"...Jews wear homburgs..."
Jews wear homburgs? Well, I have no comments to offer about Jews in other countries, but I believe that any American man of any dispensation who wears a homburg or a derby should be shot on sight--and I don't support capital punishment. But there are some aesthetic offenses that civilization can not allow to flourish.
And this little comment: "...Say what you like about the Jews, but they don’t sit around on welfare..."
While it's true that we rarely see news stories about large Jewish welfare queens with eight children by various fathers, there are some crabby Americans who might argue that the State of Israel is one of the biggest welfare queens in history. Steyn paints Israel as though it's populated by a mass of teeming little Cotton Mathers. But without American largess...Oh yes, and the Founding Fathers of Israel despised America and longed to create another soviet in the Middle East until some more level-headed Jew pointed out that while violin players were very nice, money was a useful thing too. So they embraced their crass, commercial brothers in America and started making friends with Christians who believe Jesus won't make it back without Israel on the map.
Then there's this hilarious notion that Americans support one side or the other in this Middle East dispute. I wouldn't know--and I don't know how Steyn would know--what the American People want in foreign affairs. There's never been a time in my lifetime when the People were consulted about anything. The government doesn't even bother to declare war when it fights wars now. It just names them and produces them like Hollywood blockbusters: "Desert Sirocco", "Rumble In The Jungle", "Kick Ass in Kosovo", etc.
Steyn writes: "...As we’ve seen yet again, the principle underpinning the new Europe is not ‘We, the people’ but ‘We know better than the people’..."
Not to seem too critical, but has he actually visited the USA recently? Does he know anything about the political, economic and social practices here in the Good 'Ol US of A? Is he aware that the issues which well over 80 % of Americans believe should be speedily solved in the opposite direction--immigration, education, racial "harmonization"--are precisely the issues that will NOT be discussed? That every four years we spend millions on political campaigns where no important issues are even mentioned? And if some politician dares to speak of these issues he becomes a pariah--stuck writing in tiny towers like World Net Daily, Lew Rockwell or Antiwar.com?
And not to keep going on and on here--but have you noticed who is disappearing in this whole saga? Yep. The vanishing American. Except for an unreal, gentle stereotype like: "...My northern, rural, conservative neighbours are, when you prod ’em a little, mildly xenophobic and share a reflexive distaste for overt Jewishness. ..." (Really Mark? Those skinny guys with their baggy jeans hanging down on their butt cracks and their caps backwards, listening to hip-hop really express a bit of distaste for overt (!?) Jewishness?)--except for that, Americanshave no place in this epic battle.
We--whoever we might be--are just supposed to sit down, shut up, avoid any raw, anti-semetic outbursts--like: "What's going on around here?"-- avoid offending Islam, send our money in for bombs and nation-building and humanitarian aid and wonder-bras for the women of Afghanistan and anything else that our Betters may require of us.
But "We" just don't exist. For that matter, neither do the Europeans. They're just a bunch of silly, collectivist, feudal impotents--who naturally hate Jews. Americans are grateful to Jews for giving them a country to live in and, naturally, hate Ayrabs. Western Civilization is just a lttle fart in the wind compared to this great struggle between these two magnificent tribes who gave us The Holy Land and all it's wonders.
I have an idea....
I wear a derby, well a bowler actually, on occasion. It goes well with boots & braces.