Gaza/Hamastan ERA watch: The women in Gaza are not allowed to dance with men, but they’re allowed to blow themselves up in mixed company. Now that’s progress!
Yes, and that’s the purpose of a blockade: Wikileaks released cables of Israel telling U.S. diplomats that Israel was planning to bring Gaza’s economy to the brink of ruin in order to starve out Hamas. This, of course, is what passes for “news” in the anti-Israel crowd. Um. Keen grasp of the obvious award, I think.
What have they got against Paul McCartney? Israeli leftist groups are up in arms against a proposed bill that would investigate where their funding comes from. They’re calling it “McCarthyism.” Here’s the thing: There actually were Communists in America, working against American interests, during the McCarthy era. So are the lefty groups in Israel saying that they’re taking foreign money for anti-Israel purposes?
Yet another unreported attack on Israel: It is not news when Arabs fire rockets from Gaza into Israel. It is only news when Israel fires back. Just as it isn’t news when Israelis are hurt, but 1500 wire stories go out if an IDF soldier causes a Palestinian to stub a toe. Israeli Double Standard Time rules are in effect.
If “McCarthyism” means anything–and it’s pretty much one of those words now, like “racism” or “fascism,” that simply indicates the speaker doesn’t like something–it means guilt by association, e.g. assuming someone is a communist because his brother is or because he went to a meeting sponsored by a front organization. The acme–or nadir, I’m not sure–of the abuse and twisting of the word out of any reasonable meaning was when it was considered “McCarthyism” to call Angela Davis a communist. No, it’s not “McCarthyism,” it’s “a fact.
Anyway, investigating where they’re getting their money from is not McCarthyism and I wonder what such an inquiry will find. Certainly digging into J Street’s funding didn’t do J Street’s moral standing any good, did it?