tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post8310363574226471485..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Strenger on CarterYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-92038244021210880222009-12-29T22:13:03.825+02:002009-12-29T22:13:03.825+02:00Jews used to be hated because they were weak and r...Jews used to be hated because they were weak and rootless. Now Jews are hated because they are strong and ruthless. <br /><br />No matter what the Jews do, they can't win.NormanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03365459073293643108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-84565188713814226932009-12-24T23:35:04.953+02:002009-12-24T23:35:04.953+02:00We used to say "What Bubba (Carter's brot...We used to say "What Bubba (Carter's brother) says, Jimmy thinks." But over the years, Jimmy has done enough of his own talking to amply demonstrate what he thinks. I believe that the anti-Semite label should be used sparingly and judiciously, but I think there is plenty on record that makes it clear that Jimmy Carter is an anti-Semite.chareidilitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-46313616561830200152009-12-24T15:53:32.500+02:002009-12-24T15:53:32.500+02:00The problem with Carter's apology is that the ...The problem with Carter's apology is that the damage hgas been done by this old fool, and his "apartheid" analogy will contantly be cited while the apology will be ignored or brushed aside.<br /><br />In any event, his grandson looks so horribly like him that few Americans, remembering the disaster of the Carter years, will vote for him. For once, a redeeming feature of the effect of media images on politics.AKUSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-36017104436263473262009-12-24T13:02:32.260+02:002009-12-24T13:02:32.260+02:00He may be right about some things but he's wro...He may be right about some things but he's wrong about others:<br /><br /><i>...that there is a big difference between being critical and even exasperated with Israel's inability to end an occupation that should have ended in 1968, as David Ben-Gurion knew very well, and the self-righteous rage and hatred that many of Israel's Western critics express in their criticisms.</i><br /><br /><br />Given the realities at the time---the buildup to the 1967 war, the aftermath of the war and Arab responses to Israeli overtures following the war---there was absolutely no way, politically (not to mention, strategically), that Israel could have given up everything (and I mean everything, because that is what would have had to have happened---then, as now).<br /><br />But people like Strenger (and there are not a few) would like to believe that forcing Israel into indefensible borders, while ignoring the repercussion, is the stuff of virtue, hence it must be true. <br /><br />And note that for Strenger, it is "Israel's inability".<br /><br />Indeed, it is always Israel's inability and it will always be Israel's inability...until such inability becomes the inability to defend itself from destruction.<br /><br />In this conflict, the people who are at the forefront of self-blame, self-chastisement and self-excoriation are pitted against those who are at the cutting edge of blaming everyone except themselves. <br /><br />It is a perfect match.Barry Meislinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04795125774426217113noreply@blogger.com