Plausibly Deniable Jew Hatred: Being Pro-Palestinian And Anti-Israel
My suspicion -- as the headline to this post reflects: Being "pro-Palestinian" means having an excuse to hate Jews that doesn't sound like mere anti-Semitism.
Those who condemn Israel and stand on the side of the Palestinians tend to call themselves "progressives," and tend to be for a number of things I am, like gay rights.
Only, whoops -- under Islam, gays are to be murdered (in horrible ways).
Women are to be treated as property and are often murdered for daring to behave otherwise or being suspected of behaving otherwise.
Atheists are murdered. Apostates are murdered.
Yet, those on campus who stand (so trendily) against Israel look the other way on these things. Israel remains their One True Satan.
Bret Stephens, in the WSJ, examines an vastly unexamined assumption -- the notion that the Palestinians must have a state and this is a matter of urgent international interest:
Climate change aside, the cause of Palestinian statehood is the central obsession of contemporary global politics. It's also its least examined assumption.Would a Palestinian state serve the cause of Mideast peace? This used to be conventional wisdom ... Today the proposition is ridiculous.
What about the interests of Palestinians? Aren't they entitled to a state?
Maybe. But are they more entitled to one than the Assamese, Basques, Baloch, Corsicans, Druze, Flemish, Kashmiris, Kurds, Moros, Native Hawaiians, Northern Cypriots, Rohingya, Tibetans, Uyghurs or West Papuans--all of whom have distinct national identities, legitimate historical grievances and plausible claims to statehood?
If so, what gives Palestinians the preferential claim? Have they waited longer than the Kurds? No: Kurdish national claims stretch for centuries, not decades. Have they experienced greater violations to their culture than Tibetans? No: Beijing has conducted a systematic policy of repression for 67 years, whereas Palestinians are nothing if not vocal in mosques, universities and the media. Have they been persecuted more harshly than the Rohingya? Not even close.
Set the comparisons aside. Would a Palestinian state be good for Palestinian people?
That's a more subjective judgment. But a telling figure came in a June 2015 poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, which found that a majority of Arab residents in East Jerusalem would rather live as citizens with equal rights in Israel than in a Palestinian state. No doubt part of this owes to a desire to be connected to Israel's thriving economy.
...In theory, Israel would be well-served living alongside a sovereign Palestinian state that lived in peace with its neighbors, improved the welfare and respected the rights of its people, rejected extremism and maintained a monopoly on the use of force. In theory, Palestine could be the next Costa Rica: small but beautiful.
But Israelis don't live in theory. They live in a world where mistakes are mortal.
As Ayaan Hirsi Ali notes: compromise is not possible without "true reformation of Islam" away from "doctrine of death."
And people in the movement to boycott Israeli products should be sure to boycott all the lifesaving medical treatments that have come out of Israel and throw out their computers and cellphones and any technological inventions with Israeli or Israeli-invented parts in them.
Consistency, y'all!
via @CHSommers
I cannot fathom the SJWs hatred of Israel, unless it has to do with a propensity to side with the underdog. Since Israel is vastly more powerful, SJWs rush to defend the Palestinians, viewing them as downtrodden and oppressed by the evil Israel tyranny.
Just as they despise the evil patriarchy and white supremacy.
Patrick at January 10, 2017 3:20 AM
Stop pinkwashing Israel.
I'm sure once the Jews have been pushed into the ocean, the peaceful muslims will stop killing gays, apostates, atheists, and oppressing women,
It's the Zionist mind control rays forcing them to commit such heinous acts.
I R A Darth Aggie at January 10, 2017 6:30 AM
Statehood will be the worst thing for Palestinians. With statehood, they will have to stop acting like two-year-olds pitching a temper tantrum and actually build a nation.
They'll have to run an economy instead of reaching for handouts and living on their victimhood. No more destroying the orchid hothouses left to them when the Israelis move out. Now, they'll have to grow and sell the orchids. Making bomb vests and exporting terrorism can no longer be their main industry.
And no more tolerating Hamas launching rockets into neighboring Israel. When you're a nation, that's an act of war.
Palestinian statehood will be the downfall of the Palestinians; and, quite possibly, of the Israelis as well. Israel will now be aligned against a sovereign nation with allies and defined borders.
One assumes Palestine will do something that initiates a war with Israel and Israel will win said war with superior military technology and capabilities.
In conquering Palestine, Israel will now have to absorb a large population of hostile Arabs within its own expanded borders. How do you remain a Jewish democracy when over half you population is composed of conquered Arabs hostile to Judaism?
Conan the Grammarian at January 10, 2017 7:15 AM
"Statehood will be the worst thing for Palestinians. With statehood, they will have to stop acting like two-year-olds pitching a temper tantrum and actually build a nation."
Nah. The EU will be right there to keep them supplied with diapers and bottles, and clean up their messes for them. Useful "counterweight" to America, dontcha know.
"In conquering Palestine, Israel will now have to absorb a large population of hostile Arabs within its own expanded borders. How do you remain a Jewish democracy when over half you population is composed of conquered Arabs hostile to Judaism?"
The least inhumane thing I can come up with involves making use of the realpolitik that we already engage in re Saudi Arabia. Round up the Pali adults and teenagers and pack them off to the Saudis. Offer the Saudi government (which is beginning to be in deep financial straits due to oil prices dropping) some financial aid if it can keep them from making too much trouble, and look the other way at exactly how it does this. Keep the young children and raise them as Israelis. Maybe several generations from now, there will be enough of them to dilute the most toxic aspects of Pali culture.
Cousin Dave at January 10, 2017 7:55 AM
"How do you remain a Jewish democracy when over half you population is composed of conquered Arabs hostile to Judaism?"
Maybe we could ask the Arabs already living in Israel.
Radwaste at January 10, 2017 11:50 AM
Two points,
One, if I recall correctly the Palestinians have been offered their own nation on no less than three occasions.
They are the ones who refuse to let the process move forward
Two, Who says you have to keep conquered lands?
The could just do what they did in the sixties, keep the areas of land that make for a more easily defensible border, and simply expel anyone living on that small tract of land into the part of Palestine they dont want to keep.
There is this bizarre notion that a conquering nation is responsible to keep all the land or at the very least rebuild everything while letting thousands of soldiers die needlessly.
Carpet bomb the fuckers, tell them any time they want to go again they'll get more of the same and let them clean up the rubble and rebuild
lujlp at January 10, 2017 4:13 PM
I'll support a Palestinian state when it recognizes, and I mean truthfully recognizes, Israel's right to exist.
I'll support other Muslim nations when they allow the Hindu, Christian, and other religious beliefs of the desperate, poor, workers from the third world they import into places like Saudi Arabia to clean their toilets.
Shoot, just recognize the human rights those workers have to not be held in slavery! Then I might start listening to such folks "preach" to me about Israel.
charles at January 10, 2017 6:51 PM
They don't comprise over half the population ... yet.
Conan the Grammarian at January 12, 2017 1:22 PM
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