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Mac Thomason (whom I'll respect in the morning, even if he's a liberal :) ) points to this Washington Post article, writing of the protesters:
These are real people who really hurt; that they are on the balance on the wrong side doesn't make them stupid or evil. I must disagree; they are stupid or evil. In the very article that points to, we read:
Regev also noted that other U.S. nationals have been killed in terrorist attacks and other violence since the latest uprising began in 2000. Yaakov Mandell, a 14-year-old whose parents were born in the United States, was stoned to death in a cave in May 2001. Where were these -- where were any -- protesters then?
"Hearing about a 21-year-old Palestinian woman, holding her 9-month-old baby, being shot and killed is an unspeakable crime," said Art Laffin, 47, of the District. The stoning death of a 14-year-old boy is not an unspeakable crime? Or do these cranks (to use Thomason's word) only care about Muslim deaths, whilst Jewish ones are of no consequence to them? Farhan Saleh, the "Palestinian"-American whose daughter's death he rightly mourns, is quoted as saying:
"I don't understand politics. I don't go to any side. I don't believe in politics," he said in a telephone interview yesterday from the West Bank. "I just want my life and my kids' life in peace. I ask God all the time to finish this problem, and we live in peace all around the world. Stop the killing. Stop the people dying for nothing." "Stop the killing" must mean "Stop the killing of Muslims and Jews". Those who ask blankly, "You mean Jews are dying, too?" are stupid. Those who say, "Oh, no, we only mean 'Stop the killing of Muslims'; all Jews can die horribly, for all we care" are evil. Are these protesters stupid or evil? (And, incidentally, that I seriously disagree with Thomason in this case certainly does not mean that he writes nothing worth reading. I should have added him to my blogroll long since; I have done so now.) John "Akatsukami" Braue Sunday, April 07, 2002 |
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