We talked about the old tradition of saying one thing in arabic and another for the consumption of the international community before.
At the back of the hill reports from the San Francisco that this tradition is alive
Archive for January 4, 2009
Language games
Posted: January 4, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: double standards, Israel, pet peeves
In protest, after protest, after protest we are told that Israel is committing genocide.
A commentator at Israellycool nails it:
Here, I’ll lift Bruce’s comment since it is a pearler:
Number of Palestinian Arabs in 1948 = 1,308,00.
Number of Palestinian Arabs in 2008 = 10,574,521.
Israeli attempted genocide of Palestinian Arabs over 60 years = EPIC FAIL!
It sort of reminds me of the suffering Gitmo prisoners gaining weight story.
I’m iffy on this
Posted: January 4, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, UncategorizedTags: Israel, War on Terror
The ground war in Gaza is a very risky move for Israel.
Unless Hamas can actually be destroyed on the ground and unless there is intelligence that can allow them to find them I can’t see how a sustained ground war will help.
One might go in and destroy the tunnels and the infrastructure of terror to make things complicated for Hamas and then pull out but I can’t see anything sustained. If the incursion is too brief however then it has the potential to turn into the 7 days when McClellan won 6 of seven battles but treated them as defeats or Tet which was a military disaster for North Vietnam but was portrayed as a defeat for the US.
The wild card here is Fatah. If they are actually giving underground support to Israel in this offensive then Hamas is in trouble. Of course it is not unlikely that if or when Hamas is neutralized Fatah will go back to their normal support of their own terror objectives but we will see.
The north is still the wild card. If we see strikes from Lebanon, and I’m very surprised we haven’t already the whole game will change in a hurry.
It was not long ago that Katrina Vanden Heuvel would be too radical for a roundtable seat at a mainstream show like This week. Today I see her with Cokie Roberts and George Will and John Karl. The fact that a person as radical as her has been mainstreamed suggests how far to the left the Democratic Party is or perhaps how significant the radical left side of the Democratic coalition has become.
It’s one of the many reasons why I am no longer a part of it.
UPDATE: When the transcript goes up and listen to her pablum concerning Gaza. It is absolutely astounding.
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