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Are you amazed by this fact?
We know more about the vein-lines running through the Israel-Gaza War this afternoon than we do about the persons our teenage children are dating.
Astonishing.
An unembarrassable world remains obsessed, by the hour, with the movement of Jews.
Always has been.
Anti-Semites, friends and just plain curious Gentiles have been tightly tuned in to every Jewish breath drawn since the Exodus 3400 years ago.
If a Jew burps, it is Page One. If he burps twice, it is the lead story in the newspaper.
The Los Angeles Times has been sending acne-faced schoolgirls in pigtails and gingham dresses to Iraq to cover a war whose name they can barely spell. Except for the opening week in Iraq, the Times has not meaningfully covered the war on a daily basis.
While we are arguing whether that is good or bad, how is it that, via the selectively vigilant Times, we know the shoe sizes and the exact dream contents of every single Israeli solider inside of the filthy border of Gaza?
My friend Jerry Rubin, the Santa Monica political activist, has been fasting for a fortnight in jubilant anticipation of President Obama’s inauguration. But then he fasts about as often as I buy new shoes.
Will the Times join Mr. Rubin by keeping its body free of food?
Say, until the last Jew tosses his weapon over to a needy Hamas terrorist in the name of balancing this fight?
Dear God:
Since so many Jew-haters suddenly are in a timeout mode this month — Stop the War! The Jews Are Ahead! — I have a favor to ask while the soldiers take a recess. Can you and I agree on a new law? Let’s prohibit all shallow Gentile journalists, and self-loathing Jews, from commenting on The War until it is settled?
I choked on my Wheaties yesterday morning while trying to digest the Los Angeles Times’ latest churlish, childish editorial on The War, “Silence the guns.”
Surely the Plea Was a Cartoon
They screamed at the top of their computers for those darned pesky Jews to stop The War, to stop beating up on the poor, bedraggled Hamas “militants.”
The Times demanded that the Jews (and Hamas) “must heed a U.N. Security Council call for a ‘durable and fully respected’ cease-fire in Gaza.”
Why should Israel stop in the middle when it is winning big?
The Times does not offer an answer, an alternative, except to say “There are no lasting military solutions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
The evidence of the last 2 1/2 weeks in gradually flattening Gaza suggests otherwise.
The editorial argues that “the costs of the Gaza war to Israel’s standing have been high.”
Absolutely untrue. The same people who hated the Jews on Dec. 27 still do, and the supporters of Israel maintain, correctly, that Israel is winning the conflict.
Without regurgitating Israel’s cause and the inherent evil of the Hamas criminals, the bid by the Times was nonsense. They knew it was nonsense. They knew everyone in their audience knew it was nonsense.
Except for the U.S., Israel and a small country we could not find on a globe, the other 189 member countries in the United Nations are 100 percent comprised of teeth-baring Jew-haters.
Has the Times forgotten that about 98 percent of Hamas’s terrorists — all in civilian clothes — are either cowering underground or crouching behind “innocent civilians”?
Where Are Our Boys?
The L Times, I am convinced, lost track years ago of the Iraq War, and has no idea whether American troops are in Peoria, Bloomington or Baghdad.
But by golly, they can tell you exactly where every IDF’r is posted inside Gaza, right down to the flavor and quantity of the seasoning he prefers for his midweek dinners.
If the Times means to survive, and to be taken seriously, it must pledge to never again intentionally write such puerile distortions.
