Saturday, June 5, 2010
Retirement Should Have Come Decades Earlier
Daniel Schorr, nonagenarian Senior News Analyst (that's the title bestowed by NPR on left wing reporters when they get put out to pasture by the high-paying networks), has joined the hate-Israel chorus. In his Saturday morning banter with fellow demi-Jew Scott Simon (son of 2nd banana comic, Ernie Simon, Schorr has labeled Israel's interception of the Hamas convoy, "The Hate Blockade."
I wonder if Mr. Schorr would have called the allied naval blockade of Nazi Germany and Japan during World War II a "Hate Blockade"?
Schorr cut his teeth with CBS News in 1946, working with team headed by Edward R. Murrow, the iconic, stylized voice of the network for decades, who made his bones with his intrepid broadcasts from within Nazi Germany and later for his broadsides against Joe McCarthy. For at least a decade, Schorr's punditry - as far as Israel is concerned - has toed the NPR line, namely, Israel has a right to defend itself, but must be condemned every time it does so.
For decades, NPR has unabashedly championed the Palestinian cause, no matter which flavor - the kill -Jews PLO or the kill -Jews Hamas. The powerful, publicly funded radio network feigns objectivity, but is careful to exclude all but the most lunatic, leftist Israeli or Jewish spokespersons (Noam Chomsky, Bernard Avishai, Gideon Levy).
This isn't the first time that Schorr has had to prove himself a member in good standing of that lunatic chorus. In 2009, he pundited:
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not halt settlement activity, and he offers only restraint, a nonstarter for peace negotiations. Netanyahu calls for immediate negotiations looking towards an independent Palestinian state. But his precondition is a demilitarized state, another nonstarter. A state that cannot defend itself is not a sovereign state." (NPR, All Things Considered, Nov. 11, 2009)
So, Mr. Schorr, in spite of the rampant, daily, Jew hatred spewed by the "moderate" (Schorr's word) Abbas and the doctrinal genocidal goals of Hamas, wants the Palestinians to possess a full-fledged military.
When the history of the conduct of American Jews in our time in the face of existential threats to Israel is written, Mr. Schorr and his so-called Jewish comrades in the media it will make the cowardly behavior of the 1940's seem like heroism.
Mr. Schorr obviously lacks the moral clarity of his mentor:
A final note: If you want to read a stand-up Jew, read Krauthammer's latest, brilliant piece: Those troublesome Jews
