WaPo: Israel is "A Historical Mistake" (Open to the Argument That Israel is "A Crime")

Little Green Footballs ^ | 07/17/2006 | Staff

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

At the Washington Post, Richard Cohen agrees with Hamas and Hizballah that “Israel is a mistake.”

And he’s open to the argument that Israel is a “crime.”

"The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.

"This is why the Israeli-Arab war, now transformed into the Israeli-Muslim war (Iran is not an Arab state), persists and widens. It is why the conflict mutates and festers. It is why Israel is now fighting an organization, Hezbollah, that did not exist 30 years ago and why Hezbollah is being supported by a nation, Iran, that was once a tacit ally of Israel’s. The underlying, subterranean hatred of the Jewish state in the Islamic world just keeps bubbling to the surface. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and some other Arab countries may condemn Hezbollah, but I doubt the proverbial man in their street shares that view."

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Read the whole thing. And bring a barf bag.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

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[Mr. Mojo]

"The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and some other Arab countries may condemn Hezbollah, but I doubt the proverbial man in their street shares that view."

He's wrong. The Sunni Arab "streets" in the above-mentioned nations have no use for the Shiite, Iranian-controlled Hezbollah.

[Question Liberal Authority]

So the Washington Post is against countries where a bunch of primarily white Europeans emigrate to a new world, elbow out the indiginous population which had been there for centuries, and then establish a free and prosperous Western style Democracy?

Sure glad I don't live in a country like that. I'd hate for the Washington Post to dislike me just because of something my ancestors did.

[Mr. Mojo]

"Whatever happens, Israel must not use its military might to win back what it has already chosen to lose: the buffer zone in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip itself."

The plan isn't to "win back" any land; the plan is to destroy both Hamas and Hezbollah.

[piasa]

The underlying, subterranean hatred of the Jewish state in the Islamic world just keeps bubbling to the surface.

That's because the muslim world is a mistake.

[Christopher Lincoln]

If you're asking whether Cohen thinks America is a mistake, undoubtedly he does (although he might be a little wary of saying so).

[Christopher Lincoln]

For Cohen's story, see this thread.

[Salem]

More delegitimizing of Israel. Incredible!

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[backhoe]

The best part of LGF is the "comments" section... Mr. Cohen is not well thought of, to put it mildly:

link: 449 comments |  "Richard Cohen's birth was a mistake. His continued existence is a crime." This column marks him and WaPo as actively anti-semitic. I hereby move him into the Maureen Dowd category of not coherent enough to bother with in any way, shape, or form. Yet another nail in the rotting coffin of the  DBM...  ( Drive-By Media )

[dennisw]

Muhammad, his Koran and his evil preachings are a historical mistake. It's still reversible

[dennisw]

Clown Cohen ignoring that half of all Israelis are Jews who fled Arab nations where they lived as dhimmis

[backhoe]

"Carl in Jerusalem" does a nice refutation of Leftard ( hattip: Atlas Shrugs ) Cohen here:

Carl has a lengthy reponse to Cohen with the history of Eretz Israel. Includes Twain quotes.

[sauropod]

Barf Later.

[dennisw]

Thanks... I often see Carl in Jerusalem at LGF. Richard Cohen has earned the arch dhimmi distinction of being the first major Jewish columnist to say Israel was a mistake. Muslims will rebroadcast this fools remarks

One LGFer commented on his non Jewish Upper East Side girlfriend.

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[Convert from ECUSA]

Memo to "mister" Cohen:

You think that "Israel is a crime"!?!?!?!?! "Mister" Cohen, you sir, are a bloviating, no-count, fool-@ss, trash-talking, scalawag momzer who should be taken out behind the woodshed, given a sound thrashing with a big hickory switch, have your mouth washed out with soap, put on a diet of broccoli, sauerkraut, and prunes for a week, put in the middle of downtown Mecca with a sign reading "Mohammed ate bacon", have a box of itching power sprinkled in all your underwear, and have one of the courageous IDF soliders on the front lines come over and plant his size 15 steel-tipped bootprint on your pitiful-tired caboose!!

[sheik yerbouty]

"Richard Conehead"... In times past, he would be called a pinhead..

[agrace]

This from a Jew of, quite possibly, the priestly line of Aaron. How heartbreaking.