Comments on: Britain’s Israel Hating Mob http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/ Politics and world events from a moderately liberal and conservative perspective Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:29:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: yonason http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2650 yonason Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:53:00 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2650 SARCASM=ON What, the Brits hating Jews? What balderdash! http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1166 And the Media, that bastion of impartiality, distorting the truth. Please, sir! http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1506 I just don't know where people come up with this nonsense! SARCASM=OFF SARCASM=ON

What, the Brits hating Jews? What balderdash!
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1166

And the Media, that bastion of impartiality, distorting the truth. Please, sir!
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1506

I just don’t know where people come up with this nonsense!

SARCASM=OFF

]]> By: mvdg http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2649 mvdg Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:32:34 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2649 Thomas: I share your concern regarding the media. It goes so far that somebody even told me that the CNN we see in Europe, is farther to the left and more critical / negative of / about America than the CNN you all see in America. Thomas: I share your concern regarding the media. It goes so far that somebody even told me that the CNN we see in Europe, is farther to the left and more critical / negative of / about America than the CNN you all see in America.

]]> By: lthomas http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2648 lthomas Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:58:27 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2648 Who dares say that Journalists have agendas. I see agendas in every story bandied around on the networks, in the papers and on the internet. Journalists have really lost most of my respect. While I understand they are humans like everyone else, they have let the integrity of their profession succumb to the agenda driven media now because that seems to be what sells. No one wants the truth anymore. They want to get their message out more then they care for the truth. Who dares say that Journalists have agendas. I see agendas in every story bandied around on the networks, in the papers and on the internet.

Journalists have really lost most of my respect. While I understand they are humans like everyone else, they have let the integrity of their profession succumb to the agenda driven media now because that seems to be what sells.

No one wants the truth anymore. They want to get their message out more then they care for the truth.

]]> By: Marlowe http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2645 Marlowe Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:15:41 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2645 Alan said: "Aren’t the British pretty anti-Semitic? Weren’t there a lot of British pro-Nazi groups during WWII?" You're thinking of Mosley, who was one of the more absurd European fascists. In the "Jeeves and Wooster" stories he was parodied brilliantly. OT, but of interest perhaps: Mosley was married to Diana Mitford, the most beautiful of the famous Mitford sisters (look them up, a fascinating family...Unity and Diana were close friends of Hitler - Eva Braun was intensely jealous of Unity...while another sister was a radical Communist. Then there was Nancy Mitford, who became a popular writer and novelist). Jews have always been very prominent in Britain. Disraeli - the most famous PM after Churchill - was of Jewish descent. Numerous others. However, British intellectuals have historically tended to be particularly fascinated with the Arabs. There's a great line in "Lawrence of Arabia" where Faisal comments cynically on the British "love of empty spaces" as drawing Lawrence to Arabia. I think this current obsession Michael notes in the UK is more a "Euro" fashion for anti-Israel/anti-Semitic thinking. c.f.: The French ambassador to the UK famously dismissing Israel as that "shitty little country" (sorry about the language). Michael's closing comment above is illustrative of the breathtaking bizarreness of this story...I mean, Palestinians kidnap and threaten death to a British journalist, and the British journalist union advocates a boycott of...Israel?!! It strains the intellect to be sure. If tomorrow al-Queda were to blow up the Houses of Parliament, there would probably be a campaign for sanctions against Israel. The mind boggles. Alan said: “Aren’t the British pretty anti-Semitic? Weren’t there a lot of British pro-Nazi groups during WWII?”

You’re thinking of Mosley, who was one of the more absurd European fascists. In the “Jeeves and Wooster” stories he was parodied brilliantly. OT, but of interest perhaps: Mosley was married to Diana Mitford, the most beautiful of the famous Mitford sisters (look them up, a fascinating family…Unity and Diana were close friends of Hitler - Eva Braun was intensely jealous of Unity…while another sister was a radical Communist. Then there was Nancy Mitford, who became a popular writer and novelist).

Jews have always been very prominent in Britain. Disraeli - the most famous PM after Churchill - was of Jewish descent. Numerous others.

However, British intellectuals have historically tended to be particularly fascinated with the Arabs. There’s a great line in “Lawrence of Arabia” where Faisal comments cynically on the British “love of empty spaces” as drawing Lawrence to Arabia.

I think this current obsession Michael notes in the UK is more a “Euro” fashion for anti-Israel/anti-Semitic thinking. c.f.: The French ambassador to the UK famously dismissing Israel as that “shitty little country” (sorry about the language).

Michael’s closing comment above is illustrative of the breathtaking bizarreness of this story…I mean, Palestinians kidnap and threaten death to a British journalist, and the British journalist union advocates a boycott of…Israel?!!

It strains the intellect to be sure. If tomorrow al-Queda were to blow up the Houses of Parliament, there would probably be a campaign for sanctions against Israel.

The mind boggles.

]]> By: mvdg http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2644 mvdg Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:15:13 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2644 ;No, as far as I know that's most certainly true. ;No, as far as I know that’s most certainly true.

]]> By: Alan http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2647 Alan Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:54:43 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2647 Or am I confusing history with Jack Higgins novels? Or am I confusing history with Jack Higgins novels?

]]> By: Alan http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2646 Alan Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:54:15 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2007/04/27/britains-israel-hating-mob/#comment-2646 Aren't the British pretty anti-Semitic? Weren't there a lot of British pro-Nazi groups during WWII? Aren’t the British pretty anti-Semitic? Weren’t there a lot of British pro-Nazi groups during WWII?

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