Where is the great Anthony Lewis? Here: Ezra Klein at TAP:
There is nothing proportionate in this response. No way to fit it into
a larger strategy that leads towards eventual peace. No way to fool
ourselves into believing that it will reduce bloodshed and stop
terrorist attacks. It is simple vengeance. There's a saying in the
Jewish community: "Israel, right or wrong." But sometimes Israel is
simply wrong.
Spencer Ackerman at firedoglake:
The Jewish writers who consider Palestinian life to be worth a fraction
of an Israeli life will start braying about antisemitism, because when
Palestinian bodies are charred in the streets, the real victim is a sensitive Jew's sense of collective guilt.
Matthew Yglesias at thinkprogress:
The Israeli government, seemingly dissatisfied with the results of their earlier effort to just make life as miserable as possible for residents of the Gaza strip went and killed a couple of hundred people in retaliatory airstrikes.
And Adam Horowitz at Mondo!
"There is nothing proportionate in this response. No way to fit it into a larger strategy that leads towards eventual peace. No way to fool ourselves into believing that it will reduce bloodshed and stop terrorist attacks."
This is accurate.
The assault is a bad means to pretend to attempt to accomplish a good end, the safety of Israeli civilians within their borders.
One of my missions in life seems to be to remember people that Matthew Yglesias and Josh Marshall were for the Iraq war. In my book they won't be missed when they, along every single jew who was favourable to the war (before it started) finally take their trains.
We who had our eyes open before the war started will always remember how much those guys worked against any understanding of what kind of people was behind the war efforts. You sheeple go along with the idea that lots of media jews were a force for justice. I have seen the opposite. A little few were. I won't be fooled. I will not wave goodbye when accountability catches those warmongers. I will not even take notice, let alone do anything to stop those whom fate provides the will and the power to do something effective against those extremist jews who desired war, got it and now point their fingers at Bush and Cheney.
And make no mistake. The enemy of those extremists is not the palestinians. No nation that harboured extremist jews got them out without losing several million citizens. That's history whether you like to hear it or not. And history, it seems, is on your heels.
Israel isn’t doing anything the Americans didn’t do to the Indians and the Mexicans. A couple of hundred years ago Manifest Destiny justified the killing, the ethnic cleansing and the dispossession of the heathen savages –a process that started with Columbus’ discovery. Today, Israel’s Right to Exist justifies the killing, the ethnic cleansing and the dispossession of the Islamic extremists, as we know they all are deep down inside.
The hypocrisy all around consists of the claim that civilization has progressed.
Amnon, we're not living a couple if hundred years ago. If we were, we'd still keep slaves. What people thought was all right 200 years ago isn't thought all right now.
Off Topic.
Jim Haygood&trade wrote down there in the dungeons:
"I'm going to have change my name–from now on, I am JIM HAYGOOD (all caps). I beg Bill Pearlman and
MRW (or American, or Anonymous, or whomever) not to do this anymore."
Did you know that kind of statement might get me a promotion? If I can impersonate Jim Haygood&trade then I have become almost a genius in english language. From third world monkey to Shakespeare's housepet, I am the very meaning of evolution… But then I wake up.
But I will not clarify things either. I will say again. There were other nasty commentators when the blog was still in the Observer. At the time of transition some things that should be kept hidden were exposed and then it was revealed that Bill Pearlman (the sog) was a consistent entity. He was himself all the time, that wicked creature. I am myself all the time because I consider myself a non entity in this debate, more like a nuisance than a real agent. As for the impersonator I think he is nothing more than another uninteresting characteristic of Mondoweiss, like the captcha test, for example. Then again, I believe americans will face lots of impersonators when they start to resist jewish extremism, therefore it's also a useful exercise do deal with him, anyway.
Father Ted,
two hundred years from now, the descendants of these murderers, ethnic cleansers and land-thieves –while enjoying comfortable living in a Mega Israel that will stretch from the Nile to the Euphrates — will be making excuses for them in the same we excuse Manifest Destiny.
No doubt reservations will have been set aside for Arab survivors, if any.
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DO NOT FORGET MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD AT "THE PROGRESSIVE":
Bush Winks at Israel’s Slaughter in Gaza, While Obama and Clinton Are Silent
By Matthew Rothschild, December 27, 2008 @ progressive.org
Israel recklessly bombed Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 205 Palestinians and wounding at least 350 more, according to Palestinian health officials.
This wholly disproportionate response to Hamas’s immoral but largely ineffective rocket attacks on Israel is guaranteed to further enflame the Middle East.
Not lost on anyone there will be the Bush Administration’s winking at Israel’s attacks.
White Houses spokesman Gordon Johndroe laid all the blame on Hamas……….
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to progressive.org