Posted on 02/21/2003 7:15:36 PM PST by SeenTheLight
I’ve asked myself on many occasions: “When there are so many other countries in the world that do injustice both to their own people and to others, why does the Left focus so exclusively on Israel?”
What about China’s occupation of Tibet or Syria’s occupation of Lebanon? What about the repression and tyranny of the Arab nations surrounding democratic Israel, including the Palestinians who, let’s not forget, practice honor killings, lynch “collaborators,” suppress the media, and whose leaders funnel funds meant for the people to terrorists?
The real reason the left hates Israel is two-fold. First of all, they have been hijacked by Palestinian Nationalism and secondly, they don’t like uppity Jews. And to mollify those who will immediately claim that anti-Israel sentiments do not amount to anti-Semitism, let me just say that I don’t buy it.
I’m not sure when Palestinian Nationalism began to seep into the Left’s dogma, but it appears to have been in the last 15 years or so. I first noticed this trend during a protest of the Gulf War, where I saw pro-Palestinian propaganda with a distinctly anti-Semitic edge to it. It was around this time that the term “Zionists” began to be used as a fill-in for all Jews who simply supported the continuing existence of the state of Israel and as such, were deserving of contempt. In short, “Zionist” became the politically correct term for “Hebe.” The years since have only solidified this pattern and these days, the anti-war protesters are more hateful than ever.
I’ve had the unique experience, while taking part recently in counter-protests, of witnessing the wrath of the Palestinian Nationalists up close and personal. The graying hippies wearing Intifada T-shirts and spitting in my face, women in burkas unfurling Palestinian flags in front of my signs, Arab-American teenagers telling me they want to “kill all the Jews,” and being called a “Zionist Pig,” are just a few of the precious moments I’ve taken home from “peace” rallies. This is the ugly side of the anti-war movement, among others, and they don’t want it publicized.
Indeed, the formerly celebrated Jewish liberal Michael Lerner, has recently been excommunicated for daring to criticize A.N.S.W.E.R., the main organizer of the anti-war protests. This is apparently a no-no among a movement that doesn’t tolerate dissent. Lerner also committed the crime of refusing to consign Israel to the dustbin of history. He didn’t go along with the program and for that, he became persona non grata.
The Left only likes Jews as long as they’re victims, passively marching to the Nazi death camps, or in this case, to the Mediterranean Sea. They can deny that they’re anti-Semitic by pointing to their loyal Jewish comrades, who fail to recognize their enemies. These Jews are acceptable because they either want the destruction of Israel too or at the very least, won’t stand in the way. But give a Jew a gun or God forbid, a tank, and suddenly they become the enemy. The Left, it seems, prefers suicidal Jews to tough ones.
The Left demands nothing of the Palestinians and everything of the Israelis. What, besides anti-Semitism, accounts for this double-standard? The anti-war crowd can continue to try and claim the moral high ground when it comes to questions of war and peace, but none of it will ring true, so long as their blatant hatred for Jews festers in the background.
Why do you resort to commie buzzwords and sloganeering? Why do you parrot the left? Every Arab nation has driven it's Jews out while 1.1 million Arabs live in Israel.
In the left a cause is known as a "struggle". As in the "struggle" to free A of imperialist domination by B. Or the "struggling" peasants of X.
Because they are self-sufficient and do a great job of taking care of "themselves" without any help when allowed to so!
A Judeo-Christian God perhaps, but not Allah.
Get new freinds.
Gee, maybe the Israelis should behave like some of the democratic Islamic Republics and just kill anyone who isn't the "right" religion....
God has an explanation of why the world hates the Jews and that is because it is through the Jewish people that God gave us Jesus Christ.
When Jesus Christ died on the Cross, Satan was defeated for all eternity. Since then, Satan has worked ruthlessly to obliterate the Jewish people, and while millions of Jews have been slaughtered by those acting as servants of Satan (Hitler, etc.), there will always be a remnant of Jews that God will protect, and the Jewish people as a whole will one day return to God.
God tells us that this hatred of the Jewish people will continue until "the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled". The fact that the worldwide Left hates Jews and hates Israel is merely a confirmation of what God has told us about this situation. After all, we are all aware of the fact that the 2000 presidential election was divided almost equally between those who attend church voting for Bush, and those who do not attend church voting for Gore.
And we are all also aware of how the Left, in this country at least, has formed organizations of themselves dedicated to removing as much of God from American public life as they possibly can (ACLU, People For the American Way, to name but a couple) and in so doing have declared loud and clear the side they are on and the position they have staked vis a vis matters concerning God.
The Left hates the Jewish people for this reason, and will contine to hate the Jewish people. But as God told Abraham: "I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you". It is a stupid and dangerous decision to make, to declare war on God, but that is what the Left has done in many ways, including their decision to hate the Jews, and they, like all others in the history of the world who have made the same choice, will lose badly.
Simpleton. Israel happens to be at war. This is what you do when you have a population of Jihadists trying to kill you.
Your reasoning is far better than mine. You hit the nail on the head.
And they support the weaker side in order to be seen as rescuers, givers, and providers. Thus they create a bond of dependence to those they "help." Israel has always been fiercely independent and resourceful and the parenting-government liberals just can't have that kind of unruly behavior now, can they.
Suggested reading for historical insight in novel form: "The Haj" by Leon Uris (who also authored "Exodus").
Sounds like you're well rid of him.
I have come to my own conclusions. Why do you parrot the right? And you have not explained still why Israel denies non-Europeans and non-Jews fundamental civil and property rights. Stick to that please. All people should enjoy fundamental civil and property rights, and I don't care what their religion is. Don't give excuses.
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