The Bush administration is a great believer in democracy and is willing to wage war to spread it.  Somehow, though, the enthusiasm goes out the window when the side we don’t like wins.  Hamas and Hizbullah provide food, education and medical services because they are needed and are otherwise unavailable.  These organizations are’nt just terrorists pure and simple, that’s al Qaeda.  If the US would accept the legitimate parts of Hamas and Hizbullah, it just might be possible to work with them and reduce their terrorist aspect.  But of course Israel ad AIPAC would go ballistic, so we shall continue to demonize them and make them look good to most of the rest of the world.

I’m with the Israelis on this one. Given the demographic realities in the region, the prospect of Palestinians slaughtering one another isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Faster, please. I know plenty of Muslim Arabs, especially from Lebanon and Egypt, who despise the Palestinians (and Syrians) just as much as do right-wing Israelis.

“Prison Riot”
An apt title.

Why do ghettos seem to follow the Jews
wherever they go?

“The Jews” you speak of are not, nor have they ever been, a monolith. Cultural, racial, religious, and philosophical diversity within the community are enough to make your question meaningless. If you would ask why the formerly persecuted Jews of Europe set up a fascist, genocidal state (Israel), you might get an answer, because that is a real (and relevant) question. Asking the question you asked, however, is just another bit of illogical smear-talk, so it cannot be answered properly.

Here we see a smart little piece by Taki, not a bad word about Jews or Arabs, empathy for starved and killed civilians, and a rebuttal of the NeoCons, Israeli hardliners, and Aipac. 
And then “William of Orange County, CA” and “Will Blalock” post some fairly ignorant comments, just to make sure there’s some google ammo for the “Paleos are racist” rock-chuckers.  Thanks fellas.

Orange County - IF the only Palestinians getting killed were the killers, you’d have a point, and that’s IF keeping the Palestinians in total chaos was a worthy and practical goal.
Blalock - show me ANY ethnicity that doesn’t have ghettos.

Oh, I almost forgot…

...and misery.

Antisemitism is a childish response to the problems of the world.

Yes, conflict and unhappiness during mortality are surely signs of inferiority.  Good thing your keen eye was able to spot the one people to suffer or cause miserable circumstances on occasion.  Please stick around; if we collect a wide enough variety of myopic views, we may eventually get the whole picture.

Anti-semitism is a Jewish industry to draw attention away from rational responses to Jewish actions against others.

Bush’s mandate is to use dollars and the military to insist on, and “enforce” democracy everywhere (except Pakistan of course) even in places that we barely understand.  When “they” get democracy - they inevitably elect a bunch of American loathing thugs. 

Who says we yanks can’t do irony?

edgarh-
So, are you saying some Jews are participating in anti-semitism, or just using “anti-semite” as a label to discredit legitimate critics?  The smear tactic I’m familiar with, anything further would be news to me.

cbh-
Words can have multiple meanings. It depends on the context.

edgarh-
point taken.  Thanks.

Joe Sobran said it best:

An Anti-semite used to be someone who didn’t like Jews.  Now, it is someone Jews don’t like.

The best way to avoid sincere misunderstandings as well as to lessen the inevitable accusations of anti-Semitism is to be a little more precise as to who we’re talking about here – not “Jews,” or even “Israelis,” but “Likudniks” – who may or may not be Jewish or Israeli, but will assuredly be extremist, fascistic, and inimical to U.S. interests.

Matt, you gave yourself away.  Charging “anti-Semitism!” is the last redoubt when rational argument fails.  It’s “illogical smear-talk,” to quote you.  It was designed with malice aforethought to be used as an Ideational Weapon (the ultimate sin) to cast social opprobrium on the accused, and to immunize the accuser from criticism.  My response to the last person calling me an anti-Semite:  “I’m not easily flattered, old boy!” On another occasion, after being accused of same by a non-Jew, I looked the respondent in the eye, and said:  “You’re a trained monkey!  Can I get you a banana?” Bravo! to “edgarh’s” comment: “Anti-Semitism is a Jewish industry to draw attention away from rational responses to Jewish actions against others.” When this “Ideational Weapon” is hurled at us, we should burst out in convulsions of laughter.

Taki

What the hell are you trying to spin here? The coalition’s involvment in Iraq has caused Hamas to take over? What?

Whatever you’re smoking I want some of it.

