“Those Jews”

National Review Online ^ | October 31, 2003, 8:40 a.m. | Victor David Hanson

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

[ That the Arab world would appreciate billions of dollars in past American aid to Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority, or thank America for its help in Kuwait and Kosovo, or be grateful to America for freeing Iraq — all this is about as plausible as the idea that Western Europeans would acknowledge their past salvation from Nazism and Soviet Communism, or be grateful for the role the United States plays to promote democracy in Panama, Haiti, the Balkans, or the Middle East. ]

Bump!

[anniegetyourgun]

"This fashionable anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism — especially among purported intellectuals of the Left — reveals a deep-seated, scary pathology that is growing geometrically both in and outside the West."

Hanson hits one out of the park again. And, he rightly points the finger at the hateful Left. I wonder when Jews on the Left will wake up to see the sharks they are swiming with. Global anti-semetism is definitely on the rise. I fear it will be on an order beyond what Hitler could have only dreamed of.

[Rummyfan]

WOW! Excellent. But VDH paints a pretty gloomy picture.

[Mr. Mojo]

A Malaysian official and his apologists must realize that gender apartheid, statism, tribalism, and the anti-democratic tendencies of the Middle East cause its poverty and frustration despite a plethora of natural resources (far more impressive assets than the non-petroleum-bearing rocks beneath parched Israel). But why call for introspection when the one-syllable slur "Jews" suffices instead?

Because nothing horrifies Muslims more than looking in the mirror.

[r9etb]

Hanson hits one out of the park again. And, he rightly points the finger at the hateful Left. I wonder when Jews on the Left will wake up to see the sharks they are swiming with. Global anti-semetism is definitely on the rise. I fear it will be on an order beyond what Hitler could have only dreamed of.

Well, it's not just the left. Pat Buchanan and especially Joe Sobran are good examples of the same tendency on the "non-left."

I read somewhere a comment that you can tell a lot about a society by how it treats the Jews within it. The freer the society, the less worry is expended on "da jewz." There's a lot of truth in that....

[nothingnew]

Thanks for an excellent post. VDH is always a good read.

FMCDH

[Mr. Mojo]

How do you explain to an audience that Quentin Tarantino appeals both to teens and to empty-headed critics precisely because something is terribly amiss in America......

Hey Vic, I love ya, but don't you be dissin' Pulp Fiction and its fans. .....or I'm gonna have to get medieval on yo ass.

[anniegetyourgun]

Silly me. I'll just have to cut that last book out of my bible.....

[Alouette]

And its apartheid classification of its citizenry into Jews, Muslims, Christians, Circassians, Druze Muslims, etc. with rights and privileges accruing to each according to affiliation

There is no such system in Israel. Troll.

[onedoug]

Israel and the Jews to carry ethical monotheism, and America, chosen of God to carry goodness into the world as no nation in history ever has, nor can.

[SJackson]

And its apartheid classification of its citizenry into Jews, Muslims, Christians, Circassians, Druze Muslims, etc. with rights and privileges accruing to each according to affiliation is at odds with more recent developments in the West.

Care to provide specifice or do you prefer telling fairy tales?

[Alouette]

Looks like our overly neurotic friend has met the Viking Kitties.

[onedoug]

VDH ping!

[Jack Black]

ping

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

UberZot? ;^)

[anotherview]

Excellent post. Thank you and shabbat shalom.