Washington Times, that is. On a day when the New York Times prints dismal orthodoxy from Tom Friedman and Jeffrey Goldberg (and much of Goldberg's piece had appeared earlier on his blog; so much for the Times policy on no warmed-over material), the conservative Washington Times prints a beautiful piece by Denver prof Randall Kuhn destroying the idea that Gaza is anything like Mexico firing on the US.
Think about what would happen if San Diego expelled most of its
Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Native American
population, about 48 percent of the total, and forcibly relocated them
to Tijuana? Not just immigrants, but even those who have lived in this
country for many generations. Not just the unemployed or the criminals
or the America haters, but the school teachers, the small business
owners, the soldiers, even the baseball players.
What if we established government and faith-based agencies to help
move white people into their former homes? And what if we razed
hundreds of their homes in rural areas and, with the aid of charitable
donations from people in the United States
and abroad, planted forests on their former towns, creating nature
preserves for whites to enjoy? Sounds pretty awful, huh? I may be
called anti-Semitic for speaking this truth. Well, I'm Jewish and the
scenario above is what many prominent Israeli scholars say happened
when Israel expelled Palestinians from southern Israel and forced them
into Gaza.
Piece ends on a beautiful note:
Maybe some day soon, common sense will prevail and no corpus of
misleading analogies abut Tijuana or the crazy guy across the hall who
wants to murder your daughter will be able to obscure the truth. And at
that moment, in a country whose people shouted We Shall Overcome, Ich
bin ein Berliner, End Apartheid, Free Tibet and Save Darfur, we will
all join together and shout "Free Gaza. Free Palestine." And because we
are Americans, the world will take notice and they will be free, and
perhaps peace will prevail for all the residents of the Holy Land
