Finally, we have the official answer as to why "they" hate the United States, and it comes, of course, from Jayson Blair's New York Times.
You remember Jayson Blair, and surely you remember the New York Times - "All The News That's Fit To Print Against Israel"? Yes, that New York Times.
So, at last we have the answer to what troubles the world and you can read the entire April 21 op-ed by Walter Russell Mead, or, you can take the summation that I've distilled into one word: "The Jews." Oh, is that two words? No, actually it's one word. The Jews. Yes, one word. So anyway, that's why the world hates the United States. (When in doubt, always blame the Jews -- and so perfectly clocked by the Times at these hours of Shoah remembrance.)
To be precise, well, let's have Mr. Mead tell us in his own academic voice, since he is, after all, a "Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations"; and what's more, he's traveled all around the (Vanunu-loving) world to find out why "they" hate us. And here it is: "But the one thing that sticks in their craw: why doesn't America care more about the Palestinians' future?"
Sticks in their craw?
Never mind the cliche, but that's why they hate us, and that is not opinion, by the way. No, that is fact. Read the definitive headline: "Why They Hate Us, Really."
Yes, really. That emphatic "really" gives it that authoritative Times' spin, as is to be expected from a Paper of Record.
That word "really" is offered as a favor from the Times for those in doubt as to why we fail to embrace the Palestinian cause, when that cause, and the nearly four-year bloody temper tantrum, appears to be only one part (or Part One) of a blow-everybody-to-smithereens uprising that's taking place all over the world, even as we speak.
Why, even the same New York Times can't hide its front pages from the galloping hot spots around the globe that feature Jihad-inflamed Muslims killing everybody else.
Here and elsewhere, the Times graciously spares us the nasty facts about the Palestinian Arabs and their vision of the future - namely, an Israel without Jews.
No, you won't find that in the Times, or from anyone who knows just how to phrase it correctly.
Jimmy Carter allegedly taught Yasser Arafat to knock it off about driving the Jews into the sea. "Tell the world you want peace."
Or, during the period of hubris preceding the 1967 War, an Egyptian general was asked if his intention was to destroy Israel.
Not at all, he said smartly. He'd be happy to have Israel as a neighbor, as long as all of it consisted of Dizengoff Street.
Hours after the New York Times gave us the official version as to why the world hates us, another voice was heard delivering the same message. That would be Marc Ginsburg, a former Ambassador to Someplace who has parlayed his muddled wit into emotional analysis for Fox TV news, almost as emotional and theatrical as Geraldo's. (Why Fox for Geraldo, when he'd be so much more at home at Comedy Central?)
Yes, according to Ginsburg and his analysis of the Ariel Sharon bargain-basement sale of Gaza and more, the deal was too good for Israel's five-and-a-half million Jews and not good enough for the world's one-and-a-half billion Muslims. No wonder the king of Jordan left us in a huff. He's angry at Bush and the rest of America and, of course, Israel. They're all angry. (Well, it is Tuesday, or any day.)
But let's get back to Mr. Mead - who is not only a fine intellectual fellow, he is a senior fellow, by gosh - and here's the kind of reasoning we love best:
"In Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and other countries, the large majority of people are ready to tolerate the Jewish state."
Well isn't that special! They are ready to "tolerate" the Jewish state. Isn't it nice to be tolerated? From such paragons of liberty as Egypt and Jordan, yet! Doesn't it make you warm and fuzzy all over? But yes, those 57-plus backwater nations, who've contributed nil to civilization, would perhaps tolerate Israel, if only the Jews would do an Anne Frank and only leave behind a diary.
(Sure, Senior Mead traveled, but there's a saying that you can lead a cow around the world, but when it returns, it is still a cow.)
Please, let's not get started as to why they hated us - Israel and America - even before Israel had "occupied" territories, or even before there were Arab "Palestinians."
They hated Israel even before there was an Israel.
Let's forget, for now, that when Gaza was under Egyptian management and the "West Bank" was under Jordanian management - they still hated us. Israel, specifically.
Right, let's not go there.
Where shall we go? Let's try Harvard, Columbia, or a hundred other universities here and across the world, or rather, the World According to Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein and Kofi Annan. Remember "Stop the world, I want to get off?" Well, we have lived through a Holocaust. We have lived through the creation of a Jewish State. We have lived through "Never Again", and where are we? We are back to "Again".
We are discussing whether Israel deserves to live. That's where we are. We're back to where we started, square one, and we can't get off.
Check in at any one of those academic seminars and you'll find that they've learnedly zipped past "tolerate" and have gone straight to brown-shirted "annihilate."
Would a transcript of today's lectures and seminars differ that much from the text of Wannsee? (On a recent Sunday when I should have watched the ball game, I listened in on a C-Span lecture by Norman Finkelstein. Big mistake.)
So we're back to Hitler and Edward Said. Right here, perhaps, is what irks the nations. Hitler had the will and the means to destroy the Jewish people. In fact, he did destroy nearly two-thirds of the Jewish people. Edward Said had the same will, but not the means. The most Professor Said could do was pick up a rock and throw it at a Jewish soldier.
