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Why Does the Left Hate Israel?
www.chronwatch.com ^ | 2/21/03 | Cinnamon Stillwell

Posted on 02/21/2003 7:15:36 PM PST by SeenTheLight

I’ve asked myself on many occasions: “When there are so many other countries in the world that do injustice both to their own people and to others, why does the Left focus so exclusively on Israel?”

What about China’s occupation of Tibet or Syria’s occupation of Lebanon? What about the repression and tyranny of the Arab nations surrounding democratic Israel, including the Palestinians who, let’s not forget, practice honor killings, lynch “collaborators,” suppress the media, and whose leaders funnel funds meant for the people to terrorists?

The real reason the left hates Israel is two-fold. First of all, they have been hijacked by Palestinian Nationalism and secondly, they don’t like uppity Jews. And to mollify those who will immediately claim that anti-Israel sentiments do not amount to anti-Semitism, let me just say that I don’t buy it.

I’m not sure when Palestinian Nationalism began to seep into the Left’s dogma, but it appears to have been in the last 15 years or so. I first noticed this trend during a protest of the Gulf War, where I saw pro-Palestinian propaganda with a distinctly anti-Semitic edge to it. It was around this time that the term “Zionists” began to be used as a fill-in for all Jews who simply supported the continuing existence of the state of Israel and as such, were deserving of contempt. In short, “Zionist” became the politically correct term for “Hebe.” The years since have only solidified this pattern and these days, the anti-war protesters are more hateful than ever.

I’ve had the unique experience, while taking part recently in counter-protests, of witnessing the wrath of the Palestinian Nationalists up close and personal. The graying hippies wearing Intifada T-shirts and spitting in my face, women in burkas unfurling Palestinian flags in front of my signs, Arab-American teenagers telling me they want to “kill all the Jews,” and being called a “Zionist Pig,” are just a few of the precious moments I’ve taken home from “peace” rallies. This is the ugly side of the anti-war movement, among others, and they don’t want it publicized.

Indeed, the formerly celebrated Jewish liberal Michael Lerner, has recently been excommunicated for daring to criticize A.N.S.W.E.R., the main organizer of the anti-war protests. This is apparently a no-no among a movement that doesn’t tolerate dissent. Lerner also committed the crime of refusing to consign Israel to the dustbin of history. He didn’t go along with the program and for that, he became persona non grata.

The Left only likes Jews as long as they’re victims, passively marching to the Nazi death camps, or in this case, to the Mediterranean Sea. They can deny that they’re anti-Semitic by pointing to their loyal Jewish comrades, who fail to recognize their enemies. These Jews are acceptable because they either want the destruction of Israel too or at the very least, won’t stand in the way. But give a Jew a gun or God forbid, a tank, and suddenly they become the enemy. The Left, it seems, prefers suicidal Jews to tough ones.

The Left demands nothing of the Palestinians and everything of the Israelis. What, besides anti-Semitism, accounts for this double-standard? The anti-war crowd can continue to try and claim the moral high ground when it comes to questions of war and peace, but none of it will ring true, so long as their blatant hatred for Jews festers in the background.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; counterprotest; israel; jews; left; palestinians; zionist
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To: LdSentinal
The only common thread in who liberals support and who they denigrate is that a liberal will always support the weaker side. It doesn't matter if the weaker side is full of murderer's, child-molestors, or terrorists, so long as they have a cause to trumpet.
41 posted on 02/22/2003 12:44:09 AM PST by Dat
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To: SteveH
.......various forms of religious apartheid that Israel practices.

Why do you resort to commie buzzwords and sloganeering? Why do you parrot the left?  Every Arab nation has driven it's Jews out while 1.1 million Arabs live in Israel.

42 posted on 02/22/2003 12:45:54 AM PST by dennisw ( http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
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To: Dat
child-molestors, or terrorists, so long as they have a cause to trumpet......

In the left a cause is known as a "struggle". As in the "struggle" to free A of imperialist domination by B. Or the "struggling" peasants of X.

43 posted on 02/22/2003 12:49:23 AM PST by dennisw ( http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
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To: PhilipFreneau
Why Does the Left Hate Israel?

Because they are self-sufficient and do a great job of taking care of "themselves" without any help when allowed to so!

44 posted on 02/22/2003 12:53:17 AM PST by EGPWS
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To: SeenTheLight
The Left hate Israel because because the Left often hate God.



45 posted on 02/22/2003 12:53:48 AM PST by Sabertooth
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To: dennisw
Yeah, pretty much the same argument.
46 posted on 02/22/2003 1:11:23 AM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Sabertooth
The Left hate Israel because because the Left often hate God.

A Judeo-Christian God perhaps, but not Allah.

47 posted on 02/22/2003 1:12:40 AM PST by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal
>>> A Judeo-Christian God perhaps, but not Allah.

Only because they don't understand that Allah advocates the same thing - the purity of women, the weekly day of prayer, bans on alcohol and pork, etc.
48 posted on 02/22/2003 1:45:13 AM PST by PatL
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To: DontMessWithMyCountry
Buddhism?

Get new freinds.

49 posted on 02/22/2003 2:09:07 AM PST by Bullish
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To: SteveH
You won't hear much, but they suffer the effects of collateral damage and the various forms of religious apartheid that Israel practices.

Gee, maybe the Israelis should behave like some of the democratic Islamic Republics and just kill anyone who isn't the "right" religion....

