The subtle delegitimization of Israel, one article at a time: What’s missing from this AP article on the Western Wall? Any indication that the Wall is, as they now boilerplate it, “the holiest place where Jews can pray.” Now, compare that with any article that mentions the al-Aqsa mosque. If you can find one that doesn’t immediately follow that with “Islam’s third-holiest site,” I’ll print this post out and eat it.
Wait for the world to shriek over this: Sudanese refugees are heading back home, insisting that Israel is worse than Sudan. Because in Israel, the Janjaweed are raping and pillaging? Nope. Because in Israel, Sharia law is forced on everyone? Nope. Because in Israel, Islamist militias do pretty much whatever they want and the rule is of fear, not law? Nope. Because he can’t get work. Look, I feel for these people. But Israel is not obligated to take care of every refugee in the world. Let their fellow Muslims in Egypt help them out. What’s that? Egypt puts them in wretched refugee camps, beats them, murders them at will, and tries to send them back to Darfur? Huh. Go figure.
He should have operated: A German Jewish surgeon walked out on a man because the patient had a Nazi tattoo. Sure, he got another surgeon to do the job, but he should have done it. He lost an opportunity to change a bigot’s mind. And he gave the neo-Nazis and other Jew-haters more propaganda points. Israeli doctors operate on suicide bombers. This guy should not have walked out.
Mad Mahmoud speaks, anti-Semitism occurs: Now Israel is an “insult to humanity.” Of course it is. It’s full of Jews who can defend themselves. That’s the main reason so many nations around the world loathe Israel. Damn Jews don’t know when to lie down and die already. Oh, and that speech was made to the latest Gaza convoy. This one’s chock-full of “activists,” including those who fought the IDF on the Marvelous Marbly Marmalade. They’re planning on going to Egypt and then getting into a ship. My money’s on their not getting in.
I too think he should have stayed. Still — it just occurred to me: what if he had felt so shaken at the sight of the swastika that he feared that he might not be able to concentrate properly on the operation? In that case, better he should find another surgeon.
Then he should have made that very clear. This one’s a win for the Jew-haters.
Then again, if David Duke was on fire on my front step, I wouldn’t so much as spit on him to put it out. So who am I to judge?
Gotta side with the doctor on this one. He should have refused and told him to seek medical care from any of the six million his heroes murdered. Sorry but you still have to be a human being at the end of the day.
The Jewish surgeon was in Germany, not Britain.
At least it affected him; so many disapora Jews, especially in the younger generations, would not care at all. At least this guy was had some reaction. I see so many Americans Jews and those from other countries who could care less about their Jewish heritage, and even if they did, they could care less about Israel’s survival. Just the other day the Washington correspondent for Haaretz wrote a long piece defending George Soros, perhaps American’s leading public anti-semite, and attacking Glenn Beck. Maybe Beck acts like a loon sometimes, and is a bit over the top, but his criticisms of Soros are accurate, factual and supported. He is absolutely right on about this evil man who collaborated with the Nazis, tried to defraud the major Jewish charity in Great Britain, and blames Jews for anti-semitism. Yet this correspondent, Natash something or other, would hear none of the legitimate criticisms, in her effort to rehabilitate this monster.
Fixed the post. Thanks, BethesdaDog.
If the surgery had gone awry, the surgeon would be under suspicion of causing harm to the patient. He was right to recuse himself and bring another surgeon to take his place.