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July 25, 2005
Flinging labels
Not too long ago I wrote here that:
I don't like the fact that I cannot post anything here on the Middle East, September 11th and Israel without running the risk of being labeled an "anti-Semite" if I'm not exquisitely sensitive to the words I use and the range of inferences a reader might make. It's a sad truth that even foreign policy can be a casualty of speech policing inasmuch as Israel is involved....Like a lot of conservatives I support President Bush and his conduct of the war on terror, and I don't subscribe to Tin Foil Hat Brigade conspiracy theories. But if we're to have a worthwhile debate about what wars to fight, and how and when to do so, it'll have to account for the U.S.' unique relationship with Israel and the extent to which our interests are co-extensive with theirs, and when they diverge. One of the vastly unexplored issues of the last few years is whether, as to Israel, we're reaching a point of divergence, or are at or beyond it, as are sub-points such as: the idea that September 11th united much of the world against Islamofascim; questions about what Israel stands to gain from regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Today, Littlegreenfootballs underscores the problem. Responding to this post at Huffingtonpost:
little green footballs is a site of the Likud Party, they are not for America, for them Israel comes first.
LGF says:
Ariana opened the door to antisemites like Paul Findley and Justin Raimondo, and now their friends are showing up. The delicious irony, of course, is that the terrible secret of LFG is far stranger than their puny Earth minds can comprehend.[Link omitted.]
Anti-Semitism? How's that exactly? Sounds more like speech regulation by the right - no better than when it comes from the left.
Posted by bill at July 25, 2005 12:05 PM
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