{"id":1814,"date":"2026-10-08T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:38:31","slug":"october-7th-three-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/october-7th-three-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"October 7th&mdash;Three Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded an introduction to a video posted by Ben Shapiro that perfectly distills the civilisational crisis captured in the movement surrounding the symbol of the Palestinian &#8220;struggle.&#8221; All the movements waving this flag from Gaza, to the riots in Paris, to the radical LGTQIA2+&#8230;, BLM, and even Queers for Palestine (but do not try being a queer <em>in<\/em> Palestine for they will throw you off the nearest roof), share the common desire to destroy the West and its civilisation. The issue of the day whether it is free Palestine, climate change, datacenters, racism, the Cornell 7, is never <em>the<\/em> issue, <em>the\u00a0<\/em>issue is the revolutionary action that flows from the individual issues that is the desired outcome. The sweeping away of all moral and political restraints, of logic and reason embedded in Western civlisation, to justify revolutionary violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oct-7th-3-years later\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y2fS3XGYvwg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Find Ben Shapiro&#8217;s show at:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-ben-shapiro-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded an introduction to a video posted by Ben Shapiro that perfectly distills the civilisational crisis captured in the movement surrounding the symbol of the Palestinian &#8220;struggle.&#8221; All the movements waving this flag from Gaza, to the riots in Paris, to the radical LGTQIA2+&#8230;, BLM, and even Queers for Palestine (but do not try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,232],"tags":[279,278,386],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-culture-politics","category-jewish-christian-relations","category-news","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}