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Here's the edge of the envelope on righteous indignation in print. Mark seems to have patented the words that exactly state the vileness against which he inveighs, without descending into the same pit of anger and hate. And manages to add yet more muchable quotables, as if it's as easy as snagging flies in the outfield.

Bingo!

I especially liked the label he coined "Europoseur" ...

Another home-run by Mark Steyn:

The only thing I would add is that the liberal editorialists that now smugly opine about the "mistake" of planting European Jews in the Mideast...draw this conclusion from a truly monumental historical ignorance.

Israel was primarily founded, and is still to this day composed, of refugees from Dhimmitude in the Middle East, and other lands of persecution...such as the Sharon family (then Scheinerman) which fled the Red Army in Russia. Many fled from Egypt, and various points around the Ottoman Empire, and even Iran, and India... to the British mandate of Palestine, a barren virtually unpopulated region, which England promoted as a Jewish homeland with the Balfour Declaration*...long before the United Nations "creation" of the State of Israel in 1948.

It is truly an embarrassment that the UK has waffled so much over that since. All this fence-sitting and murmuring and back-biting to placate the very oil-drenched Islamists who pretend to be civilized today. I postulate that any Muslim State which rejects Israel's right to exist...is per se not civilized. A perfect, and indeed, a Biblical litmus test of their own legitimacy, or lack thereof. And we in the West should beware those in our media and "leadership" who manifest such grave ignorance, and perpetuate and promote that ignorance, so as possibly to imperil our own status of civilization...and favor with Divine Providence.

* The first Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917: An official letter from the British Foreign Office headed by Arthur Balfour, the UK's official Foreign Secretary (from December 1916 to October 1919), to Lord Rothschild, who was seen as a representative of the Jewish people. The letter stated that the British government "view[ed] with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country".

to the British mandate of Palestine, a barren virtually unpopulated region, which England promoted as a Jewish homeland with the Balfour Declaration*...long before the United Nations "creation" of the State of Israel in 1948.

In civilized terms, it can clearly be said that the Jews enjoy "clear title" to Israel.

From the Ottomans to the Brits, via the League of Nations, and thence to the Jews -- with no costs charged to the Arabs.

The Arab neighbors may not like it but, if they were civilized, they'd live with it.

That they will not proves the point.