Posted on 10/14/2002 7:15:09 PM PDT by SJackson
I certainly do not mean to detract for an instant from the horror and outrage over the Bali bombing, but at the same time I cannot leave without comment the dramatic differences in the reactions of the world to the Bali bombing and the countless Arab atrocities against Jews.
Not a single media outfit has referred to the perpetrators of the Bali bombings as "activists" or "militants". Not even the BBC and CNN. Indeed, both uncharacteristically used the "T" word to refer to the bombers.
If it turns out that suicide terrorists triggered the car bomb, no one in the world will include those dead terrorists in the total body count of the "tragic affair".
Not a single commentator has been insisting that if the terrorists resorted to such violence, then surely they must have legitimate grievances.
Not a single commentator has been insisting that if the terrorists resorted to such violence, then surely they must be fighting for a just cause.
Not a single commentator has been insisting that if the terrorists resorted to such violence, then surely it must be because they are so desperate and mistreated. And no one demanded that Australia ask itself what it has done wrong to earn such hatred.
Not a single commentator has been insisting that Indonesia and Australia need to open dialogue and negotiations with the terrorists because - after all - there is no military solution to the problems of terrorism.
The Nobel Prize Committee has not suggested that the perpetrators of the bombing be awarded a Peace Prize.
Meretz party chief Yossi Sarid has not suggested that the poems composed by the perpetrators be taught in Israeli schools.
Israeli professors from the Left have not yet organized petitions to demand that the demands of the bombers be met.
Jimmy Carter has not rushed to Bali to endorse the demands of the bombers.
Israeli leftist lawyers have not yet offered to defend any of the bombers caught and indicted.
Student demonstrators in Berkeley did not stage mock street theater representations of the bombings, showing the Australians as villains.
Britain´s Chief Rabbi did not declare that only withdrawal from occupied Australia is the solution.
Tikkun´s Mikey Lerner did not refer to the bombings as "unrest" and demand that we all feel the pain of the bombers.
The University of Michigan and Colorado College have failed so far to organize Solidarity with the Bali Bombers Conferences.
Canada has not confiscated any leaflets that declare that Australia has the right to exercise self-defense against the terrorists.
The newspapers have not been telling Australians that they brought it all on themselves for being racist and insensitive and obstinate.
No one has yet proposed allowing the terrorists to set up their own state in New South Wales.
No one has described the Bali bombing as "resisting occupation".
No progressive churches or synagogues have offered to host the spokeswoman for the Bali bombers.
No one has described the Bali bombers as moderates who need to be cultivated lest really radical Islamist terrorists gain power.
Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin have not yet offered the bombers parts of Jerusalem.
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Steve Plaut teaches at the University of Haifa.
After all, this should all be done with the blessings of the international community (Syria, Libya, China, France, etc.) and a new resolution should be passed before Australia has permission to bring these people to justice...
In this case, it is a form of prejudice best known as xenophilia, the love of the unfamiliar.
The Left hates the familiar. It dispises America, Israel, Judaism, and Christianity because they are all familiar.
It adores the exotic. That's why Leftists love Muslims. Never scrupulous where truth is concerned, Leftists easily overlook the similarities between Islam and Puritan Massachusetts (of Scarlet Letter fame) or The Third Reich.
Nobody on the Left knows anything about Hinduism or much about Islam; so, xenophiles that they are, they naturally assume that both are superior to anything they know anything about, especially America, Christianity, Judaism, or Israel.
And, furthermore, unable to think for themselves, Leftists are waiting for their leaders to tell them how to react. When they receive their instructions, "Liberals" will respond with one voice. They have not choice. They cannot think for themselves.
Well, yesterday a former Australian high rank diplomat appeared on Aussie Prime TV to say that the Bali bombing would never happened if America didn't support Israel.
And he was dead serious.
This is because the passive-leftists and their multicultural society are almost untouchable sacred cow, especially in Melbourne, which has undergone a California effect (electorally) from immigrants, legal and otherwise. Our version of the NPR/PBS is the main news in depth for elites gatekeeper too. Melbourne was the only place to respond to the 1998 media push to drop the english monarchy and have a genetically modified constitution (pure undergrad S11 effort it was).
The left-orthodox media are running this massacre low key to minimise the immigrant backlash and drive more voters to the One Nation party, a small nationalist/flyover territory outfit. Newsmedia-wise the only things we conservatives can cling to are Talkback radio and the Daily Telegraph newspaper (and monthlies called News Weekly and Quadrant). So have I have seen headlines hear using masculine language like MASSACRE? No. (Maybe they did in Queensland - more likely).
All the leftist elites want the bombers to just sort of go away, courtesy of another internationalist UN clusterf*** or (last resort - a unilateralist 'Bush' American action). In their 'most desired' outcome Australian men do not enthuse about joining the war effort (they seek to stamp out the traditional macho rolemodel of course), get patriotic, get self reliant/empowered and weapons trained, and later return post war to revive conservative values in their multicultural and divided urban realms. That would upset the 20 year plan to fully socially re-engineer Australia. What they don't want is a load of Mel Gibson's, same as the American left is minimising the number of John Waynes. They cringe at the old Australian culture.
Paranoia? Ignorant am I? No. The left has been gleefully counting their increasing votes as time ticks by and all the WW2 and Vietnam veterans pass away. Plus the Aussie defence force has been gutted and hobbled -white anted- by the leftist/UN types. Plus all the govt school leavers graduate to the voting rolls fully greeny and lefty indoctrinated. No wonder the response is low key. This is a sedated population out here. The Crocodile Dundee and the Mel Gibson and the Russell Crowe Australian is a veneer image.
In Australia, on rural properties especially, outlying buildings like sheds and cottages can often be white-anted. They attack and eat the framework unseen, behind the wallpaper and the paint. The wall looks okay but one day you lean on the wall and your hand goes thru the paint or a big blow comes through and most of the place falls in a heap under the roof iron.
God help us.
I see no absurdities in this article, only the truth.
Steve Plaut deliberately uses number of absurd statements to show how silly and out of this world the Israeli, British and other lefties are (like "Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin have not yet offered the bombers parts of Jerusalem.")
What I wanted to say is that real life is always more absurd than any creative writing invention, and to illustrate this cited the diplomat in question.
The guy was telling the most ridiculous things absolutely seriously... and be sure other highly educated, very sophisticated and fine intellectuals of the Left will join in.
Blame-the-Jews-for-everything is an old anti-Semitic hobby, and Leftie intelligentsia is it's enthusiastic fan.
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