D.C. Fails the Genocide Test

[everythingsxen]

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=25750

Even in today's extraordinarily polarized political climate, there is one stance regarding international affairs on which all the nation's political camps would presumably agree: Genocide is bad.

Yet American responses both to genocidal assaults on vulnerable groups in recent decades and to current threats of genocide suggest that the new political directions ascendant in Washington, with the Democratic victory in Congressional elections and the rise of the Iraq Study Group, do not bode well for those who are today targeted for mass murder.
---SNIP---
Yet Nasrallah's genocidal intent does not particularly faze some who have won new powers in today's Washington. Michigan Democrat John Dingell, slated to be chairman of the Energy and Commerce committee in the next Congress, stated in a Detroit television interview during this summer's war, "I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah; I don't take sides for or against Israel."

Dingell’s view was not shared by many of his House colleagues. Also during the war, House resolution 921 supporting Israel in its fight against Hezbollah passed by a vote of 410 for, 8 against. But six of the 8 were Democrats, with three - Dingell, John Conyers and Nick Rahall - slated for committee chairmanships in the new Congress.

I could only post 4 paragraphs, so there are 4 of them. I suggest you read the article, it's an interesting read. If you are too lazy to read the article, the short version is that neither the US nor the UN gives a shit about genocide and several people in key positions in the US are in the appeasement camp, meaning that they may be willing to offer Israel up as a sacrifical lamb to the Arab Middle East to make them happy with us.

I wonder though if that happens, will there be a backlash here in the US? Will we begin accusing "zionist infiltrators" of having conspired to do all the wrongs that have been done over the last few years?

[MADem]

1. Frontpage magazine? Hardly an unbiased source of info... NT

[everythingsxen]

3. As so many of my fellow DUers are fond of saying...

when they quote Gingrich or agree with Ahmanutjob:

"A stopped clock is right twice a day"

Biased or unbiased, the article raises some interesting points. But I'd really like to hear what other DUers have to say about it...

[angry_chuck]

2. no more hate

Abraham begat both Ishmael and Isaac, so let's all get along. Oh, about the temple, uh...I'll get back to you...

You say you got a real solution
Well you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We're all doing what we can
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait

[papau]

4. 1st- a DU post will say Jews should be happy as 2nd class citizens in a Muslim country -Palestine

The just as Baghdad was "cleansed" of the 40% plus of the population that was Jewish, the new government will offer, like Iraq did in the 60's, to let them live if they leave now while leaving all claims to any land or possessions. As I recall the US said nothing - did not object - to Iraq back in the 60's - but then we had an oil man from Texas in the Whitehouse back then to the point the Israeli's didn't even trust our "listening" sub in 67.

Then we will have posts telling us that Muslim countries treated Jews better than Western Europe did in the Middle-ages - why this is important I do not know.

I hope we don't offer Israel up as a sacrificial lamb to the Arab Middle East - and I don't believe we will.

But John Dingell is a great man with a blind spot - for him an Iran financed and armed terrorist group that has attacked US interests in various parts of the world can not be called evil in the context of terror attacks on Israel - sad. The Detroit television interview this summer "I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah; I don't take sides for or against Israel." equates heavy handed occupation policy that is indeed very offensive with terrorist killing that is condemnable. There is a large Muslim community in his district, but it is Dingell's decision to respond to them in this way.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. The counter-argument is *not* that the Palestinians aren't committing atrocities.

It's that Israel is committing more, worse ones.

Any account of the middle east crisis that - as this does - talks about one side's sins and not the other's will be completely worthless.

Yes, many of the Palestinians are doing completely unjustifiable things. But the Israelis are doing more, and worse: the root of the problem is Israeli's occupying Palestinian land, not vice versa, and Israel kills several times more innocent Palestinians than vice versa (and even more Lebanese) and deliberately and intentionally inflicts literally orders of magnitude more suffering on the civilian population than vice versa. Many of the Palestinian organisations engage in terrorism - "violence deliberately targetted at the civilian population to inspire terror for political ends" - but so, and to a much greater degree, does the IDF.

That's why we shouldn't be supporting Israel, and should be doing everything we can to force them to offer decent terms for peace to the Palestinians.

[Moderator]

6. locking....

Articles that pertain to the I/P situation should
be posted in the Israel/Palestine forum per
DU rules.