Israel and the double standard. A little perspective.
Thanks to Fred Litwin for sending me this link. Some clear perspective on the double standard Israel faces from most of the world.
From Family Security Matters Org. Mark Silverberg
I was asked recently to explain why Israel was “ghettoizing” the Palestinians by constructing a security barrier in areas that have served as transit points for terrorists entering the country. The questioner noted that, as a Jew, I should be more sensitive to the concept of a ghetto, and its dehumanizing effects on human beings. I responded that the security barrier was neither built for reasons of discrimination nor motivated by racism, but as a deterrent to protect the lives of Israelis from Palestinian suicide bombers and, in fact, it has, to a great extent, accomplished its purpose.
But the suggestion that Israel may have had racist motivations in constructing the barrier disturbed me because it seems to be a recurring theme among major international bodies. I asked the questioner why she had decided to sort Israel out for “special treatment?” After all, the security barrier that Israel has constructed to keep Palestinian suicide bombers out of its country is not unlike the security barrier constructed by the Saudis to keep the Yemeni jihadists out of their country; or the one that India has constructed along its borders with Pakistan, Kashmir and Bangladesh for the same reason;or the one that the Thais have constructed to keep the Malaysian jihadists out of their country, or the one that the U.S. is constructing to keep Mexican illegals out of our country……although I couldn’t recall the last time a Mexican self-detonated in Albuquerque, or fired missiles into Dallas or Houston.
For the rest of this excellent post with a lot of irrefutable examples of the way Israel is not treated in any manner as are the rest of the nations in the world please go to this link and read the rest of this article.
Absolute silence from Lefty partisans on these torture killings…they are still all broken up about the force feeding of Muslim hunger strike prisoners at Gitmo…that is their narrow political definition of torture.
Actually for any of these insulated progressives who think torture is being too far from a Starbucks, what happened in Mumbai is off their scope of realities. They can’t relate and they refuse to acknowledge events that challenge their narrow partisan belief systems.
Comment by WL Mackenzie Redux — December 28, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
I assume you are referring to this article http://girlontheright.com/2008/12/26/on-the-treatment-of-the-jews-in-bombay-a-difficult-post-to-write/
and yes I agree completely.
I confess I feel similarly about being away from Starbucks for too long but I do believe Jews had better wake up to the new reality, which is a very old reality about the existential threat to Israel and perhaps more importantly to each individual who can be identified as Jewish by any standard whatsoever.
At this point it may be worth reminding people that the Nazi definition and one likely to be used again, was having one Jewish grandparent. That’s all that was required for a free train ride to Poland. So far, I believe that each of us secretly read about these events and tell ourselves “This doesn’t apply to me, I’m not in Israel - This doesn’t apply to me I’m not religious and never go to temple - This doesn’t apply to me I do not think of myself as Jewish” and eventually “this doesn’t apply to me I do not hang out with Jews” Yes a variation on the old theme “First they came for the…”
Thanks for writing ‘Redux’
Comment by James Cohen — December 28, 2008 @ 1:13 pm