Sunday, August 14, 2011

How Deep Is Obama's Concern?

As ChallahHuAkbar points out, (and I also did in April) President Barack Obama has a semantic problem thst devolves into an matter of moral inequivalency.  And even worse.

He is deeply concerned (and see there for the references) about Jewish residency across the Green Line.  And he is deeply concerned about the Syrian regime killing its own citizens.  Do both of those situations carry the equal moral weight?

Now, I discussed previously the issue of "illegitimate" of Obama, and I think this linguistic framing for the two concerns illustartes either a paucity of speech or a viewpoint which needs be corrected.

Murdering defenceless human beings does not equal Jews exercising their legal right to live in the Jewish national homeland.

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