The Volokh Conspiracy

I think thats a bad link


[DK: Thanks. I just fixed it.}

PS: Can anyone tell me why I am unable to create a link by hitting "link" and pasteing the webpage address into the box that appears? I did that for both the Rocky Mountain piece by Kopel and for the Denver Post one by Moore, but neither came through as links or anything at all in the post above. What am I doing wrong?

"Aside from the substance, isn't 'My Name Is _______' approximately the laziest possible title for anything?"

I guess it would be, if you think "Call me Ishmael" is the weakest opening line in all of literature. ;-)

Link still doesn't work--it's got an extra "%22" after the ".html" part of the link--removing that made the link work for me. (feel free to delete this post)

Apparently satyagraha only works when the oppressor is Anglo-Saxon, as in India and America's south.

Though I wholeheartedly support Israel's right to exist, teading human rights watch articles persuades me that the IDF bulldozes houses beyond any reasonable necessity -- the US can detect tunnels without bulldozing houses; the IDF has bulldozed 2500 houses in Gaza over a four-year period, mostly to enlarge the buffer zone. And the IDF has used Palestinians as human shields within the past ten years. There are no clean hands in the Middle East.

You know there is a problem with media bias when you have to look to Mother Jones for accurate reporting.

Another sign of the less than objective stance of the ISM is its reference to PLO terrorists as the "resistance", as if they were like the maquis or the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Apparently satyagraha only works when the oppressor is Anglo-Saxon, as in India and America's south.
You're probably right that nonviolent resistance would not work for the Israelis, as they would be slaughtered by the millions of Muslims who surround them. But it would certainly work for the Palestinians. Pity they can't bring themselves to try it.

BrianK - a usually inaccurate source becomes accurate when it reports facts. Interesting that you would find the conservative desire for fact in the media something to criticize.

Some months ago, the Lebanese Army took care of some business in a refugee camp near Beirut.
ISM there? Noop. Anybody at all? Uh-uh.

So the point is made once again. The palis are maintained as stage props and cannon fodder for the Arab and liberal struggle against Israel. If they take gas in some other venue....yawn. As was demonstrated, folks. Don't forget that. There was an opportunity to falsify the hypothesis. Demonstrated. Not theoretical. Demonstrated in the camps near Beirut. Nobody gives a tiny turd for the palis unless they are useful in The Cause.

Hard to believe anybody believes the so-heartfelt concern for the unfortunate palestinians. It's hard to believe those who evince such concern actually believe themselves. In fact, the prudent are pretty sure they don't.