[krogers58]

I know this is a repost, and I am wearing my Asbestos underwear, for the inevitable flaming I will get from the repost gods.....but Hansen is so good, he's worth all the flames I'll get...

[moroque11]

I for one am thankful you reposted this article as I had not yet seen it. The flamers only work part-time on the weekend so you might just squeak by. Hehe

[The Giant Apricots]

Why do American academics, who preach the need for a strong democracy at home, worry over purported restrictions of a free press, protest about the treatment of prisoners, and monitor our judiciary, nevertheless praise Palestinians — who forgo elections, censor the news, execute the untried, and have no habeas corpus — while castigating the Israelis, who vote, air their views, give rights to the accused, and have judges who overrule government legislation?

Because they are bipolar feminized pricks.

[LarryLied]

Recent church histories suggest that in the 1930s — and perhaps during the war itself — its role in opposing anti-Semitism and the Holocaust was not impressive. Given such recent troubling questions about its own principles in general and its past attitudes toward Jews in particular, why does the Vatican now, at this particularly embarrassing time, appeal to morality in condemning Israel's recent response to the terrorists' murdering of women and children?

How To Win Friends And Influence People Israeli style. Israelis are about to find out what Jesse Jackson is learning: the schtick wears thin.

[lainde]

Btt. Victor deserves a repost. If there's ever a Hansen bump list, please email me.

[veronica]

BTTT.

[happygrl]

I had not seen this post either. Victor Davis Hanson should be identified in the title for us groupies!

[happygrl]

The Palestinian Authority and spokesmen from the Arab world are now advancing a new party line by comparing their own struggle to our American Revolution with overt associations between the Founding Fathers and Mr. Arafat and his associates! This is a slur against our American heritage and should be noted as such.

D**m straight it is !My ancestors who fought at Lexington (all five of them) would NOT be supporting the Terrorist Death Cult of the Palestinians, but would have been delighted to know that the State of Israel had been re-established and would have given it their support.

[cardinal4]

Good post,I hadnt seen it yet.

[Romulus]

Recent church histories suggest that in the 1930s — and perhaps during the war itself — its role in opposing anti-Semitism and the Holocaust was not impressive.

A nice example of the Smear Indirect. No names; nothing to attack -- just hit and run. So this slop was published in National Review, you say? How the times have changed.

Given such recent troubling questions about its own principles in general and its past attitudes toward Jews in particular, why does the Vatican now, at this particularly embarrassing time, appeal to morality...

If not now, when? If we're to ignore appeals to morality from all but the morally perfect, we can expect to enjoy untroubled consciences for a very long time indeed.

And why — as armed gunmen broke into the holiest site in Christendom, the birthplace of Jesus — did the Vatican admonish the Israelis, but say little about the intrusion of combatants upon its own holy premises

First of all, it's the Holy Sepulchre that's the holiest site in Jerusalem, but as has already been pointed out, this isn't your father's National Review.

The Church has been getting its hands dirty working for peace since the Crucifixion. Peace is almost never a matter of taking the part of one worldly belligerent against another, and the Church does well to resist manipulative attempts to reduce it to nothing more than a locus of ethical authority or make it the servant of a political agenda. Peace is not the same thing as victory, nor even the absence of hostility. The peace for which the Church works is one of reconciliation and perfect accord with the will of God. Reconciliation comes about through the grace of forgiveness. It is this ethic that the Church is in the Holy Land to proclaim; it is this alone that can save the Palestinians and the Jews from destroying each other -- and from destroying themselves as well.