January 2017 cannot come soon enough. I hope Israel survives until then.
Posted on 10/20/2015 6:58:28 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
The West has developed a dangerous concern for ‘proportionality.’
In the current epidemic of Palestinian violence, scores of Arab youths are attacking, supposedly spontaneously, Israeli citizens with knives. Apparently, edged weapons have more Koranic authority, and, in the sense of media spectacle, they provide greater splashes of blood. Thus the attacker is regularly described as “unarmed” and a victim when he is “disproportionately” stopped by bullets.
The Obama State Department has condemned the use of “excessive” Israeli force in response to Palestinian terrorism. John Kirby, the hapless State Department spokesman, blamed “both” sides for terrorism, and the president himself called on attackers and their victims to “tamp down the violence.”
In short, the present U.S. government — which is subsidizing the Palestinians to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year — is incapable of distinguishing those who employ terrorist violence from the victims against whom the terrorism is directed. But why is the Obama administration — which can apparently distinguish those who send out drones from those who are blown up by them on the suspicion of employing terrorist violence — morally incapable of calling out Palestinian violence? (snip)
The Obama “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” administration is the first postmodern government in American history, and it has adopted almost all the general culture’s flawed relativist assumptions about human nature.
Affluent and leisured ... assumes that it has reached a stage of psychological nirvana ... no longer threatened in any existential fashion ... to believe that they ... are no longer bound by Neanderthal ideas like deterrence, balance of power, military alliances, and the use of force to settle disagreements ... are free to enter a brave new world of zero culpability, zero competition, and zero hostility ... perpetual tranquility ...
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January 2017 cannot come soon enough. I hope Israel survives until then.
Long, and content rich, article from VDH [ping] this morning. He calls out the Islamic apologist interloper with this one. Big time.
Green Hellmut Guy is soon to be appearing along with Bomb Magnet Lady.
The enabling of this shite propaganda by the US media is sickening.
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