A city of Arabs and Jews is being pulled apart by the government’s attitude
shouts The Economist's headline this morning. The radio here also talks nonstop about the "honor-killing" last night: a 38 old married Arab woman was gunned down, probably by her own family who suspected infidelity. Arab violence in Lod is similar to Arab violence in Marseille, but The Economist focuses in Lod and blames Israeli government. The Economist even manages to mention Gaza and Israel's war of liberation in the short article. I would not classify the article in Der Sturmer rank, but its obvious venom is amazing to this Israeli Jew. In these day I am working in a large project in Lod. The pic shows Nasrin, an Arab actress.
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J, what do you think about the reaction to Einat Wilf's remarks about Rabin's portrait?
Of course she's just seeking attention, but I think her party's outraged reaction is a great example of American-style PC hysteria, which is otherwise rarely seen in this country.
Wilf says Rabin should be rejected by the Labor Party. Rabin is a history book figure and a peace saint. Wilf only illustrates the confusion reigning in the left.
People who live in glass houses... there are parts of Philadelphia that I'm sure are more segregated and more dangerous than Lod.
Jesus said not to look at the speck in your neighbor's eye but at the beam in your own.
K
Jews are finding it is impossible to live in a drug and crime and honor-killing infested Palestinian neighborhood. Sorry, that is the truth.
American Jews long ago fled the crime and violence of the inner cities of America. In Philadelphia there are vast neighborhoods that were once Jewish and are now 100% black. The synagogues are now churches (and increasingly mosques). The same is true in every older city in America.
K
The Economist is part of the enemy's front line forces.
Anon.
Like the BBC, The Economist journalist think of themselves as god in the Olympus, talking down to us mere mortals. Yet it would be unfair to say it is "part of the enemy's front line forces". Some times they are capable of fairness. Generally they are more intelligent than the common run of the mass media. I buy it.
They provide valuable information at times, but the Olympian objectivity that they fancy themselves as possessing is a joke. They are filled with double standards and politically correct pieties. They would not dream of writing a similar article about conditions in an Arab city (not that there are any Arab cities left that have mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhoods). Are they aware of their hypocrisy and consciously using it to promote their agenda or are they really stupid and unaware of how their so called objectivity is not really objective at all? Either way is bad.
K
As if to prove my point, the US National Public Radio (the American equivalent of the BBC) just fired a correspondent (Juan Williams) for saying that he feels nervous when he gets on a plane and sees men in Muslim garb. To add to the irony , the fired correspondent was himself black.
K
Blacks are just pawns in this game.
The paymaster is sucking up to the Arabs, for some reason.
Anon.
Race victimization cards have face values just like playing cards. Being Muslim trumps being black trumps being a woman. All race cards trump white males.
K
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