And the winner of the "Scourge of the Left" Oscar is - Israel!
Is there any name in the world that inspires more hatred than "Israel"? With the possible exception of "George W. Bush", it's hard to think of any.How can such a tiny sliver of land invite such vitriolic animosity? Well, let us count the ways.
From the perspective of an uninvolved observer, the problem is that of a land dispute; each side claims the authentic possession of the land. If one were to simply disregard the origins of the land dispute, what would remain? A tussle between two factions, each claiming the authentic right to the land. So if we suspend all other inquiry, we would still be faced with the current nature of the dispute, which characterizes itself thusly:
-One side openly brags of "Annihilating" the other, and killing all its people. The other side makes no such pledge.
-One side commits random acts of terrorism against the other side's civilian population, and rationalizes such acts as acceptable.
-One side officially indoctrinates in its children and citizens hatred for the other side in its schools and propaganda, denouncing the people of the other side as less than human, and characterizing them as "Apes", "Pigs", "Dogs", and so on.
There are, of course, no prizes for guessing which side is which, so what exactly are we to make of an elite class that lectures Israel on its supposed transgressions while giving a pass to those who strap bombs to themselves and detonate them on public buses? A land dispute is a land dispute, but since when is wanton murder of civilians acceptable? We have heard the same lyrics coming from the chorus of academics who sympathized with the perpetators of the 9/11 attacks, a depressing number of which came from our own universities, who, of all people, should know better.
Denouncing Israel as an entity has become a sort of parlor game for intellectuals of all stripes, but far less discussion is heard of what exactly Palestinian arabs should be doing differently - if the U.S. is supposed to act as the even-handed broker everyone continually wishes for, then what, exactly, is supposed to happen after all the concessions demanded by Hamas and such are given? Are such self-appointed diplomats truly under the illusion that peace would reign once Israel gives away everything being demanded of it? Time and time again, we hear from people who pontificate aloud that all these problems could have been solved at anytime, if only the U.S. had made a "Serious" effort to do so. They seem to think that the only reason such efforts haven't been made is that no one has really tried hard enough - apparently, the superhuman efforts to give away the store brokered by their hero of international relations, Bill Clinton, were somehow not quite enough, although I've heard few leftists explain exactly why.
The reason is that they probably know the answer, but don't really want to face its implications, which is that Hamas, Ahmadinejad, Bin Laden, and all those of this ilk will not be satisfied until Isreal itself has been destroyed, and its people killed. And after that, what will their next target be? Jews everywhere else.
posted by ET @ 3:55 PM
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