Posted on 02/18/2005 7:59:31 AM PST by quidnunc
As a first time visitor to England many decades ago, the thing that impressed me most was how incredibly polite everybody was. By the time an Englishman approached within ten feet, he was already calling out, "Excuse me."
Civility is not the first thing a visitor to England would be likely to note today. Indeed if there is one thing in which the English, particularly the educated classes, seem to excel today it is vituperation.
All the old taboos against expressions of hatred have fallen. On the verbal level at least, the manners of soccer hooligans have been adopted by the chattering classes. Two days after 9/11, Philip Lader, former United States ambassador to the Court of St. James, was reduced to tears on the BBC's Question Time as the studio audience chanted anti-American slogans, while the BBC moderator sat there impassively.
Carol Gould, an ex-patriate American living in England for many years, describes a seen on a London bus, in which a tweedy Englishwoman, accompanied by a son in his public school uniform, set upon a hapless, elderly American tourist, telling her, "I rejoice every time I hear of another American soldier dying! You people all deserve to die in another 9/11." When the elderly American began to cry, her assailant grabbed her and started shaking her.
When the taboos start to fall, the weakest and shortest-lived taboo — that against open expressions of Jew-hatred — will be the first to go. Penelope Wyatt reported in the Spectator a few years back, a liberal lord's relief that, "Thank G-d, we can once say what we want about the Jews." …
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(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
I just read the Title- And YES IT CAN.
The BBC was just blasted for a Fake story- (PROPOGANDA) on an Arab Israeli officer who was fired for refusing to shoot Palestinian children.
The story was fabricated. COMPLETELY FAKE.
Good find.
Here we go!
The world is dividing into Anti-Semitic and Pro-America/Pro-Israel camps.
Jews can be relatively safe in two places, now.
The older I get, the more I value my guns.
Jews are the canary in the coal mine.
"Nothing captures the insidious drip-drip of Jew hatred provided by the British media so clearly as the continued ritual invocation of the "Jenin massacre" two years after it was conclusively established that no such thing ever occurred. In the annals of shoddy, propaganda journalism, the reportage of the battle in Jenin by the British media, including the BBC, deserves a full chapter.
The British press did not just distort and credulously accept at face value the most fantastic stories woven for them by Palestinians, they lied outright. Phillip Reeves of the Independent, informed his readers that Israel's cover up of a "monstrous war crime . . . has finally been exposed. . . . The sweet and ghastly reed of rotting human bodies is everywhere, evidence that this is a human tomb." Yet we now know that neither Reeves nor U.N. Middle East envoy Terje Larsen, who spoke of an overwhelming stench of death permeating the camp, could have smelled any such thing for the simple reason that there were too few bodies. After initially reporting 5,000 Palestinian dead - an estimate dutifully reported by much of the British media - even the Palestinians themselves admitted in the end that the total number of Palestinians killed did not exceed 56, and that most of those were armed fighters.
And it is doing so as a result of a lying press.
Possibly the large muslim population instead??
I'd like to pose this question honestly and without any hidden intent. Why does this article about anti-Jewish bias in the British media begin with the first two examples being about persecuted Americans, not Jews? Is the author saying that if the Brits can turn on the Americans, the Jews must be next? Or is he trying to link a synonomous relationship between the USA and the Jewish People?
Instead of hitting you head on with facts, it seems to be trying to set something up in advance, or attempting to frame it somehow. Since this isn't an area I'm up on, I just didn't get it?
Hi, do you have a link to this story? Thanks.
The afore-mentioned Carol Gould describes bringing a video cassette to a copying shop she has used for years in London, and being asked angrily by the proprietor, "Is this another one of your Jewish-Holocaust things?" He proceeded to launch into an attack that he told her he had been saving for years. It begins, "You people should look in the mirror and wonder why every so often there is a Holocaust or massacre or pogrom. You bring it on yourselves," and ends, "The Jews have no right to a country. What makes you people think you have a right to a country?"
The implicit equation of Jews and Nazis are now employed by everyone from the Mayor of London on down. To mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Spectator printed a piece by one Anthony Lippman, the son of a woman who survived Auschwitz, who wondered, "But for a turn of fate, could I have been a Nazi too?" His point is that Jews today have morphed into Nazis.
Yep, that all fits.
[I]t is permissible today in English society to utter any possible lie about Jews and Israel, but speaking truthfully about the deformities of modern Islam will earn one a tirade about Islamophobia.
Paging Cat Stevens . . .
Danke...
The flower-children of the 60's are all grown up now, and are in leadership positions throughout the world - In government, in the boardroom, in the universities, and in the press. They are intent in recreating the world in THEIR image, and in doing so, are in the process of completely unravelling "Western culture," as it represents the concept of the communist notion of the "bourgeoise elite."
I really can't wait for this generation to pass, so the world has a chance at sanity again... Either that, or for the Lord to return and set things right once and for all. Either way, we'd be much better off than having to put up with this crud for much longer. :)
I've also sent a check to the "Friends of the IDF" which provides assistance to familiies of active duty/wounded/killed Israeli military.
I'm not a Jew, but it's surprising what a good feeling trivial acts like that has given me.
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