It is nonetheless fascinating to read the views of an Israeli member and contributor who has asked for his membership to be canceled due to “plain old Israel Bashing“ and the fact that people there are “advancing ideology that leads directly to Israel being destroyed as a Jewish and democratic [sic], and me dying.”
Eyal Rosenberg’s extraordinarily passionate post began (h/t LGF, emphasis added throughout):
I have been a member here on dkos for several months. I have read many diaries, and even wrote a few. Today I have decided to leave dkos.
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Reading these past months on dkos has led me to believe that people here, under the "progressive" banner, support views that end up in one place: Me dead.
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The goal is the same, and the reason is not people's concern for Human rights, of even Palestinian rights. Its just plain old Israel Bashing as a way to clear people's conscience by finding a scapegoat and a target for their pacifist post-modernist views.
Rosenberg then wonderfully identified the hypocrisy that exists not only at ultra-liberal websites like Daily Kos, but is also prevalent throughout the media and much of the Democrat Party:
Not a word on the hundreds of thousand of jews expelled from the Arab countries and rehabilitated in Israel. Easier to blame Israel for not commiting suicide by letting the Palestinian refugees back in, not blaming the Arab world for keeping them poor and desperate.
And Yet - every Palestinian village of an order of a hundred people is known, mapped, tracked and valued - not for their sake, but as another self righteous spike on a club bashing my nation's collective head.
Barely a word for Darfur - Israel has been in a diary on dkos over 5000 times in the past year, Darfur less then 1000. How many thousands continue to be killed there by Muslims? If I did not know better I would think that on dkos bashing Israel was more important than saving lives. But what has gone in Sudan? Only 2 million dead versus the circa 7 thousand in the I/P conflict in the same period.
Why don't people on dkos go for boycotting Pakistan? After all its troops killed and displaced about 1.5 million people in Bangladesh during the 1970's... but since Muslims did the killing, no one cares for those lives or those people's "Right of Return"...
Fascinating points the left and the media that support them will never honestly address. The same is true of the following:
People on dkos go back to Zionism's early days in the 1880's and the 1920's, and point out how "Unjust" it is. How Jews were "massacring" Palestinians in the 1930's as if it was instinct.
Anyone remember Black September 1970? When Jordanians killed 10,000 Palestinians in 2 months? In Jordan where Palestinians are an absolute majority but have little in the way of basic civil rights? Where are the maps of Palestinian villages in Jordan? Why not demand democracy in Jordan, or boycott it? Oh right. Jordanians, as muslims, are exempt from criticism. Jews, especially Zionists, are not.
What about the Syrians at Hama? Saudis? Egypt's Copts? Algeria? Afghanistan? Somalia? I'll save you the time. Feel free to read up. Millions of Muslims and Christians slaughtered and displaced, but no one gives a damn.
How many comments and diaries here showed HAMAS was flexible and peace loving, versus those evil warlike Zionists?
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Even if Israel does as much as demolish a single structure, for whatever reason (just and legal or not), someone on dkos will post a diary with 300 comments on it - going back historically with discussions on everything that is completely irrelevant to the event.
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No one here argues return for and of the tens of millions of people displaced over the past 100 years all over the globe for the simple reason that their return (Turks to Greece? Unthinkable. Germans to Poland? frightening!) does not spell Israel's destruction. Me dead. And they back it up with Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky!!! Those two do not care. I'll be dead if their ideology comes true, they won't.
Sounds like virtually all in the media, doesn’t it? Rosenberg marvelously concluded:
People here are advancing ideology that leads directly to Israel being destroyed as a Jewish and democratic, and me dying - since the two are one and the same…The TV ethics employed by some members of this site here is a mirror of misguided ideology and theory. Reading this site for the past few months has me feeling like I was reading the writings of West European communists in the 1970's : Confidant, just, well written, scientific, moral (remember the "evils" of capitalism?) . Yet - in the view of history - utter garbage.
I came to this site with Leftist Zionist Environmentalist Pro-Peace ideology (Meretz style).
I leave it with a heavy doubt of the entire "Progressive" ideology, morals and goals.
Obviously, this is a doubt shared by many Americans, though sadly not those in the media. However, it is quite ironic to note that almost two hours after Rosenberg posted his impassioned exit speech, the following blog was published at Daily Kos (h/t LGF, emphasis added):
You can virtually guarantee that when a non-story comes out of Palestine via Israeli propaganda organisations, there is another story that the Israelis want covered up. So today we have the non-news that a Hamas TV station has been using a Mickey Mouse look-alike. The only actual news in the story was in Haaretz, that the Palestinian minister in charge of broadcasting had ordered it pulled.
This disgrace generated 145 comments.
Any questions as to why Rosenberg has departed Daily Kos?
