Monday, December 16, 2013

How Moral Syphilis Infested America

Imagine a brave new world, or maybe a cowardly one, in which France reoccupies Algeria, Britain reoccupies Zimbabwe, Italy reoccupies Ethiopia, Holland reoccupies Indonesia, Germany reoccupies South Africa, Portugal reoccupies Brazil, Spain reoccupies Mexico, and America reoccupies Philippine.

The occupying powers declare that because they took in people at home from the lands they are occupying, and because they treat these people “far better” than they are treated in most Asian, African and Latin American countries, they as occupiers, deserve to have rights no one else has, and must be treated with respect. What would you say about that, my friend? Of course you would say that moral syphilis must have infested the brains of the people advocating this sort of lunacy.

Well, believe it or not, this is what the editors of the Wall Street Journal are advocating in the piece they wrote under the title: “Shame of the Academy” and the subtitle: “The American Studies Association votes to boycott Israel.” The piece was published in the Journal on December 17, 2013.

In presenting their case, the syphilitic editors of the Journal not only argue in favor of Israel and against the boycott, they do it by attacking their own country – something that comes at the very start of the editorial. Here is how they have formulated their sickly thought: “The political corruption of the American academy is by now an old story...” They go on to call the story “shocking.”

This done, they attack the decision of the American Studies Association (ASA) on two levels; one level being a reference to Jonathan Marks who wrote a piece that was published nearby under the title: “A Vote Against Israel and Academic Freedom” and the subtitle: American Studies professors have decided that democratic Israel deserves a U.S. boycott.” You can read the piece if you want. I read it but I'm not going to discuss it because it is the account of one individual that has taken the vote of the ASA personally, and is feeling bitter about his defeat.

As to the other level at which the editors of the Journal discuss the decision of the ASA, what they did is display in full bloom what moral syphilis has done to them. Are you ready for it, my friend? Here it is: “It is worth pondering what must have gone through the mind of a professoriate that would choose to boycott the most democratic country in the Middle East. The country in which Arabs [Palestinians] are treated far better and have more rights than they do in most Arab lands [there are 22 of them.]” Did you catch that? They said the Palestinians are treated “far better” than the citizens in the other Arab countries.

Well, disregard for a moment the argument which says that a Palestinian woman should not suffer because an Arab that lives somewhere else has no rights, and assume it is true that it is “far better” for a pregnant Palestinian woman to have a baby on the street near an Israeli checkpoint in her own Palestine on her way to a hospital – than it is for an Arab woman in say, Morocco, Egypt, Kuwait or Oman getting to hospital, and having her baby there.

Have you disregarded and have you assumed? Good. Now, do you know what my Jewish friend would have said about that?

He would have said that to think the Jews are above criticism is to justify the way that the Jews have been treated throughout the ages everywhere on this planet. With anger in his voice, he would have added: We brought the Holocaust on ourselves because that's how we think, and how we behave. We have no right to whine.