Hatemail of the day

And the hates just keep on coming.

I got an email from some idiot who wrote the following comment, which I did not approve, as it violates the No Israel-Bashing rule.

Wow. They used international humanitarian aid as bait before committing their massacre, just to make sure there would be a handful of militants mixed in with the civilian deaths. Why doesn’t Israel just start painting the Red Crescent symbol on their tanks? It’s about as honorable.

Typical anti-Israel crap. I don’t waste my readers’ time with it. Apparently, chaos4700 took offense, and tried to show me the error of my ways.

I find it disgusting that you celebrate this atrocity against the Palestinian people. Your own blog shows you not only know about Israel’s duplicity — the fact that the “peace process” has been nothing bit a ruse to discredit the notion that any sort of compromise is possible — but you embrace this duplicity with open arms. It’s clever that Israel fooled Hamas by sending in a few scant humanitarian shipments as a false show of good faith? Maybe that’s considered acceptable behavior to Zionists, but the rest of the world would consider that a crime.

Let’s see. A war is an atrocity, lulling your enemy into a false sense of security is a war crime, Israel doesn’t really want peace (those tricky Jews!), and, um, somehow, I’m in league with them, and the proof is on my blog. Wow. Who knew I was so big and powerful?

Then there’s this:

Maybe that’s considered acceptable behavior to Zionists, but the rest of the world would consider that a crime.

If anyone but Israel did it, the rest of the world would be writing about how clever it was to fool the enemy that way. But note the first slide towards anti-Semitism, starting, as always, with a slap at Zionists. Tip of the iceberg. Wait for it. We’re heading down the slippery slope to anti-Semitism.

Israel has been planning this massacre for months — your own blog posts constitute evidence of that. They’ve been planning it as far back as the unilateral withdrawal itself, if Dov Weissglass’ own words are to be believed.

Okay, Junior, let’s start with propriety. If you’re going to cite someone’s words, how about you, ah, cite them? Reference, please? What? No reference? Of course not. I am omniscient, or something. My own blog posts constitute evidence of that. As to the “massacre” tag: No, it’s war. The most they can come up with lately is an estimated 62 civilian casualties out of 364 deaths. It’s an UNRWA estimate, and so, suspect. But let’s go even with that. That’s an 87% terrorist death toll. On the other hand, Hamas has killed four Israelis, including one soldier. That’s a 75% civilian death toll. Which deaths should more properly be called a “massacre”?

You and your government have made a mockery of diplomacy and you’ve turned your back on everything the rest of us fought for when we helped saved the Jewish people from the atrocities of World War II.

Hey, genius: I’m an American. But let’s take a closer look at the latter half of this sentence:

you’ve turned your back on everything the rest of us fought for when we helped saved the Jewish people from the atrocities of World War II

Nobody saved the Jewish people from the Holocaust. Nobody. Let’s stop making shit up and stick to the facts, shall we? The liberation of the death camps was the result of the defeat of Nazi Germany. It was not an intended result. It was an unintended result. Evidence of the destruction of European Jewry was hidden or denied and ignored by America and England. Please don’t think I can’t see through this tactic like it was made out of Saran Wrap. You don’t give a shit about the Jews. Witness:

How dare turn around and commit atrocities of your own and betray the memories of those you lost to the Holocaust — the memories of those that many of us lost, because Jews were not the exclusive victims of those crimes.

Yeah, we were. The Holocaust is about the destruction of the Jews. Yes, others died in the death camps, and many died as a result of the war. But Hitler singled out my people for complete and total extermination. First Germany, then Europe, then the world. Read up on your history, jackass. Start with the phrase “The Final Solution.”

Note the tactics. Mr. Would-Be Troll pulls the old “Jews are just like Nazis, only worse because of their history” bullshit. Then he tries to minimize the Holocaust. Here’s the thing. We would be extremely happy not to have the Holocaust as part of our history. But it’s there, no matter how hard Holocaust-deniers try to say otherwise. Tired of hearing about it? Go complain to the Europeans. It’s their fault it happened.

Next, out come the anti-Semitic standards mixed with the Chomsky talking points. Israel, the criminal state, should not exist, etc., etc.

The rest of the world isn’t fooled, anymore. For sixty years you’ve answered the crimes committed on your own people by inflicting them on others

Talking Point Number One: Israelis are Nazis. Check.

Talking Point Number Two: The existence of Israel is a crime.

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I’m sorry, what? I fell asleep.

I’m not telling you this because I expect you to listen to me, or to care about anyone you don’t consider fully human

Talking Point Number Three: Channeling neo-Nazi drivel. Check. (Note: This one isn’t a Chomsky talking point, it’s a David Duke talking point.)

I’m telling you this so that you remember that there really was a choice, some time in the future when we’re all suffering the effects of Israel’s crimes against humanity, much like we all suffered from the effects of the crimes of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. You remember that you helped sow these seeds; unfortunately, we will all have to suffer the whirlwind thanks to you.

Talking Point Number Four: Jews are responsible for all the world’s evils. Check. Note that here we have two breathtaking pieces of Jew-hate in two sentences. The Jews are to blame for the “crimes” of Israel today. The Jews were to blame for Nazi Germany and Communism, too. Say, where have I heard this stuff before? Oh, that’s right. On every neo-Nazi site, everywhere. Stormfront, much? Your mask has fallen off, you poor little faux Palestinian supporter. Seems to me that you’re not so much interested in protecting the poor, poor, pitiful Pals as you are expounding on your hatred of all things Jewish—which of course, includes Israel.

Told you. I can smell an anti-Semite from six miles away, and not just because they tend not to shower regularly.

I doubt it will ever actually touch you directly — I imagine you’re affluent enough to remain afloat even in the economic crisis that is going to leave myself and many of my friends close to destitution,

And here we have the “rich Jew, poor me” neo-Nazi stereotype. I hope my readers will take this as a learning experience: So many of the Jew-haters out there hate us out of sheer envy. I do not doubt that this jerk is close to destitute. That’s what comes of being unable to qualify for a job that doesn’t including having to ask “You want fries with that?” all day long. However, unless “affluent” is now defined as “able to pay your own mortgage,” well, no, loser. Sorry I don’t fit your stereotype, but there you have it.

and since you’re safely ensconsed here in the US you’ll never have to witness the suffering and the horror that is war for yourself

Um, wait a minute. First I’m Israeli. Now I’m American. Learn how to edit your own hate mail, genius.

By the way, this creep is coming from an IP address in Madison, Wisconsin which, while decidedly loony left territory, is still in America. Which means that he won’t be experiencing war anytime soon either, since he’s safely ensconced here in the U.S. Hypocrite, thy name is chaos4700.

I’d like to say that you’ll have to live with your own demons for the rest of your life as a consequence of the crimes you endorse, but I imagine you will sleep farily soundly. I have no illusions that appealing to your sense of humility and compassion will bear fruit. So there is really little more to say.

You’re right, Bucko. I sleep just fine. Because I don’t have kassam rockets bombarding my homes and schools and playgrounds and parks. I don’t have Hamas snipers firing on my farmers. I don’t have bomb shelters built in my schools and at my bus stops. But Israelis do.

THIS is why the IDF is firing on Gaza today:

There’s a saying I used to have in college that’s appropriate to use now: Eat shit and die, chaos4700.

Don’t bother sending another email. You’ve been killfiled.