Backlash against Insane Jewish Rhetoric. The apologists for the endless crimes of Israel are saying things so vile and utterly immoral that it is becoming impossible for hundreds of millions of people around the world to separate Judaism and Zionism, and thus Judaism from the crimes of Zionism. Israel's latest outrage has moved uncountable millions of people around this planet to think, or even say aloud, "Hitler was right."
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John Podhoretz, the idiot Rightwing columnist of the New York Post, said Tuesday:

What if liberal democracies have now evolved to a point where they can no longer wage war effectively because they have achieved a level of humanitarian concern for others ["Humanitarian concern for others"?! Israel?! Bombing civilians and Lebanese government buildings? Bombing the airport so people can't escape abroad? Humanitarian concerns? Israel?!?] that dwarfs any really cold-eyed pursuit of their own national interests? [As tho grotesquely disproportionate collective punishment of innocents advances Israel's national interests.]

What if the universalist idea of liberal democracy — the idea that all people are created equal — has sunk in so deeply that we no longer assign special value to the lives and interests of our own people as opposed to those in other countries? [Which country is his? He can't be talking about the U.S. His country is plainly Israel. He should go there. Put your money where your mouth is.] * * *

Could World War II have been won by Britain and the United States if the two countries did not have it in them to firebomb Dresden and nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

No respectable commentator I have ever heard has said the firebombing of Dresden was either militarily necessary or morally defensible. And there is an immense difference between World War II and the mere kidnapping of two — count 'em: TWO — soldiers (soldiers!). When Germans shot 100 people for each German soldier KILLED by local resistance fiters, they were condemned as monsters. Israel's soldiers weren't even killed, yet Israel launched a war that has killed, to date, some 600 Lebanese! and caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to property and infrastructure. Small wonder that Israelis are now often called "Zionazis".
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John Podhoretz and many other Jews think that what Israel is doing is just fine. Jews around the world are rallying to rhetorical defense of Israel, pretending that its hideously, extremely disproportionate reaction to a trivial provocation was fully justified. Are they insane?
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People need to draw distinctions all the time in morality. Podhoretz and his ilk are incapable of doing that because they are fundamentally evil and feeble-minded. In defending Israel's endless collective punishment of all its neighbors, they put all Jews around the world at risk of retaliatory collective punishment, because non-Jews have to believe that all Jews back Israel's outrages. Anti-Zionist Jews understand that perfectly well. The website www.jewsnotzionists.org puts this perfectly plainly:

The ancestors of those who adopt this view [that Jews must control Palestine politically] lived in large numbers in the Holy land long before Zionists arrived and provoked the native Muslim population. They lived at peace with their non-Jewish neighbors. It was after the immigration began, which sought political rule, that animosity started. So, Zionism has protected no one. At first it endangered the old Jewish inhabitants of the Holy Land. Then it endangered the millions who lived there. Finally, it has plunged into danger Jewry world wide and many others, including Americans anywhere around the world.

Comedy Central's Daily Show a couple of nites ago showed Ben Stein on Fox News Channel saying (approximate quote):

Israel is the summit of decency.

What?!? I tried to get the exact wording from Comedy Central's website, but its videos refused to play mid-day. Perhaps the site's capacity is overstrained. But that is at least the import of what he said. Maybe the actual wording was "Israel is the summit of morality", but in either case, the statement was astounding in its madness and moral blindness.
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Ben Stein is a Jew, and every time a Jew says something that vile about his or her beloved Israel — mind you, Ben Stein stays thousands of miles from the greatest danger; Arabs have found a way to bring danger closer to Jews who stay thousands of miles from the fite, as to the island of Manhattan, tho not yet to Beverly Hills and Malibu, where Stein lives, 10,000 miles from his supposedly beloved Israel — everyone who hears it and contrasts it with the news out of Lebanon thinks "The Jews are just utterly, irredeemably evil. Kill them all!" And of course, we see Israelis in Haifa reacting to the nerve of Arabs to rain missiles upon them, by proclaiming in front of TV cameras, "Kill them all!", meaning Arabs.
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The Daily Show also showed Ed Helms speaking of the "Roadmap to Peace", and saying that the timeline presently shows peace being achieved in about 6,000 years. Funny, but not very funny at the same time. Because plainly many people around the world believe, with good reason, that there will never be peace between Israel and Arabs, and the larger Moslem world. But we are all expected to pretend to believe that peace is doable, and continue to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and have thousands of Americans die, one or three a day in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands on 9/11, and hundreds or thousands more in future "terror" attacks on our soil (we are told, "It's not a matter of if, but when"), because the U.S. Government continues to kill Arabs for Israel, and makes us all answerable for those crimes.
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Thomas Ricks was on the Charlie Rose show last nite. He is senior Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Post and author of the new book, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. He apparently believes the lie that the U.S. is in Iraq to help Iraqis and stabilize democracy, so the horrendous chaos we have unleashed is a failure of policy. Alas, the destruction of Iraq was not an inadvertent side effect of the invasion but the very purpose of the war. The invasion was launched not to "liberate" Iraq but to destroy Iraq as a threat to Israel, the only country the ruling class of the United States cares a thing about in that entire region.
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The chaos and ongoing death and destruction to that unfortunate country is not a side effect, and the war is not a disaster. The chaos, death, and destruction were all intended, and the war is thus a great success. The U.S. has destroyed Iraq as a threat to Israel, and the ongoing deaths of Arabs and setting them at each other's throats so even more will die in fratricidal war, against each other rather than allowing them to unite against Israel, is deliberate, a triumph of policy. The war is not a fiasco. It is a brilliant success. That it has killed less than 2,600 U.S. soldiers, and perhaps a few hundred more American contractors and the like, and cost us only $400 billion (so far) is a triumph of military supremacy. If you don't understand that the present Administration, and both major parties, are willing to pay a price ten times that large to protect Israel, you don't understand the complete takeover of American society by Radical Zionism.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,570.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 3:09 PM