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Daily Kos anti-Zionist, weasel, in “New Poll: Views of Obama Plummet in Arab World,” as well as in a follow up post, complains that the Obama administration has not been tough enough on Israel and this is the reason for the President’s low approval ratings in the Arab world. He writes:
Obama made demands that Israel stop expanding the settlements, and after seeming to finally put real pressure on the Israeli government, he was forced to back off from all his demands, to accept a token “freeze” on settlement construction that is neither comprehensive nor enforced, and to make repeated pledges of his loyalty to America’s “special relationship” with Israel.
Just who forced Obama to “back off” remains a mystery, but given the fact that he cites Stephen Walt in his “diary” we can fairly assume that he is referring to the nefarious and scary “Israel lobby” that so many on Daily Kos believe secretly runs the US government. That such a notion comes directly out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and was also central to Nazi ideology, almost never gets mentioned on Daily Kos, unfortunately.
Finally, psychodrew, a supporter of Israel, at the beginning of last week penned a criticism entitled, “Demonizing Israel Harms Palestinians.” He highlighted a Jerusalem Post article by Mudar Zahran, a Palestinian, who argues:
The demonization of Israel by the global media has greatly harmed the Palestinians’ interests for decades and covered up Arab atrocities against them. Furthermore, demonizing Israel has been well-exploited by several Arab dictatorships to direct citizens’ rage against Israel instead of their regimes and also to justify any atrocities they commit in the name of protecting their nations from “the evil Zionists.”
For this, not surprisingly, he was roundly condemned in the comments.
Lefty Coaster helpfully suggested:
You premise is myopic garbage.
edstatic noted:
It’s not even propaganda, it’s straight bullshit without the sugar coating.
And GiveNoQuarter chimed in with:
The brutal, Illegal occupation is never the fault of “poor little Israel.” It’s always those Ay-rab “terrorists” and their “sympathizers.”
While over the course of last week “Kossacks” wrote 17 “diaries” about Israel-Palestine, there was not a single one about the human rights situation in Tibet, nor Darfur, nor Congo, nor Chechnya.
One would think that if these people honestly cared about human rights they might care about the human rights of people who do not happen to be Palestinian.
For some strange reason, they don’t.
