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Sunday November 16, 2003
Why I say welcome
MORE and more evidence accumulates that journalists around the world, whether from
The
Wall Street Journal or The
Observer, find my website compulsive reading, while I confess that I find hardly any time to have a look at theirs. Here, David
Aaronovitch, clearly no friend, is hinting that I
am anti-Semitic. Well — in the sense that the family of Rachel
Corrie are probably now just that; or the next of kin of Jonathan
Hurndall, who died yesterday after life support was switched off, are that; or the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are now that — he may be partially right.
We have all been trampled on. But Aaronovitch and his ilk have devalued the word until it is now all but meaningless, devoid of venom and become perhaps even a badge of honor, marking somebody who is not afraid to think for himself. If Mr. Aaronovitch needs to remind himself what real anti-Semitism looks like, he should have a look at the products of the Nazi regime, and of
Der Stürmer in particular.
He might then choose his insults more judiciously in future.
SOME
may not like the US President, but we should all
appreciate what America has done for the world
by David
Aaronovitch
[Aaronovitch] THERE is, I think, a widely shared fantasy which you might call the No-America Dream. In this happy place we have somehow done away with the economic and military superpower.
We watch sophisticated French films or Ealing studio reruns, our thin citizens dine out on organic Brie, there is no Israel to over-excite the populations of the Middle East, and everyone signs up to stop climate change. If only the Yanks would go home. If only we could stop Bush.
The degree to which America is held uniquely responsible for the sins of the world is remarkable. To give but one example, writing in last week’s New Statesman, a journalist called Neil Clark accuses America of being behind the Russian oligarchs who President
Putin is so wisely (if unconstitutionally) cracking down on at the moment. ‘In the oligarchs,’ says Clark, ‘Perle…
saw a way in which the
US and Israel could, by proxy, gain political and economic power in Russia…’ The ‘and Israel’ should have warned the editor of the New
Statesman what he was dealing with here. I suggest he visits David Irving‘s home page or the revisionist Zundelsite website very soon.
[…
and much more of the same genre]