Ari Shavit calls out every brutality, except the ones Israel is complicit in

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/brutality-israel-complicit.html

Ari Shavit is perhaps the slickest “liberal” apologist for Israel’s brutal policies working today. He at least acknowledges the Nakba but claims the ethnic cleansing, massacres, and terrorism were justified because it resulted in a Jewish majority state on someone else’s land, and he needed that state more than those backwards, disposable Palestinians did. (Cue every apologist for colonialism, ever.)

But he’s outdone himself in sheer absurdity this time, with the most stunningly un-self-aware piece of writing I’ve ever seen him write — and that’s saying something. In my opinion, this piece should discredit him from being listened to by any serious person ever again.

The article is called “Liberals, look at the new Middle East,” published in Haaretz on August 14. The full text is below, along with my comments.

The new Middle East is a brutal one. Many Sunnis hate Shi’ites and many Shi’ites hate Sunnis. Many Sunnis and Shi’ites hate Christians, Jews, women and homosexuals. In numerous countries in the region, a considerable part of the majority hates the minorities – Kurds, Druze, Copts, Turkmen, Yazidis. Monarchs and secular people hate members of the Muslim Brotherhood and members of the Muslim Brotherhood hate secular people and monarchs.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

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So, apparently everyone in the Middle East is full of hate except Israeli Jews. I’ll be sure to tell that to the groups of right-wing Israelis who march around Israel freely shouting, “Death to Arabs!” and occasionally lynch people for speaking with the wrong accent. I’ll also be sure to tell the anti-miscegenation group protesting at a wedding where a woman born Jewish dared to marry a Muslim man she loved.

[intaglio]

2. Keep up the good work n/t

[oberliner]

3. Have you read her book?

It's called "Fast Times in Palestine" apparently.