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The War of Ideas in the Middle East
"How can I know if the particular anonomously reported story is accurate or not? I can’t when it is from the New York Times. I can’t when it is from Electronic Intifada.
Can You?"--Witty
Assuming said story is reported accurately, what do you have to say about it--
other than pointing out it's anecdotal?
Gellian opened by asking you what you had to say about Rania's story.
This comment thread was initiated by a post of "Just one more of the millions of stories of what the occupation means for the civilian population of the West Bank and Gaza ."
An arrest on the West Bank there, an arrest of Judicial Notice of the Occupation here, courtesy of Richard Witty.
The devil is in both the details and lack of them.
Witty does not care; he lives in the USA, protected by hired goy cops in a gated suburban community. If anyone verbally attacks him he can always cut off their head by charging anti-semitism. Witty's got telflon, and he knows it.
Witty does not care; he lives in the USA, protected by hired goy cops in a gated comminity. If anyone verbally attacks him he can always cut off their head by charging anti-semitism. Witty's got telflon, and he knows it.
Anybody here wanna pick Witty as his foxhole buddy? How about Israel?
LOL. So Phil goes on as he does, leaving the regulars here to answer Dick Witty's mental problems all directed at him. ROFL. Although the USA's future is at stake,
it's just another case of two jews disagreeing amongst themselves about the future
of the jews, the best way to assure jewish "continuity."
I'm sure the founding fathers would be glad to hear it. And my children and grandchildren.
Obama needs to read Robert Baer's The Devil We Know for an objective view of
Iran, and, hopefully, towards a less insane and suicidal foreign policy in the Middle East. So do our congress people. Fat chance.
Yes, Shirin, you are correct. I wonder if Ben Gurion knew he was paraphrasing Hitler?
I'd guess he did.
On the issue of Israeli policy and practice Mister Witty keeps double books. He's like
Madoff's lone accountant for the larger enterprise that was the Madoff ponzi scheme.
And Witty has never been a soldier, nor has he been a dissenter to the hasbara orthodoxy that rules over the dissent comprising most of this blog and the very reason for its existence.
Witty, it's quite obvious you are not a lawyer. Why pretend to be one? Your words
contain amazing ignorance. I hope you are a better accountant for your client's sake.
Not primarily an oppression?
Hamas in particular is participating in cycles of violence, controlling the progression?
You are what you criticize.
Those myopic Warsaw Ghetto guys in the old days, why did they ignore so much
the rights of others?
NO apologist for settlement expansion? Now that's big of you Witty. I take it you take the settlement expansion back to 1967? No? And no significant Palestinian right of return either, huh? What a guy! You call that mutal respect and mutal empathy?
It is the MSM that has been shunning the issues and facts presented on this blog for decades, shunning the Fourth Estate's responsibility to the American public. Shunning as democracy. Our congress and executive branch have all also been towing the bipartisan line. A river of disinformation and obstruction carrying the highest stakes.
Witty is akin to a "holocaust denier" who attacks some trees and misses the forest. Was there really 6 million killed; did they make soap out of jewish flesh; did they make lampshades out of jewish skin? Did they really exterminate jews like cockroaches with Zyklon B? Personally, I can't distinguish Richard Witty from any Nazi. Can you? How so?
It's all three, quite obviously. So it's not even a question.
Who started it was relevant to the Hatfields and McCoys?
More relevant was that eventually the wider society had to get involved and allowing
the two extended families to continue was not in the interest of the larger polity.
There must be a divorce settlement enforced by the larger polity.
The same one that created the shotgun wedding in the first place.
Tell me if this material is different than the "proles commenting on Mondoweiss"--
link to jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com
What the heck is Mooser talking about?
Mooser and Witty
Conway Twitty
Itty-bitty
Polka dot
Bikini
Island 2 bomb
2 nuke
Neither is Cool Hand Luke
How is it that "ever new sets of commentators try to acquaint Witty with the facts" and
simultaneously you imply there are always so many "proles in the comment section?"
How do you differ from either of your characterizations? J accuse Witty?
So, now settlement expansion and life under the occupation are not part of the same cloth? And the Warsaw Ghetto is not part of the cloth spun from the invasion of Poland? All just feeble and dishonest attempts to form a star pattern in the sky?
About as informative as the Diary of Anne Frank. Or the bible anedotes--how about those for some coincidents? Who actually wrote any of that stuff? And why?
Witty says he "will remain a skeptic."
