As I mentioned before, the Duke defenders come out of the woodwork, allowing me to laugh at their stupidity, but not generally you. However, I’m going to share the Dukies’ stuff with my readers.

Here’s a comment from Stormfront that didn’t make it through my spamkillers (the Stormfront IP was one of the first in there):

Shouldn’t you be happy? They get you more comments and more (potentially, anyways) readers (to click on your adds hopefully).

This brilliant Stormfront degenerate can’t spell, and can’t see. I have no ads on my blog.

Solly, this one’s in your backyard:

I read your vitriolic article about David Duke and the debate on the “Holocaust”. I know not from whence your visceral antipathy towards Duke derives, but I do know that those inclined to be more objective on topics (any) conduct themselves with a bit more temperance and grace than that which you have displayed. Provide reasons, facts and evidence as to why you disagree with David Duke or any other of those who attended the conference. Simply saying “David Duke attended;that tells us everything” is insufficient.

No wonder why more and more people are turning off the establishment media and tuning into sites like David Duke.com.

Cynthia Grant
Boston Ma.

Well, Cynthia, let’s take your points one by one.

I read your vitriolic article about David Duke and the debate on the “Holocaust”.

First of all, the Holocaust happened. Just because you like to stick your fingers in your ears and yell “I can’t HEAR you” every time someone gives you actual, factual proof of the Holocaust doesn’t mean it isn’t so. Oh, and it’s traditional to actually, y’know, mention which article you’re bitching about. I presume it’s this one, but I have written more than one on your Dear Leader (wow, he so needs a refund on that plastic surgery fee; he wuz robbed).

I know not from whence your visceral antipathy towards Duke derives, but I do know that those inclined to be more objective on topics (any) conduct themselves with a bit more temperance and grace than that which you have displayed.

Dude, I so love the use of the words “I know not from whence,” because, like, that is SO intuhlekchewull, I don’t know what to do about it. I may faint. Oh, and the pretense that you can’t figure out why I, a Jew, dislike Duke, a Jew-hater. (By the way, not really very fond of Cynthia Grant, either.) Temperance and grace? Regarding an anti-Semite, racist, bigoted asshole like David Duke? There is no reason to treat him with anything less than the contempt with which he treats me and mine. As for objectivity, you may want to look up the meaning of the word “blog.” “Objectivity” isn’t anywhere in it.

Provide reasons, facts and evidence as to why you disagree with David Duke or any other of those who attended the conference.

I have provided facts, as have many, many other people. The real fact, of course, is that you and your ilk will not accept the facts that are already in evidence. Your use of quotes around the Holocaust is evidence of your mendacity, not to mention stupidity.

Simply saying “David Duke attended;that tells us everything” is insufficient.

To anyone with even the slightest knowledge of David Duke’s history, it is. He is an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier, a bigot, a former member of the KKK, and has made his views about Jews well-known. Once again, you are disingenuous to the extreme.

No wonder why more and more people are turning off the establishment media and tuning into sites like David Duke.com.

Really? I think you mean that more and more people are turning to blogs—like mine, actually, in search of the truth that the media won’t give them. Some newspapers actually called Duke an “academic” or a “scholar.” Here, I point out his bogus degree from Hate Jew U. in the Ukraine, things that you won’t read in the IHT. (It’s in the comments to the post, you can find them by clicking on the word “comments.” I know, tough directions, but I have faith in your ability.)

In closing, Cynthia, I would like to wish you a hearty rendition of the yourish.com mantra: Anti-Semites of the world, just die already. If the shoe fits….

Let’s take a look at the Ynet and AP versions of the same incident:

AP:

Assailants fired on the car of a senior Palestinian security official Saturday, wounding him, a bodyguard and a girl in intensifying factional fighting in the Gaza Strip.

[five paragraphs on the current situation and facts about the start of the war between Fatah and Hamas]

Jarbouh was in critical condition. His bodyguard and the girl, a bystander, suffered moderate wounds.

In all, 17 people have been killed and scores wounded in factional fighting, including heavy gun battles in densely populated neighborhoods, since the ambush on the young children.

