Thursday, October 22, 2009
In which Marty Peretz discusses:
1. The Fall of Human Rights Watch 2. The J Street Circle Jerk
"Ours is an age when the moral authority of accusers is at its height. Also the moral authority of accusations. There was a time when accusations had to be proven. That requirement has long since passed. After all, why would anyone bear false witness? So everybody is a witness, especially those with phantasmagoric tales to tell, especially those who yearn to testify against liberal societies which have established and proven processes to alert their own demos about evil. There are many of these foul witnesses: some ideologues, some ideological liars, some resentful, some haters. Like haters of Jews, of which in the arrested world of Islam there are more and more. As there are more and more among philo-Islamists, a cultural sickness in the West not yet fully gauged."...
Read it all.
Here's another piece on the Goldstone report, which was linked in the comments to the above article. It's by Harold Evans, appears (shock) in The Guardian CIF and is entitled, "A Moral Atrocity", with which who can argue.
Now if you're unfamiliar with Comment is Free you'll understand my surprise at seeing this article and sure enough the discussion thread is full of deleted comments. Go figure.
Nevertheless Mr. Evans has his say.
Maybe it will at least get some people thinking and maybe they'll even make the connection between The Holocaust, Holocaust Revisionism, the wars against Israel and now the attempted delegitimization of Israel.
You think?
I always figured the first use of the expression "Circle Jerk" on this blog would be in reference to an 80's punk band. Saw them play at The Channel back in the day!
Islam is going to reinvigorate Western Civilization. Lets hope that sooner rather than later the Western New Left and their attrocious anti Western antagonism and policy advocations will be the subject of common ridicule in the public sphere in the very near future. It cant come fast enough.