Posted on 07/24/2006 10:02:41 PM PDT by spkpls4
. . . another longtime liberal critic of Israel, historian and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll, wrote last week:
"As one who rejects war, I regret Israel's heavy bombing of Lebanon last week, as I deplored Israeli attacks in population centers and on infrastructure in Gaza. . . . Yet, given the rejectionism of both Hamas and Hezbollah . . . is the path of negotiations actually open to Israel? . . . There is no moral equivalence between enemies here. . . . It seems urgent [to] reaffirm foundational support for Israel. . . . The fury of anti-Israel rage among Arabs and Muslims is accounted for only partially by the present conflict. It resuscitates . . . the long European habit of scapegoating Jews. . . . No one should think that embedded contempt for Jews -- anti-Semitism -- is not part of the current crisis."
Amos Oz and James Carroll are men of the Left who have been tested and passed the most clarifying moral litmus test of our time -- Israel's fight for existence against the primitives, fanatics and sadists in Hezbollah and Hamas and elsewhere in the Arab/Muslim world who wish to destroy it. Anyone on the Left who cannot see this is either bad, a useful idiot for Islamic terrorists, anti-Semitic or all three. There is no other explanation for morally condemning Israel's war on Hezbollah.
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Yes, this is a litmus test that will separate the semi-sane leftists from the absolute antisemites.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
"As one who rejects war..."
Someone should remind the author that the reason he's not writing this essay either in Japanese or German - indeed, that he's free to write it at all - is because someone fought his wars for him.
Okay, how come so many liberals reluctantly side with Israel even under a Likud government but cannot support their own President?
To understand the Left one must understand its essential puerility. Leftist reasoning runs something like this:
We abhor all suffering, even if self-inflicted, because it cause us pain. Those who suffer are victims; all victims need to be supported; the Palestinians are victims; the Palestinians need to be supported.
If we support the Palestinians, our pain will be assuaged.
the only decent leftist is a dead leftist...
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I agree.
Moreover when the rockets are flying at Amos Oz's head, then he sees the point of fighting back. But he was a loud supporter of Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon. And he cared nothing for the buildup in 2002 that created the Hezbollah missile menace.
I believe that anyone who states that they "reject war" has lost any claim to any sort of rational meaningful position. By declaring such an idiotic thing they are announcing that they have no understanding not only of all of human history but of human nature and the condition of the human state. War is a far more natural state for mankind than peace. It may be an ugly truth...but its still a truth.
Saying that you "reject war" also means that you reject the notion that something is worth fighting for...worth defending against the ravages of an enemy or heaven forbid evil...but I would argue that someone who "rejects war" most likely has difficulty with such clear cut notions of good and evil. Things are too gray for them.
Regardless someone who holds such a position is so isolated from the reality of the world at large that they forfeit any claim to relevancy in their opinion and should be dismissed out of hand.
Good article, too few views. bump
"Saying that you "reject war" also means that you reject the notion that something is worth fighting for...'
hmmmm .... interesting way to put it!!!!
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