For some reason, Yahoo News linked to my latest post on Gaza in their “Most Blogged” section, which brought me about double the normal Saturday traffic. I woke up Saturday morning to 21 comments awaiting moderation. Sixteen of them never got approved, as they all fail the No Israel-Bashing rule. But I thought I’d share some of them with you, to show you the utter derangement and ignorance of the anti-Israel crowd.
Let us restate the point of my post: I wrote that the world is wringing its hands over a so-called “imminent” humanitarian disaster in Gaza, when there is no such disaster. It is all lies by Hamas, reported uncritically by the world media, with the full backing of the UN relief organizations who insist that Gazans are starving when they know full well that the Gaza store shelves are fully stocked, because they’ve been pictured in stores with, gee, shelves fully stocked. I also pointed out that there is a real disaster in Haiti that the UN is far less concerned about, with real pictures of real children who are, well, really starving.
Here are some of the comments:
It is true.
The catastrophe in Haiti is more pressing.
However, nothing can ever excuse that Israel withholds food shipments from Gaza.
Penalizing a population for how it casts its ballot is always a crime against humanity. Withholding food imports to Israel because it repeatedly re-elects war criminals would also be such a crime.
What you do is condoning a double-homocide just because there is mass murder on the other side of town.
That’s Jonas from Germany, completely ignoring the fact that there is no crisis in Gaza. But he’s not finished yet.
… but we must be realistic; which party of this conflict kills WAY more civilians?
So, which party is deliberately aiming rockets at schools and hospitals, and which party has tried to change its ways to the point that not a single civilian has been killed in the act of stopping terrorist rockets? But hey, don’t let the facts get in the way of your opinion there, guy.
Vic from Ohio shows that he’s stupid as well as illiterate:
it is as though king herodism has taken hold of israel.As a nation they are outlaws and I do not understand how the world stands back and watches.The treatment of palestinians is a holocaust the only pertinent holocaust involving jews at this time.Growing up in N.Y. among so many good caring friends I am shocked by the silence.
Hm. That “holocaust” must not be working very well, because the Palestinian population has grown 30% in the last ten years. The true Holocaust murdered two-thirds of Europe’s Jews. When you play the numbers game, the truth always trumps fiction. Too bad Vic is too stupid to read up on the facts.
Here’s one from a Bay Area denizen that’s short and totally incomprehensible:
one word: Israeoil
Um… huh?
Andrew is in Pakistan, and seems to have picked up the local attitude about Jews while he’s there:
Is anyone blocking the distribution of relief aid in Haiti?
There’s the finer point of the matter.
Indeed, no, no one is blocking aid to Haiti. Which makes it even more reprehensible that children are starving there. But then, Haitians aren’t firing missiles into Florida. Perhaps if they did, the world would be more helpful to their cause.
Mike gets all the Chomsky talking points down:
Why compare one human disaster to another as if they’re sale items at WalMarts? The forces of human destruction are the same around the globe -profit before people. Why are we giving billions to Israel to bulldoze people’s homes? Who’s the real terrorists here?
Then there’s the fact that Israel no longer bulldozes terrorist’s homes. Once again, don’t let the facts get in the way of your opinion there, Mikey. Just jump up and down and scream “Terrorists!” at Israel.
Danus from Denver asks:
You mention that no one has even a picture of emaciated child to show the world
But didn’t the Israelis block all foreign journalists from entering Gaza to prevent.. what exactly?
Funny, Hamas manages to get out the pictures of Gaza being blacked out… but there’s not a single picture of a starving child. Which proves… what exactly? That’s right. That it’s not a disaster. It’s a manufactured “crisis” that doesn’t exist.
Here’s a simple one from a guy whose email address is monkey_nads@hotmail.com. I kid you not.
lol, no israel bashing. what a joke.
No, actually, serious as a heart attack. By the way, nice email address. And oh, he has more to say:
you people are SICK! one asks sarcastically, How can Hamas build missiles and bombs if Israel doesn’t let them? that is BS. LET THEM? that is the problem, if palestinians want to do anything, israel has to let them. americans dont have to ask anybody to do anything, but be damned sure youd bomb them if you did. take a projection, who is the real terrorist?
Get it? Israel lets Hamas build the bombs. I’m not quite sure why, but Monkey Nads has the answer. It’s because Israelis are the real terrorists. They want to let Hamas fire rockets that can kill Israelis. If you can follow that logic, well, you, too, can have an email address that even my teenaged nephew would decline to use. (Because while he may be a teenaged boy, he has some modicum of taste.)
Diana from Texas says that Hamas is just a distraction, and it’s really all Bush’s fault, anyway.
I wish everyone could see past “Hamas†to the families,old women,children that are the ones who are suffering there. The military is always taken care of first.
You’re right,the two past elections of Bush sure did teach us consequences.
I’m guessing Obama voter. I’m also guessing that she, too, did not really read the post.
This one is my favorite: Khan from Sri Lanka.
