Blinded by His Own BS
George Soros buys an ad writes an opinion article for the Bost Globe on the Hezbollah - Israeli conflict. He attempts to use this situation to attack the war on terror. He’s got a few logic problems in his opinions:
"However, Israel should have taken greater care to minimize collateral damage."
Oh, really! Are the Lebanese not responsible for the behavior of those whom they’ve invited into their country? Are the Hezbollah not responsible for the way they acted?
Next:
"Israel previously withdrew from Lebanon and then from Gaza unilaterally, rather than negotiating political settlements with the Lebanese government and the Palestinian authority."
Israel was "wrong" to just do what the Palestinians had been demanding all that time, and they were wrong to just pull out of Lebanon. They should have announced their impending departure -that would have been the diplomatic approach. What utter nonsense! And,
"The war-on-terror concept stands in the way of recognizing this fact because it separates “us" from “them" and denies that our actions help shape their behavior.
It’s OUR fault (either Israel or the US - they’re probably interchangeable in Soros’ mind) they behave the way they do. If we didn’t egg them on, they’d never behave so badly.
And as for that differentiating "us" from "them," I want that differentiation to be clear. Israel and the US may have caused civilian casualties in the war against these islamo-fascists, but it’s because the terrorists hide behind women and children, and even sometimes kill them themselves only to blame it on us.
It is all our fault:
"When Israel withdrew from Gaza, the former head of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, negotiated a six-point plan on behalf of the Quartet for the Middle East (Russia, the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations). It included opening crossings between Gaza and the West Bank, allowing an airport and seaport in Gaza, opening the border with Egypt; and transferring the greenhouses abandoned by Israeli settlers into Arab hands. None of the six points was implemented."
Let’s face one clear fact. The Palestinian authority has been taking almost $5 billion per year and hasn’t done a single thing with that money except line the pockets of corrupt officials, and buy guns for thugs. They and their buddies in southern Lebanon don’t want to do anything beneficial for the people they live among. They just want to kill jews and destroy Israel. Israel, on the other hand, has developed the least hospitable land in the middle east, save for the desert, into the most productive. They have done this without the huge bankroll of oil that the muslim countries have had.
As David Gutmann writes in a post at FrontPage Magazine:
"The Arab world is suffering a crisis of humiliation."
