Mr. Moral Equivalence
Who could make the Itamar terror attack look like it was Israel's fault? Why Stephen Walt, of course. To say that I am appalled by the brutal murder of an Israeli family in the West Bank settlement of Itamar (near Nablus) is an understatement. Israel's occupation of the West Bank is universally recognized as a violation of international law and depends on force, intimidation, and violence, but there is no justification for anyone to take the lives of an entire family in this way. No good can possibly come from such a senseless act -- not for Palestinians, not for Israelis, and not for anyone else -- and it should be universally condemned.Note that in the first sentence, he condemns the attack, in the second sentences, he says it's Israel's fault, and in the third sentence he says it's not good for the 'Palestinians' (not that it's wrong, but that it doesn't help the cause). In the next paragraph, he goes on to blame Israel.
But while we are at it, we should not spare the other parties who have helped create and perpetuate the circumstances where such crimes are likely to occur.
Let us therefore condemn every Israeli government since 1967, for actively promoting the illegal effort to colonize these lands.
By the way, 'international law' does not say the 'settlements' are illegal, for reasons I have shown many times, most recently here.
Later, he goes on to mouth baseless accusations about Israeli 'war crimes,' the 'occupation' (conveniently forgetting how we got to be in this situation), and 'squandering the opportunity of Oslo,' again conveniently forgetting who squandered it.
The name "Fogel" never appears in the article. They are dehumanized. They are just 'evil settlers' in Walt's book.
Stephen Walt is a rank anti-Semite and Harvard is to be condemned and ostracized for continuing to employ him.
Labels: anti-Semitism, Fogel family massacre, Harvard University, Itamar, Palestinian terror, Stephen Walt
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:52 PM
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And, let's point out which side of Stephen Walt's bread is buttered. He's just an employee of machete monsters. Read the whole thing:
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/03/stephen-walt-and-gaddafis-libya-zvi.html
not just steven walt...every leftist that has written about the massacre has used the moral equivalency quotient...every single one
they have no shame
for a long while, i just considered them to be useful fools...no more
they are all evil, sick and twisted
Stephen Walt claims to be a foreign policy realist.
In truth, he has no real understanding of the Middle East and what goes on there. That could be equally said of his more credulous colleague John Mearsheimer.
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