New Media

An excellent series in The Propagandist on why most Israel lobby critics really ought to spend far more time doing some personal soul searching rather than ganging up on the marketing people for the Middle East’s only Western democracy.

When one boils it down to the bare essentials: the Lobby is interested in presenting Israel in a positive light, of course. It recognizes that the honest and effective means of doing this is not by presenting Palestinians as evil, but to show the honest views of all parties with a vested interest in the region.

The anti-Israel gang of activists (I’d call them pro-Palestinian, but what have they ever done for the Palestinians they claim to represent?) strive to show Israel, as a place of intolerance, racism and illegitimacy. And I’ll give this to them: their propaganda methods are effective…

We must help the Kurds! Let’s bring an aid convoy to Kurdistan and martyr ourselves against the Turkish aggressors! Free Kurdistan!

See the awful suffering of the Kurdish people under the oppressive war criminals of the Turkish nationalist entity.

There is only one solution: we shall unite peace activists, journalists, professors and ordinary people from around the world to give relief to the oppressed Kurdish people, the indigenous people of the region. The Kurds will rise, one nation, through all the land of historic Kurdistan!

These international criminals cannot be allowed to exist any longer. The Turks’ crimes are recorded from time immemorial. Remember their genocide of the Armenian people!

How many genocides will the world allow the Turks to perpetrate upon this planet? The state of Turkey will disappear, for it is illegitimate.

As we give aid to the Turks’ victims, who are the true inheritors of the land, the Turkish nation will be assailed by our campaign of boycott and and divestment. Don’t buy Turkish… uh, coffee. And, er, Turkish Delight!

No to neo-Ottoman Imperialism! Yes to the free people of Kurdistan!

There it is. The Israeli navy guys are in the little boat below intending to board the ship. The “peace activists” toss stun grenades into the boat and wave around a metal chain and iron rods. See the video:

There’s just no doubt anymore. The passengers on this boat wanted a fight. Well, they got one.

Now they have their martyrs. Of course, it’s a very different image of martyrdom than the traditional heroic definition.

A cop tries to pull your car over. You get out and hammer him with a club before he gets a chance to ask for your license and registration. Your buddies pile on with the chains, rods and slingshots you just happened to have readily to hand.

That doesn’t make you a martyr when his partner puts a bullet in your gut. It just makes you a dangerous wack-job.

The Israelis could have handled this differently. But I’m inclined to believe that the idiots on the boat who ended up going home in coffins pretty much got what they had coming.

H/T to Blazing Catfur

Just saw this from Backseat Blogger: Israeli PM Netanyahu is coming to Canada.

It couldn’t get as bad as last time around, could it?

This has international incident written all over it.

Some images from my recent travels in Israel. More accounts from myself and other Canadian writers and bloggers will soon be available at Rediscovering Israel.