My first inclination was to write a post rebutting her main argument. But there really wasn't one. Kathy doesn't respond to Yon's case for Israel. She scourges him for standing up for freedom and right while elevating Hamas terrorists to the level of beknighted freedom figthers. I've debated and denounced these horrendous leftists before. Kathy might as well have been storming the hallways of hotels in Mumbai, killing the innocents, and it would have been days before the media began to focus on the true intent of death and destruction - the murder of the Jews. People like this elevate evil above the standards of democracy and freedom. It's hard sometimes to continuously, endless, debunk and repudiate this godless insanity, but it needs to be done.
Thank goodness then that Judea Pearl keeps up the good fight. This week is the seventh year since the death of his son Daniel, and it's a world that the former Wall Street Journal reporter would barely recognize:
Those around the world who mourned for Danny in 2002 genuinely hoped that Danny's murder would be a turning point in the history of man's inhumanity to man, and that the targeting of innocents to transmit political messages would quickly become, like slavery and human sacrifice, an embarrassing relic of a bygone era.The entire essay is must reading.
But somehow, barbarism, often cloaked in the language of "resistance," has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words "war on terror" cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil.
Professor Pearl offers one explanation for the normalization of evil: the glorification of leftist indocrination of America's college campuses.
I'll have more later ...
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Thank you Professor for keeping up the fight against these idiots. I cannot do it anymore. I have nothing but anger inside me towards the Kathy's of this world.
Anyone who follows the happenings in Middle East understands that the present administration in Iran has been very honest in admitting that it totally intends to fight Israel. We all can see that Hezbollah, Hamas and Syria are tools of Iran.
Unless a new Iranian government is voted in that has a different agenda the war is quite close. At the end of this war, there will be new Middle East.
One day soon Michael Yon will be able to sit in a cafe in Amman, Damascus, Teheran and Ridaya freely posting to the internet. Always remember, the last lines to Kazan's great movie "America, America": People are waiting, People are waiting ! There are millions of Arabs waiting for freedom.
To Europe: The Romans killed Christ, stop blaming the Jews already.
You're welcome, Norm. Keep up the spirit, and the fight, whenever and wherever you can.
There are those who cannot conceive of any enemy other than Capitalism and America (as well Israel and Christianity). Anyone who fights against these four are alright in the minds of these kooks who honestly seem to think that the Jihadists would resist the urge to kill them as well. I wonder if their denial is powerful that they would be OK with a Jihadist beheading them as well.
Great comments, Shoprat. Really, some of your best ever!
America missed out on some very sobering education that the Israelis had to endure. For years, Israel had to, and still have to live their lives in fear of the next rocket, in fear of the next suicide bomber, in fear of the next evil that someone wants to inflict upon them. I think that liberalism in America would be much less severe today, if our history more resembled Israels.
Thanks Average American: We'd probably still be having all these anti-Israel style protests even if our history was identical to the Jewish state (and actually, there are many similarities between the founding of the two nations).
Not to mention the fear of kfir jets roaming around, illegal white phosphorous weapons that were used and initially denied by the ISraeli military until otherwise proven, and 1500 dead and massacred.
Not to mention the thousands of demolished homes.
But yes, lets all shed a collective tear for those living in fear of the devastating evil forces that manage let off a few useless home-made stink bombs!
How do you people even start to take yourselves seriously?
Just about every independent observer in the region has cited countless incidents of blatant and unncessary use of force by the Israeli military, but you keyboard commandos have got it goin' on, thats for sure. I am sure you all have got eyes and telescopes the size of hubble sittin' on your collective butts watching Sunday night football.
Give me a break.
Another explanation for the "Normalization of Evil"
Simply
When Nations and their peoples accept war, as an option to be pursued, the violence, horror that comes with it is no longer considered "Evil" by the masses experiencing it. It becomes every day....by going to war the disease is spread.....
When Nations reject war....they also reject the Evil that is Violence, Horror. The disease is vaccinated.
In other words, Live by the sword,...you'll die by it too....everyone, on all sides becomes a willing or unwilling soldier in the pursuit of victory through carnage.
This analogy has been around for many centuries and rings more true....than any party persuasion or national or religious entitlement argument .
War as a path to peace in the middle-east....has proven instead to prolong the acceptance of Evil, and has proven to be counter-productive in the end results.
Admittedly there are times of non-fighting, or frozen strategies but the children are always ready to pick up where we left off.
I think that liberalism in America would be much less severe today, if our history more resembled Israels.
Well, it doesn't.
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