Imagining an Israeli Strike on Iran (NYT-Link below)
just in case this isn't old news to the savvies (there is a link to a Kenneth M. Pollack piece on the event also)
Silke PS: blogging without thinking letting the heat of it send him into automatic scribbling is Andrew Sullivan's specialty - maybe he carries a patent on it and nobody else is allowed to do it (at The Atlanic) without paying a licence fee;) to him - let's hope that Goldberg will use the pause to do some re-thinking on his (and Rahm Emanuel's tough-love-stance ...
"Obama has a gift for getting his enemies to destroy themselves." triumphalizes Andrew Sullivan in the London Times
Now I know that bloggers will save the world from Israel or Netanyahu or both - what Petraeus really said (again) - and that times have changed so much that if somebody should call him an anti-semite nothing bad would happen to him
Maybe Goldberg---now that Israel's existential dilemma, though always there, has once more been pushed and shoved and dragged to the foreground---is trying to figure out how exactly to rationalize his support for Israel together with his criticism of Israel and his support for those who criticize Israel.
I imagine it's not an especially easy time for those critics of Israel who still maintain some vestige of sanity (I assume there are a few such left). Do they recalibrate or stay true to their beliefs? And if they recalibrate, how? When?
(Does this mean that people will be abandoning J-Street in droves? Maybe, probably not, but who really knows?)
Certainly, those who don't especially like the fact that Israel exists are sharpening their knives and/or getting ready to party hard. And the propaganda that has been so effective so far will continue to pound away. "Momentum," as it is called.
And so the "Israel is the impediment to peace," "Israel is leading us down the path to war," "Israel is a threat to the entire region," Israel is a threat to the entire world," "Israel is the reason why peace talks can no longer take place" (along with a few juicy variants such as "Israel steals organs from (fill in the blank)") memes (yawn) will flow fast and furious.
And why shouldn't they, after all?
Alhough those who continue to hope for that glorious day when Israel is no longer have, alas, been disappointed in the past...
latest from Goldberg? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/05/100405fa_fact_goldberg
this on the other hand, even if it should be true that part of it is fiction, is very very worth a read or re-read because it is true in what it says about human nature. "shooting an Elephant" http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/
Imagining an Israeli Strike on Iran
ReplyDelete(NYT-Link below)
just in case this isn't old news to the savvies (there is a link to a Kenneth M. Pollack piece on the event also)
Silke
PS: blogging without thinking letting the heat of it send him into automatic scribbling is Andrew Sullivan's specialty - maybe he carries a patent on it and nobody else is allowed to do it (at The Atlanic) without paying a licence fee;) to him
- let's hope that Goldberg will use the pause to do some re-thinking on his (and Rahm Emanuel's tough-love-stance ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/weekinreview/28sangerintro.html?ref=global-home
"Obama has a gift for getting his enemies to destroy themselves."
ReplyDeletetriumphalizes Andrew Sullivan in the London Times
Now I know that bloggers will save the world from Israel or Netanyahu or both
- what Petraeus really said (again)
- and that times have changed so much that if somebody should call him an anti-semite nothing bad would happen to him
Silke
Maybe Goldberg---now that Israel's existential dilemma, though always there, has once more been pushed and shoved and dragged to the foreground---is trying to figure out how exactly to rationalize his support for Israel together with his criticism of Israel and his support for those who criticize Israel.
ReplyDeleteI imagine it's not an especially easy time for those critics of Israel who still maintain some vestige of sanity (I assume there are a few such left). Do they recalibrate or stay true to their beliefs? And if they recalibrate, how? When?
(Does this mean that people will be abandoning J-Street in droves? Maybe, probably not, but who really knows?)
Certainly, those who don't especially like the fact that Israel exists are sharpening their knives and/or getting ready to party hard. And the propaganda that has been so effective so far will continue to pound away. "Momentum," as it is called.
And so the "Israel is the impediment to peace," "Israel is leading us down the path to war," "Israel is a threat to the entire region," Israel is a threat to the entire world," "Israel is the reason why peace talks can no longer take place" (along with a few juicy variants such as "Israel steals organs from (fill in the blank)") memes (yawn) will flow fast and furious.
And why shouldn't they, after all?
Alhough those who continue to hope for that glorious day when Israel is no longer have, alas, been disappointed in the past...
Will they be disappointed again?
Will this time be the real deal?
No, hope never dies.
Please do not "Pop off"
ReplyDeletebut do have a Hag Sameah!
Surely these changes in attitudes in the US were always on the cards?
ReplyDeleteOr if not on the cards at least going to happen, one day?
latest from Goldberg? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/05/100405fa_fact_goldberg
ReplyDeletethis on the other hand, even if it should be true that part of it is fiction, is very very worth a read or re-read because it is true in what it says about human nature.
"shooting an Elephant"
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/
Silke