Cohen: Israel Is A Mistake

Posted on July 18, 2006

Wow! What a busy day! I am swamped with things I have to get done, but had a short break and thought I should get something up. So, it seems the most outrageous statement of the day will work. That is what a lot of people are talking about, so I’ll do a roundup of reactions.

Here is the Washington Post article where Richard Cohen spreads the message that so many of the jew hating terrorists want to be spread.

The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.

So there you have you it, straight from American media’s mouth, it is the creation of Israel itself that has created terrorism. That is where the blame lies in the mind of Richard Cohen. He doesn’t blame the terrorists, he blames the creation of Israel. He even goes on to say there is no point in condemning Hezbollah, and not much of a point in condemning Hamas. Sickening.

Captain’s Quarters:

Cohen gives the benighted version of history preferred by Arabs and then advises Israel that they have little right to defend their existence. After all, Cohen argues, how can one allow someone to defend a mistake? Cohen doesn’t bother to mention the “mistake” of Islamist terrorism — well, he does, but casts it off in a patronizing defense of the “they can’t help themselves’ variety. Israel should not react to their attacks because it will never change the minds of Hezbollah and Hamas.

On that, Cohen and I agree. For that reason, Israel must continue their attacks on both Hezbollah and Hamas and completely wipe them out, unless they agree to lay down their arms and quit committing acts of war. Israel is not the mistake; caving into Islamist terrorism is the mistake. One would think that Americans would have learned that after own Beirut adventure, as well as Teheran and Somalia. Cohen, however, would prefer to keep blaming Israel for the hatred of its foes.

Hot Air

People do not fight and die for what they believe to be a mistake. What Cohen wants Israel to internalize is the very message that Hassan Nasrallah wants them to internalize: Their nation is a mistake and they have no right to live in the land of Abraham. Their state should curl up and die.
That’s a good message for the MSM to internalize, perhaps, but not one that will motivate a tiny country currently fighting for its life. So if anyone’s listening, my advice to Israel: Ignore the press and do what you must do.

Iowa Voice

Now, far be it from me to accuse the Post of being anti-Semite, but jeez. If it walks like a duck….

Kesher Talk

To assert that “a nation of European Jews” was created in “an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians)” is to turn history on its head. In fact, the first area of Muslim control outside Arabia was created in what had been the Jewish homeland, renamed “Palestine” by the Romans. Then Islam went on to conquer North Africa, half of Europe, Byzantium, and points East.

And finally, the best advice coming from Pamela.

Atlass Shrugs

No doubt Mr. Cohen, and his editors need to hear from you, badly. You can them contact here as well.

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One Response to “Cohen: Israel Is A Mistake”

kerwin_brown on July 18th, 2006 8:24 pm

We lost our soul long ago when we chose to start copying Europe. If we want to win our soul back then we need to return to the law of Nature and Nature’s God that is specified in the U.S. Declaration of Independence as the principle on which we stand.