Talk Radio: Fountain of Stupid

[elfs]

I discovered today that you only need to turn the radio on for less than a minute to have Teh Stupid fall into your lap like white rain from a flock of overhead pigeons.

Within ten seconds of turning on the radio, I heard Hugh Hewitt proclaim, "Yeah, okay, the president wasn't saying anything new. The 1967 borders have been the policy of every administration since Carter. But you don't say that out loud. Saying it out loud will only embolden the terrorists, the Palestinian extremists, to push for more than the status quo!"

Annoyed, I flipped channels, only to land on Sean Hannity. "What people don't realize," Hannity said, "Is that Netanyahu is the Churchill of our times."

Sean Hannity is a bloody idiot who seems to have never read anything more complicated than an Archie Comic or Ranger Rick in his entire life, but this time he's absolutely correct. When speaking to the Palestine Royal Commission on whether or not European Jews should be allowed to displace the Palestians, Churchill infamously said:

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race, has come in and taken their place.

So, yeah, in that sense, Netanyahu is a lot like Winston Churchill.

Comments

[shunra.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if the fault is more to the account of the radio or to the day you turned it on in: today was a big day for stupid statements.

My take on it, though, is that Netanyahu has taken an important (and by now, inevitable) step away from the impossible two state solution and toward a single state.
The nature of that single state will be fought out by the people living in it, I think. Probably more violently than I want to think about. It'll come down to the people of conscious in this world to decide if they support a Jewish-supremacy-based country - which is what Mearsheimer predicted in 2009.

I'm dismayed that many people I would fondly love to respect will choose the Jewish-supremacy.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I thought the phrase "embolden the X" had been banned in 2009.

Why would you want to live there anyway?

[lemur123.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, there's not much worth fighting over. The limited arable land is briny and rocky compared to other regions. It's either cold and rainy, or dry and unbearably hot. There are limited mineral resources, and the few deposits (potash, natural gas) are in small pockets with high extraction costs. Lack of water hampers economic growth. On top of all that, it's a very tiny place. The whole West Bank would fit neatly into the Greater Toronto area with room to spare (the CIA factbook says "slightly smaller than Delaware").

In 2001, Canada's foreign minister suggested bringing all Palestinians to Canada. Oddly, both Palestinians and Israelis joined together in burning him in effigy.

Out of 11 million Palestinians, only about 24,000 have come to Canada so far. It doesn't make sense to me - sure, it gets a bit chilly at times up here, but it's got to be better living here than what we see on the news from over there.

http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/plocal/CTVNews/20010118/ctvnews82344/20010118/?hub=EdmontonHome

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

What I wish would happen is this:

"Okay, Islam? Judaism? This is the other 6 Billion members of your species. We're sick of your bickering. Yes, Islam, we know that there are 1 billion of you &helli; as you keep reminding us …. But let us remind you: there are 6 billion of us. And we're fed up with your tantrums.

That goes for you too, Judaism — stop that snickering! Look, you got a bad deal. We all agree to that. (Well, except for some assholes. And more recently, Islam, but Islam's just being childish.) But even millenia of having it rough does not give you the right to go around pre-emptively beating up on everyone who gets too near you.

So, since you two can't behave responsively, we're taking away your toy. All of the religious sites in Jerusalem … the old city, basically … is now gonna be run species-wide. There's another 2+ billion humans besides you two, Islam & Judaism, who hold that city sacred. So, Enough."