That's right, a Jewish soldier preserving a Jewish homeland. Isn't that what "sticks in their craw"?
You remember Jayson Blair, and surely you remember the New York Times - "All The News That's Fit To Print Against Israel"? Yes, that New York Times.
So, at last we have the answer to what troubles the world and you can read the entire April 21 op-ed by Walter Russell Mead, or, you can take the summation that I've distilled into one word: "The Jews." Oh, is that two words? No, actually it's one word. The Jews. Yes, one word. So anyway, that's why the world hates the United States. (When in doubt, always blame the Jews -- and so perfectly clocked by the Times at these hours of Shoah remembrance.)
To be precise, well, let's have Mr. Mead tell us in his own academic voice, since he is, after all, a "Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations"; and what's more, he's traveled all around the (Vanunu-loving) world to find out why "they" hate us. And here it is: "But the one thing that sticks in their craw: why doesn't America care more about the Palestinians' future?"
Sticks in their craw?
Never mind the cliche, but that's why they hate us, and that is not opinion, by the way. No, that is fact. Read the definitive headline: "Why They Hate Us, Really."
Yes, really. That emphatic "really" gives it that authoritative Times' spin, as is to be expected from a Paper of Record.
That word "really" is offered as a favor from the Times for those in doubt as to why we fail to embrace the Palestinian cause, when that cause, and the nearly four-year bloody temper tantrum, appears to be only one part (or Part One) of a blow-everybody-to-smithereens uprising that's taking place all over the world, even as we speak.
Why, even the same New York Times can't hide its front pages from the galloping hot spots around the globe that feature Jihad-inflamed Muslims killing everybody else.
Here and elsewhere, the Times graciously spares us the nasty facts about the Palestinian Arabs and their vision of the future - namely, an Israel without Jews.
No, you won't find that in the Times, or from anyone who knows just how to phrase it correctly.
Jimmy Carter allegedly taught Yasser Arafat to knock it off about driving the Jews into the sea. "Tell the world you want peace."
Or, during the period of hubris preceding the 1967 War, an Egyptian general was asked if his intention was to destroy Israel.
Not at all, he said smartly. He'd be happy to have Israel as a neighbor, as long as all of it consisted of Dizengoff Street.
Hours after the New York Times gave us the official version as to why the world hates us, another voice was heard delivering the same message. That would be Marc Ginsburg, a former Ambassador to Someplace who has parlayed his muddled wit into emotional analysis for Fox TV news, almost as emotional and theatrical as Geraldo's. (Why Fox for Geraldo, when he'd be so much more at home at Comedy Central?)
Yes, according to Ginsburg and his analysis of the Ariel Sharon bargain-basement sale of Gaza and more, the deal was too good for Israel's five-and-a-half million Jews and not good enough for the world's one-and-a-half billion Muslims. No wonder the king of Jordan left us in a huff. He's angry at Bush and the rest of America and, of course, Israel. They're all angry. (Well, it is Tuesday, or any day.)
But let's get back to Mr. Mead - who is not only a fine intellectual fellow, he is a senior fellow, by gosh - and here's the kind of reasoning we love best:
"In Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and other countries, the large majority of people are ready to tolerate the Jewish state."
Well isn't that special! They are ready to "tolerate" the Jewish state. Isn't it nice to be tolerated? From such paragons of liberty as Egypt and Jordan, yet! Doesn't it make you warm and fuzzy all over? But yes, those 57-plus backwater nations, who've contributed nil to civilization, would perhaps tolerate Israel, if only the Jews would do an Anne Frank and only leave behind a diary.
(Sure, Senior Mead traveled, but there's a saying that you can lead a cow around the world, but when it returns, it is still a cow.)
Please, let's not get started as to why they hated us - Israel and America - even before Israel had "occupied" territories, or even before there were Arab "Palestinians."
They hated Israel even before there was an Israel.
Let's forget, for now, that when Gaza was under Egyptian management and the "West Bank" was under Jordanian management - they still hated us. Israel, specifically.
Right, let's not go there.
Where shall we go? Let's try Harvard, Columbia, or a hundred other universities here and across the world, or rather, the World According to Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein and Kofi Annan. Remember "Stop the world, I want to get off?" Well, we have lived through a Holocaust. We have lived through the creation of a Jewish State. We have lived through "Never Again", and where are we? We are back to "Again".
We are discussing whether Israel deserves to live. That's where we are. We're back to where we started, square one, and we can't get off.
Check in at any one of those academic seminars and you'll find that they've learnedly zipped past "tolerate" and have gone straight to brown-shirted "annihilate."
Would a transcript of today's lectures and seminars differ that much from the text of Wannsee? (On a recent Sunday when I should have watched the ball game, I listened in on a C-Span lecture by Norman Finkelstein. Big mistake.)
So we're back to Hitler and Edward Said. Right here, perhaps, is what irks the nations. Hitler had the will and the means to destroy the Jewish people. In fact, he did destroy nearly two-thirds of the Jewish people. Edward Said had the same will, but not the means. The most Professor Said could do was pick up a rock and throw it at a Jewish soldier.
That's right, a Jewish soldier preserving a Jewish homeland. Isn't that what "sticks in their craw"?