Friday, November 25, 2005

Sterling Newbery on Israel

I have links to the latest articles on Blogging Of The President near the top of this page. The code was provided on the site and I used it just to see if I can. While I generally like the site, it's not one I visit daily. Sometimes when I check this page to make sure a blog entry came out okay, a post title from BOP will catch my eye and I click on it. So while this article is accessible from my site (as of this writing), I thought I'd highlight it here, as I enjoyed it and feel it should be read by as many people as possible.

From the first paragraph;

I tend not to write on Israel. There is almost no topic that it is so unproductive to be sensible about, because it is dominated by "sides" that want to be right. For the right wing, Israel is a proxy for "those fucking towelheads deserve what they get". For many others the Palestinians are proxies for "the evil corporate capitalists destroying the world". Neither position wants sense, but instead chumming their own internal spleens. The reality of the situation does not conform to the often racist and hateful desire to enshrine might makes rightism, and therefore there is little point in writing for an audience that almost does not exist.

And then he does.

or did... dead link.

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