However, plese notice over the years how he has remained a skeptic plastered to one side of the coin of reality. This would not matter, except his side of the coin has dictated American foreign policy for many decades and is the only one flashed in
the USA MSM for public consumption. The basis for a free country, the give and take
of facts and ideas for citizens to become informed, their first duty, is negated.
Why don't you practice what you preach?
Witty, you're way of picking apart a tree here and there to ignore the forest reminds me of the way
the Holocaust revisionists operate. further, you would call those people "Holocaust deniers;"
yet you object when people here see you as an Israeli occupation denier. You want
the American/English rules of evidence--are you familiar with how such rules of evidence were tossed out at Nuremberg?
Witty: "solely a wartime series of incidents"
Sort of like the Wannsee conference in 1942 up until when?
History never repeats itself in exactly the same way. How many American soldiers or Hessians (Blackwater, et al) or IDF or settlers have ever been punished for despicable acts against the occupied Palestinians? Propaganda apart, there was no mechanism in the Nazi administration of the occupied regions for protection, of the population against German abuses and atrocities. No German was ever found in the wrong and punished, no matter what he did to a Russian.
I am ashamed of my country and of its senior partner, Israel, both of which I support against my will.
No, tell us more about that "dog fight" you speak of, the one between the pit bull and the
poodle?
Here's some context for Witty's "means and end question."
link to upi.com
Historians are in conflict as to whether Dalet Plan D was essentially to be a defensive "temporary occupation" or an aggressive expansion, an occupation. Although the early phase of it was couched as defensive, the later phase was less clear; in fact
the military leaders were given blank checks. The proof is in the pudding of course.
link to en.wikipedia.org
I was merely trying to point out that circumstantial evidence is involved in many crime cases where there is no smoking gun, so to say. In a real court case there would be more dots connected. The court or jury may reason
from circumstances known or proved to establish by inference the principal fact.
BTW the Nuremberg trial is quite a case in that the rules of evidence were thrown out
intentionally, as well as criminal procedural law; forensic evidence was hardly used at all.
circumstantial evidence:
Evidence that proves a fact by means of an inference. For example, from the evidence that a person was seen running away from the scene of a crime, a judge or jury may infer that the person committed the crime.
Nice summary. OTH, imagine the VP taking over, or Pelosi. I wish we could catapult
Nader or Paul into the White House. Kuncinich?
V: Stating the obvious about the USA ivory towers, which are no longer ivory at all; but thanks--your info comparing Israel higher academia with the USA's is of great value in making a contrast. V, how about European academia? I suspect it's even
worse there than in the USA....
Thanks for the video. Yes it does.
I'd bet that the wiser Old South plantation owners had many slaves who thought they
had it pretty good, the house staff being only the most obvious. Then there was the
indentured whites Up North. And the early factory workers, the line boss, the supervisor, etc. And so, down to the system we have today.
How has Obama changed our banking system in any root way whatsoever? The old players are the new players. Goldman Sachs et al. Will Obama come out in favor of
Paul's Fed Reserve transparency audit bill? Will he actually do anything about the Israeli settlements?
Is the cash for clunkers a net good?
Where is he headed in Afghanistan?
Will he sign any health plan bill, just to have a bill passed this term?
You read my mind. The whole process can be graphed by following the always trending up income gap and/or consolidation of the news media.
Thanks v
Interesting to apply that template to the USA itself; hard not to conclude the masses
have not also been neo-colonialized.
v
pls elaborate.
Samson Option. Whose walls would come tumbling down?
Here's a brief comparison of Rhodesia and apartheid S Africa and what became of their respective white populations after they lost world public opinion and accrued boycott. Neither is an easy analogy to the I-P conflict, especially
since the demographic percentages are much more even in the I-P conflict and neither former rascist African state was ever conceived of as a place to continually expand white immigration; rather the whites were there as a cadre to milk the natural resources.
link to catholicgauze.blogspot.com
Assent is agreement, dissent disagrees.
Both sides have motives, both professed and sometimes not. All dictators and wannabees always proclaim they
act in the best interests of the people. Every lobby group in our land does too.
The character of consent and dissent often is most revealed by looking at the ox to be gored; it is a question of both ends and means, creed and deed.
Those pesky rats, they chewed up my washing machine hoses. Looking for water
I was told. I said to the woman installing my new (expensive) hoses, "Must have been Palestinian rats." She ignored me. They got my dish washer too.
And, BTW, the Israeli Rwy System engines and cars is now being updated by Germany; Germany will also maintain the new equipment.
And now on the actual Israeli Rwy System: Israel just instituted a hiring policy to favor Jewish Israeli IDF vets over Arab Israelis, who got booted since they can't serve in the IDF in the first place:
link to seachange.wbumpus.com
That was sweet, Margaret, seriously, but please reread Phil's nightmare train dream.
My grandfather also worked the railroads in the age of steam, and my father in the age of diesel right up to the time Pearlman destroyed it in the USA; the simple mechanics
of rail switches is much too simple a metaphor for suggesting what needs to be done
to change direction.
V
Great POV on Phil's dream. At the highest macro level, the train is the train of time, the insurance industry's life charts. Next level below is your methaphor, how the world
is running on the tracks. Then your (sub)metaphor of the USA train particularly. But it seems pretty clear Phil's version of his own dream depicts a train of jews, running along jewish powered rails, followed by atomistic anti-semites in pickup trucks with cheap cigars clenched between their teeth. Within any of those trains
your extended metaphor of the inside of the train works nicely. I am also not on the train, I am on the tracks with you, finding debris to derail all those trains. We don't have a chance. History does not repeat itself for no reason. Eichmann lives.
A train might get you there faster and without personal effort, but you can't stop it and
you only get the passing view it provides--and derailment affects all on board.
Now, a pickup truck...
Why is it necessary to be not only a good person but a jew? What's the difference between being a good person and being a good Jew? Is there a DNA connection as
there is with certain medical afflictions?
Right, and let's nuke David Duke?
Here's a mouthful on the herd of congress people whisked off to Israel to send Obama
a huge signal to lay off the "settlements":
link to intifada-palestine.com
Actually, both the Christian Zionist American and the Israeli immigrant of 20 years, who is
clearly an American also, have interesting counter issues and neither are clearly wrong.
Kathleen,
your post reads like a hip-hop song
which makes me think
is there a war of ideas in the Middle East
or just a small skirmish
a really
tiny one
like they're doing now
with the health plan?
In the end the big insurance companies will rule
same as the big bankers.
Yes. They at least question the Professor Gates mentality. The paranoia of the Nazis, now taken over by the new PC narrative. In the beginning it was actually the reverse
in terms of cause and effect, affect. Bottom line: no political program will ever get to the bottom of of this--worse, an individual will always have no power to change the
back n forth.
If memory serves, Phil was booted from Adsense with no clear explanation. Oscar's thoughtful suggestions seem to me not to sufficiently address that Phil's blog occupies a unique niche, being a combination of very personal and daily accounting, a blend of
(soul-searching) micro and (political, historical, philosophical) macro regulars here most appreciate. Maybe the proper vehicle is a comic book companion, which could be sold
separately, beginning with regulars as initial subscribers?
Witty would have said the same regarding movement against the apartheid S African goverment? O f course not; isolation relating to BDS is diffirent in his eyes when it comes
to Jews.
RE: Witty:
"I definitely do not adopt the reasoning of BDS for two reasons:
1. I have severe distrust of the motivations of the proponents (in their willingness to use force, in the variable lack of follow through after success – of which South Africa is an important example).
2. The failure to pursue peace, which requires recognizing the others’ concerns as valid, indicated by pursuing an intersection of needs."
Do you apply this logic also as to how to handle Iran? Did you support BDS on apartheid SA back in the day? Do you think we should change our current SA foreign
policy?
No. Each is only normal, like any German officer during the Nazi period. That's the whole problem.
There's an old maturity rule that parents should not argue/fight in front of their children. They should iron out their differences behind closed door, presumably when the
children are sleeping. At the proper time thereafter, the parents are to present their
united front to the children regarding the undesired conduct sought to be eliminated.
It gets more complicated as facts are added, e.g., say a grandparent lives in the house or it's an apartment house and neighbors live in tight proximity, etc. Moving beyond the extended family context, more and more people may be impacted even
if they'd like not to be, including complete strangers. Is it immature of them to speak out? Is that always motivated by vanity? No man is an island, nor any family, nor any community.
Right, Witty, the Arabs don't know about refrigeration, or giving you the benefit of the doubt, can't afford it. You are wasting your talents-why not join the dwindling
pro-circumcision crew?
Witty is the bad side of Jews, just as Phil is the good side.
So, you fart a lot as a veggie? Hitler had the samw problem with flatulence.
Well, Richard Witty, because the NY Times is "all the news fit for youse."
As usual, you ignore the larger context, in this case, the reputation of the aformentioned newspaper over scores of years in the context of the USA's constitutional Free Speech mandate. Should Ford's newspaper have been
PC? The only difference is that was then, this is now. The goy king is dead, long live the jew king. You are the snarky one.
THE EMPEROR'S CLOTHES
Lyrics by Invincible
Phase 1: Air strikes all day and all night
Phase 2: Rockets hit the Gaza strip with phosphorus
Phase 3: Ground attack how we gonna counteract?
Boycott Divest and Sanction
Israel– you should be ashamed
Kill and maim 1,000's of civilians in our name
Claim you hitting terrorists but children in your aim
Even murder relief workers blood spilling from they brain
While they tried to drive the ambulance, damn they couldn't stand a chance
Even bomb students, hospitals, mosques, Rafah, and Khan Yunis
Shot em in the back like the cops to Oscar Grant…
And in each case the good ol' united states sponsored that
7 million a day that we pay tax and AIPAC's lobbyists is robbin us
Sometimes it feels like they're ain't no stopping this
BUT now nobody can deny it cuz you made it too obvious
Naked truth exposed like the emperor's clothes
The struggles getting hotter and the temperature rose
Since 1948 when you formed the state
Palestinian people still defending their homes
They aint been surrendering, NO
Boycott Divest and Sanction
Cuz they even bombed the United Nations
Look, i'm Israeli, my government's so arrogant
War criminals who call Palestinians terrorists
For resisting extinction and occupation
Comparing this to genocide and reservations of Native Americans
Its a massacre! Kick out they ambassadors!
Divest from their apartheid like South Africa
Boycott em like King to Montgomery buses,
Show them we want peace but only with real justice
They murdering the media and witnesses left
We gonna stop shopping at all the businesses that invest
In building they settlements and gentrifying our corners
Illegal walls over there and the US-Mexico border
Build a worldwide movement til the truth is heard
And supporting the Israelis who refuse to serve
All the C.O.s who AWOL when deployed to Iraqi stations
All the people rallying while the cops are chasing
If we enlisted in the system we got an obligation
We ain't got the patience, time to stop the occupation
Boycott, Divest, and Sanction
Til there's right of return for displaced and reparations
Thanks, kylebisme. Powerful video about jumping to conclusions. BTW, check out the hat on the hasbara goon--it's the same hat worn by the Jewish kid in South Park.
Obama has already decided not to put any financial or economic pressure on Israel. In fact he's rubber-stamped an increase in material benefits to Israel. So why would anyone, including Obama, think jawboning will accomplish anything but the thinnest veneer of change? Rhetorical question?
Telling response, Richard Witty: "There is no permanent national right to land."
So you agree with Goering. Great. One giant step for Lebensraum policy on God's little green acre. And too your "democracy is in the present." Again, telling on your POV. Thanks again for being honest. I guess that's a clarion call for the current, but fading fast white Americans, since their role as "the majority" will soon be over. Nicht Wahr?
If might makes right, then so was Goering, and the Nuremberg Trials were just kangaroo courts, and as well, all the "crimes against humanity" and "wars of aggression" etc. Similarly with the international watch dog agencies and Geneva conventions, etc. I don't
think either the USA or Israel learned any lesson. I think they both have shown that
Goering has been their mentor. I do not support either the USA's or Israel's foreign policy. From a Palestinian POV, the main reason I think they suffer is that they have
no economic clout.
How so, "a prescription for war?"
The whole video advocates opening up your mind and heart to the plight of the Palestinians--made clear by the Jewish girl talking about her mother at the end. Everyone in the USA is well aware of the Israeli narrative, and simultaneously most are completely ignorant of the Palestinian narrative; this
manipulation of public opinion has not been, nor is it, in the best interests of the USA
or Israel. Remember Dylan's Blowin' In The Wind"? Informed consent is everything
in a free society. Conversely, misinformation guides the dogs of war.
It might help at the grass roots level if public education reintroduced Gym and Civics
classes.
Or why not AIPAC brand petroleum jelly for all existing and wannaB American politicians? To ease the thrust when they bend over for their aspiring Eichmannesque careers...
Exactly. The Jews are always the exception to rule.
In Re Dick Witty:
"Did you shrink from conflict Citizen, as a soldier? Thats what would have happened if you were motivated by your aversion to blood, as civilians are rationally."
A soldier is in a box. He is suppose to follow orders. I was a teen age soldier. True, at Nuremberg that was not a defense, but the reality is different. All the power is on one side. You wouldn't know that, Richard Witty, since you never fought for the USA, or even in the IDF. I did not shrink from conflict, Mister Witty. I actually fought the US Army as an 18 year old private. You are a joke.
