amazed that the nytimes actually carried this article. they are
usually so keen to toe the palestinians-as-victims line. i once upon a
time used to believe that line, but over time i came to see them, as
ajami points out -- and he should know, being a lebanese himself -- a
bunch of people who are never going to live in peace. if they have no
others to kill, they kill each other on minor pretexts. (actually this
is true of arabs in general, see the iraqi sunnis blowing up the shia
mosque. in fact it is true of wannabe-arabs too, see pakistan).
i have liked prof ajami ever since he said edward said was a
self-aggrandizing liar (or words to that effect). i liked him even
more when he said amartya sen was an idiot (in so many words, i think.
i posted his bashing -- well-reasoned and thoughtful -- of sen on this
blog some time ago). now he tells a very inconvenient truth: the
emperor has no clothes. the palestinians have been so puffed-up with
all this victimhood talk that they will never be satisfied. even if
israel ceases to exist. they will then want parts of north africa as
their homeland. why, after all, they are palestinians, the favorite
'victims' of the communists and other useful idiots.
note how the kashmiri pundits have been treated much worse than the
palestinians, put upon by an occupying force of mohammedan terrorists
supported by the oh-so-nice-nice local mohammedans. they have been
ethnically cleansed and pushed into refugee camps. so far the picture
is the same. yet nobody pays the slightest attention to them. the only
difference is that the kashmiri pundits are not out there doing acts
of terrorism and killing people on a large scale. if they were, i am
sure their problems would get a lot more attention.
oh, i forgot, the other difference is that (most) palestinians are
mohammedans. since mohammedan, by the communist/liberal definition, is
'victim', they get all the sympathy in the world. curiously, by the
mohammedans' own definition, they are not 'victims', but 'victors'.
indeed, superior and victimizers who beat up anybody else. i think the
communists must be dyslexic; they see 'victor' and read it as
'victim'. yeah, that's the ticket.
also, the saudis are giving the palestinians money to kill people,
though not to rehabilitate them. that's another difference.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/opinion/19ajami.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all
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If it helps any -
Here is Foaud Ajami's review of Sen's 'book'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001553_pf.html
Ibn warraq had harsher things to say - of course as he is an Apostate - there is no reason to listen to him as everything is 'self-evident garbage'
http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/25/41/
I think the NYT/Atlanticists are giving vent to their frustration with their Arab/Islamist allies. The Atlanticist-Islamist marriage of convenience may be doomed in the long run. No matter how hard the Atlanticists propagandize the Muslims-as-victims line, their Islamist friends always end up embarrassing their supporters with their destructive behaviour.
So the Atlanticists are only mortgaging their own credibility uselessly by hitching their wagons to those who are headed for nowhere.
Atlanticists are a people whose time is over. While China is making Europe less relevant, the social disaster that Erabian politics have produced has turned, at least momentarilyy, France into a republic. The problem with atlanticsit lobby is that their friends' friend (i.e. muslims) are their enemies, and are leaving no stone unturned to decimate the closer enemies i.e. Europe.
Sooner of later the ATs will be forced to choose one of them. Expect all hell to break lose then.
sansk, I agree, and France's looming disaster in confronting the Islamist menace rising in its urban areas reminds me of their disaster in the run-up to WW2, whereby they kept stoking up German power to offset other European rivals, and the resulting German frankenstein invaded France itself. France's new agenda under Sarkozy is a right step, but I think they are stepping upto the problem too late, and Islamist rioters will topple the French Right.
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