Thursday, April 28, 2005

Siding with the Enemy

Naomi Ragen, who lives in Israel, once again writes an interesting article with her take on what is happening with the Gaza Disengagement. Check it out.

posted by Esther @ 9:24 AM   4 comments

4 Comments:

At 4:23 PM, Blogger Dan Zaremba said...

"Years of brainwashing from the BBC, CNN, and The New
York Times (and almost every other media source) that have painted
Israeli Jews living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza as some species of
subhuman, who can justifiably and morally be shot at, blown up,
orphaned and widowed have done a remarkable job."

How true, and of course this has even stronger impact on the Europeans or even Americans.

 
At 5:41 PM, Blogger Esther said...

true enough, felis.

gindy, they were comments to the Ynet site -- so I'm guessing they could have been from anyone. That said, it wouldn't shock me if it was Israelis. Sigh.

 
At 4:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Esther and Gindy, you're right not to be shocked. We need look no further than Ilan Pappe, the University of Haifa professor, who was one of the leading proponents of the boycott by those British "academics" against the university that's paying his salary. Of course, one can only wonder why he doesn't have the decency to resign his position there, if he finds the university deserving of such a boycott.

 
At 2:19 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Patrick, in order to understand the long and complicated love affair between American Jews and the Democratic party, we'd probably have to go back in time to when the right wing stood for everything that was anathema to Jews. Also, the truth is that, for many American Jews, Israel isn't a priority. They tend to be more concerned with social policy issues, hence their loyalty to the Democrats. Then, of course, there are those of us who become positively schizophrenic on Election Day because we support the left on social policy and the right on national security, and we're forced to decide what's going to take precedence. Personally, my feeling is that after 9/11, that's pretty much a no-brainer.

 

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