The American people have very little understanding concerning what has transpired in the Middle East since the end of World War 1.  They have been fed mostly propaganda driven by the Israeli state and organizations like AIPAC since WWII.  The way forward is not more propaganda and war.  A more informed American public that has a decent grasp of the historical facts will do more to settle the 100 year enmity between parties that claim land in Palestine/Israel than anything else.  If the US government did not give Israel billions of dollars of US Taxpayers money each year the government of Israel would be forced to honesty work toward settling its differences with the rest of the population in the Middle East.  Right now it just talks peace while stealing land as fast as possible with American cover and funding as well as brutalizing the original inhabitants of the area, not a recipe for success.

The Arabs are not like the Vietnamese.  They will not likely forget nor forgive like the mostly Buddhist influenced Vietnamese.  The more the IDF brutalizes the Palestinians the harder it will be to reconcile the issues that must eventually be faced and reconciled.  America will soon loose its dominance due to its reckless actions internationally and declining economy; a function of diminished productive capacity.  Wall Street adds no value to the American economy.  It only takes a non value-added bite.  The bill for the US’s profligate behavior will come due and when it does, if the Israelis have not made an honest peace with their neighbors, the future does not seem bright for them.

“Matt” sez: “The Jews” you speak of are not, nor have
they ever been, a monolith. Cultural, racial,
religious, and philosophical diversity within the
community are enough to make your question
meaningless.

Well, except for their “monolithic”
support for the state of Israel. Or the
complete denial that the attack and permanent
occuption is Iraq wasn’t based on a “blueprint”
written by Israel.

I might remind you that it’s not “moral” arguments
that the APIAC uses to make Congress into a “Israel
Occupied Territory”, but huge campaign contributions
by the Jewish-American community. Going
disproportionately into the campaign coffers of
the Democrat Party, I might add.

Neo-Conservativism itself--at least in it’s
intellectual roots---is almost completely a
“Jewish” political movement.

I used to care what you think.

Mr FoSquare
As long as the anti-Semitism is properly defined it makes sense admitting it.
I understand it as being the oposition to bestial treatment Israel reserves for Palestinians and the overwhelming interference of Jewish organizations with our Government.
Since the word ‘Semite’ has been usurped
to mean only ‘Jews’ by those who are adoring Israel (and to Hell with the rest), I suggest we accept it (what choice do we have?) as that, with a slight precision. ‘Semites’ should mean only tribal Jews i.e. those Jews who, like attack dogs, assault anyone who criticize their subject of warship by threats and intimidations- those who just won’t accept that the interests of the U.S. and Israel are not- and shouldn’t be identical.
This anti-Semitism to be a virtue, should be strictly proportional to the crimes and injustices committed by Israel
(and its acolyte the U.S.), which means, of course, it should cease to exist when
the events demonstrate that these misdeeds have vanished.
I intend to continue to be this type of anti-Semite- whether anybody likes it or not.

Actually, the only true “semitic” people in Israel
are the Palestinans. It can be argued that the “Jews”
are not a semitic people really, but a mixed culture
indigenous to Central Europe, from a hodge-podge
of. For instance, yiddish is Germanic language, Jewish
cooking is really Eastern European fare, made “Kosher”
..."Jewish" music is a mix of traditional local folk
music, played by Jews. Racially, “Jews” are obviously so
racially mixed with local peoples as to bear little
resemblance to true semitic peoples.

It’s obvious to me that when God was talking about the “promised
land”, he didn’t mean real estates. The founding of
the state of Israel was an insanity inflicted on the
Jews by a bunch of crazy ideologues, many of which
were collaborators with Nazism.

“Wo die Begriffe fehlen, stellt sich ein Wort dar”:
Antisemitism!

Goethe.

Or so I think…

America’s facing her gravest crisis since the Civil War. Who is it that dictates a foreign policy that is not only inimical to American interests but that has made America into a pariah state?  The growing coup d’etat, which probably matured about ten-twelve years ago, has weakened, perhaps fatally weakened the republic. And yet Aipac has every right to exist as a registered lobby, just as Global Warming and the Armenian Holocaust Lobby, and to market its concerns in the halls of Congress.  But why is its power so unchecked? Within a nanosecond of the charge of anti-Semitism “rearing its ugly head,” all the commentators to this article dropped the discussion of the issues and scurried to protect themselves.  During the Soviet era, the charge of “anti-Soviet attitude” brought about similar panic.  If so accused, you were scarred for life and could never beat the rap. How can you prove you don’t hold a particular attitude?  The famous Article 58 on Anti-Soviet behavior was never defined, and therefore wielded with great effect.