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Sunday, October 07, 2012

The Israeli and American Left

Caroline Glick finds that the Israeli and American Left have an awful lot in common.
In Israel, leftist appeasement of Palestinian terrorists has led to a horrific death toll and the obvious absence of peace. So the Left must silence those who have the temerity to oppose that failed policy. The Right's most visible members are the religious Zionists, who are disproportionately situated beyond the 1949 armistice lines, and so the Left must destroy them through expulsions, no matter what the cost to Israel.

In America, the Left's most conspicuous failure is its claim to promote women's rights, equality and civil liberties in the culture war, even as it defends the Islamic world's addiction to female genital mutilation, forced marriages, honor killings and executions of homosexuals for the "crime" of being gay. So the Left must silence critics of jihad and Islamism, and hope no one will notice its hypocrisy.

The upshot of all of this is that the Left must be denied its ability to dominate national discourses. Because Abbas and the pathologically Jew-hating society he leads is a threat to the Jewish state, while religious Zionists are not. And the assaults on American embassies throughout the Islamic world are not due to Internet movies, but to the savagery inherent in jihadist Islam.

In these perilous times we cannot permit ourselves to be led astray by those who insist we are our worst enemies.

Read the whole thing. For those who don't recall the picture above (it's not in Caroline's post), it's Machsom Watch's Raya Yaron - a card-carrying member of Israel's Left - comforting Shama Awad, the mother of one of the murderers of the Fogel family of Itamar a year and a half ago.

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At 1:39 PM, Blogger Sunlight said...

The Israeli and American Left
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The Israel and American Green Start-Up Nation people (who may also be Leftists, but apparently most of them aren't? But they need to be called out with the Left for accepting $billions in Green Slush and providing aid and comfort to the marauding Obama Team regarding America's existing energy production.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the Dems lost CA because of gas lines? Remember them in the '70s under Carter?

 

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