It's Israel's Fault, Of Course
....to the liberals, that is. Richard Cohen of the Washington Post says Israel is "a mistake."
The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.
This is why the Israeli-Arab war, now transformed into the Israeli-Muslim war (Iran is not an Arab state), persists and widens. It is why the conflict mutates and festers. It is why Israel is now fighting an organization, Hezbollah, that did not exist 30 years ago and why Hezbollah is being supported by a nation, Iran, that was once a tacit ally of Israel’s. The underlying, subterranean hatred of the Jewish state in the Islamic world just keeps bubbling to the surface. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and some other Arab countries may condemn Hezbollah, but I doubt the proverbial man in their street shares that view.
There you have it. All of the problems in the Mideast are due to the fact that Israel exists. Note there is no condemnation of the continual violence against Israel that has been going on for decades. No outrage over the unprovoked attacks on innocent people in Israel by people, like Cohen apparently, who do not think Israel has the right to exist. No comments regarding the terrorists and their wanton attacks in Israel and elsewhere.
We certainly have a mess going on over there, but the problem isn't Israel's existence. It is the existence of people like that lunatic president of Iran who believe everyone who doesn't agree with them should be annihilated. I would love to see a liberal condemn THAT, for once.
JASmius adds: Cap'n Ed offers the historical perspective Mr. Cohen wouldn't recognize if it was humping his leg.
The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.
This is why the Israeli-Arab war, now transformed into the Israeli-Muslim war (Iran is not an Arab state), persists and widens. It is why the conflict mutates and festers. It is why Israel is now fighting an organization, Hezbollah, that did not exist 30 years ago and why Hezbollah is being supported by a nation, Iran, that was once a tacit ally of Israel’s. The underlying, subterranean hatred of the Jewish state in the Islamic world just keeps bubbling to the surface. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and some other Arab countries may condemn Hezbollah, but I doubt the proverbial man in their street shares that view.
There you have it. All of the problems in the Mideast are due to the fact that Israel exists. Note there is no condemnation of the continual violence against Israel that has been going on for decades. No outrage over the unprovoked attacks on innocent people in Israel by people, like Cohen apparently, who do not think Israel has the right to exist. No comments regarding the terrorists and their wanton attacks in Israel and elsewhere.
We certainly have a mess going on over there, but the problem isn't Israel's existence. It is the existence of people like that lunatic president of Iran who believe everyone who doesn't agree with them should be annihilated. I would love to see a liberal condemn THAT, for once.
JASmius adds: Cap'n Ed offers the historical perspective Mr. Cohen wouldn't recognize if it was humping his leg.
posted by Jennifer at 1:06 AM
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