Mark Steyn has just written about a British MP who hadn’t heard about the murder of the Fogel family in Itamar, Israel before reading his post on The Corner.
TIME magazine finds the Jerusalem bombing a mystery!
They almost lament that there haven’t been more Jews murdered in “terrorist attacks”-you see, for TIME magazine, it’s silly for people to even call them terrorist attacks without the scare quotes!
“But no one has blown himself up in Jerusalem since 2004. So effective has prevention been at thwarting serious strikes that three of the city's four most recent "terror attacks" involved vehicles: two were bulldozers taken on rampages, the third a private car steered into a sidewalk thick with soldiers. “
They find vehicular jihad questionable!
Reuters goes a little further. Here’s the Reuters take: “Police said it was a "terrorist attack" -- Israel's term for a Palestinian strike.” You get it? It’s not really terrorism because it’s just those uppity Jews that call it that, it is an Israeli semantic invention. It’s just a “Palestinian strike”. Everyone clear on that?
Even newspapers that are ostensibly friendly to Israel have bought into the narrative-using copy, generated by naïve Lawrence of Arabia journalist types(at best) to extreme anti-Semite journalist types (at worst). The cycle of violence! Moral equivalence boiled down to its extreme essence in just four words.
Of course it’s no small wonder that there was barely more than a media belch about the decapitated Jewish baby and her family. Those who do not speak of the evil or report on it in a way that clearly denotes terrorist and victim are sympathetic to it. There is no other way to see it.
Of course they didn’t use the knife themselves. But they need not.
It is sufficiently evil that they support the barbarism professionally, intellectually, philosophically, and economically.
It used to be that it was unfashionable in a post-Holocaust age to utter anti-Jewish epithets. There was a bit of shame involved when one got caught. Even outright anti-Semites felt a societal chastening and requirement to cloak their Judenhaas in various degrees of pro-Palestinian activism (or as the Egyptian Jewish writer Bat Ye’or describes it-“Palestinianism”) ranging from finding Jews moderately distasteful to frothing and seething handing-out-candy-celebrating-decapitated-babies kind of activism.
Alas, the forces of the new-old hatred are emboldened and ever more ambitious. The fans and cheerleaders of terrorism have no reason whatsoever to speak in hushed tones, or to feel stifled and muffled by any societal restrain. These voices are clear and lucid. Their minds will not be changed with soothing words and dialogue, only by force and tenacious, vocal and practical dedication to liberty and the Judeo-Christian way of life.
Only time will tell if we are up to this challenge and what we will tell our grandchildren about our role in the battle.
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