This is the second reference in as many days (the first one is here) that I’ve read to Muslim or Arab being “frustrated”:
Clearly frustrated, Egypt’s president and Jordan’s king – two men who’d put their prestige on the line – denounced an Israeli assassination Monday… “We are annoyed and pained by what happened despite our arduous and persistent efforts with all sides, including the Israeli government, to refrain from its policy of military escalation,” Abdullah said in remarks carried by Jordan’s official Petra news agency.
So we’re back to where outrage at Israeli self-defense is just another, unchangeable consequence that has to be objectively factored into account – it’s just the way things are, a matter of unchangeable reality. Instead of condemning as irredeemably sick those mobs all over the world who’re screaming for revenge – revenge for a terrorist who’s sole goal in life was to kill Jewish children – the world’s leaders humor these rabbles and demand that Israel to do the same.
People get frustrated and annoyed with children. They don’t get frustrated and annoyed with sovereign nation-states. Europe and the Arab world seem to think that Israel’s targeted assassination of Yassin was some sort of temper tantrum rather than, say, a desperate, hopeless attempt to stem the bloodshed of Jews. This new faux paternalism is another rhetorical strategy to delegitimize the Jewish state. Last week’s anti-Zionist chic was giant puppets, this week it’s paternalism. Who knows what they’ll think of next week.
UPDATE: Fads change from week to week, but the timeless themes never get old.
