Good article. If Middle Eastern Christians are going to settle here and prosper, they better get on the Judeo-Christian stick. Instead of blaming Cruz, they should have minded their manners and not booed.
“...an audience of persecuted Arab Christians...”
Huh?
The Jews are persecuting Christians???!!
What!!!?
These people must be brought up by complete ignoramuses in ignoramus schools.
How ignorant. Even for the Times
Gotta say, I grew up on Long Island in a catholic and ethnic environment
I Never heard anything about hating a group of people until I was older, working among less educated people.
Honestly.
I never heard a word about hating Jews nor the word anti-Semite.
And I went to college with Jews, then worked in manhattan with Jews.
They didn’t share my faith, and vice versa.
No big deal for either.
they were educated and professional more than any group I’d been with, and they contributed, historically, and contemporarily to the local and larger culture.
The museums, symphony, and the hospitals were fed by the Jews.
and any anti-Semitism I met with since I always attribute to ignorance and visceral, ingrained, formed hatred. Form a young age, these bigots are taught to hate.
It surprises me, as it insults not only my sensibilities, but my sense of logic and judgment of character that the Jews who run the New York TImes can hate Jews so much, let alone, at all.
It is so ignorant. It is such a waste of reading time.
Persecuted Christians!!
What the hell is Douthat they talking about?
What is he talking about?
The Israelis have Nukes. For protection.
Cruz walked out of this gathering of a group of frauds in a sensible response.
They are not Christians. Christians don’t lie, nor hate.
And they certainly wouldn’t accuse Jews of persecuting them.
The New York Times is sinking into an abyss for lack of readers, but their ignorant self hatred won’t allow them to be introspective.
Last week in the Sunday puzzle the clue was “——— be praised”. Not saints - allah
Well, they are not referred to as a muslim rag for nothing
But this is beyond
Cruz did the right thing, leftists hate that
Meno to Mr. Douhat:
You shouldn’t try to make Ted Cruz angry.
You wouldn’t like Ted Cruz when he’s angry!
Douthat is nothing more than a NYT blogger that has no understanding.
I never liked Douthat. Talk about a person who thinks he’s an elite being...that’s Douthat.
The Muslims have been a pain in Israel’s neck since 1948. As Spengler notes, the Muslims have been a pain in the Catholic and Orthodox communities’ necks since before then, even before the League Mandate, arguably back as long as there’s been Islam. It is essentially the same enemy and the same fight, and the Israelis didn’t start it. That’s not an opinion, sectarian or otherwise. That’s simple observable fact. This argument doesn’t make me want to say “screw those guys, let them die.” We need to do the right thing for them. But neither does it make me any more inclined to reconsider my take on the situation. It is what it is.