of the post - at least a misreading - in my opinion.
A few thousand years ago those more concerned with social justice tather than material wealth - the left - were the early Christian church - and they had put a blood curse on all things Jewish. Today it is impossible to read a EU publication on the left that does not have the same irrational hate - albeit they praise and even have authors that are Jewish - as long as the are not religious - called secular as if you can not be for a secular government and also religious - and those Jews must exhibit a proper hatred of Israel, agreeing that it does not have a right.
Indeed the UN attested Hezbollah war crime of using civilians as human shields so as to get civilian deaths for PR purposes is denied by many if not most on DU - reports by leaders of Christian Solidarity International and Sami El-Khoury, president of the World Maronite Union, are not even reported in the Western press (CSI reported today that "Hezbollah is using Christian villages to shield its military operations against Israel. Southern Lebanese Christian villages, such as Ain Ebel, Rmeish, Alma Alshaab, and others are being used by Hezbollah terrorists for launching missile attacks. A Christian from the village of Ain Ebel discovered Hezbollah guerrillas were setting up a launcher to fire Katyusha rockets from the rooftop of his home. Ignoring his pleas to stop, they fired the missiles. He immediately gathered his family and fled home, which indeed was bombed and destroyed 15 minutes later by an Israeli air strike. In addition to having their homes commandeered for launching Hezbollah's attacks, there have been attempts to obstruct Christians from fleeing their villages. On Saturday, July 28, Hezbollah fighters fired upon several Christians fleeing Rmeish with their families, wounding two, according to Christian sources in south Lebanon. Hezbollah has been the ruling power in the south since Israel withdrew from Lebanon six years ago. Christian villages suffer from extensive neglect of infrastructure under Hezbollah rule. Even though Christians pay the taxes for basic government services, such as road repair and other utilities, these services are rarely provided. On the other hand, Shiite villages supportive of Hezbollah do not pay taxes and benefit from infrastructure development and new residential and business construction.").
"anti-semites are conservative fucks" - I also thought that at one time anti-semites were exclusively conservative fucks, and still think that in general that is true, but among socialist types, as in every group, one sometimes finds a few crazies. But the (not based on Jewishness) hatred of Israel on the left has long since past logic and moved on to other reasons - in my opinion.
Momcat posted a CSM op-ed that claimed Hez was just responding to Israeli incursions into Lebanon - the op-ed writer Strindberg claiming this is shown by UN reports. Below are the UN reports -
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?OpenAgent&DS=S/2006/26&Lang=E&Area=UNDOChttp://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?OpenAgent&DS=S/2006/560&Lang=E&Area=UNDOCAs you can see, Strindberg is a liar. This was not in the DU thread as far as I could see (not DU bias, but folks did seem trusting of a report about Israeli evil). Strindberg sells Israel is evil, saying (falsely) in another article that Israel desecrates and destroys Christian religious shrines while forgetting the truth of "the 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity, where Christian priests were held hostage by terrorists from the PLO, and where when the church was finally freed, it was discovered that the Palestinian terrorists inside had defecated on Christian shrines and stolen all the gold icons" (the quotes reflect that this wording is from another article on the web). Indeed I have yet to see an article by Strindberg that notes that "in the classic collection of the hadith or sayings of Mohammed, every one of the 199 mentions of jihad is in the context of war against non-Muslims to expand the territory under Muslim control" (also noted first in another article on the web). But for some on DU selling a "Hezbollah/Hamas Palestinians just want fairness" line is easy.
Your use of the term BS reminds me of Strindberg's use of terms like "pure analytical nonsense" as he claims those not on board with his opinion have no more than a "cosmetic concern for Palestinians' rights and liberties". Indeed, he even claims that "neither Hezbollah nor Hamas are driven by a desire to "wipe out Jews," as is so often claimed, but by a fundamental sense of injustice that they will not allow to be forgotten" - as he forgets actual statements by leaders and financiers of these organizations that state that the goal is indeed to "wipe out the Jews".
The above rant is of course about a fellow named Strindberg - not a DUer named DistressedAmerican. And indeed my defense may well be disproportionate to your reply - sorry if you feel it is.
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