jrpfeffer
02-13-2009, 07:31 AM
I don't know about other people, but I am getting sick of hearing about Israel's "war crimes" in Gaza, especially from far left Jews. The Gush Shalom website is a toxic website, strong glasses and barf bowls required.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
One in Ten As True Today as Ever
There is one thing that we can always count on. When Israel makes world headlines for some bold aggressive action which triggers a world wide information event, it is inevitable that forums and blogs, many not normally dedicated to Middle East discussion get flooded with the Israeli/Zionist debate over "war crimes" and it is inevitable that you will get statements like this;
"Even many Jews are now speaking out against Israel".
And of course it follows that the abhorrence to Israel's "war crimes" is what is making these people anti-Zionist, not their left leaning politics. And the reader of these Jewish testimonial is to be pleasantly surprised by the fact that this latest aggressive act by the Zionist state will finally be put into check by the Jews who will finally speak out.
Of course there is the mainstay of most web forums and blogs that discuss Israel, that some anti-Zionist will discover for the first time; Neuterai Karta and Rabbi Weiss. We all know him of course, the religious Jewish Rabbi who went to Iran in 2006 to participate in Achmedinejad's conference on whether the Holocaust really happened. And then there are the Socialist Jewish writers who saw the light like Chomsky and Naomi Klien and many others.
Of course there have always been anti-Israel Jews and they have always exercised their right to be anti-Israel Jews. However, these people are in greater demand today than at any time the past by Israel’s enemies. They are quoted way beyond proportion to their minor intellectual contribution and their ethnicity becomes part of the debate. In short, they are to the debate about Israel's "war crimes" against the Palestinian people, what the shills are to an info-mercial being looped around to help fill the two hours on Sunday morning, when TV is cheap and most people are in bed. What is an illusion is how people seem to be convinced that the number of these people is always on the rise.
One way in which the internet has really changed the world is in its incredible ability to enable threads of thought to flow on and on forever. Unlike the old days of books and newspaper articles when information flows seemed limited and finite. You would read an article than you had to move on. Today on the other hand, you can click around the globe forever chasing the opinions of anyone and everyone who has the time to bother to say anything. As a result rather than the debate being limited to players, or at least well placed and informed people, the debate has been filled with characters of no real value to the debate other than what they are and how they have spoken their mind.
So it seems that the biggest argument against Zionism is that "even the Jews are turning against Israel" and people have the links to prove it. Of course it is an illusion. The same percentage of anti-Israel types exist today as existed in the past. The number of far left Jewish people has not changed. Expecting the percentage to change is like expecting the number of homosexuals to change, more may come out of the closet but the numbers never change and like the anti-Zionist crowd the percentage is pretty much stuck at 10%.
http://jpfeffer.blogspot.com/2009/02/one-in-ten-as-true-today-as-ever.html
Thursday, February 12, 2009
One in Ten As True Today as Ever
There is one thing that we can always count on. When Israel makes world headlines for some bold aggressive action which triggers a world wide information event, it is inevitable that forums and blogs, many not normally dedicated to Middle East discussion get flooded with the Israeli/Zionist debate over "war crimes" and it is inevitable that you will get statements like this;
"Even many Jews are now speaking out against Israel".
And of course it follows that the abhorrence to Israel's "war crimes" is what is making these people anti-Zionist, not their left leaning politics. And the reader of these Jewish testimonial is to be pleasantly surprised by the fact that this latest aggressive act by the Zionist state will finally be put into check by the Jews who will finally speak out.
Of course there is the mainstay of most web forums and blogs that discuss Israel, that some anti-Zionist will discover for the first time; Neuterai Karta and Rabbi Weiss. We all know him of course, the religious Jewish Rabbi who went to Iran in 2006 to participate in Achmedinejad's conference on whether the Holocaust really happened. And then there are the Socialist Jewish writers who saw the light like Chomsky and Naomi Klien and many others.
Of course there have always been anti-Israel Jews and they have always exercised their right to be anti-Israel Jews. However, these people are in greater demand today than at any time the past by Israel’s enemies. They are quoted way beyond proportion to their minor intellectual contribution and their ethnicity becomes part of the debate. In short, they are to the debate about Israel's "war crimes" against the Palestinian people, what the shills are to an info-mercial being looped around to help fill the two hours on Sunday morning, when TV is cheap and most people are in bed. What is an illusion is how people seem to be convinced that the number of these people is always on the rise.
One way in which the internet has really changed the world is in its incredible ability to enable threads of thought to flow on and on forever. Unlike the old days of books and newspaper articles when information flows seemed limited and finite. You would read an article than you had to move on. Today on the other hand, you can click around the globe forever chasing the opinions of anyone and everyone who has the time to bother to say anything. As a result rather than the debate being limited to players, or at least well placed and informed people, the debate has been filled with characters of no real value to the debate other than what they are and how they have spoken their mind.
So it seems that the biggest argument against Zionism is that "even the Jews are turning against Israel" and people have the links to prove it. Of course it is an illusion. The same percentage of anti-Israel types exist today as existed in the past. The number of far left Jewish people has not changed. Expecting the percentage to change is like expecting the number of homosexuals to change, more may come out of the closet but the numbers never change and like the anti-Zionist crowd the percentage is pretty much stuck at 10%.
http://jpfeffer.blogspot.com/2009/02/one-in-ten-as-true-today-as-ever.html