Monday 20 June 2011

"How Palestinians became the baby seals of the Western human rights lobby"

Of chickens, seals and Palestinians.....
Alice Walker, the author quoted in this article, is typical of many on the left who don't examine the absurdity of their own statements.
Take this one, for example: chickens are something "precious, beautiful and rare".  Actually, if you look at each of these adjectives, you realise that each one is wrong. Chickens are not precious in any of its senses, they are plentiful and cheap (cheep?). They are not beautiful, except perhaps to other chickens, and they are not rare -- and hence not precious.  It is surely Ms Walker who is herself rather precious with her bogus comparison between chickens in cages and Palestinians.
In her interview with Guernica, she talks of Operation Cast Lead, the Israel counter-attack on Hamas in Gaza, of 2009. She fails to mention -- of course! of course! -- the fact that Cast Lead was preceded by Hamas' openly-declared "Operation Oil Stain" which rained nearly 100 mortars on Israel, to which Cast Lead was a response.  Oh no, to mention that would do damage to the "narrative"