Friday, 11th June 2010
Birds of a (polluted) feather
11:14am
Not for the first time, Boris is showing sounder political judgment than David Cameron. The London Mayor – Cameron’s most deadly rival – has criticised President Obama for his anti-British rhetoric over the ‘British Petroleum’ oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico:
‘I would like to see a bit of cool heads rather than endlessly buck-passing and name-calling,’ he said. ‘When you consider the huge exposure of British pension funds to BP it starts to become a matter of national concern if a great British company is being continually beaten up on the airwaves.’
By contrast, the Prime Minister has actually taken Obama’s side, saying:
‘I completely understand the US Government’s frustration because it’s an environmental catastrophe’.
As for Foreign Secretary William Hague, he displayed an even closer attachment to Obama’s rear end:
...‘No-one
Thursday, 10th June 2010
A pre-pogrom atmosphere builds in the west
9:34pm
The enforced resignation from the White House press corps of the Judeophobic bigot Helen Thomas has lifted the lid off a sewer on both sides of the Atlantic. Let us remind ourselves – Thomas could not shelter beneath the convenient fiction that she was merely criticising Israel. Telling Israel to
Get the hell out of Palestine (sic)
she said the Jews there should
go home
to Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else.
Now CAMERA reports that, according to Fox News, the rabbi who videotaped Thomas’s remarks has received death threats:
...The New York rabbi who videotaped veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas telling Jews to ‘get the hell out of Palestine’ says he has received numerous death threats and thousands of pieces of hate mail in the days since Thomas' abrupt retirement. Rabbi
What part of 'theocratic tyranny' don't Obama and Cameron understand?
8:19pm
Barry Rubin, pondering on the fact that President Obama has announced an additional $400 million in aid for housing, school construction and business development in Gaza and the West Bank – without insisting as a precondition that Hamas renounce terror -- concludes:
......in Middle East terms, he's saying: Your intransigence has won. We couldn't move you so our policy has failed. We must give in... Remember the United States has no one on the ground in the Gaza Strip to supervise these projects and prevent Hamas from stealing money, materials, and products. I’d prefer all the money be given for aid to the West Bank than have any funds go to the Gaza Strip.
... The president of the United States has just announced that his country must give in to the defiance of a dictatorship with
And this is WHY the world has become deranged...
6:28pm
Here is an interview with me about my book, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power conducted by Catholic World Report. Although the interview was conducted a few weeks ago, what it provides – and of course, what my book itself provides – is the broader explanation for the global derangement that has consumed the world over the Turkish terror flotilla, not to mention the ever-more terrifying evidence that the President of the United States has become such a threat to the peace and security of the free world.
Jewish Chronicle, 11 June 2010
The flotilla episode provided the trigger for a frenzied demonstration of the world’s collective loss of mind over Israel.
Israel did what it was entitled to do and what any other country at war would do: intercept boats that might be carrying weapons for an aggressor regime. Since six out of the seven intercepted boats then proceeded peacefully to Ashdod where their cargo was checked, this was demonstrably not an Israeli ‘attack’.
Conversely, as everyone could see from the video evidence, on the main boat the attack took place against the Israelis — who then killed nine of their jihadi assailants solely to protect themselves from being lynched, kidnapped and murdered.
Yet, for this, Israel has been hysterically denounced across the world for an act of aggression and even piracy — an onslaught, in effect, upon Israel’s right to defend itself, without which no country can exist.
The claim that Gaza is starving is the opposite of the truth: its markets are stacked with produce, and every week Israel allows in thousands of tons of aid across the border.
As its organiser admitted, the flotilla was not about humanitarian aid at all but was designed to break the sea blockade — and thus open up a weapons channel for Hamas. This manipulative and mendacious exercise was but the latest attempt to weaken Israel ready for the slaughter through an ever tightening noose of lies, demonisation and delegitimisation.
We have endured the fabricated claims of Israeli massacres in Jenin, the 2006 Lebanon war and Cast Lead; the charge that Israel is an ‘apartheid’ state, that it has committed genocide, ethnic cleansing and is starving the people of Gaza; that it is the aggressor in the Middle East.
How is it possible that so many believe all these lies? How can so many Jews believe them? As I have described in my new book,The World Turned Upside Down (please forgive the commercial) the witch-hunt against Israel is the pivotal example of the West’s repudiation of reason itself, leading to a widespread inversion of truth and lies, justice and injustice, right and wrong.
The ‘progressive’ left-wing intelligentsia now subscribes to a world-view that, over a wide range of issues, subordinates truth to ideology. This manifests itself in utopian creeds that hold that the world would attain a state of perfection if only it wasn’t for capitalism/America/ industrialisation/men/the nation state/those damned Jews.
Since these creeds are axiomatically the embodiment of virtue, all who dissent must be treated as moral outcasts and their views stifled.
From this Manichean mindset, which decrees that all who are not the left are a) the right, and b) intrinsically evil, it follows that anyone who challenges the lies generated by ideological dogma is by definition right-wing and evil. As a result of this knee-jerk name-calling, people dismiss such inconvenient truths even when they stare them in the face.
This terrifying mindset is the left’s default position. That is why this madness towards Israel is not confined to gentiles. Indeed, even Jews who consider themselves to have the interests of Israel at heart sometimes tragically end up believing the lies and supporting positions that would destroy it.
Which partly explains why some communal leaders busily suck up to the enemies of Israel in the faith or political worlds, even telling them on occasion that ‘in private I agree with you’.
So we find ourselves in this nightmare situation. The Great Flotilla Derangement has created the impression that, as Iran moves towards completing its genocide bomb, the rest of the world senses an endgame and is moving in on Israel for the kill.
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