What do you get when you put a deep and wide fund of knowledge, a logical mind, and a profound intellect into the service of a single article? You get Richard Baehr’s article at The American Thinker entitled “The War in American against Israel (part one).” Unsurprisingly, Mr. Baehr does a meticulous, but never boring, deconstruction of the situation in which Israel now finds herself vis a vis the Palestinians and the rest of the world, and goes on to predict coming events as we near the 40th Anniversary of the Six Day War and the trial of two AIPAC employees accused of espionage. The following paragraphs will give you a small taste of the intellectual pleasures that await you (and the knowledge you will gain) if you read Mr. Baehr’s article:
The New York Times has already revealed that it is preparing a series of articles commemorating the Six Day War, during which Israel took control of the West Bank from Jordan. (Jordan had seized and annexed the West Bank after Israel’s 1948 war of Independence). In that same Six Day War, Israel took the Golan Heights (from which Syria had shelled Israeli farmers in the Galilee for decades) from Syria, Gaza (which Egypt had seized in the 1948 war and then occupied, and which was given by Israel to the Palestinians in 2005) and the Sinai peninsula from Egypt. The Sinai was returned in its entirety to Egypt after the Camp David accord of 1979.
Given the laziness of many members of the journalistic class, a major story in the New York Times such as this one will be borrowed or excerpted by many other newspapers. We can predict the themes of this coming New York Times assault on Israel, from reading a recent article by Steve Erlanger, the Times’ bureau chief in Israel, and a recent column by Nicholas Kristof.
In short, we can expect that Israel will be accused of maintaining a brutal occupation of Palestinian lands for 40 years after the war. More than any other single factor, it will be argued that this is the primary cause of the worldwide Muslim hostility towards Israel, to its principal ally America, and to the instability and ferment in the broader Muslim world.
Exactly how the Israeli Palestinian conflict has been the cause or related in any way to the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, or the violence in Muslim areas of Thailand and the Philippines, or the eight year, million casualty Iran-Iraq war, or the civil war in Lebanon, or the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, or Serbian violence against Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims, or the sectarian violence in Iraq, will not be explained. It is enough to know that Muslims are unhappy with the plight of the Palestinians, so ergo, the turmoil all along the Muslim world’s intersection with the non-Muslim world, must be linked to Israeli wickedness.
I urge you to read the rest and I know that, as I do, you’ll be looking forward to coming installments. Incidentally, I figure in a small way in the article, since Mr. Baehr links to the first in a series of posts I did about how the American press viewed the Six Day War at the time it actually took place. I urge you to read that post, as well as part II and part III, since they are eye openers when compared with modern coverage of the Middle East.
Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Maybe we should persue more time learning the indoctrinating effects of beliefs on children in solving the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.Read the Israeli psychologist George Tamarin’s study and results on one thousand Israeli school children aged 8 to 16 about the battle of Jericho in the book of Joshua. Frightning! And to be fair “it is , I suppose , not unlikely that Palestinian children, brought up in the same war-torn country,would offer equivalent opinions in the opposite direction Talk about condescending sanctimonious adults on both sides creating and making the problem worse.Shame on them.It amazes me that both sides destroyed childrens hopes and dreams before they even knew they could have some. Pathetic.
You don’t happen to have a link to Tamarin, do you?
Maybe,but first say your sorry, and you have to get those mean little friends of yours ,Danny and YouScareMe, to say they are sorry.
Oh ,alright, good enough ,I forgive them . I will get the info to you. I have to do everything around here !
That’s OK, I found it via the ever reliable google.
You will also find info on Tamarins study in Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion. Not that I am inferring you should or should not read it !
To her credit, our Bookworm shows how her identity politics relate to the rest of us.
Ditto that Greg !
Greg, your identity is whatever is opposite of Book. Which makes you her mirror. And mirrors should know their place.
Btw, is it just me or is swamp getting funnier?