[Rest of story is about Abbas, Olmert, and Israel]

Ynet:

A senior member of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PPSS), Colonel Hassan Jarbouh, 33, was critically injured Saturday morning by gunshots fired at his car in the southern Gaza Strip town of Gaza.

Jarbouh’s bodyguard and a girl were also wounded in the incident, medical sources in the Strip reported.

The girl, 9-year-old Amal Jaber, and the 20-year-old bodyguard Ahmed Mansour, were lightly injured.

At this stage, no organization has claimed responsibility for the attack, which appears to be another incident on the backdrop of the growing tensions between Fatah and Hamas.

Earlier, Palestinians reported of exchanges of fire erupting near the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza City.

On Friday, a Palestinian civilian was critically injured in exchanges of fire between Fatah and Hamas operatives in Nablus. The Palestinian reported that Fatah members fired at approximately 200 Hamas activists and gunmen engaged in organizing a movement rally.

Quartet extends financial aid mechanism

A Palestinian civilian was killed Thursday, and Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar’s bodyguard was kidnapped in exchanges of fire in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sabra.

[Rest of article is about fighting; last two paragraphs about Quartet funding for pals]

What a difference, huh? Why, it’s almost as if the AP downplays anything that might put the palestinians in a bad light, and pushes the pertinent facts so far down into the story that readers of your average local paper’s international section will never know that a nine-year-old girl was shot by palestinian terrorists during their current fighting.

Oh, wait. That’s exactly their purpose. My bad. I was expecting actual, unbiased news reporting from an organization that claims that is exactly what it does.

Johann Hari writes an article that shows, completely without context, the suffering of pregnant palestinians and, of course, repeats the lie that if Jesus lived today, he would be a palestinian. No, if Jesus lived today, he would be a Jew. There was this thing about Mary and Joseph and Israel 2,000 years ago. They were, gee, Jewish. If you’re going to bring them into twenty-first century Israel, they’re still going to be Jewish, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in Bethlehem, since it is an entirely Jew-free town.

This article is written for something called the Independent Appeals which is, as far as I can tell, about as un-objective as a newspaper can get. There are thirteen articles. Three of them are on the palestinians. Only one is about Darfur, which is suffering a far worse humanitarian crisis than the palestinians. The articles mention absolutely no context, except to say that the Israelis have been bombing Gaza since the murder of her soldiers and the capture of Gilad Shalit by Hamas. Here’s one such article, about the shortage of medical equipment in Gaza. I would like to point out that Hamas refused $50 million worth of medical supplies for Gaza, insisting on the cash instead, which Israel would not allow. Not that the Independent publishes facts like that. It ruins their worldview. If they did, how could they publish such heart-tugging words like these:

Gaza’s blood banks have been crumbling for years. The Israeli siege made it extremely hard to get machine parts into this congested strip of land, that is home to one-and-a-half million people. Then the international boycott that followed the election of Hamas cut off the funds that Shifa used to purchase even simple equipment, such as blood bags and testing kits. Earlier this year the blood bank ran out of hepatitis C testing kits.

“If things carry on deteriorating,” Dr Suleiman warns, “soon we will have to make a terrible choice - stop screening blood for diseases like HIV and hepatitis, or stop putting out blood altogether.”

So, that baby Jesus article? It’s yet another one comparing the palestinians to Jesus, simply because they now occupy the land once populated by the Jews of Israel, a fact that never seems to make it into these bullshit tearjerker pieces.

In two days, a third of humanity will gather to celebrate the birth pains of a Palestinian refugee in Bethlehem - but two millennia later, another mother in another glorified stable in this rubble-strewn, locked-down town is trying not to howl.

Fadia Jemal is a gap-toothed 27-year-old with a weary, watery smile. “What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today? She would endure what I have endured,” she says.

No, Jesus was not a “palestinian refugee.” He was a Jew, born to a Jewish mother and a Jewish father. There was no such land as “Palestine.” Back in Jesus’ day, there was Judea and Samaria, but no “Palestine.” So that would, I think, make Jesus a Judean. But don’t let facts get in the way of your rhetoric. It’s that time of year, when the Jews make the baby Jesus cry.

Don’t they ever get tired of writing crap like this?

(h/t: Robert M.)