Re: THE JEWS
- From: "Nick" <tulse04-news@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:35:48 +0000 (UTC)
"Norma" <njb904@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "The Department of Defense" <thecats@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> It was widely noted, most passionately by the Iraqi blogger Hammorabi,
>> that
>> when Tony Blair reminded the House of Commons that many countries had
>> been
>> scourged by the terrorists in recent years, he omitted Iraq from the
>> list.
>> His speechwriters had Iraq in a different part of their database; Iraqis
>> weren't victims of terrorism in the same way as Brits, Americans,
>> Kenyans,
>> and Indonesians. One's instinct is to let it go as an oversight, but
>> there
>> was another country missing from the list, and this case was somewhat
>> less
>> widely noted: Israel. And at this point, one is forced to do some
>> thinking.
>> What do these two countries have in common, that they should both be
>> ignored
>> in the British government's response to the London attacks?
>>
>>
>> Iraq and Israel are arguably the two major victims of Islamic terrorism.
>> Yet
>> they did not come to Blair's mind. Or maybe they did, and maybe there was
>> a
>> reason they were omitted.
>>
>> In the growing recent literature about Great Britain's appeasement of
>> Islamic terrorists over the past decade and more, we've come to
>> understand
>> that London was, in many ways, the epicenter of the terror network.
>> Terrorists wanted in other countries were given safe haven in the United
>> Kingdom, and the most amazingly hateful language was spewed out, openly
>> and
>> proudly, by various sheikhs and imams, all left to incite the faithful to
>> terrible acts against innocent people the world over. For all this, her
>> majesty's government had its reasons. There was a reluctance to offend
>> "the
>> Arabs," the richest of whom had long used London as a home away from the
>> sand, and as their financial and banking center of choice. Moreover,
>> there
>> was a traditional disdain of the Arabs, born out of long experience and
>> expressed in open doubt that "those people" would ever constitute a
>> serious
>> threat, or indeed anything serious. Further, there was a long tradition
>> of
>> open and boisterous political speech, which reflexively protected even
>> terrorist preachers from official rebuke or punishment. To these
>> traditions,
>> there was the usual deadly overlay of political correctness, what Mark
>> Steyn
>> calls the multiculti view, according to which people with traditions
>> different from ours should be respected and certainly not silenced. To do
>> that would not only be non-multiculti, it would risk the advantages of
>> the
>> special relationship with the Arab world.
>>
>> Those of us who have had the frustrating experience of speaking with
>> British
>> diplomats (or journalists, especially those elegantly speaking fellows
>> from
>> the BBC) about the Middle East have invariably encountered a dismissive,
>> slightly bemused, and firm conviction that anyone who worries greatly
>> about
>> "the Arabs" is at least ignorant and at worst malignant. And those of us
>> who
>> had the gall to argue - publicly, even - that the terror war is indeed
>> serious and that appeasement of Saudis, Syrians, and Iranians would only
>> lead to more and more terrible actions against us all, were relegated to
>> the
>> category of misguided souls, at best.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Neocons!
>> The final component of British blindness on the subject of the Middle
>> East
>> is one we are not supposed to talk about in good company: the Jews. Yet I
>> don't know any country this side of the Levant in which there has been so
>> much anti-Semitism, so many complaints that "Zionists," "Likudniks,"
>> "Jewish
>> hawks," and - the single epithet that sums up all of the above -
>> "neocons"
>> had manipulated America and its poodle Blair into the ghastly blunder of
>> Iraq. The BBC has devoted hours of radio and television to slanderous
>> misrepresentations of places like the American Enterprise Institute,
>> where I
>> sit, and of such Jewish luminaries as Richard Perle, Douglas Feith,
>> William
>> Kristol, and Paul Wolfowitz. Sometimes it seemed one was reading
>> translations from the Saudi or Egyptian or Iranian press, so total was
>> the
>> hatred of the Jews.
>> This fit nicely with the desire of the British establishment to carry on
>> their special relationship with some Arab leaders, and many British
>> elites
>> often seemed a micro-step away from saying that the world would be a
>> better
>> place if only Israel weren't there. The Middle East would be so much
>> easier,
>> you know. And when London was bombed, you can be sure - indeed you can
>> read
>> it - many of these people blamed Israel and the Jews, both those in the
>> Middle East and those in New York and Washington. Indeed, within minutes
>> of
>> the attack, a story appeared according to which the Israelis had advance
>> notice, and had instructed Finance Minister Netanyahu to stay put,
>> instead
>> of going to give a speech. The story was as false as the one according to
>> which Israelis had stayed away from the World Trade Center on 9/11, but
>> they
>> both reflected a state of mind. An anti-Semitic mind.
