Posted on 09/19/2014 2:56:30 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
As a species, we don't seem to cotton to factsespecially when it comes to Jews Years ago, I was seated...next to a British law professor... The conversation soon turned, as conversation often does among professional intellectuals, to Israel, specifically to the then-recent conflict between Israeli soldiers & Palestinian fighters in the West Bank town of Jenin, . Oopsforgot about it already? Heres a refresher: in 2002, the IDF w ent into Jenin during the Second Intifada, after Israel determined that the town served as a launching pad for missile and rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. The 10-day operation claimed the lives of around 50 Palestinian gunmen, and 23 Israeli soldiers. My acquaintance, after repeating Palestinian claims of atrocities committed by Israeli forcesclaims that had already been roundly debunkedcapped off his assessment by saying, What happened in Jenin was .... As a liberal American Jew, Im tired of apologizing for Israels actions regarding its own security, and as of last month, Im done with it. .. Israel, despite its highly imperfect record (unlike that of, say, America or France or England or Pakistan or Kenya or Argentina
) is the worlds sole guarantee against another frenzy of murderous hatred against my people, a hatred that is once again raising its voice, and fists, not only among the dispossessed Muslim residents of Europe, but, most especially, in the official organs of the chattering, and highly influential, classesso much so that the off-hand remarks of my ...dinner companion seem almost reasonable. In Pakistan,. 1,000 women are murdered in honor killings by their families every year. In Nigeria, Islamic militants have killed more than 1,500 people in 2014, according to Amnesty International. And the death toll from the slaughter in Syriajust spitting distance from Israeladds up to a robust 191,000.,,,
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Israel, despite its highly imperfect record (unlike that of, say, America or France or England or Pakistan or Kenya or Argentina ) is the worlds sole guarantee against another frenzy of murderous hatred against my people, a hatred that is once again raising its voice, and fists, not only among the dispossessed Muslim residents of Europe, but, most especially, in the official organs of the chattering, and highly influential, classesso much so that the off-hand remarks of my ...dinner companion seem almost reasonable. In Pakistan,. 1,000 women are murdered in honor killings by their families every year. In Nigeria, Islamic militants have killed more than 1,500 people in 2014, according to Amnesty International. And the death toll from the slaughter in Syriajust spitting distance from Israeladds up to a robust 191,000.
Of course the best time to grab Iran as an ally is when the regime is on the ropes. That way they’ll be beholden to the US, and it will be extra sweet for them when the Great Satan thinks they have their back and instead they stick the knife in.
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