Re Swamp, Y: I never can understand what s/he is saying. I was never good at free verse, so I can’t answer that question.
I understand most everything he says. He is just funnier when he tries to attack people. It’s like a 4 year old trying to do pankration, just pick him up and make him go airborne.
I never can understand what s/he is saying.
Maybe this has something to do with you being a Leftie and multitasker
Here’s a little free verse for you:
In the bright corner we have the undisputed,undefeated champion,Random(The Swampacreage)Abstract weighing in at 150 I.Q.In the challenger’s corner, wearing the dull colors, Concrete[The Tiny Book)Sequential weighing in at(oops . . no weight . . she must be a zero . . not a bad thing I quess . . blush blush . . oh let’s just call her a lightweight)!
ps Winner and still undisputed champion :
Swwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmm . . py in a TKO due to TinyBook’s fear of answering the bell !
ps Rumour has it in the blogring that YOU(a little Rocky)ScareMe is training his smarmiest and coming out of retirement to avenge his idol’s defeat .
If I may do the honors of translating, Book.
He simply means that when he is pitting his wits and intellect against you, you are so afraid of hurting him, that he wins by default. okay, I fibbed, he really means, that you are so afraid of not being able to hurt him in a battle of wits. Personally, how that works when you, Book, are armed, and he isn’t, is a mystery I will leave others to solve.
He also means I’m going to nuke swamp with a 3 hit combo, resulting in him being thrown out the window, in retaliation for his victory. But since he isn’t going to win… why would I need nukes? Nukes are for when you are losing (i.e. Pakistan and Iran).
Hey, hey ,that is not a compassionate conservative thing to say or do ! Rocky Y ,you do have a pretty good right uppercut and you have a mean right jab.Your left hook is weak.But keep training and I will give a shot at the title.Keep the right guard up because I’m a southpaw.
ps Sandy Koufax(southpaw) was awesome but that’s baseball an another story !
Bush is a compassionate conserv. But everyone knows classical liberals don’t play soft on evil people.
“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.”
I also believe “Battle not with the monsters
lest ye become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you.”
Three monkey approach is fine with me. If people could learn not to see,hear and speak no evil about others things would be better. But you know we’ve got our pluralistic human diversity of beliefs so some people are just looking for evil even if they have to make it up! Yes sireeeeeeeeee !
And my all time favorite;
“There is in every village a torch – the teacher;
and an extinquisher- the clergyman.” The great thing about the last one is you can take it any way you wish !
ps. French clasical Liberal or Britsh? I suspect you are an Edmund Burke fan. Yeeees you are !
Our Bookworm openly admits, “I was never good at free verse,” and confirms what — sadly – all of us see daily in her blogging, that abstract thought — to say nothing of nuanced thought — is beyond her abilities or interest.
There’s a reason why greg likes to pick on you Book, and tries to avoid skirmishes with me. I haven’t quite figured out what that reason is though, but my best guess is that mirrors like hearing themselves talk, given their usual occupations.
Independent thinkers don’t LAWYER(relax Book, I know six lawyers( you probably think I’m name dropping) ,one vicarously, and one of them is OK) themselves er I mean lower themselves and join little tag teams for support(when we all think alike there is no thinking at all).You are right Greg,(more so than left an that is okay) it is so much easier, to see things, simply as either good or bad,right or left and/or black and white.But I’m amazed ,that these types ,would take the simple approach ,when I continually read that it is “the left that is always looking for the easy way out(no,we are not, WAY OUT . . MAYBE FAR OUT IN A COOL WAY)”. OH, I get it now ,the right types are SERIOUSLY busy chasing the dollar(for the sake of the economy,not that there is anything wrong with that, as you got to put baloney and sardines on the table ,for the kids to eat,and to employ others(can’t forget that one ))and don’t therefore have time for SERIOUS introspection(just gotta stop that mulitasking then).Or we could turn on the fog lights !