It’s the tradgey of the human race, that a few law breakes such as an illegitimate ‘ state’ such as Israel can take the law into its hand and continue to enslave the people of GAZA with immunity. It is very clear that the UNO is nothing but an impotent organisation without the power to do anything. But the worst thing is that the so called Muslim countries have become so insensitive to the sufferings of their brothers that they do not even have the gut to raise a voice. It is time the puppet rulers of the Muslim world should be thrown out and a united Muslim nation should come into the forefront as a formidable force. It is time to empower the Muslim youth all over the world with this aim. Until then Gaza, our hearts weep for you and we are just watching the tragedy.
To which we must reply: KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!
And there you have most of them. None of them actually took in the point of the post. All of them buy the Palestinian propaganda wholly. They insist that there’s a humanitarian disaster going on in Gaza, in spite of all evidence to the contrary that no such thing is happening—because the UN and the media are insisting that it is.
Well, I have my own news analyst for the last word on the Gaza situation. Max, tell us what you think is happening in Gaza:
there is just a way too many anti-jewish crowd online. Most of them are Muslims.
The funny thing is that a lot of these Muslims have this victim mentality and when you talk to them they will claim Muslims are the “Jews” of the 21st century. However, when it comes to hating Jews they are the front warriors.
The problem is that there is not enough pro-jewish voice to counter anti-semitism.
awww. Max was cute lol.
Meryl, when I read comments about Israel such as these, all I can say is, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”
I’ll bet a dollar to a doughnut that these cretins actually meant to say “Jews” instead of “Israel”.
What continues to concern me, as I’ve mentioned in these pages before, is the rise of left anti-Zionism. If you go onto a place like Daily Kos, or any number of the smaller left blogs, you will find a number of highly vocal, concerted individuals who do little more than spend day after day bashing Israel.
My fear is that these people are having an effect and moving regular people, who really know virtually nothing about I/P, into the anti-Israel camp.
Awesome! You’re getting idiots posting about MY replies? I just wish they had about 5 working brain cells capable of forming RATIONAL debates. It’s just to easy arguing with these tarts.
And really, Max is great!
Long_rifle, he utterly slays me when he does that. Max and his siblings and I were watching that show on the Discovery Channel with the excitable guy who has to survive (complete with camera crew) in the wilderness for however long. And I started making fun of it, because he seemed to say “It’s a disaster!” every five minutes. Then the kids picked it up with me, and now, when I least expect it, Max pipes up with “It’s a disaster!” when I’m over and he’s feeling mischievous.
But his imitation is so first-rate, it cracks me up every single time. It’s going to be my go-to piece for every Palestinian disaster story from now on.
One of your respondents referred to a trope I’ve seen frequently since the Gaza elections, namely that Gazans elected a government democratically and Israel should therefore deal with it.
OK, but Israel has elected a succssion of governments democratically, and I do not see the anti-Israel crowd urging Hamas to engage in a realistic and respectful manner with Israel.
I guess it’s the Bensky Corollary again, what you call the Exception Clause. Democratic governments deserve respect, except when they’re Jewish.
Well the democratically elected Hamas government is making war on Israel, so in that case Israel is allowed, by the principles of International Law, to make war back. The Palis of Gaza knew when they voted for Hamas that they were voting for war, Hamas made no secret that war was its aim. So the Palis voted for war. Thus whatever suffering Israel inflicts on them in response to Hamas’ warmaking is something the Palis implicitly accepted when they voted Hamas in. All these apologists for the genocidal Palis have no leg to stand on in their protests when you consider those facts. And Israel has been quite moderate in its warmaking, probably too moderate. Is anyone in any doubt that if the shoe was on the other foot, with Jews in Gaza making terrorist attacks on Muslims in the territory of Israel, there would now be no living Jews left in Gaza?
What the cretins such as these respondents do not consider is that the war could stop if the Arabs just stopped their attacks on Israel, stopped trying to destroy Israel and kill the Jews. If they did so the Arabs would have nothing to fear from Israel, except of course the embarassment that Israel is a modern, 21st Century state and a democracy with an economy that works reasonably well in the midst of the squalor and backward tyrannies of the surrounding Arab states. I think that is a key aspect of this never ending conflict: it is fueled, at least in part, by the overblown vanity of the Muslims. How dare a bunch of wretched dhimmis rule themselves among the Muslims? How dare they defeat the Atabs, the best of Men (the Prophet said they were dontcherknow)? The affront is intolerable. Israel’s existence is an affront to that gigantically excessive vanity, and the Jews cannot be forgiven for that.
The affront to Muslim vanity can be assuaged by no act of Israel’s, by no peace terms, by no land swaps, by no actions of the USA or the UN or anybody else. Only Jewish blood will take it away. Civilized people of righteous moral principles will reject this remedy. Alas, there seem to be fewer and fewer such people in the world every year.
In response to Kahn. What claim do the Palestinians actually have to Gaza and the West Bank? Why doesn’t the Muslim world take the poor Palestinians into their countries and leave that land to Israel? It could be easily done and solve the problem and provide a defensible border for Israel. After all the current situation is not ideal except as a means to the end of destroying Israel which is what they all want. Which is why they will never go for my idea.