Posted on 10/01/2009 11:26:35 AM PDT by mojito
I hate to write about this, but I have actually been to this play before and it is really disturbing.
I was in Israel interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just before he was assassinated in 1995. We had a beer in his office. He needed one. I remember the ugly mood in Israel then — a mood in which extreme right-wing settlers and politicians were doing all they could to delegitimize Rabin, who was committed to trading land for peace as part of the Oslo accords. They questioned his authority. They accused him of treason. They created pictures depicting him as a Nazi SS officer, and they shouted death threats at rallies. His political opponents winked at it all.
And in so doing they created a poisonous political environment that was interpreted by one right-wing Jewish nationalist as a license to kill Rabin — he must have heard, “God will be on your side” — and so he did.
Others have already remarked on this analogy, but I want to add my voice because the parallels to Israel then and America today turn my stomach: I have no problem with any of the substantive criticism of President Obama from the right or left. But something very dangerous is happening. Criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the Rabin assassination.
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He was less concerned when the left boasted of their desire to assassinate Bush. In fact, he wasn't concerned at all then.
ESAD Tom, we’re on to you.
He should probably move to Canada.
Did this Jack-off miss the book and movie about assassinating Pres. Bush? This mutant moron just wake up under his rock? What a maroon.
Did these morons all just wake up from an eight year nap?
a mood in which extreme right-wing settlers and politicians were doing all they could to delegitimize Rabin, who was committed to trading land for peace as part of the Oslo accords.
Gee, people fight for their lands, families, and future are extreme right wing. Who knew. Does that mean American Indians are Republicans? Ditto - everyone else in the world. The absence of intellect required to read such trash boggles the mind. By all means lets assume those who don’t agree with us are disposable. Believe there are a few historical figures that fit that description. Can you guess who they might be? Yes we can!!!
Better than anyone else I know, Thomas Friedman can start with a simple, obvious, one-sentence concept and “condense” it into forty-one pages of self-important bullhockey. And yet manage to get it so very wrong.
“I hate to write about this”
Actually, some of the real wacko “threats” I’ve seen against Obama have come from left-wing loons, not right.
What a sleezy puke - where was this man’s “concern” over the last 8 years with all the vitriolic anti-Bush rhetoric including the comments about killing Bush (not to mention that movie about his assassination)????? Tempest in a teapot is all his blathering is.
“He should probably move to Canada.”
Hey, we have good Canadian FReepers here.
I don’t like what obama is doing to this country but I’d jump in front of a bullet to protect him just like most Americans would. He is our president. Like his politics or not.
Is he ‘deeply concerned’.....or just ‘concerned’? /s
Venezuela would be more to his liking.
I told a friend of mine that Obama gets many death threats every day. Debbie said that is nothing new, she used to volunteer to open White House mail, when they were literally swamped with it, during Bush 2 presidency. She said he got just as many threats and mean emails as Obama gets now. She said it is the same old same old, nothing new. She said they had three form letters to send back. One was thank you for your comments, when they were positive comments. One was Sorry I disagree with you, when the sender sent negative comments. But when the letter or email was threatening to the president, those letters all had to be checked out by SS, FBI, etc. Obama is just the golden boy of the left, and they are sensitive to death threats to him. They don’t care if Republicans get threats.
Besides, in case the moron hadn't noticed, most assassins are left wingers. And they don't warn their victims with death threats.
I think he just assumes that most of his readers are morons.
I don’t get it...why would an American be influenced by a previous Isreali atmosphere and try and assassinate Rabin when someone already has. /parody of the absurd
Tom, whachoo smoking?
I would only jump in front of a bullet to save my husband and our children. NO ONE ELSE ON EARTH IS WORTH that to me, since I am not a policeman, fireman, soldier, SS, etc.
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