Time to blame the Jews. You know the old saying that beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes right to the bone? Whoever came up with that had Helen Thomas in mind. The doddering moron should have been put to pasture years ago.
[Update a while later]
A story of two Rachels:
Rachel Thaler was a British subject. Yet not a single British journalist has ever mentioned her, profiled her, interviewed her parents or other British relatives, or published her diary in a Fleet Street newspaper – except for a single solitary mention by the great (Jewish) comedienne Maureen Lipman noting that nobody ever mentioned her, or the other victims of Palestinian terrorism.
Ah, but Israel is an “apartheid state”, and the Palestinians are the Europeans’ unending adopt-a-Third-World-pet project. I write in the new National Review (on sale now-ish) that, if old-school judenhass was a by-product of more or less traditional racism and conventional nationalism, the new judenhass advances under the cover of “anti-racism” and “multiculturalism”. The oldest hatred didn’t get that way without the ability to adapt.
What’s really frightening is how many useful Jewish idiots they have.
[Update a few minutes later]
So, should the Jews apologize to Turkey, or go back to Germany and Poland?
[Early afternoon update]
The most ancient virus to infect the soul:
Flare-ups of the virus have been common across Europe throughout the last 2 millennia, but an overwhelming series of eruptions in Europe from England through the lands controlled by the USSR, required a global intervention before the conflagration was deemed to be put out. This, of course was an illusion, since like the root burns engendered by forest fires, it only smoldered underground in the human and social hosts for decades before erupting once again in the vast Petri dish of the Middle East.
With the advent of the “Palestinian cause” becoming chic in Western, European, and Liberal circles — driven at first by Socialist Progressive romanticism in the late 1960s and early 1970s — being infected by virus has once more become acceptable to exhibit socially in certain ways. Indeed, in many circles and societies, having the virus has lately become a highly prized fashion accessory to popular academic, media, and state ideologies. It is now actually a badge of pride in many Western circles to appear at various events wearing gold-plated buboes inset with multi-faceted Kaposi’s sarcoma that contain the virus at their core. Many now believe this intellectual adornment to actually be beautiful.
In a recent mutation, the virus has shown that it can leap the blood/brain barrier and actually infect Jews — if they feel safe within their “advanced” society. The current term for this mutation is “Juicebox Mafia” in which self-styled “intellectuals” of Jewish lineage actually feel it is “intelligent” to call for a world in which it is easier for Arabs and other Islamic groups to kill Jews wholesale. This sort of strange host to the virus is replacing the previous host termed “the self-hating Jew.” The reason for the rise of the Juicebox Mafia is unclear, but it may well have to do with desires for celebrity and paychecks that exceed the desire to live.
Or maybe “intellectuals” aren’t very smart.
“Fiddler on the Roof” has that great line, “I know we are the chosen people, but couldn’t you choose someone else some times?” …or something like that.
Turkey should apologize to Israel for abetting an entity at war with the Jewish state. HAMAS exists for the destruction of Israel, and Israel has to make sure anything going into Gaza isn’t war materiel. Israel had arrangements for the flotilla to arrive at a port where Israelis could inspect the stuff being delivered to its enemy.
If Israel lets shipments go into Gaza unchecked, those who would ship war materiel to HAMAS by sea would take advantage of that avenue at the drop of a keffiyah.
As a group, Jews have contributed more, per capita, to building the networks of industrial society around the world than any other similar sized group. Industrial society does more to undercut the local oligarchs, and would-be oligarchs, of the old agrarian cultures than any trend of the last 10,000 years.
Not surprisingly, these oligarchs, and those who would support or supplant them hate these contributors to industrial society, “The Jews.” This includes the oligarchs inside the EU, who sought to ignore the effects of markets, and are willing to blame the results of that on “the Jews”, or their surrogate in public, “that shitty little country.” Present hatreds are only the most recent wave of this, as a specific part of the general expression of the Islamist wave of reaction against industrial society. That it finds the adherents of the old socialist reactionary wave in agreement is not odd.
The presence of Jewish intellectuals on the side of those who would crush a prime exemplum of industrial society in the ME, Israel, becomes understandable when you consider identification. Jews have been spoken of as “smart boys” for decades, and have often earned it. That has grown into a deep desire to always be identified as among “the smart boys”, which includes being counted among intellectuals, even more than to be Jewish. However, with the rise of Gramscian dominance by the Left in academic communities, the only way to be counted an intellectual, and thus a “smart boy”, is to denounce whoever the Left denounces. When the Left began its slow turn against Israel after 1949, and accelerated it after 1962, the intellectualoids among the Jews of academia felt the pull of their desire, and many succumbed.
Thus, Jews affected by academia first became silent whenever Israel was denounced, and when that was no longer enough to be with the “in crowd”, began to denounce Israel. As long as it is more important to them to be a person recognized in academia as an “intellectual” than a person recognized as a Jew, then they will continue this behavior. IMHO, the only way to end that is to promote non-academic intellectual recognition, of Jews and non-Jews, since the Gramscian strategic ploy has poisoned the academic set of nodes in the intellectual networks of industrial society.
During the long time that will take, Israel must concentrate on its survival.
Helen Thomas retired this afternoon. WOOHOO!!