Sunday, April 07, 2002

A look at David Horowitz's two most recent columns for the Jewish World Review show that he's a typical conservative commentator. That is to say, he spends lots of time talking about what a terrible president Clinton was, without once mentioning Clinton's many un-Constitutional and illegal acts--because of course conservative politicians are just as guilty. comment () trackback ()  11:49:36 PM     Our Enemy Is One. The Western media reports the current battlefront as though it were an Israeli Goliath against a Palestinian David, or at best a moral equivalency between two irrational neighbors. But there is no moral equivalence here. The West Bank and Gaza were annexed by Jordan and Egypt fifty years ago with no Arab complaints. Israel has absorbed a million Jewish refugees from Arab lands and the Soviet Union with no complaints. The 3.7 million seething refugees who live abject poverty on the West Bank, and who have received more than a billion dollars in aid from Israel and the rest of the world are refugees only because the Arab states themselves have rejected them and kept them in poverty so they can be cannon fodder for the holy war to push the Jews into the sea. The "Palestinian problem," is entirely a creation of the Arabs themselves, a product of their refusal to live side by side with any infidels they think they can destroy. Ahh...David Horowitz....a guilty pleasure. He's hit the nail on the head though--the history is largely forgotten (laziness and/or mendacity) and our (America & Israel) very survival is at stake. I'm really not being alarmist. [Counterpoint] I don't know much about David Horowitz--my only previous exposure to him was the fuss about the "reparations for slavery" campaign. I agreed with him on that, and I agree with him again here. Perhaps I should read more about him. comment () trackback ()  10:45:05 PM     BBC.  Interesting development.  The EU is considering sanctions against Israel.  It's buried in the article. >>>The foreign minister of Spain - which currently holds the European Union presidency - said the EU would discuss imposing sanctions on Israel if it continued its incursions on Palestinian territory. "Some countries are in favour of introducing sanctions very, very soon, others are more reluctant," Josep Pique said.<<< [John Robb's Radio Weblog] No mention of which countries most supported the idea. Germany and France are no doubt at the top of the list. comment () trackback ()  9:10:38 PM     A router died in Sacramento on Friday that's keeping me from connecting to Clan Lord. It still hasn't been fixed, which is a bit annoying. Usually outages like this get fixed pretty quickly, but this one has lasted for two days (so far). comment () trackback ()  12:59:45 PM     Media Bias and Moral Equivalency, Part Two. The second context in which the media has shown a bias is in how they represent various 'peace offers' by the Arab nations. For example, let's take the most recent such offer, which was supposedly 'derailed' by the Israeli response to the Passover Massacre, the Peace Initiative of March 2002 proposed by Crown Prince Abdullah at the Arab League summit. [...] It is obscene that the western media can look at this proposal and characterize it as anything other than a call for Israel to unilaterally surrender in return for which the Arab nations offer nothing of any substance. [Michael Bernstein's Weblog] I've noticed that the inclusion in the Saudi proposal of a "right of return" for Palestinians was downplayed or ignored in much of the US coverage. Perhaps the US media doesn't see anything noteworthy or unusual in the idea that a 20 year old terrorist who was born in the West Bank, and whos parents were born in the west bank, should somehow be considered a refugee. By that standard, I have more of a claim on being a refugee in California, because my parents weren't born here! comment () trackback ()  12:41:15 PM

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