Yes, we now call it Israeli Derangement Syndrome. Because when it comes to all things Israeli, a large part of the world is batshit crazy. Especially the Arab/Muslim part of the world. The newest batshit crazy rumor? That Israeli melons carry AIDS.
“Beware of Israeli melons infected with AIDS arriving in Saudi Arabia!” is the latest rumor being spread throughout Saudi Arabia like a wildfire.
An SMS message being sent around the country this week said, “The Saudi Interior Ministry warns its citizens of a truck loaded with AIDS infected melons that Israel brought into the country via a ‘ground corridor.'”
The Interior Minister’s spokesman General Mansour al Turki responded to news of the message and made it clear to a-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper that the Ministry “did not issue any such announcement. This is just a rumor.”
This is not the first rumor to spread through the country recently. Just last month another rumor had it that sweets containing carcinogenic flour were being sold in many stores.
And the really funny thing about this, besides, well, everything? The AIDS virus can’t survive outside the body. Not that the facts are going to stop Saudis from thinking the worst of Israel.
Head of the center for chemicals and toxins in Mecca, Dr Ahmad Elias also stressed that there was no truth to these rumors.
“The center is the first official body that would receive such information, if it were true, in order to investigate and inform the relevant bodies to take the necessary steps,” said Elias.
“The HIV virus cannot survive in any temperature other than that of the human body, which can not be reached in fruits,” he explained.
The rumor, despite being denied several times, has gained so much steam in the Arab world that it made it to the front page of one of the most important Arabi language newspapers.
Uh-huh. This one goes hand-in-hand with the story of the poisoned Zionist balloons drifting into Lebanon.
Batshit crazy. I’m telling you, when it comes to Israel, the Arab world is batshit crazy.
Especially since Saudi Arabia boycotts Israeli goods. But once again, don’t let facts get in the way of a good round of Jew-hatred.
“Batshit crazy. I’m telling you, when it comes to Israel, the Arab world is batshit crazy.” – MY
It seems most are habitual liars and dumb as dirt. Batshit crazy seems to cover it pretty well, though.
Hamas in January said it was willing to accept a temporary Palestinian state in exchange for a 10-year truce with Israel, but top Hamas officials and spokesmen for the terror group told WND the truce was meant to show some flexibility to the international community. They said Hamas’ goal of destroying Israel had not changed, and that the terror group has a 10-year plan to build a large army and defeat the Jewish state.
Then, on March 30 Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan, quoting the hadith – the oral tradition of Muhammad – declared to the Palestinian audience: “The Hour [of Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the rock and the tree will say: “Oh, Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, kill him!”
They must think everyone is just as gullible and stupid and deceived as they themselves are.
Can we start a rumor in the territories that Oxygen is a Zionist plot and should be avoided at all costs?
Now it’s our turn as Rosie O’Donnell (talk about bats) signs on with the 911 truthies.
Conspiranoia is not, or not only, about ignorance and gullibility. It is rather, as Bill Whittle argues overwhelmingly, a personality defect.
Bill Whittle has never been on my reading list. He writes platitudes, does not research his work, gets angry when you point out the flaws in his arguments (for instance, saying that if only Jews had fought back, they wouldn’t have been slaughtered by the Nazis, ignoring the fact that Jews DID fight back and other important facts about the Holocaust), and, in fact, is badly in need of an editor.
In short, the man’s a hack.
And oh, yeah. There was that thing conflating Jews with Nazis that really bothered me.
All blogs are nothing but platitudes of one sort or another. They’re just unedited opinion jourals, full of whatever each blogger thinks is important enough to write about. Any blogger that pretends their blog is something more important than that, is being dishonest.
Tat, I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
And I don’t think that describes all blogs at all. But it does describe Whittle’s essays.
I don’t want to go into details, but this reminds of a certain short story by Charles Bukowski…