Episode LXIII of the American Political Melodrama: In which Opinionator Emeritus warns of the dangers of the great unwashed Palestinian hordes.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-16/israels-dilemma-in-policing-the-palestinian-border-protests/


Opinionator Emeritus (OE) reminds us with every word, of his recent essay, of his contempt, even his unbridled hatred of Palestinians and their aspirations to statehood, as being in the arena of the impossible dream of the benighted, the utterly unworthy. The Nakba demonstrations are evidence of the hand of the usual manipulators and not a measure of the new independent spirit of the Arab Spring, and its diversity of voices and  leadership models,  and the possibility of some break with the history of those benighted ‘infiltrators’ about to overrun the land of the just. The rhetorical frame is the usual one of the beleaguered Israelis fighting off the hoards of Islamic haters whose actions threaten the very existence of the state itself: not with the billions that America annually contributes to the care and maintenance of this state, the conservative estimate is 114 billion dollars since 1949. Israel has the best equipped and trained military, second only to America. So Israel has many problems but one it does not have is running out of our money, a measure of our unstinting support.  OE is representative of the sclerotic wing of American policy hands trapped in notions of half a century ago, still reciting propaganda about the aspirations of the great unwashed Palestinian hordes.

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