, either in the court of public opinion or because it hurts their business interests.”
Watch: https://lnkd.in/guDdvB_Y