Israel and the Surrender of the West
By SHELBY STEELE
WALL ST. JOURNAL June 21, 2010
Forwarded with commentary by
Emanuel A. Winston,
Freeman CenterMiddle East Analyst & Commentator
The following article in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL June 21st speaks about wherein one goat is chosen to be sacrificed by being hurled over a cliff. Its broken body compensates for whatever evil the people have done all year.
So now the nations are suffering from the evil THEY have done and they wish to hurl Israel off the cliff as the scapegoat, hoping their gods will accept the sacrifice and forgive them.
But, the One G-d of Israel will NOT forgive them as we observe the nations crashing. Their money is fast becoming worthless, terrible seemingly natural disasters pile one upon one another. Catastrophes like floods, oil spills, earthquakes, disease, volcanoes, famine, drought – and yet they do not recognize this is cosmic punishment by G-d for what they have done to the Jews and the Jewish nation/state of Israel.
COMMENTARY BY EMANUEL A. WINSTON
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Monday, June 21, 2010 OPINION
Israel and the Surrender of the West
By SHELBY STEELE
One of the world's oldest stories is playing out before our eyes: The Jews are being scapegoated again.
The most interesting voice in all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as "world opinion." At every turn "world opinion," like a school marm, takes offense and condemns Israel for yet another infraction of the world's moral sensibility. And this voice has achieved an international political legitimacy so that even the silliest condemnation of Israel is an opportunity for self-congratulation.
Israel Narrows List of Banned Goods to Gaza Complete Coverage: WSJ.com/Mideast
Rock bands now find moral imprimatur in canceling their summer tour stops in Israel (Elvis Costello, the Pixies, the Gorillaz, the Klaxons). A demonstrator at an anti-Israel rally in New York carries a sign depicting the skull and crossbones drawn over the word "Israel." White House correspondent Helen Thomas, in one of the ugliest incarnations of this voice, calls on Jews to move back to Poland. And of course the United Nations and other international organizations smugly pass one condemnatory resolution after another against Israel while the Obama administration either joins in or demurs with a wink.
Bret Stephens discusses Iran's nuclear program and ambitions. Also, James Freeman talks about the financial reform's effects on small businesses and small banks.
This is something new in the world, this almost complete segregation of Israel in the community of nations. And if Helen Thomas's remarks were pathetic and ugly, didn't they also point to the end game of this isolation effort: the nullification of Israel's legitimacy as a nation? There is a chilling familiarity in all this. One of the world's oldest stories is playing out before our eyes: The Jews are being scapegoated again.
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