Unfair Mr. Pundit? Sounds balanced and reasonable to me.

If you only use half your brain, perhaps. Your “balanced and reasonable” quote left out a few things:

*Three Arab invasion of Israel
*Hundreds of suicide attacks on civilians
*Daily rocket attacks on civilian areas
*Refusal of Hamas to recognize Israel’s right to exist
*Multiple armed factions, all dedicated to Israel’s destruction
*Use of Palestinian territory as staging ground for attacks against both civilian and military targets
*Use of Palestinian civilians as willing human shields for those who attack civilians
*Daily anti-Semitic attacks in Palestinian media of which Julius Streicher would be proud

Yeah, other than those omissions, it was a balanced and reasonable quote. If you’re a Jew-hater or a dhimmi.

Ironic, and rather sad.

If you can stand any further discouragement, The Tyee wonders why Canada’s left has shunned progressive Islamic groups like the Muslim Canadian Congress, which prays for the saftey and success of the country’s soldiers in Afghanistan, in favor of jihadists and their sympathizers. Answer: because when push comes to shove, they don’t give a rat’s knob about progressive values. It’s the adversarial, counterculture posture that they covet. Radical chic, in other words. Or sheikh, as the case may be.

Probably the best summary of political counterculture I’ve ever read.

Unfair Mr. Pundit? Sounds balanced and reasonable to me.

Sure, if you accept its premises and ignore key facts. That’s not really a problem for some people, though. It’s like every lefty screed I’ve ever read minus the rampant quotation marks, exclamation points, random capitalization, and obscenities. It’s golden on the other parts though. Namely, emotion over reason. Apparently, some people think Israel just likes bombing muslims because they can.

So, now, in the Land of the Stiff Upper Lip and Muddling Trhough, America is bad, Isreal is bad, the Palestinians are victims, and Islamic terrorists are “fighters” struggling for a “just and understandable cause”

It ain’t France yet, but the Brits are gaining Negative Ground on the Frogs

*cough cough* democrats *cough cough*

If it happened in any other country, the links would be flyin’.

Go see the reaction she got in the comments.

posted at 7:34 pm on November 24, 2006 by Allahpundit

Here’s one:

Lorna Fitzsimons justifies Israeli atrocities by pointing to the fear caused by the home-made missiles that have killed nine people and asks what Britian if British citizens would accept a single rocket on a British town.

Let me go further and ask if British citizens would accept the confiscation of much of their land? Would they accept regular bombardment from high-tech weaponery? Would they accept daily humiliation and disruption of their lives at roadblocks? Would they accept the division of their land into isolated blocks? Would they accept the absolute and total control over every aspect of their lives by another power? Would they accept roads and areas reserved for the use of the occupiers only?

Well? Would they?

Of course they wouldn’t. They would resist. They would fight for the freedom of their country and of their people, as every occupied, subjugated people have the right – and the duty – to do.

Rashers101
November 24, 2006 02:17 AM

Unfair Mr. Pundit? Sounds balanced and reasonable to me.

I do believe that the Muslims will drive all other faiths from the region. I think that will be final in about 15 years. I have read reports of Christians fleeing from the holy lands.

Let’s have a show of hands as to how many people know that Lebanon was a majority Christian country 30 years ago… Forget the Jews, what is happening to the Christians is even worse and hardly anyone is reporting on it. Within 20 years the birthplace of Christianity will be Muslim controlled (again).

It’s the adversarial, counterculture posture that they covet. Radical chic, in other words. Or sheikh, as the case may be.

Man, you nailed it with that. It’s not even an ideology so much as widespread cognitive missfires.