Israel Today, the West Tomorrow

Commentary ^ | May 2009 | Mark Steyn

[JLS]

On Holocaust Memorial Day 2008, a group of just under 100 people—Londoners and a few visitors —took a guided tour of the old Jewish East End. They visited, among other sites of interest, the birthplace of my old chum Lionel Bart, the author of Oliver! Three generations of schoolchildren have grown up singing Bart’s lyric:

Consider yourself

At ’ome!

Consider yourself

One of the family!

Those few dozen London Jews considered themselves at ’ome. But they weren’t. Not any more. The tour was abruptly terminated when the group was pelted with stones, thrown by “youths”—or to be slightly less evasive, in the current euphemism of Fleet Street, “Asian” youths. “If you go any further, you’ll die,” they shouted, in between the flying rubble.

[JLS]

Today we are luck and Steyn has up two new colums.

[JLS]

Two Steyn ping opportunities in one day.

[BobS]

Steyn was good subbing for Rush while he went golfing today. Missed the last hour because of RF interference. I could have run it through 3 test equipment items from another location and greatly overpowered the carrier signal by 200 Watts and no sidebands. I needed to do some work away from where I hid the good stuff at work. Sshh! I know how to use things:)

Mark said he was in the US to give us the Steyn flu.

[budwiesest]

Yep, he's a class act and a great sub for Rush. He allows callers to develope their point better than most. Then, once they have, he eloquently and artfully expands on it or takes it apart. Very witty.

When punching buttons on my radio I'm always happy when I hear his voice- I know it'll be interesting and entertaining at the same time.

When you think about the people who you might like to sit down to have a beer with, Steyn has to be near the top of the list. Think how much fun it would be if he were invited to moderate a presidential debate. The audience would be rolling in the aisles.

[BobS]

Steyn should be the Rush stand-in when he's golfing around. Steyn got Canada mad at him. That's a good qualification right there.

I like having Steyn flu. Do you?

[Rummyfan]

Not long ago, I found myself watching the video of another “pro-Palestinian” protest in central London with the Metropolitan Police retreating up St. James’s Street to Piccadilly in the face of a mob hurling traffic cones and jeering, “Run, run, you cowards!” and “Allahu akbar!” You would think the deluded multi-culti progressives would understand: In the end, this isn’t about Gaza, this isn’t about the Middle East; it’s about them. It may be some consolation to an ever-lonelier Israel that, in one of history’s bleaker jests, in the coming Europe the Europeans will be the new Jews.

Bloody times are coming....

[Caleb1411]

BTTT

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl