Thursday, August 03, 2006

"In the old days, Jews faced property restrictions; now they face sovereignty restrictions"

Steyn is on fire....here is his inbox...

"Israelis are the pigs of planet earth: butchering Arab babies, polluting the sea, the land, and the very air we breathe with the the stench of their inhumanity. Israel is a collection of the scum of earth and should be destroyed."
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It's been tried, honey

That’s from Nica Campbell, and her opening sentences are only the warm-up. For centuries, Jews were viewed as sinister wandering rootless cosmopolitan figures of no national allegiance. So they became a conventional sovereign state and now they’re hated for that. The standard defense is that it’s not anti-Semitic to criticize Israeli policies, but, as Miss Campbell’s letter suggests, what’s being questioned is not Israel’s policies but the right of Israel to have policies, especially on national security. If, say, some fellows in Mexico had kidnapped California State Troopers and were lobbing rockets randomly into residential areas of San Diego and Los Angeles, even La-La-Land libs would be demanding the US respond. It’s only the Israelis the world wishes to deny the conventional rights of sovereignty. In other words, it’s the legitimacy of the state that’s at issue. In effect, Israel has become the geopolitical version of the European Jew who’s allowed to operate a store in the town but not to exercise full ownership rights: in the old days, Jews faced property restrictions; now they face sovereignty restrictions.

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4 comments:

Epaminondas said...

BNP makes me veeeeeeeeery nervous

Pastorius said...

I'm with you ,Epa. But, this isn't the first time I've seen this. It is a growing trend, as ROP notes.

One way to look at the phenomena is that people who are opposed to the EU and it's socialist agenda are finding no one to represent them, so they are turning to "nationalism" as there is nowhere else to go.

Maybe they will be able to write a new history for the BNP, but I doubt it. I think they will go up in flames eventually.

Pastorius said...

By the way, recently, I had invited a guy to contribute here, because I admired his work. He was a Jew, and a Zionist, and a fierce anti-Jihadi. However, I found out that he was a supporter of a party similar to the BNP. When I confronted him on it, he said, well, you know, I am a Jew, and I'm not afraid of them. they are supporting Israel over the Islamofascists.

My opinion is, not for long.

Epaminondas said...

To defeat the most evil, FDR held the hand of Stalin. If there is open warfare then some other way of being can be possible, but until that moment, I remain intensly wary of the BNP.