Victor Davis Hanson: Gaza -- It’s All Our Fault - Blaming America on CNN is all the rage.

National Review Online ^ | June 14, 2007 | Victor Davis Hanson

[neverdem]

June 14, 2007, 0:00 a.m.

Gaza -- It’s All Our Fault
Blaming America on CNN is all the rage.

By Victor Davis Hanson

One of the more depressing things of being stuck in airports during East-Coast June storms is watching CNN and its parade of glib fools that appear hourly blaming (but, of course) the U.S. for the miasma in Gaza and the ongoing creepy Fatah/Hamas killing.

I lost count of the various contortions. One talking head censures the Americans for not recognizing Hamas despite its refusal to disclaim its reason-to-be of undoing the Jewish state.

Another cited the “culture of violence” unleashed by the U.S. (read Iraq) — i.e., apparently the West Bank was like Nantucket until 2003.

Yet another lamented our support for elections that ushered in Hamas, as if the generic support for democracy makes us culpable for the odious government that the people freely chose to elect. (As if one who voted for such a terrorist clique would expect the United States to keep subsidizing it; as if one would have to keep talking to Hitler because he was once elected).

And then, of course, was the most Orwellian of all — our failure to support (e.g., send arms to) Fatah! (Is a terrorist organization no longer a terrorist organization when it is one-upped by another terrorist organization?)

An alien from Mars would almost instantly diagnose the problem of the Palestinians from simply listening to their inane apologists: The problem is not the acquisition of the final seven percent of the West Bank denied in the offer to them at Camp David, but the pathology of a victim culture, one that has learned, through playing the card of terror with simultaneous appeals to multicultural guilt, how to shake down Westerners for their money, attention, and pity.

And now for the very life of it, it can’t figure out how to quit that lucrative habit — so much so that, teenager-like, it simultaneously seems to cry “I don’t want anything to do with you” and “I don’t want anything to do with you even more because you don’t want anything to do with me.”

Never a word about murderers having free will and being responsible for their murdering — much less recognition that a culture that canonizes suicide bombers forgets that once they banish the rules of civilization there is no reason why such savagery would not be turned on themselves.

The only interesting comment came from one “expert” who swore this wasn’t a civil war! — the type of Middle Eastern savant we have heard the last two years swearing that Iraq is torn by?

A full-fledged civil war, of course.

[neverdem]

VDH

[freeangel]

If you lay down with dogs, you’re going to get fleas. Why anyone would trust muslims is beyond me.

[Tribune7]

bump

[ExTexasRedhead]

The blame goes to Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Hitlery, Kennedy and the rest of the terrorist-loving Liberals. Turn Israel loose before the powder keg blows and the fallout arrives at our doorstep.

[The Blitherer]

The talking idiots at CNN and other MSM outlets must be even more frustrating for brilliant people like VDH who actually KNOW something.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is a book (now available in paperback ):

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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
(Hardcover)
by David Horowitz

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And reviews:

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Editorial Reviews

Rich Lowry, Editor National Review

David Horowitz is synonymous with pyrotechnics. A historian and polemicist of the first order, he is paid the ultimate compliment --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle

An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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See all Editorial Reviews

Fascinating Analysis of Leftist Goals, August 13, 2006

Reviewer: N. Sincerity - See all my reviews

A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia.

The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us,

Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.

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[SueRae]

Spot on.

And I can relate to the disgust I feel when trapped in any public place with CNN on, watching the bobbing heads in agreement around me.

I’m sure they will find a way to blame us for any and all of it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Damn leftists....

[JamesP81]

It might be unchristian to say so, but....

If a bunch head chopping terrorists are hell bent on killing each other, then I say let em go at it.

If we were smart, we'd sell arms to both sides.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[popdonnelly]

Liberals live in an alternative universe. An objective observer might say that the various Palestinian factions are to blame.

[familyop]

Vic would be amazed at what we can learn after staying away from television garbage and rhetoric addiction for a time. Obfuscations begin to look surprisingly weak, and we begin to avoid candidates whose records conflict with their speech.

President Bush Calls for New Palestinian Leadership
The Rose Garden
June 24, 2002
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020624-3.html
"The United States, the international donor community and the World Bank stand ready to work with Palestinians on a major project of economic reform and development. The United States, the EU, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund are willing to oversee reforms in Palestinian finances, encouraging transparency and independent auditing."

Quartet Joint Statement
Summary
July 16, 2002: Text of a joint statement issued by the "Quartet" (United Nations, Russian Federation, the United States and the European Union) following their meeting in New York
[Document behind the link.]
http://europa-eu-un.org/articles/sk/article_1489_sk.htm
"The new international Task Force on Reform, which is comprised of representatives of the U.S., EU, UN Secretary General, Russia, Japan, Norway, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and which works under the auspices of the Quartet, will strive to develop and implement a comprehensive action plan for reform."

Bush and Sharon disagree over Israel's future
Wednesday June 27, 2001
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,513410,00.html

Sharon presses Putin to drop UN resolution on road map
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1013908/posts
4 November 2003

Bush on Israel: Heartburn for All
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844641/posts

President Abbas asks Congress help to release PNA funds withheld by Israel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844647/posts

Bush releases money to Abbas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844646/posts

Rice: Better to have Hamas in power than in streets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733397/posts

Rice: Palestinians deserve to live free of ‘occupation’[at an event of pro-Palestinian group]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717847/posts

US Supplies Fatah With Arms, Rice Decries “Occupation”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718348/posts

Rice: Israel Must Withdraw from More than Gaza and Samaria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333354/posts

2004 Republican Party Platform
(see the info about our Jerusalem)
http://www.gop.com/media/2004platform.pdf

US pressure prompts delay of [Israel’s] offensive (”We do not want escalations” - White House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680983/posts

Vatican Condemns Israel for Attacks on Lebanon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665678/posts

Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast - State Department seeks to delay supply
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681771/posts

US, Europe to shun Jerusalem Day celebrations
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832905/posts

After 40 Years, U.S. Avoids Jerusalem Reunification Day
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832955/posts

[Gritty]

[eleni121]

Far worse on PBS—National Pubic radio and we pay for it!

[eleni121]

You may not be far off the mark: BBC through their mouthpiece here - PBS - interviewed a Pali who said that it was Condoleeza Rice’s fault that they were slaughtering each other!

[driftless2]

I like to use the law of Occam’s razor on the mideast problem. Which is of course an islamic problem. Maybe the underlying main problem is that most of the people causing the stupid, violent problems are violent and stupid. And maybe their religion helps make them that way. Or is that just a flip judgment?

[decal]

“Gaza — It’s All Our Fault - Blaming America on CNN is all the rage.”

No, it’s Israel’s fault for confining the Pallies by building their security fence.

Now the Pallies are like rats trapped in a coffee can; the only thing they know how to do is kill people, and the only people around are themselves, sooooo....

[expatguy]

http://laotze.blogspot.com/2007/05/al-gores-global-assault-on-dignity-last.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks E.