Congress last week voted almost unanimously not to admit any Hamas member into the United States. In a badly divided country‚ the vote harkened back to the declaration of war on Japan the day after Pearl Harbor‚ in which there was but one dissenting vote in both the House and Senate. (One can only wish that the negative votes end the political careers of Mesdames Tlaib and Bush as did the dissent of the much more principled and much more courageous Jeannette Rankin.) This is a firm indicator that in the minds of America as a whole‚ Hamas and the Axis powers are about as clearly evil as political forces can get. With Nazis‚ one does not compromise. Nothing short of complete victory can ever be enough. When America entered World War II with near unanimity‚ its narrative became united. Only months before‚ even supporters of Zionism‚ such as Senator Burton Wheeler‚ a progressive Democrat of Idaho‚ participated in an isolationist narrative‚ at one with Charles Lindbergh who was proclaiming that Hitler was “no Genghis Khan or Xerxes” whose rise spelled civilizational ruin and the coming of a new Dark Age. Even after Hitler had smashed the independence of Poland‚ Denmark‚ Norway‚ Holland‚ Belgium‚ and France‚ the “just another European war” narrative remained strong in America. Votes taken to rearm and to help Britain as she stood alone under the U-boat blockade and the Luftwaffe’s blitz passed with excruciatingly thin majorities. Pearl Harbor effectively ended the power of the Lindbergh narrative. (READ MORE from Shmuel Klatzkin: Complicit Media Wants Israel to Spare the Children) After the war‚ there was another thinning out of stories‚ a unification of the narratives that we told ourselves as Americans. In the light of the horrors of the Holocaust‚ there was widespread revulsion against the ancient storyline that had given religious cover to antisemitism in the Christian world. One could see palpably where such narratives of cosmic blameworthiness led‚ how they had infected the churches in Germany and the rest of Europe. By contrast‚ there were the examples of a better story there to choose — Dietrich Bonhoeffer‚ for example‚ or Pius XI in finally choosing to resist Nazism after first accommodating it. Later‚ John XXIII advocated for a courageous reconciliation‚ and this became manifest in Nostra Aetate and in the person of John Paul II‚ who had lived through both the Nazi and Communist horrors in Poland‚ and rejected their narratives of power and hate. What repels Americans is that the most basic story of our lives‚ the one that addresses the great questions of “Who are we?” and “What are we doing here?‚” the questions that concern the Book of Books that has been the great foundation of the West for centuries — that that basic story should be harnessed to hate. For when it is hate that defines the fundamental meaning of our lives to ourselves‚ then hate will be powered from the depths of our being. And such hate bursts through every boundary. It results in the Nazi death factories. It results in the orgy of murder‚ torture‚ and sadistic violence engaged in with such relish and delight by Hamas and its hundreds of civilian tag-along murderers and rapists on October 7. The vote of Congress ought to give the Bidenauts some pause as they try to implement their policy of forced even-handedness. They are caught in a narrative that Americans as a whole are done with‚ a story that is repulsive and disgusting‚ that can lead only to the destruction of that which is best in the Middle East for both Jew and Arab‚ and giving a second chance at victory to the people who have shown near-unanimous certification that they belong in the ranks of the worst humankind has ever produced. (READ MORE: First‚ De-Nazify Gaza) It is Barak Obama who tried to pioneer a radical revision of the shared American story. His narrative seemed smooth on the surface‚ and promising redemption in a way for which all good people yearn. Yet the more it was told and the more it was empowered‚ the more did it show itself to be unforgiving. It offered no escape from the totalitarian category of race‚ which alone would determine who was to be empowered and followed. His story thrives on the destruction of all other stories. Its claim of inclusiveness is a sham — it eradicates every other narrative except its own narrative of power. Instead of seeing our proclivity to sin as something from which we can be redeemed through love of neighbor and love of God‚ it proclaims us as hopelessly irredeemably unworthy and our morality entirely corrupt. It was in furtherance of this narrative that Obama acted and continues to act through his many proxies to destroy the natural and centuries-old connection that America has felt to Israel‚ the people and the land‚ seeing its own self and its own land in the great story of the Bible. From Washington to Truman to Trump‚ with many others in between‚ America has given religious freedom to Jews and all others; it has championed the cause of the Jews to return to their ancestral home and to establish a working constitutional republic in heart of a sea of tyranny; and it has championed the idea of meritocracy that gives everyone a chance to succeed by removing irrelevant impediments to excellence. We have tried our Obamaism. Our great story has taught us to be self-reflective‚ to take for granted that we always have some bias that can only be overcome by cherishing criticism and trying to learn its lessons. Perhaps we really were too supportive of Israel. Perhaps more concessions are all that is needed to end the violence and the bloodshed and establish peace and prosperity throughout the region. We’ve tried it. We allowed Obama to help the UN declare that the Jewish holy sites from Biblical times are not really Jewish and that the Jewish presence in their eternal capital of Jerusalem is illegal. We considered that maybe the best thing really might be to put back a wall and barbed wire and redivide Jerusalem‚ restoring the good old days when no Jews were able to pray at their religion’s most sacred sites or live where they had lived for unbroken centuries in the Jewish Quarter from which they had been expelled to the last person at gun point by the Arab Legion in the War of Independence in 1948 (that is one case of what real apartheid looks like). We by and large weren’t enthusiastic‚ but our own story demanded we give this kind of thought a try. (READ MORE: Jordan Peterson Reclaims Religious Beliefs That Promote Freedom) But something has changed. October 7 was as clarifying of the story we Americans tell of who we are as was December 7 of 83 years ago. We saw the satanic atrocities of Hamas‚ who broke the cease-fire they now claim so much to want of their own volition. We saw the violence here in our own country of the children educated in the Obama story and the perpetrators of higher education pushing their lying equivocations before Congress. We see that the time for hypothetical considerations is past‚ that our country and the world hang by a thread. What the times call for is not endless abstractions that distract us from the power grab of obviously malevolent‚ narcissistic‚ manipulative‚ and sadistic forces‚ but resolution and action. We know our own story now and we know it is better than the Nazis’‚ Hamas’‚ or their defenders and apologists‚ whether in academia or the Administration‚ or in the puppeteer who has the real allegiance of those who‚ at least on paper‚ are accountable to the stumbling‚ bumbling‚ compromised president. With Nazis‚ one does not compromise. Nothing short of complete victory can ever be enough. And Americans knows that. They will find their way to let America’s current ruling class know it as well — unmistakably. The post The Story of Oct. 7 Is the Same as the Story of Dec. 7 appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.