A soldier is not sickened by blood? Well, I was a soldier and I was. Am I alone?
Witty, you need some real life experience that goes beyond being born and bred
in a cushion and now living in a gated ethnic community, protected by goy cops. In short, you need to get out of the Jewish Ghetto, you amount to a medieval court jew
under current circumstances.
RE Witty:
"John Adams was a lawyer who strongly advocated for the independance of the American colonies (then) from England. In 1775, as a lawyer, he defended the accused British soldiers of the Boston Massacre from murder charges, on the basis that they were provoked violently and were engaging in self-defense. "
As usual Witty ignores the larger historical context, even when he brings in American history in his usual Zionist attempt to blame the Palestinians for
the core problems discussed on this blog (under the guise of playing Mr. Reason):
Adams presented evidence that blame for the tragedy lay BOTH with the "mob" that gathered that March night AND with England's highly unpopular policy of quartering troops in a city (occupation). Adams told the jury: "Soldiers quartered in a populous town will always occasion two mobs where they prevent one." He argued that the soldier who fired first acted only as one might expect anyone to act in such confused and potentially life-threatening conditions. "Do you expect that he should act like a stoic philosopher, lost in apathy?", Adams asked the jury. "Facts are stubborn things," he concluded, "and whatever may be our inclinations, or the dictums of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
The occupation is real; Witty expects the Palestinians to always react rationally under such circumstances--how'd you like to live under the circumstances the Palestinians live under, Witty? How'd you like "lobster back" troops quartered in your
home?
The Franklin case also revealed that our FBI and DOJ agents agree that there's a double standard when it comes to Israeli action in the USA due to Israel's special protection in our Congress, Executive Branch, Judiciary, and MSM. The FBI and DOJ would not be
so gagged regarding the agents of any other country when it comes to protecting American security and strategy first. Franklin himself chose to ignore the double standard chaffed against by labeling it anti-semitic.
Blitzer's just one of the seemingly endless list of Vietnam War draft dodging chickenhawks who led smoothed the Iraq War in 2003.
The Israeli population as a whole does not care about any issues raised by the West regarding Israel's activity. It is solely concentrated on separating itself from the Palestinians and protecting itself from angry Palestinians. And the more expansion, the better. link to findarticles.com
Canard? Conspiracy? Ever look at a RICO statute, either the federal statute or any of the
state RICO laws?
link to criminalstate.com
More like you don't want a truly democratic Israel. Equal protection and due process
before the law for ALL citizens. A "color-blind" nation. In other comments here you said you supported this. Now, you beg the issue, saying that's what I want--of course I agree; you add adult decision-making is what is really needed. I don't get your drift, Richard Witty. Do you, or do you not want an Israel that is not an ethnocentric or theocratic state? You can't have it both ways. What's your adult decision?
Easy. No ethnocentric or theocratic state. "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to the Lord what is the Lord's."
The Zionists who bought Truman (paid for his whistle stop campaign) assured him the state he would recognize would not be a Jewish state. When the prepared recognition letter was given to Truman, before he signed it, he crossed out the words "The Jewish State" and wrote in replacement "The State Of Israel."
Anyone who has done modest research into the mindset of early Zionists in the later score years of the 19th Century can see
that the concept of the New Jew was a parallel development within Germany to the concept of the Aryan Superman; both milked old ancient mythical history. Hitler is on record as confident that it wouldn't matter what he did with the Jews in light of nobody cared about what happened to the Armenians. "Who remembers them today?" he said, as recorded in this Table Talk. So, that was then, this is now, and doesn't
it seem like the Zionists are just sleep-walking in Hitler's wake?
Yep, it sure looks like the same old song and dance, Yiddishe Theater writ large. What I object to is the compound insult to egalitarian principles, on top of which my taxpayer dollars pay for, and for which, my country is now viewed as a rogue nation around the world, and hence subject to future terror. Could it get worse for a normal American, as far as foreign policy is concerned? Yes, it's worse because our MSM does not even inform
us of this situation.
