I'll defer to Katie Pavlich re: the appropriate response:How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends? The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable. Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace.
Also, who is “occupying” Gaza. Not a single Jew or Israeli lives there. They were literally dragged out of their homes for the sake of peace with the Palestinians and yet here we are.
There's clearly a tension in our society between the throw-the-gates-wide-open-and-let-'em-all-in crowd and the bunch that fits the definition of "nationalist" that wears its xenophobia on its sleeve. That tension would clearly be a lot less if we were a healthier society, not so given to tribalism and the extreme positions that that pushes us into.
But it ought to be clear to everyone that we're squandering our birthright as the pinnacle of the development of Western civilization. We are no longer a Judeo-Christian country, and that's a very bad thing. It leads to developments like Ilhan Omar getting elected to Congress.
And you can't really call her an outlier. She is, after all, one of the trio of freshman House members that also includes another Muslim woman of foreign origin (Rashid Tlaib) and a US-born but West-hating woman (AOC) who flaunt their ideological solidarity and the threat they pose to what has heretofore been a common understanding of what the United States of America is.
They set a precedent. Their rhetoric will be seen less and less as incendiary now. Their Jew-hatred will get discussed as if it were just another viewpoint on the "American" spectrum.
It may well be too late to reverse this, but the first step if it's not is to call 2019 Democrat orientation out for what it is.
This woman is poison.
I believe to this day, if Carter had been re-elected, we would have a very, very different situation in the West Bank and Gaza,” said Mr Eizenstat who held senior positions in Bill Clinton’s administration and also worked for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. “Carter had a very strong commitment to both Israel’s security and a Palestinian homeland. “He was perhaps the first and last US president to make the Middle East peace process a central priority. It took up a substantial part of his time.”
ReplyDeleteIn his book, Mr Eizenstat reveals that Mr Carter privately declared he was willing to lose the 1980 election if it meant delivering a Middle East peace settlement. His advocacy of the Palestinian cause often brought criticism from an organised and influential pro-Israeli lobby in the US, which President Donald Trump has unashamedly courted. It was the trust and personal rapport he earned from Arabs as well as Israelis that allowed Mr Carter to be successful at Camp David, Mr Eizenstat said. In contrast, he fears Mr Trump’s provocations, such as moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and recent recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the annexed Golan Heights, mean the president’s long-awaited “Deal of the Century” designed to solve the Palestine and Israel issue will be dead on arrival."
https://www.thenational.ae/uae/what-donald-trump-can-learn-from-jimmy-carter-in-drive-for-middle-east-peace-1.848886
Jimmy Carter has shown himself since then to be a Jew-hating anti-Zionist. And this author clearly leans that way. How else are we to interpret this sentence? "His advocacy of the Palestinian cause often brought criticism from an organised and influential pro-Israeli lobby in the US, which President Donald Trump has unashamedly courted." And he also clearly does not like the embassy move to Jerusalem.
ReplyDeleteYou bet he "unashamedly" courted it. Is there something to be ashamed about in doing so?
The question is, why do you cite this? Do you agree with it? You wouldn't happen to be on the same page as the subject of this post, Ilhan Omar, would you?
I don't like her but the Omar page must be turned, not burned. Recognizing that there is a strong Zionist lobby in America is not anti-semitism in my book. And, yes, with little international support for what he did, I too am against it, but obviously what's done is done for at least the next 18 months. I don't think that many Americans will be in favor of being drawn in to another war over there and, in fact, Trump promised we wouldb't be.
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