Guardian: Israel Expanding, Jews Exploit the Holocaust
Did you know that Israel - far from having withdrawn from a ton of land recently - is actually in a process of expansion:
If this is the future, it is likely to yield fruits as bitter for Israelis as for Palestinians. The world, far from becoming more willing to acquiesce in Israel's expansion, is becoming less so. The generation of European non-Jews for whom the Holocaust is a seminal memory is dying. With them perishes much vicarious guilt.
He's actually talking about Olmert's convergence plan as an expansionist land grab. Which is absurd. If anything, it's a contractionist land grab since Israel - and this isn't really a complicated concept - already has the land. But why let things like facts get in the way of reviving the stalwart liberal tropes of evil Zionists trying to create a Greater Israel?
But before you can even get through another paragraph, it gets better:
Younger Europeans, not to mention the rest of the world, are more sceptical about Israel's territorial claims. They are less susceptible to moral arguments about redress for past horrors, which have underpinned Israeli actions for almost 60 years. We may hope that it will never become respectable to be anti-semitic. However, Israel is discovering that it can no longer frighten non-Jews out of opposing its policies merely by accusing them of anti-semitism.
This pathetic Walt and Mearsheimer-esque "look how we're willing to stand up to accusations of anti-Semitism" false bravado is as tired as it is self-congratulatory. Read this very slowly: no one is saying that.
Israel should keep some of the land that the Guardian insists is Palestinian (technically, its Jordanian, but really - when it comes to "standing in solidarity with the Palestinian cause", let's not let facts come between good friends)... Anyway, Israel should keep the tiny extra land that Olmert hopefully intends to annex because it was land won in a defensive war and settled for the purposes of continued strategic defense - it would be literal and mass ethnic cleansing to throw all the Jews out just so Palestinians don't have to live next to them.
Sure, the world could be turning against Israel because young kids don't know about the Holocaust (which, incidentally, might be something someone should mention). Or support for the Jewish state could be in freefall because much of the Western media is entering its second and third decades of mischaracterizations and lies regarding the Israeli cause.
PS - could "we may hope that it will never become respectable to be anti-semitic" have been any more disingenuous?
If this is the future, it is likely to yield fruits as bitter for Israelis as for Palestinians. The world, far from becoming more willing to acquiesce in Israel's expansion, is becoming less so. The generation of European non-Jews for whom the Holocaust is a seminal memory is dying. With them perishes much vicarious guilt.
He's actually talking about Olmert's convergence plan as an expansionist land grab. Which is absurd. If anything, it's a contractionist land grab since Israel - and this isn't really a complicated concept - already has the land. But why let things like facts get in the way of reviving the stalwart liberal tropes of evil Zionists trying to create a Greater Israel?
But before you can even get through another paragraph, it gets better:
Younger Europeans, not to mention the rest of the world, are more sceptical about Israel's territorial claims. They are less susceptible to moral arguments about redress for past horrors, which have underpinned Israeli actions for almost 60 years. We may hope that it will never become respectable to be anti-semitic. However, Israel is discovering that it can no longer frighten non-Jews out of opposing its policies merely by accusing them of anti-semitism.
This pathetic Walt and Mearsheimer-esque "look how we're willing to stand up to accusations of anti-Semitism" false bravado is as tired as it is self-congratulatory. Read this very slowly: no one is saying that.
Israel should keep some of the land that the Guardian insists is Palestinian (technically, its Jordanian, but really - when it comes to "standing in solidarity with the Palestinian cause", let's not let facts come between good friends)... Anyway, Israel should keep the tiny extra land that Olmert hopefully intends to annex because it was land won in a defensive war and settled for the purposes of continued strategic defense - it would be literal and mass ethnic cleansing to throw all the Jews out just so Palestinians don't have to live next to them.
Sure, the world could be turning against Israel because young kids don't know about the Holocaust (which, incidentally, might be something someone should mention). Or support for the Jewish state could be in freefall because much of the Western media is entering its second and third decades of mischaracterizations and lies regarding the Israeli cause.
PS - could "we may hope that it will never become respectable to be anti-semitic" have been any more disingenuous?
