Yeah. And thank God that third rail was there, and in working condition.
Ding dong, the witch is dead.
Posted on 06/15/2010 8:08:56 AM PDT by John David Powell
" I was in Britain, France, and Italy as the story developed, and it was fascinating just to study the vocal tone of the news anchors — the inflections of both outrage and contempt: You won’t believe what those Jews have done now! The rage was as “disproportionate” as Israel’s actions are always said to be: Nobody gives a hoot what North Korea does to South Korean ships. Muslim gunmen open fire on two mosques in Lahore after Friday prayers, killing 93, and it barely makes the papers. "
Jews and Israel are judged by criteria that applied to nobody else. We have the right to board Iranian ships --- ships of a country that did not launch as single rocket at any other country, including ours --- but Israel has no right to inspect ships after Gazans' 2000 rockets landing in Israel.
Does anybody even ask why Saudi Arabia is formally at war with Israel --- what did Israel ever do to Saudis? Does anybody ask why it is illegal to bring a Bible into Saudi Arabia? Is it not racist that a non-Muslim cannot even enter the city of Mecca?
Just yesterday 20 Mexican prison inmates were kill by police --- are people appalled by this "disproportional" use of force? Of course not.
But the mere "humiliation" of Palestinian Arabs enrages even those Europeans that can barely read: it's very clear to them that Jooos are evil. These people are not anti-Semitic at all, you see; they merely _disagree_ with Israeli policies. How enlightened of them. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2535043/posts
“I’m tired of people misusing the term “anti-Semite”. Arabs are Semites.”
And I’m tired of people engaging in sophomoric, pedantic sophistry. “Alcohol” maps etymologically to “the antimony sulfide-based eyeliner powder”. Better think twice before using it to refer to booze, eh?
Yeah. And thank God that third rail was there, and in working condition.
Ding dong, the witch is dead.
Third rail? Wishing the holocaust on Jews?
That’s a get-your-ass-kicked comment in rural New Mexico, and having your sorry self shunned for life.
She deserves anything that happens to her.
It seems to me she got a late term abortion.
It appears Egypt and the Saudis will be happy if Israel takes out Iran. They have a very dangerous common enemy together for a while. And the Israelis told Syria that Hezbollah is their client army. Turkey would be smart to step deftly aside.
"I'm tired of people misusing the term "anti-Semite". Arabs are Semites. You can't be an Arab promoting Arab causes and be an anti-Semite. By the way, Phoenicians are Semites, and we sure don't hear enough from them these days."
The word anti-Semite was invented by a German journalist circa 1880. It is at this time that specifically anti-Jewish party was formed, and the time when the academics started to write "scholarly" books about the inferiority of the Jews and, subsequently, of other races. When Hitler came to power, there were two generations that had been raised on these ideas.
Naturally, in 1880s there were still sane Germans around, and the raicalist solution to the "Jewish question" was opposed by some in press. It is at this time that the word "anti-Semite" was first used. It did not at the time, nor does it now, have an anthropological connotation: it has always been reserved for Jews. Not unlike today, where "minority" is actually used for "Black."
The point you raised has become popular among the Arab propagandists in the West about 20 years ago. It appears to prove that they are not racist, not anti-Semites --- "we are Semites, too."
Well, they are not well versed in European (or their, for that matter) history. But what about you, John? Why do you hang out with ignorant people that repeat ignorant Arab propaganda?
As I said in an earlier post, you've got a lot of thinking to do. Stop writing for a while and read instead: there is time to cast stones and there is time to gather stones. You've got a lot of stones to gather, my friend.
Mr. Powell likes to promote his work, not debate its flaws.
She didn’t say anything that most of the Muslim world believes, and the white liberal establishment and white liberal media always patronizes them and never recoil in disgust when their members make similar observations.
Indeed, Thomas’s opinion has many advocates in the mainstream media - the same media that was so outraged by her comments.
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