Thursday, December 15, 2005
There truly is a sickness on the European Left (though I realize some readers will protest the qualifier "European").
Honest Reporting: New Statesman Demolishes the Truth
In 2002, the New Statesman, a British left-wing journal, gave us an infamous front cover entitled "Kosher conspiracy" featuring a Star of David standing on top of a Union Jack, for which the editor was forced to apologize following widespread condemnation.
So perhaps it is unsurprising that the New Statesman's latest edition compares Israeli actions to those of the Nazis during Kristallnacht, the destruction of mosques by Bosnian Serbs, and the eradication of entire villages by Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Sudanese regime in Darfur...
What Israeli actions does the New Statesman condemn so roundly? The removal of illegally-built Arab homes -- actions any government anywhere would take. (Note that this is not the same demolition that occurs as an economic sanction against the families of suicide bombers -- they are two separate issues that critics enjoy confusing.)
Read the rest for some very useful info on this issue.