50 posted on 02/22/2003 4:02:00 AM PST by freebilly (Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
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To: freebilly
</ sarcasm >
51 posted on 02/22/2003 4:02:29 AM PST by freebilly (Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
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To: KNight Templar Owen
Exactly.

God has an explanation of why the world hates the Jews and that is because it is through the Jewish people that God gave us Jesus Christ.

When Jesus Christ died on the Cross, Satan was defeated for all eternity. Since then, Satan has worked ruthlessly to obliterate the Jewish people, and while millions of Jews have been slaughtered by those acting as servants of Satan (Hitler, etc.), there will always be a remnant of Jews that God will protect, and the Jewish people as a whole will one day return to God.

God tells us that this hatred of the Jewish people will continue until "the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled". The fact that the worldwide Left hates Jews and hates Israel is merely a confirmation of what God has told us about this situation. After all, we are all aware of the fact that the 2000 presidential election was divided almost equally between those who attend church voting for Bush, and those who do not attend church voting for Gore.

And we are all also aware of how the Left, in this country at least, has formed organizations of themselves dedicated to removing as much of God from American public life as they possibly can (ACLU, People For the American Way, to name but a couple) and in so doing have declared loud and clear the side they are on and the position they have staked vis a vis matters concerning God.

The Left hates the Jewish people for this reason, and will contine to hate the Jewish people. But as God told Abraham: "I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you". It is a stupid and dangerous decision to make, to declare war on God, but that is what the Left has done in many ways, including their decision to hate the Jews, and they, like all others in the history of the world who have made the same choice, will lose badly.

52 posted on 02/22/2003 4:34:15 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: SteveH
I do not find religious discrimination, curfews, land confiscation, stop searches, checkpoints, and travel restrictions particularly American. What American would stand for that if it happened stateside?

Simpleton. Israel happens to be at war. This is what you do when you have a population of Jihadists trying to kill you.

53 posted on 02/22/2003 4:39:15 AM PST by dennisw ( http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
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To: DontMessWithMyCountry
Your problem is you're hanging out with Buddhists and some where born as Jews. Buddhists are OK in my book because they don't make Jihads and wars. They have a way of countering evil in this world that is passive and spiritual. And infective in many situations. They have some nice ideals but ideals that will get you killed on the West Bank.

They seem youngish and naive. 25-35 years old?
54 posted on 02/22/2003 4:45:00 AM PST by dennisw ( http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
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To: EGPWS
Because they are self-sufficient and do a great job of taking care of "themselves" without any help when allowed to so!

Your reasoning is far better than mine. You hit the nail on the head.

55 posted on 02/22/2003 6:29:00 AM PST by PhilipFreneau
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To: Dat
The only common thread in who liberals support and who they denigrate is that a liberal will always support the weaker side.

And they support the weaker side in order to be seen as rescuers, givers, and providers. Thus they create a bond of dependence to those they "help." Israel has always been fiercely independent and resourceful and the parenting-government liberals just can't have that kind of unruly behavior now, can they.

Suggested reading for historical insight in novel form: "The Haj" by Leon Uris (who also authored "Exodus").

56 posted on 02/22/2003 7:05:46 AM PST by arasina
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To: DontMessWithMyCountry
The closer we would get to discussing Judaism AND the situation in Israel TODAY, the more he would 'run' with his new-found lovefest with Buddhism (yet, he had not the calm that one would expect if he actually WAS Buddhist). We actually broke up over it!

Sounds like you're well rid of him.

57 posted on 02/22/2003 7:13:36 AM PST by coydog
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To: Toskrin
"Libs will always support the Have-Nots."

Close. Actually, Libs will always identify with the victims, as they perceive them, as a way to justify and perpetrate their pathological rage in directions they can feel righteous about.

In fact, libs care little and do basically nothing for the Have-Nots--they simply use them as stalking horses for their own agendas of hate and destruction.

58 posted on 02/22/2003 7:31:43 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: dennisw
Yes, but let me make it very clear that the comments i made are in *no* way intended to disparage Buddhism --real Buddhists, that is. These folks are not 'youngish' (all are older than I am, as a matter of fact). But, you know, it is quite true that 'some people just never grow up'. Sincerely, I think their romanticizing of another religion (no matter what other one they would have chosen) has occurred because on some level they fear their identification with the religion into which they were born (much like many Christians do now) will make them 'unpopular'--or even that their own religion makes their own behaviors untenable; and, well, Buddism is so 'chic' these days in our country, ya' know ;-) But, you raise another point in my own mind... an individual who is not firm enough to stand up for who he IS, is fundamentally lacking in character. (The same can be said for many Christians, by the way.) That is (as you said) why it 'will get you killed in the West Bank' ... they've already 'killed' themselves on a spiritual level, so all that's left to go is the body. Well, that's my perception anyway. What do I know ;-)
59 posted on 02/22/2003 8:02:40 AM PST by DontMessWithMyCountry (It's serious business being an American in America these days.)
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To: dennisw
Why do you resort to commie buzzwords and sloganeering? Why do you parrot the left? Every Arab nation has driven it's Jews out while 1.1 million Arabs live in Israel.

I have come to my own conclusions. Why do you parrot the right? And you have not explained still why Israel denies non-Europeans and non-Jews fundamental civil and property rights. Stick to that please. All people should enjoy fundamental civil and property rights, and I don't care what their religion is. Don't give excuses.

60 posted on 02/22/2003 9:40:19 AM PST by SteveH
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