Proportional Outrage
19/01/09 09:40 AM
There is much nashing of teeth and wringing of hands
still going on over the Israeli Defence Forces
incursion into the Gaza territory which has been
going on for now 22 days.
All of the usual suspects, the UN, the EU, Sid Ryan of CUPE, the Canadian Postal Workers Union, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Bono, you know, all of REAL deep thinkers of the Culturati and their house organs such as the New York Times, The Guardian and of course, the Toronto Daily Star have jumped on the “proportionality” gap between the IDF 22 day incursion and 7 years or so of missile attacks from Gaza into Israeli territory.
Sadly, their idea of proper proportion is limited only to the number of casualties that are reported each day by both sides. One would think that after the enormous body of evidence of fake reporting, staged ambulance’s “destroyed” by “the jews” and a parade of photo shopped images of “Israeli atrocities” that surfaced after the Israeli incursion into Lebanon to stifle the exact same kind of attacks from Iran’s other puppet outfit, Hezbollah, that we would have learned our lessons about just who is the truly aggrieved party in this dispute.
It would seem that just because the Hamas missile launchers are just not very good at it, and that they do not kill as many Israeli citizens as they set out to do, that somehow, the Israeli response should be similarly ineffective “just to be fair”.
This is of course utter nonsense and just continues the constant stream of guilt ridden angst that emanates from the Leftist wing of almost every democratic country that can afford to be smug and point fingers at Israel because they are not in range of Hamas nor Hezbollah rockets. If Jersey City was lobbing missiles across the Hudson River into Manhattan on a daily basis Mayor Bloomberg would be calling on President Bush/Obama/whomever to turn New Jersey into a glass slag heap with B-52’s within a week.
What was proportional about the NATO intervention into Yugoslavia? Who, outside of the borders of that sovereign nation was under threat before British, US and Canadian aircraft destroyed all of their bridges and their electric grid?
What was “fair” about turning mud huts into dust all over Afghanistan with missiles and bombs from B-52’s and Tornadoes sent under the auspices of NATO to retaliate for Sept. 911?
No talk of proper proportionality then. Just heated, war time rhetoric and blood lust screaming from every major news outlet in the free world.
Hamas has received much better missiles from Iran lately. The Russian made Graz for instance. Do you think it would be OK with her critics if Israel just waited until one or two of these missiles actually hit Israel’s nuclear reactor at Dimona? Would a toxic cloud of radioactive dust settling down over Jordan, Egypt, Syria as well as Gaza and the West Bank spur condemnation of the Hamas rocket attacks?
The only thing disproportionate about all of this is the talking heads once again blaming the victims of aggression for fighting back instead of just meekly being led off into the ovens once again.
A master of satire over at the Peoples Cube blog put together the following mockup of a New York Times front page back in 2006. I think it speaks volumes about the mindset of today’s so called Main Stream Media and also explains why the NYT’s is today considering a financial bailout from a rich Mexican. Print media have dug themselves into a cavern of debt and well deserved disrespect with their out of touch view of the world as it is today. The sooner they either wake up and start reporting the news instead of writing the news the better. Otherwise, “Asta La Vista, Baby”.
From The Peoples Cube.
All of the usual suspects, the UN, the EU, Sid Ryan of CUPE, the Canadian Postal Workers Union, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Bono, you know, all of REAL deep thinkers of the Culturati and their house organs such as the New York Times, The Guardian and of course, the Toronto Daily Star have jumped on the “proportionality” gap between the IDF 22 day incursion and 7 years or so of missile attacks from Gaza into Israeli territory.
Sadly, their idea of proper proportion is limited only to the number of casualties that are reported each day by both sides. One would think that after the enormous body of evidence of fake reporting, staged ambulance’s “destroyed” by “the jews” and a parade of photo shopped images of “Israeli atrocities” that surfaced after the Israeli incursion into Lebanon to stifle the exact same kind of attacks from Iran’s other puppet outfit, Hezbollah, that we would have learned our lessons about just who is the truly aggrieved party in this dispute.
It would seem that just because the Hamas missile launchers are just not very good at it, and that they do not kill as many Israeli citizens as they set out to do, that somehow, the Israeli response should be similarly ineffective “just to be fair”.
This is of course utter nonsense and just continues the constant stream of guilt ridden angst that emanates from the Leftist wing of almost every democratic country that can afford to be smug and point fingers at Israel because they are not in range of Hamas nor Hezbollah rockets. If Jersey City was lobbing missiles across the Hudson River into Manhattan on a daily basis Mayor Bloomberg would be calling on President Bush/Obama/whomever to turn New Jersey into a glass slag heap with B-52’s within a week.
What was proportional about the NATO intervention into Yugoslavia? Who, outside of the borders of that sovereign nation was under threat before British, US and Canadian aircraft destroyed all of their bridges and their electric grid?
What was “fair” about turning mud huts into dust all over Afghanistan with missiles and bombs from B-52’s and Tornadoes sent under the auspices of NATO to retaliate for Sept. 911?
No talk of proper proportionality then. Just heated, war time rhetoric and blood lust screaming from every major news outlet in the free world.
Hamas has received much better missiles from Iran lately. The Russian made Graz for instance. Do you think it would be OK with her critics if Israel just waited until one or two of these missiles actually hit Israel’s nuclear reactor at Dimona? Would a toxic cloud of radioactive dust settling down over Jordan, Egypt, Syria as well as Gaza and the West Bank spur condemnation of the Hamas rocket attacks?
The only thing disproportionate about all of this is the talking heads once again blaming the victims of aggression for fighting back instead of just meekly being led off into the ovens once again.
A master of satire over at the Peoples Cube blog put together the following mockup of a New York Times front page back in 2006. I think it speaks volumes about the mindset of today’s so called Main Stream Media and also explains why the NYT’s is today considering a financial bailout from a rich Mexican. Print media have dug themselves into a cavern of debt and well deserved disrespect with their out of touch view of the world as it is today. The sooner they either wake up and start reporting the news instead of writing the news the better. Otherwise, “Asta La Vista, Baby”.
From The Peoples Cube.
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