On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 02:39 PM, Eric Cordian wrote:
The Anti Defamation League has apparently decided to call the anti-warEverytime I hear an Izzie from the Beanie Breath Anti-Freedom League, this is what I think.
movement "anti-Israel."
http://www.adl.org/Israel/israel_protest_calendar.asp
"The prospect of war against Iraq and the crisis in the Middle East
have led to a continuation of large rallies against Israel across the
United States in 2003."
Gee - I didn't realize that the large throng of people marching down the
street carrying signs reading "No Blood for Oil", "War is Terrorism", and
"Impeach Bush" were conducting an anti-Israel demonstration.
Note that the Feb 15th "Stop the War" March in NY is listed at the very
top of their alleged "anti-Israel" demonstration page.
If the Zionists don't tone down their rhetoric, the terms "anti-Semitic"
and "anti-Israel" may end up as generic terms referring to all people who
support freedom and human rights. What an embarrassment that would be.
I've known some fine Jews, especially the nonreligious ones!, but most of the politically active jews are either socialists and gun-grabbers or are rabid "exterminate the Arab" JDL types. Often they are both, in some weird form of cognitive disconnect.
A small number of the politically active ones (I'm not counting any of the nonpolitical Jews I mentioned, who may as well not even be Jews, any more than I am still the religion of my parents) are JPFO types, but even these folks often have weird fundamentalist, anti-liberty opinions on things like porn and sex freedom.
As for Israel, I find it deeply ironic and hilarious that Israel is in almost every way duplicating the concentration camps, interrogation methods, and surveillance habits of the Third Reich. It shows Baal has a sense of humor.
--Tim May
"That government is best which governs not at all." --Henry David Thoreau
