Um, so what? Ha’aretz profiles a book that says Jews fighting for the state of Israel hid their weapons in “immoral” places, such as—well, I’m not sure. Because the article doesn’t exactly state explicitly where these caches were, except for one: Somewhere near the Lion’s Gate in Jerusalem. The false moral equivalency strikes again. What the article glosses over is the blind eye the Brits had towards the arming of the Arabs, and the vigorous disarming of Jews during the Mandate. Oh, yeah—the Brits also stood by while Arabs murdered Jews, and some of them helped the Arabs fight the Jews. But by all means, let’s equate the IDF with terrorists now in an article that describes what happened sixty years ago. Because it’s just like Hamas hiding weapons in mosques and UN buildings, and Hezbollah building rocket launchers underneath civilian homes.
The dominoes are falling: Tunisia, Egypt, now Yemen. This is definitely what the Chinese saying would call “interesting times.” When the dust settles, what will we have? Don’t ask me. I’m not an analyst, and I don’t play one on TV. However, I can guarantee one thing: Those three nations will still hate Israel and Jews.
Irony alert: The Russian ambassador to NATO is chiding whomever wrote the Stuxnet worm that it could have caused a Chernobyl. Hey, Russian dude? Your lousy technology DID cause a Chernobyl. It didn’t need a worm, just crappy safeguards and untrained workers. (Walking away mumbling, “asshole” to self.)
How does Turkey hate us? Let me count the ways: The wonderful former so-called ally of Israel, Turkey, scheduled the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic “Valley of the Wolves: Mavi Marmara Edition” to open on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Germany is preventing children from seeing the movie (but still allowing it to the over-18 crowd, so don’t worry, the college kids’ minds can still be poisoned against Jews), but they’re delaying the opening by a day. So they’re going to have to wait to see such things as this:
A trailer for the film shows Israeli officials planning to create a Greater Israel. When the Turkish special agent arrives at the Gaza land border from Egypt, an Israeli soldier asks him why he is coming to Israel. “I didn’t come to Israel. I came to Palestine,” he answers.
Right. Protocols of the Elders of Zion it is. I have two words for the producer of this film: Ass and hole. (Yes, that does seem to be the word for the day.)
Mohammed El-Baradei is heading to Egypt to lead the protests.
All Mubarak’s regime has to do is cover themselves with U-238 and nuclear centrifuges and he’ll never find them.
-ls/cm
“Those three nations will still hate Israel and Jews.”
Yes, but I think they’ll be much more explicit about it,
just like Egyptians probably hate Israel as much as
Iranians do, but Mubarak doesn’t make statements like
President I-need-a-job does.
If pre-state Jews had shot at British soldiers from synagogues, thrown grenades at them from inside schools, or booby-trapped hospitals, we might have some sort of equivalence. It’s like the “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
I hold no brief for Etzel or Lehi, who did carry out genuine acts of terrorism, but blowing up airliners, shooting up neutral airports, murdering Olympic athletes…they didn’t even dream of doing anything like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6WLdHRkA5U Not sure you have seen this. Two old guys made a pact to never reveal where these weapons for self defense were hidden. One died. The other very very old guy simply could not hide it any longer. There would be no Kibbutz Ein Hashofet without the weapons they needed for self defense.
“Those three nations will still hate Israel and Jews.”
Don’t you see that the hate for Israel was used as a weapon because they were so undemocratic ? When the only opposition to the “western” ruler is Islam than you have hate by both parties but [hopefully]when you have some freedom to choose I am not sure that they will be interested in Israel at all.
Oh, Daar. I love your optimism, but think it’s naivety. They’ve been brought up to hate Jews. Anti-Semitism is rife in the Arab and Muslim world. A change to a democratic government won’t stop it.
When the Palis were free to choose they chose Hamas. The last chance the Lebanese had for national independence was to ally with Israel against Hezbollah in 2006 and defeat Iran’s subversive puppets. they chose to tand aside because, as Meryl likes to put it, they were afraid of geting Jew cooties. So they “chose” the side explicitly against Israel, for standing aside under the then circumstances was also choosing sides.
The most popular non-Arabic books for translation into Arabic are “Mein Kampf” (the title translates into Arabic as the splendidly appropriate “Jihadi”) and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” both of which are available in numerous editions throughout the Middle East. a few years ago the Egyptian film industry, which doesn’t move without the government’s permission, made a 41-part TV series of the “Protocols.”
Meryl is right, once the repressive pressure is lifted, the Arabs will be even more outspokenly antisemitic than they are now.