Friday, January 08, 2010

Lofty Lefty Liberal Loquaciousness

At the U.S. Catholic, I found an article entitled "Reality check from the Holy Land" by one Kevin Clarke (he plays accordion).

Anyway, it's your routine lofty lefty liberal litany of loquaciousness.

But I left a comment anyway:

This statement above is problematic: "Let's remember that Jewish settlements on the West Bank and roads leading into them are completely segregated. No Arab, Christian or Muslim, is welcome within these settlement walls".

Besides not being partially true, - the roads are definitely not segregated, that's why we lose people to murderous drive-by shootings - let's not forget that Arab villages are also mainly segregated. Arab Christians usually live in their own villages, Arab Muslims, the same and Druze the same. Except for larger towns, like Nazareth, that's the way it is here. Oh, and in Bethlehem, in the Palestinian "Free" Authority, the Muslims are busy raping, murdering and stealing the Christians.

Kevin, that's the real and evil meta-sectarianism existing.

And those T-shirts, let's not forget they were banned. Unlike, for example, terrorists in the PA. They get promoted, lauded and cheered on, even by the PA leadership. Not nice at all.

2 comments:

Kevin C said...

Thanks for your comments on my late loftiness. Sorry we don't agree, but please leave the accordion out of this. It has suffered enough.

Jeremy said...

Kevin also falls victim to a common mistake from journalists who think they know what's going on here. Even on roads which, for security reasons, do not allow Palestinians to travel them, are far from segregated. Israeli Arabs, Christians, and Muslims are permitted on these roads, to the same extent that Jews are.

I don't know- is it surprising to people that we have a democracy that includes these minorities?