Earlier this year, there were
worldwide (and totally orchestrated) protests against Israel's "destruction" of the al-Aqsa Mosque, the
third holiest site in Islam—which does not appear once in the Qu'ran—even though Israeli excavations were being performed
to preserve archaeological evidence before official Palestinian construction destroyed it. The press, in its endless exuberance for anything anti-Western, presented these protests as
fact, not once attempting to understand the Israeli side of the issue.
Fast-forward to yesterday, where Israeli citizens were protesting their own government's plan to give the Temple Mount—which incidentally is the
single-most holiest site in Judaism, mentioned in the Torah and Talmud
hundreds of times—are tarred and smeared as "right-wing" extremists.
There's that good old-fashioned fairness and balance for you: "Curse those dastardly
right-wingers."
Full coverage of yesterday's
Radical Right Wing Israeli Protest can be found beyond the fold.
Update: Wow, here are some genuine words of "wisdom" from Ehud "
The Dunce" Olmert:
Israeli PM Olmert slams right-wing extremists over 'flood of hatred'
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launched a vitriolic attack on extreme right-wingers on Monday, amid a campaign to release a political assassin and incitement against talks with the Palestinians.
Olmert, who on Sunday said he may be able to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians by the end of next year, vowed that such behaviour would not dissuade him from persevering with negotiations.
"We are prepared to make compromises because security is based on peace and peace requires painful compromises," he said in a speech to a managers' conference in Israel's commercial capital Tel Aviv.
Okay, here's a "flood of hatred" for you, Eddy Boy:—if you're
so set against the Jewish people that you do not wish to hear what the Jewish people have to say about the future of Israel—the
ancestral home of said Jewish people—then why in the
devil do you
allow yourself to remain as President? If
genuine Judaism disgusts you so much, why not just pack up and move over to
your best buddy's little tinpot regime?
After all, if your "counterparts" at the peace conference
deny your right to exist, as the savages have done on every occasion they've been given, why do you suppose that "peace" somehow depends on
giving them more land, you traitorous coward?!
Is Israel really so self-destructive now that they allow
scum like this to remain in power?
Soccer Dad writes to remind me that Olmert used to
be one of we dreaded "right-wingers", back before political expediency necessitated the abandonment of his core beliefs. How times change!
I dream of the day in which
spinelessness will no longer be a requirement for public office in the West.
Update: The Elder has more thoughts on
extremism.
See-also:
Israel Matzav
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