>>
>> All too many Brits (as some Americans, albeit far fewer) would prefer to
>> devote their national energies to the elimination or "taming" of Israel,
>> and, as they see it, the silencing of their own Jews, rather than
>> fighting
>> Islamic terrorism. Combined with the desire to keep Arab money in London
>> and
>> special access for British businessmen and diplomats and scholars in the
>> Arab world, it explains why HMG gave sanctuary and indeed benevolent
>> assistance to the jihadis in their HMG midst.
>>
>>
>> Iraqis - the New Jews?
>> And so Israel was not on the prime minister's list. What about Iraq?
>> The Iraqis are viewed much the same way, and are at some risk of becoming
>> the new Jews of the Middle East. In the enormous hate literature directed
>> against the neocons, Ahmed Chalabi is part and parcel of the
>> anti-Semites'
>> hateful vision. No matter that he is a Shiite, and no matter that he was
>> rudely dismissed by the Israeli government before Operation Iraqi
>> Freedom.
>> He was in cahoots with the Jewish cabal, and was therefore "one of them."
>> And as Chalabi, so the rest of the lot. Anyone looking honestly at Iraq
>> today would have to be filled with admiration for the enormous dignity
>> and
>> courage with which the Iraqis have reacted to the barbaric savagery to
>> which
>> they have been subjected. Ministers are killed, leaders of civil society
>> are
>> kidnapped and beheaded, independent thinkers are intimidated, yet others
>> come forward to fight for their national independence and integrity. When
>> is
>> the last time you read anything, anywhere (with all too few exceptions -
>> like Arthur Chrenkoff's "good news" beat), celebrating these rare
>> qualities
>> of spirit? And this question goes hand in hand with its twin: When is the
>> last time you read anything about the incredible performance of the State
>> of
>> Israel, similarly under siege and similarly stressed by the crisis that
>> surrounds it?
>>
>> It is therefore not surprising that Iraq and Israel were omitted from
>> Blair's list; it is a symptom of the corrupt and self-destructive
>> patterns
>> of emotion (I will not call it "thought") that led Great Britain to house
>> a
>> vast terrorist infrastructure.
>>
>> This sickness is certainly not limited to Great Britain; we find it here
>> as
>> well, in such personages as Pat Buchanan and Juan Cole, along with their
>> acolytes. But in America, by and large, such venom is relegated to the
>> margins, probably because American Jews are a lot feistier than their
>> British co-religionaries (think timid). We do, however, run a risk
>> similar
>> to the British: We, too, are unconscionably passive in the face of
>> radical
>> Muslim religious indoctrination that is designed to produce a new wave of
>> terrorists. I wrote about this many years ago, as have, notably, Daniel
>> Pipes and Steve Emerson, and predicted that of all the problems we faced
>> in
>> the war against the terror masters, this would prove the most
>> intractable.
>>
>> And so it is. The absolutist interpretation of the First Amendment - free
>> speech extends even to license - stops us from taking proper steps to
>> shut
>> down the terror factories. Justice Holmes taught us that the Constitution
>> is
>> not a suicide pact, and that no one has the right to scream "fire" in a
>> crowded theater. London taught us that these principles require vigorous
>> application.
>>
>> Faster, please.
>>
>> http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/17175
>
> Well written article, it will be interesting to see what comment follow.
>
> Norma
>>
>>
>
>
No country is immune to this. I have just seen that Martin McGuiness of Sinn
Fein is currently in New York or Washington to make sure financial backers
of the IRA do not switch to support dissident Republicans in Northern
Ireland.
We have had a 30-year campaign of terror in Northern Ireland and the British
Mainland which has been largely been funded by North Americans.
So Americans have their blind spots as well.
As I understand the reason that (in some cases illegal) immigrants come hear
who might wish to evade the eye of the authorities is that, say, in France
you can't breathe without be asked to show your identity card or passport,
whereas while at the moment we in the UK don't have to prove our identity at
every turn it is fairly easy for fugitives, say, to evade detection or
disappear.
It is a real problem this balance between security and freedom, one which I
would have thought an American would appreciate.
We are only 20 miles from France and we are part of the European Union, and
so we might be an island but only geographically.
We decided to stay out of Schengen (which allows the participant countries
to just examine passports to visitors from outside) for this very reason.
Interestingly from a historical perspective in the19th Century fugitives
from Europe, say after the 1848 Revolution and the 1870-1 Franco-Prussian
War did come to England. That is how Marx, Engels and Pissaro came here.
Nick
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