Tuesday, January 27, 2009
From Charles Jacobs, in full:
Alan Dershowitz calls it "Hamas' CNN strategy." When Palestinians fire a rocket that kills a Jewish child, they win. When the Israelis fire back and inadvertently kill an Arab child, Palestinians win even more. "Look at my dead babies!" they cry to CNN, which eats it up and rings the cash register. Dead Arab children seem to be the life blood of BBC ghouls. Well, certain sorts of dead Arab children.
You see, the stipulated motive for this anti-Israeli outcry on the part of the media and the "human rights" activists -- the "deep concern" for murdered and maimed Arabs -- is a disprovable fraud. Look at the math.
Since the establishment of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Arabs and Muslims have been butchered, most of them by Arabs and Muslims. Israel's "contribution," including all the wars and the two Intifadas has been quite small -- in proportion to Arab deaths -- yet it disproportionately fires up the media and the "human rights" establishment.
In Iraq, on average, scores of Arabs are killed, assassinated daily. Every week one reads how a Sunni blew herself up and killed 40 or 60 Shiites. Babies included. Guess what: This is not headline news. Nobody makes posters of these dead Arab babies. CNN cameramen don't get excited over this particular carnage.
Algeria: In 1992, civil war broke out. Psychopathic Islamists with machetes hacked to death 110,000 Algerian civilians. No tears flowed down the cheeks of Western "rights activists." No pictures of these dead Arabs -- babies, children, women and men -- appeared on posters in European or American streets. No marches to protest on behalf of these murdered Arabs. Maybe it would be seen as Politically Incorrect to show a non-Western culture as barbarian. Can that possibly outweigh the souls of the dead Algerians? To "rights groups" -- yes it does.
The Syrian dictatorship killed 10-20,000 civilians in the town of Hama, in 1982. No photographers were allowed of course, but there were images of the dead on the internet. Yet you never saw any of that on a "human rights" poster.
In Darfur, the jihadis are slaughtering and enslaving African Muslims. Darfuris do get some notice, but only because the PC "Save Darfur" movement bends over backwards to hide the war's cause: age-old Arab imperialism. But guess what: the hard anti-Israeli left, with its Islamist allies, defends Khartoum and calls the Save Darfur movement a Zionist plot. (A Zionist plot to cover up Arab imperialism in Africa?)
All this does not begin to account for the millions of non-Arabs and non-Muslims murdered, enslaved, subjugated and/or dispossessed by jihadis -- in this century alone. Christians in Iraq, Sudan, and Egypt murdered and enslaved. Somehow their dead children don't evoke pain in the hearts of the anti-Israel crowd.
This is a fraud: These folks are not deeply concerned about Arab deaths. Their tears flow only when Jews (fighting back) cause these deaths. It's not about human rights. It's not about dead children. It's Western guilt, now focused on Jews.
Well done, exceedingly so!
so it is ok to kill babies if other kills them. great concept it will lead to peace. text is moronic, grotesque, stupid, it just approves of killing kids.
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious. What 'pictures of the dead' were posted on the Internet in 1982?
Baxul is just plain stupid. Jacobs simply meant to show how hypocritical the Israel bashers are, since they claim to be moved by dead Arabs, but are only moved when Jews are the ones who shoot them. So it's not the dead Arabs that brings them out -- it's the Jews.
Jacobs made this so clear, it's undeniable. He never said it was ok for Jews to kill babies... and Baxul knows that. He just can't deal with the hypocrisy of those lefty crocodile tears.
you can talk to me in second person not in third i'm not going to misbehave :D
ok, my bad, so the point is "not to be moved by dead babies", if that side (some arabs) has done the same thing some time ago. or the point is "you should not criticize inhumane behavior of one side if other side (some arabs) have done same thing some time ago" , or the point is "it is too late to do some thing about dead babies because you should have done it some time ago".
anyway you look at this, the message is "don't be bothered by dead babies".
btw, i never mentioned jews or muslims or ortodox, or indians or german or brazilian or any nation or religion, i was talking about rhetoric of given guy. i have nothing against anyone and you know it mate.
calling me stupid hehhehe you are right.
peace
It is well known that hamas is a death cult that teaches martyrdom, teaches their children to aspire to become suicide bombers with kid sized bomb belts.
No matter what, the children of hamas are damaged goods for the rest of their lives thanks to hamas and its death craving islamist ideology.
Eddie:
I don't disagree with you. But unfortunately, it's not good enough to say that "it is well known". Believe it or not, plenty of well-meaning people still think of Hamas as a public service organization, and simply won't believe your description of their culture of death.
So you need to have information to show people. This might be a good place to start.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
baxul is stupider than even i thought: he says "anyway you look at this, the message (Jacobs' column) is "don't be bothered by dead babies".
NO, no no. The message is "If you are only worried about dead babies when Jews fire the shots (and to be fair, they tried NOT to shoot the babies, used as shields by Hamas.. any fair person would include that in his message) then you are not a person who is motivated by "human rights" at all. You are just using these dead babies to express hatred of Jews.
It's simple, Baxul: fess up, dude! Where the hell were you when Arabs killed Arab babies -- exponentially more than Gazans have been killed. So, basically you are a hypocrite. Simple as 1,2,3. No?
Daniel, I looked at about half of the pictures if kids indoctrinated from birth in islamofascism.
Sickening.
I wonder how many palestinians end up shooting each other - accidentally, on purpose, getting carried away by the moment.
I'd like to see the South Boston church and the csmonitor and "progressive" activists see these same pictures. I'm guessing they would write it off as "resistance".
The best thing to do is COMPLETE SEPARATION. Let the islamofascist live in their islamofascist fantasy.
Maybe after 100 years they will see the light.
Maybe the UN should be relocated to Gaza. Let the UN see what is going on each day. Let the UN bring all their expensive cars, expensive dinners to Gaza and pump in cash to the Gaza economy.
Maybe the UN should be relocated to Gaza.
*laugh*
I like it! Goodness knows, the UN could hardly be more anti-Israel for doing that.
Can someone give me a good reason why this is a bad idea? (UN diplomats need not apply.)