Thursday, August 5, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Michael J. Totten: "The Greatest Collection of Nightmares on Earth" - '...Most Israelis are here because they fled from Muslim and European countries. They don't feel that either of those blocs have the right to lecture them about anything. Why should a country where your parents were expelled or killed have the right to tell you how to conduct yourself in a war against people who are trying to kill you today? This is something hardly any non-Israelis understand. They don't understand how galling we find this. Israelis are often accused of being arrogant, but they find it extremely arrogant for Europeans and Arabs to lecture them about morals, especially during a war. What has Israel ever done that is as brutal as what Europe did to the Jews, or what Arabs routinely do to even each other during armed conflicts?...' [Excellent interview with Benjamin Kerstein.]
Islam has a far bigger role in this conflict. It is the conflict
ziontruth said...
Kerstein: “It’s not my business to tell the Palestinians whether or not they exist.”
It is your business to counter an anti-Israeli propaganda fraud. The “Palestinian nation” is nothing but a masquerade for propaganda purposes.
Kerstein: “I think people who say the Palestinians don’t exist are...myopic, to put it delicately.”
And I think people who believe the Phakestinians are an actual nation are blind, to put it delicately.
Kerstein: “Now, there are some Israelis who say the Palestinian national identity didn’t exist until after 1948, which is not necessarily untrue. You can make the argument that Palestinian national identity as we know it is basically a product of the Nakba.”
That’s the best refutation of the claim of their existence. What national identity is built upon opposition to something? A national identity requires positive foundations, such as a history!
Kerstein: “To say they aren’t a people doesn’t strike me as an honorable argument.”
You’re not dealing with honorable people, Mr. Kerstein. When will Jews finally get it?!
Kerstein: “but I also have the right to say that they don’t have the right to determine themselves upon the destruction of Israel.”
But that’s all they are, have been and will be about!