War Criminals Are Becoming the Arbiters of Law
The double standard under which the Israeli government operates is too much for everyone except the brainwashed Americans. Even the very Israeli Jerusalem Post can see the double standard displayed by "all of Israel now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report":
This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism.
That's the way it's always been, that's the way it was in Operation Cast Lead.
And there are no limits on our right to self-defense. There is no such thing as "disproportionate." . . .
We can deliberately destroy thousands of Gazan homes, the Gazan parliament, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Interior, courthouses, the only Gazan flour plant, the main poultry farm, a sewage treatment plant, water wells and God knows what else.
Deliberately. . . .
Why? Because we're better than them. Because we're a democracy and they're a bunch of Islamo-fascists. Because ours is a culture of life and theirs is a culture of death. Because they're out to destroy us and all we are saying is give peace a chance. . . .
The Goldstones of the world call this hypocrisy, a double standard. How dare they! Around here, we call it moral clarity.
A person would never read words such as this in the New York Times or Washington Post or hear it from any U.S. news source. Unlike Israeli newspapers, the U.S. media are a complete mouthpiece for the Israel lobby. Never a critical word is heard.
This will be even more the case now that the Israel lobby, after years of effort, has succeeded in repealing the First Amendment by having the Hate Crime Bill attached to the recently passed military appropriations bill.
This is the way the syllogism works: It is anti-Semitic to criticize Israel. Anti-Semitism is a hate crime. Therefore, to criticize Israel is a hate crime.
As the Jerusalem Post notes, this syllogism has "moral clarity."
Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, John Sawers, stepped into the hate-crime arena when he told Israel Army radio that the Goldstone report on Israel's military assault on Gaza contains "some very serious details which need to be investigated."
A year from now, when the Anti-Defamation League has its phalanx of U.S. Department of Justice (sic) prosecutors in place, Sawers would be seized and placed on trial. Diplomatic immunity means nothing to the U.S., which routinely invades other countries, executes their leaders or sends them to the Hague for trial as war criminals.
In the meantime, however, the Israeli government put Sawers and the British government on notice that British support for the Goldstone Report would result in the destruction of the double standard that protects the West and Israel and create a precedent that would place the British in the dock for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"London," declared the Israeli government, "could find itself in handcuffs if it supports the document (the Goldstone report)."
Once the DOJ's hate crime unit us up and running, "self-hating Jews," such as leaders of the Israeli peace movement and Haaretz and Jerusalem Post journalists, can expect to be indicted for anti-Semitic hate crimes in U.S. courts.
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This piece is a typically frustrating bit of PCR overkill.
Yes, Israel tries to promote a double standard. Yes, her supporters try to demonize critics as anti-Semites or "self-hating Jews," and to silence them in universities and the media. Yes, the hate crime bill is an attack on free speech. Yes, Israel's supporters are in the forefront of the dangerous "bomb Iran" crowd. All true, and all important.
It doesn't follow, though, that the hate crimes bill criminalizes pure speech, as opposed to violent felonies motivated by racial or religious animus. Nor has the US arrested any foreign diplomats, and it's not likely to do so.
This kind of overkill discredits the messenger, and the underlying message.
I could care less what Israel does to its indigenous population. The question is: Why should we care?
The good news today is that Israeli generals are scared of being arrested for war crimes should they set foot in London. And so the screw turns. They had their fun at Nuremburg, and now the shoe is on the other foot. Hahaha!
@#2 Jeremiah Whitmore: since they're doing it on YOUR dime, the American dime, (and barring the fact that it's how most of the world sees it), you should care.
Paul, I agree with you on so much, but on Israel you are wrong. Of course there is a double standard--and the US and Israel have the standing to impose it on a bunch of terrorist thugs whose fanaticism knows no bounds. You'd enjoy reading George Gilder's latest, The Israel Test, in which he makes a persuasive case for Israel along many dimensions. If you're open to modifying your own ideas, I'd recommend it to you.