Test Yourself: The Mideast in 10 self-deceptions or less

Haaretz ^ | 12/19/2006 | Bradley Burston

[edpc]

1. True or False: One side is regularly condemned internationally for war crimes it is alleged to have committed. The other is shielded, left to commit them at will.

2. True or False: One side desecrates holy places. The other respects religious shrines, and the right of all to worship as they choose.

3. True or False: One side can be trusted to observe negotiated peace accords and agreed cease-fires. The other side violates them at will.

4. True or False: One side takes care to abide by the terms of peace agreements and cease-fires, until such time as the other side blatantly violates them.

5. True or False: One side has learned the lessons of the Holocaust. The actions of the other side are reminiscent of those who perpetrated it.

6. True or False: One side has a legitimate historical claim to territory of the Holy Land, being direct descendants of its ancient inhabitants. The claims of the other do not stand up to factual inspection.

7. True or False: One side repeatedly launches attacks which kill innocent civilians. The actions of the other are acts of legitimate self-defense.

8. True or False: One side genuinely seeks peace. The other side truly wants the land on its own terms, and is prepared to continue to kill people on the other side as long as its actual desires are unattained.

9. True or False: News media are over-sympathetic to one side only.

10. True or False: The people who support and speak for the other side are either lying or self-deceived.

[edpc]

Follow the URL for your score.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Creative scoRing And Pandering

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HOW TO SCORE: Count 10 points for every "True" answer, none for every "False."

If you scored 0 - 20: Chances are that you still harbor a secret belief in the eventual possibility of peace.

Chances are that you are reluctant, at this point, to reveal this to anyone.

People on both sides are sure to tell you that you are deceiving yourself.

If you scored 30 - 50: Chances are you once harbored a belief in the eventual possibility of peace.

Chances are that you have stopped discussing this with people on the other side.

People on your side will now tell you that you have finally come to your senses.

You are on your way to self-deception.

If you scored 60 - 100: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes perfect sense to you.

You are a victim of serious self-deception. Unbeknownst to you.

[Slings and Arrows]

Another dhimmi grovels before his masters.

[garylmoore]

News media are over-sympathetic to one side only.

This is what really baffles me.

[hnj_00]

"News media are over-sympathetic to one side only."

so are all the lib/dems!!!!

and the UN!!!!

[Right Wing Assault]

I scored 200 by saying, "True, true!", for each answer.

[CalvaryJohn]

The columnist is a first rate A-hole.

[ClearCase_guy]

If all Palestinians put down their weapons and refused to pick them up ever again, there would be peace in Israel.

If all Israelis put down their weapons and refused to pick them up ever again, then all Israelis would be dead in a week.

[wgflyer]

"If you scored 60 - 100: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes perfect sense to you."

I scored 100, but the conflict in Palestine makes no sense to me, no more than do other wars. They are necessary because there are aggressive madmen out there who will not allow any other outcome. This makes no sense, but there it is. And, no, I do not believe that there can ever be peace in the M.E. until Islam undergoes a reformation, or is eradicated. They can't even get along with themselves.

[aruanan]

Well, knowing the history of the region, I scored 100. The "other side" are the so-called "Palestinians". If one thought "the other side" was Israel, then he truly would be self-deluded or lying.

[browngreengold]

Tagged for later

[Piranha]

I got a perfect score. The so-called "Palestinian" arabs, as a culture, are nihilistic and terroristic, and the source of trouble for Israel.

Moreover, the majority of them receive funds from the UN as officially-designated "refugees". By definition, since they are refugees, they are not in their permanent homes. In my opinion, they should be placed in permanent homes in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere that is not Israel. Then, Israel should elect a government that is self-respecting and out for the greater good of that country rather than for the leaders themselves.

If these two events happen, then at long last there will be peace.

The columnist may be a dhimmi idiot, but at least he knows how to ask the right questions.

[Little Ray]

Ditto.

[Alouette]

I scored 100, and I gave myself 100 extra points for realizing that all the scores need to be reversed in order to make sense.

FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel/Russian Jewry ping list.

Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.

[agrace]

Until I read your post and then clicked on the article to read the whole thing, I thought Ha'aretz had somehow found some sense. Silly me.

[CharlesWayneCT]

In the movies, the good guys often leave the bad guys "beaten", but still alive, because after all, we are the "good guys" and don't just kill people.

But invariably in the movies, the "bad guy" then makes a move that requires they be killed, and they are killed, so that we can all go on with our lives.

In real life we don't take that last step, and so the bad guys go off, regroup, and come back at us again.

Is the fall of a civilization set in stone when that civilization becomes so "enlightened" that it will no longer kill it's enemies?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Creative scoRing And Pandering !

Did you get my poor joke?

[Convert from ECUSA]

Shoot, I got a 100 - guess that means I am it "self-deceived"......at least according to this dhimmi. Oh well.

[Slings and Arrows]

Me too. Delusion abounds at FR.