Lewis's version of historical cause and effect as between the West and the classical Middle East reads like a pontificating constant slur against that East , capsulized forever when he
equated Tiger Wood's natural propensity for, and ability at golf with Arafat's natural propensity for, and ability at terrorism. If he wrote the same way about "Backward Africa"
for example, he would've been kicked out of any influential position forever, and quickly.
link to counterpunch.org
The cardinal rule is that Jews cannot be mocked because it will lead to a second Holocaust. This means, you give any collective Jewish action a blank check. It means, therefore, they can do what they want, and you pay the bills. Thus the Jews, who claim to hold a copyright on guilt, simultaneously expect goys to feel guilt for anything harming Jews--hey, the USA is held responsible for Auschwitz because
it chose to fight WW2 as the best way to save Jews, rather than divert resources
to fighting the Jews in the concentration camps. Like that perspective? BTW, when you go to a WW2 graveyard, is it not a sea of crosses?
You forgot rednecks, the favorite community ( a la Witty) to mock. That's their main job these days--along with getting maimed and serving repetitive tours in our volunteer military.
Well, here we are, let's not give US citizens any info:
link to yallpolitics.com
Great, MSM, Google, YouTube censorship , and now this. Nothing like taking away information from the
USA public opinion sources. Where are we when the citizen's duty of being informed
in a democracy is so muzzled?
How different is this from the school busing issue in the USA back in the day? All the congress people and government officials were in favor of busing, while they sent their own kids to private schools, all the while dissing the working class white families as bigots? It's been decades now, where the working class whites and their children have had to deal with this. Next topic: payday loans.
Mark, well said. How much of this comes down to Ayn Rand? A jewess who's nice, comfortable situation was blown away when the Reds took over her father's business, and then she flew to Jewish Hollywood, helped by her landsmen, where she proceeded to
blow the trumpet of individualism, never talking about her own ilk's tribal collectivism?
Actually, the current Israeli regime is constantly planting what it hopes are "green shoots" in anticipation of a weakening of support amongst the American Public Opinion, hence it's bought leadership. Three biggies being fertilized are Russia, where the Israeli diplomats are nourishing a sense of parallel victimhood with Putin's Russia, China, where the ground has long been fertilized, e.g., by Selling free US
arms intelligence and weapons there, and India, right now the target of broad compatible strategy; all three in the aftermath of the decline of the USA as an economic power, saddled as it has been with fighting and paying for Israel's wars and sustaining Wall Street and Federal Reserve economic, therefore political, hegemony, within the US polity.
The key for the Gentiles of any nation is, the question from the commenter above, "Tikkun olam is the Jew’s duty to repair the world. But what if the world doesn’t consider itself broken?"
I think the best thermometer to measure the illness is anything similar to the school
busing issue of the Archie Bunker days. The question there was always to what extent was it one economic class of people paying for the altruism of the other? In other words, hypocrisy. This is the same question raised now when the grass roots
raise questions regarding congressional health recommended as compared to the special deal congress people enjoy.
Nice satire Kaplan did of his neocon self. He fought for the IDF instead of the USA and deplores the fact even the lower class whites in the midwest are no longer so hot on
their service for Israel by way of the US Army in Iraq and elsewhere.
Israel is like the old American auto industry; it thought it just needed to re-brand itself.
Yes, very interesting. When I think of my mother, I don't think of ethnicity or power either. I think of unconditional love. And an open mind, always curious about any aspect of life anyone presented. She was a tolerant person. She was Irish. Also interesting, my wife's father was similar. He was a Russian Jew. OTH, my father, and my wife's mother--OMG...
One of the first things one learns in law school is that the law is not fundamentally aimed at fairness. The obvious clear case is Nazi law. It you look at USA law, it's been a battle all the way, first against British law, then against--well you all know Jim Crow and all that. It's a shame that most Americans know so little about what has happened to the Palestinians, and how that has translated into the world seeing the USA as
hypocritical, when it was once adored as a light to the world.
I agree with Richard Witty on this. Discrimination on the face of the law, or as the law is actually implemented, translates into no Rule Of Law that should be upheld. The rub is that discrimination per se is very much a tool of the law, including here in the USA--so it does boil down to political policy in the end. It's a constant balancing act, trying to adhere the over-riding interest of most of the people, most of the time. All sides always claim they are acting in the "best interests of the people." If we applied the Sotomayor impact test, the Palestinians would clearly be the winners.
Witty: "In legal law, the application of consistency, coherency, implies that there is a natural “law”, a reason that even constitutions are subject to. That conflicts with the American conservative constitutional approach which assumes that only passed legislation is law, that there are no rights until they are articulated and legislated. That is similar to religious injunction."
USA Legal jurisprudence has been debating the two approaches for scores of years.
If you take Jurisprudence in law school you better not argue against the professor's political bias when you participate in assigned cases.