From: David Lubkin (extropy@unreasonable.com)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 13:22:05 MDT
At 10:11 AM 4/18/2002 -0700, David Lubkin wrote:
>For eighty years Israel (and the predecessor Jewish community) has been
>regularly pilloried for alleged misdeeds that are dwarfed by Arab behavior
>against Israel, Jews, other Arab states, or their own people. Every one
>of the states that has attacked Israel have outrageous barbarities in
>their recent past. Why is there a double standard?
Whoops.
What I meant to say, but left out, is that the Israelis are routinely
castigated world-wide, regardless of the evidence or severity of the
offense, while clear evidence of horrifying acts by other parties --
especially the Arabs, but also other groups elsewhere in the world -- is
either not reported on or explained away. (We hear about alleged Israeli
torture of PLO suspects; we don't hear about alleged British torture of IRA
prisoners.)
And, yes, of course there are also apologists for Israel. Fewer worldwide
and in US major-media than people who promote a pro-Arab position.
It's funny to see in the US how the two groups that are strongest in their
support are Jewish liberals and Christian conservatives. And the
conservatives are more unwavering than the Jews. The most consistent
attacks are from non-Jewish liberals and other groups of Christian
conservatives. I don't think there's a clear libertarian perspective; it
seems as potentially divisive as abortion is in the LP.
-- David.
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