European Leftists Unite With Arab Knesset Members, Criticize Israel For Not Being Democratic Enough
I've often commented about how strange it is that the Left should choose Israel of all places to criticize for constant human rights violations and government-based repression as opposed to say, the Arab world (and I’ve also challenged anyone to present me with an explanation for this phenomenon other than rank anti-Semitism). Let’s play "which of the following does not belong": full equality for women, annual gay pride days, democracy, a liberal judiciary, an even more liberal academia, an unimaginably liberal press, Israel, the Muslim world.
Now, a generous interpretation of why anti-Israel posters can be seen at every. single. Leftist. rally. would mirror the old joke about the drunk who searches for his keys under the lamppost because that's the only place with enough light to search. Of course, I don’t think that those who wouldn’t allow the US to end Saddam’s regime of torture and rape really care all that much about human rights as such, so following in the tradition of the Supreme Court’s "but for" test, I’m going to hold that but for the fact that Israel is a Jewish state, it wouldn’t be getting all this grief.
Either way, the fact that Arab members of Israel's own Parliament are going to the Hague to testify against the country that they have taken oaths to serve is indicative of the wide chasm between Israel and the rest of the world, especially the primitive dictators and fascists so beloved by the anti-Western Left.
Provocative as is the decision by Arab MKs to travel to the International Court of Justice at The Hague to testify against Israel's anti-terror fence, it's not unexpected.The in-your-face hostility of Israeli Arab parliamentarians, who barely bother to disguise their identification with the state's most implacable enemies, has long ceased to throw most of us for a loop... It's the price we pay for our democratic identity.
No democracy, especially in the throes of existential struggle, has ever acquiesced to such demonstrative disloyalty. It wouldn't go unpunished in North America or Western Europe… The taunting irony is that, while Israel is perhaps tolerant to the point of self-endangerment, the international community singles it out – of all nations – for censure and puts it on trial, relying, among others, on the testimony of Israel's own disloyal parliamentarians.
Jews have listened to calls for their destruction for so long that by now it’s just accepted as one point on the political spectrum - some MKs restructure the Education Ministry, some go to international forums to advocate the destruction of Israel, and some go to Syria and urge the terrorists in Damuscus (and I'm not using that term in any metaphorical sense – Bashara openly met with Hezbollah) to kill more Israelis.
Now, a generous interpretation of why anti-Israel posters can be seen at every. single. Leftist. rally. would mirror the old joke about the drunk who searches for his keys under the lamppost because that's the only place with enough light to search. Of course, I don’t think that those who wouldn’t allow the US to end Saddam’s regime of torture and rape really care all that much about human rights as such, so following in the tradition of the Supreme Court’s "but for" test, I’m going to hold that but for the fact that Israel is a Jewish state, it wouldn’t be getting all this grief.
Either way, the fact that Arab members of Israel's own Parliament are going to the Hague to testify against the country that they have taken oaths to serve is indicative of the wide chasm between Israel and the rest of the world, especially the primitive dictators and fascists so beloved by the anti-Western Left.
Provocative as is the decision by Arab MKs to travel to the International Court of Justice at The Hague to testify against Israel's anti-terror fence, it's not unexpected.The in-your-face hostility of Israeli Arab parliamentarians, who barely bother to disguise their identification with the state's most implacable enemies, has long ceased to throw most of us for a loop... It's the price we pay for our democratic identity.
No democracy, especially in the throes of existential struggle, has ever acquiesced to such demonstrative disloyalty. It wouldn't go unpunished in North America or Western Europe… The taunting irony is that, while Israel is perhaps tolerant to the point of self-endangerment, the international community singles it out – of all nations – for censure and puts it on trial, relying, among others, on the testimony of Israel's own disloyal parliamentarians.
Jews have listened to calls for their destruction for so long that by now it’s just accepted as one point on the political spectrum - some MKs restructure the Education Ministry, some go to international forums to advocate the destruction of Israel, and some go to Syria and urge the terrorists in Damuscus (and I'm not using that term in any metaphorical sense – Bashara openly met with Hezbollah) to kill more Israelis.
