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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Tom DeLay's speech before the Israeli Knesset today. (via GedankenPundit) Question: Who is "My traveling partner, Ander Crenshaw"?
He uses an interesting phraseology that I hadn't seen before, "Israel's liberation from Palestinian terror is an essential component of that victory." That's probably pretty effective.
Overall, his speech is mostly about sympathy for terrorists' victims, etc. He starts early by citing Bush and you really have to search for tidbits like this:An immediate and total end to Palestinian terrorism is not a concession the civilized world asks of the Palestinian Authority to advance the peace process.
It is a prerequisite to the Palestinian Authority's invitation to it. Then there's this:This war we fight — this war on terror the United States shares with free nations, like Israel, around the world — we fight for this reason: to establish and secure a community of nations safe to be free, and free to be prosperous.
It's the same reason we fought Nazism, fascism, and Communism: the liberation of all mankind from oppression.
Terrorism, like its tyrannical forebears, is borne of the idea that with enough guns, enough fear, and enough violence, human power can control the human spirit.
That through brute force, powerful men can erase the imprint of the Almighty etched into the souls of all His children.
That through domination of the weak, in the words of the serpent, "Ye shall be as gods."
Ladies and gentlemen, IT IS A LIE.
It was a lie at Auschwitz. It was a lie in the Gulag.
It was a lie behind the Iron Curtain. It was a lie in Kabul and Baghdad. And today, it remains a lie in Beijing, and Havana, and Tehran, and Pyongyang, and Damascus and Ramallah!
But history has taught us, The Lie's grip on civilization is only as tight as civilization permits. So...Israel's living through another Holocaust, another Auschwitz. Add to it Palestinian sympathizers' statements re: the Holocaust, and you have something that reminds me of an exchange between Kumah's Yishai Fleisher and Tikkun's Michael Lerner in which they basically started fingerpointing, going "You're Hitler," then "No, you're Hitler," then "No..." you get the point.
Steven I. Weiss 2:31:00 PM
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