In Solidarity:
I was fortunate enough to attend a Pro-Israel Rally at San Francisco State University yesterday. While this deserves a much longer post and I can say right now that behavior on both sides of this issue has been disgusting, I’m livid that my so called “progessive” brothers and sisters have engaged in the kind of naked anti-semitism I reserved for miltia-brand lunatics and Jerry Falwell. If your simple-minded Palestinian=Brown=Good, Israeli=White=Bad is what passes for your sense of liberalism, I recommend you get informed in the way you claim so many of us are not.
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I totally know where you’re coming from. While doing some research at SF State recently, I inadvertently ran into some pro-Palestine types who were apparently conducting a rally. Without being asked, I was showered with leaflets and told all of the reasons why I should have to pick one side over the other. This resulted in a rather caustic discussion in which this protestor wasn’t even aware of the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty and stared wide-eyed when I asked for (a) a justification for the acts of the suicide bombers and (b) why Arafat could not find so much as a compromise at the Camp David talks. There is simply no way to talk reasonably to some of these people. A good deal of them will willingly align themselves to a cause without having done any of the research or being aware of the niceties. And it seems that, given the Pepsi vs. Coke, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, Microsoft vs. Mac mentality that the idiot mainstream press is treating this situation, there is little room on the American political radar for any grey areas. Why does today’s Left have to be so damned stupid? Particularly when a gang of reactionary tyrants in Washington fold their fingers inwards like Montgomery Burns.
I totally know where you’re coming from. While doing some research at SF State recently, I inadvertently ran into some pro-Palestine types who were apparently conducting a rally. Without being asked, I was showered with leaflets and told all of the reasons why I should have to pick one side over the other. This resulted in a rather caustic discussion in which this protestor wasn’t even aware of the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty and stared wide-eyed when I asked for (a) a justification for the acts of the suicide bombers and (b) why Arafat could not find so much as a compromise at the Camp David talks. There is simply no way to talk reasonably to some of these people. A good deal of them will willingly align themselves to a cause without having done any of the research or being aware of the niceties. And it seems that, given the Pepsi vs. Coke, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, Microsoft vs. Mac mentality that the idiot mainstream press is treating this situation, there is little room on the American political radar for any grey areas. Why does today’s Left have to be so damned stupid? Particularly when a gang of reactionary tyrants in Washington fold their fingers inwards like Montgomery Burns.