Lileks nails it again:
The top-of-the-hour radio news played today's news just as you’d expect - everything shoved through the tit-for-tat template. Israel attempts to take out a terror leader; Hamas “responds” with a bombing. As if they’re equal. As if targeting the car that ferries around some murderous SOB is the same as sending a blissed-out teenager to blow nails and screws through the flesh of afternoon commuters so he can bury himself in the heaving bosom of the heavenly whorehouse. Cycle of violence, don't you know.
They don’t have helicopters, we're told, so they use suicide bombers. If they had helicopters, they would have strafed the bus and everyone waiting at the corner. Give them a nation where Hamas runs unchecked, and they’ll have helicopters. They won't be Apaches. The bill of sale will be calculated in Euros and the manual written in French. By then the excuse for the terror won't be oppression; it'll be "the legacy of oppression." Sometimes I swear the mainstream media won't take a look at the Palestinian's horrid death-cult subculture until we learn that a suicide bomber played "Doom" at an Internet cafe for five minutes. And then they'll blame Intel.
More Meryl on the escalation of violence in Israel and the risk of a dirty bomb or nuclear device detonated in Tel Aviv by Arab extremists...a nightmare scenario that unfortunately sounds all too plausible, to wit:
The violence will happen here in the U.S., too. There are large populations of Arab and Muslim immigrants in major cities that also have large Jewish populations. You'll see Crown Heights on fire, and the suburbs of Chicago, where Jewish and Arab communities live side by side. Paterson, NJ's Arab population will riot in Teaneck and Fairlawn and other towns with high Jewish populations in Bergen County. Northern Virginia's mosques are funded by Wahhabi money; count on violence near or in our nation's capital. Synagogues will be torched; Orthodox Jews will be mobbed and beaten on sight (any man in a dark hat and long coat will be at risk of being beaten); Jewish schools will be attacked and destroyed, Jewish-owned businesses smashed, burned, and looted.
What you say? No way? Just a lot of Zionist scaremongering. In 1965, 1967-8 and 1992 our inner cities ignited in a frenzy of hatred, it could happen again.
Posted by feste at June 12, 2003 12:12 PM | TrackBack