Two Brands of Courage

Ari L. NoonanOP-ED1 Comment

A Settler sits smoking a cigarette and drinks beer in outskirts of Havat Gilad settlement. May 28 2012. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90

Here is a yarn made for my fourth most favorite girl reader, Polly.

I wonder if Pwac is as ardently pro-Israel, pro-Jew, as she is, blindly, fiercely pro-Muslim. The more Muslim terrorist animals roam the world beheading and butchering normal humans, the more passionately Pwac and fellow libbies shut their eyes and cry out in defense of the innocent Muslim community. Standard libby reasoning.

The courage-starved, far-left New York Times, which crouches in fear daily at retaliation by Muslim bloodhounds, has no such fear of Jews, whom they loathe. They know Jews don’t conduct themselves the way many Muslims do.

Yesterday the Times, flexing its anti-Semitic, bully-boy muscles, carried a story about the decent – and brave – Jewish families who live in the West Bank “settlement” of Havat Gilad. (It is a settlement in the same way Inglewood is a settlement.)

Tom Friedman, the Times’s Jerusalem correspondent in the early 1990s, once took credit for introducing to the world the transitory lexicon that is in wide usage today. Without even a remote nod in the direction of accuracy, yahoo journalists routinely characterize normal, stable, religious Jewish families residing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as “settlers” camping “illegally” on “occupied” land once intended for Palestinian terrorists, but rejected by them because they claim all of Israel should be Arab.

The Friedman gem that mockingly refers to these “territories” as “occupied land,” the way Downtown is occupied by business owners.

Steve Erlanger, one of the Times’s longest serving reporters who does know better, routinely referred to these law-abiding households as “illegal.” They are as illegal as any home on Braddock Drive.

“Settler” is irritating to serious people, non-liberals, because these Jews are as stable as any normal Culver City family.

The Erlanger story was about residents of Havat Gilad advertising space in their neighborhoods for rent on Airbnb.

Meanwhile, neither Mr. Erlanger nor his fellow stooges at the patsy Times will report such a first-person story critical of any Muslim outpost because they know the Muslims, if displeased, would blow them up.

One Comment on ““Two Brands of Courage”

  1. PBeale

    Couple of things my favorite ‘boy’ ‘writer’:

    1 – I know it makes you furious when I point out your hate speech – maybe you should just stop being so racist. There’s a thought. This is a small community. No matter how hard you try, you’re not going to get us to start arming ourselves against our Muslim neighbors. The kebabs are just too good.

    2 – Ask my jewish husband how anti-Semitic I am. Challah makes amazing french toast.

    Now I’m hungry.

    Oh and please don’t refer to me by my first name. It’s Dr. Beale.

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