Posted on 09/10/2001 4:58:10 AM PDT by BenF
I had the strangest dream last night. Must have beenall the chulent. I dreamed that in all of the coverage of the attacks on the Catholic school children walking to school in the Protestant neighborhood of Belfast this week, including on the BBC, CNN, LA Times, Washington Post, etc., the coverage always went as follows:
"Today some Protestant activists threw pipe bombs at settler children in revenge for their occupation of Protestant lands. True we think such violence is unfortunate, but - after all - those Catholics had it coming. The Ulster Protestants are subject to such oppression that it is entirely understandable that some of them will throw pipe bombs at Catholic children. After all, they have been left with no other recourse. While we condemn the bomb throwing by the activists and the militants, let us note that the children walking to school were equally to blame. Their presence in lands where they do not belong is the underlying cause of the bombing. It is regretable but the cycle of violence must be stopped, and the best way to stop it is to remove those Catholic children from Protestant areas in which they do not belong."
Then of course the alarm clock went off and I woke up. I quickly realized it had all been a dream. In reality, the world media, especially the British media, were soiling themselves in anguish over the horrid attacks on children by the depraved Unionist terrorists. Insisting that action must be taken at once to bring the horrific terrorists to justice, including armed intervention.
Only one itsy bitsy problem here. The British media, and the world media, have long held the view that murderous attacks on Jewish children are a perfectly legitimate form of protest. It PROVES how just the Palestinian cause must be, for why else would they be targeting children? It shows how DESPARATE the Palestinians must be to obtain their due! And the only permissible response by Israel to murders of its children by Palestinian "activists" and "militants", such as at the Tel Aviv Dolphinarium, is to seek terms and talks with the murderers. When a horde of Palestinians attacked hiking school children in the West Bank town of Beita a few years back, as a result of which one girl was killed, the whole world's media (and the Israeli Left) were screaming that the children had no business being there in the first place and that if Israel insists on provoking the Arabs by allowing children to hike on or near their turf, then what else can be expected? Indeed, the so-called "human rights watchdog" group Betselem, in reality a transparent front of Israeli leftist propagandists for the PLO, condemned Israel for having provoked the Arabs into attacking the children by allowing them to hike there!
The Israeli Left still believes that the world media spend so much time bashing Israel because Israel is an "occupier" (never mind that it removed its "occupation" of almost all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip years ago), and Israel is insensitive. This is why the only permissible response to Arab nazis murdering Jewish children is to seek terms with the killers, to make more concessions to them, to send Shimon Peres to grovel before them,, whereas shooting missiles at the murderers makes Israel a criminal state, a nation of murderers, little better than Nazi Germany.
But the differential responses of the media to the attacks on children in Israel and in Belfast belie this belief. Arab terrorism, like German Nazism, always targeted Jewish children with special intensivity. Israel, unlike the Belfast Catholics, never conducted a campaign of indiscriminant terrorism against its opponents, never bombing indiscriminantly the children and civilians of its enemy. The media inconsistency is explained by the fact that much of the world media is dominated by medieval gutter anti-Semitism. I have long believed that Israel should simply expell the reporters for the BBC, the Economist and anyone else engaged in promoting the PLO and bashing Israel instead of news reporting. SO what would they do if their people were expelled - start printing biased anti-Israel propaganda as reporting?
And the result of all the Israeli Osloid goodwill and peaceful signalling and concessions? The world media cheering on the most racist states on the planet declaring in Durban that the only state in the Middle East which is NOT a racist state must be destroyed as a "racist state"!!!!
You should know that Jews don't count.
The sad truth, my friend, is that to certain Jews, indeed the majority of Jews, the Jews don't count. It is time the faithful realized this and acted accordingly.
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