Thursday, December 15, 2016

Crocodile Tears for the Children of Aleppo

Look how the editors of the New York Daily News start their latest piece: “The Syrian city of Aleppo has fallen under the control of dictator Bashar Assad's forces –– but not before being reduced to an urban mass graveyard.” That's it? Yes, that's it as far as this opening sentence is concerned. The rest of the editorial goes on to cover other things, of course.

Did those editors not see fit to add the obvious to what they had in that sentence? For example, something like: Not as badly as Gaza; that coastal city on which the Jews inflicted a worse sort of bombardment from the air, from the sea and with a land based artillery? And did those editors not see fit to add that the Israelis did what they did, not once but three times since they were kicked out of Gaza? The answer to those questions is no, the Jewish editors of the Daily News did not see fit to make those obvious additions.

Still, Gaza is the place where children who played on the beach were deliberately targeted by Israeli gunboats, and slaughtered in accordance with the biblical tradition of killing children to make their parents suffer. It is the place where the only water treatment plant, the only sanitation plant and the only power station they had, as well as the UN schools and hospitals were deliberately targeted and demolished with smart precision ordnance given to Israel by the United States of America free of charge.

How can the editors of the New York Daily News, and the multitude of Jewish pundits in America pretend to weep for the children of Aleppo when they always defend, even celebrate the butchery that's inflicted on the children, the women and the men of Gaza? We don't have to go too far to find the answer to that question. It is right here in the editorial's opening sentence.

That's where you find a lament that goes like this: “Aleppo has fallen under the control of Bashar Assad's forces.” This, in fact, is what they are deploring. Read any of the pundits who write on this subject, and you'll find them mourning not the death of the Syrian people – children or otherwise – but mourning the success of someone they dislike. It is what makes them worry not about the death of human beings, but the death of what they perceive as America's influence in the world … and by extension their own influence.

In fact, the rest of the article takes the form of a braid that's made of three themes interlaced with each other. One theme bemoans the success that the Syria/Russia coalition is having. Another bemoans the reduction in America's say in world affairs. And the third is a call to America, urging it to adopt a more robust stance in this matter and other similar matters.

Here is what is bothering the editors of the New York Daily News with regard to the Syria/Russia successes: “Assad's men have brutalized the rebel stronghold … bombs have leveled buildings … Assad and Putin are looking to rout every last vestige of opposition.” Obviously, they see the confrontation in Syria as a zero-sum game between America and the others, where America is losing. And to them, that's the bottom line that counts. Everything else is just theatrics.

Here is what is bothering them with regard to the diminished role that America is playing in the world today: “Like [the prevailing] mantra 'the world is watching' describing a putrid, passive form of spectatorship, the US has been reduced to impotent bystander.” These people will never be happy till they see America's fingers in every pie.

And here is how the editors of the New York Daily News urge America to stand up to the new foreign challenges facing it: “Accessory to murder is what America risks becoming if it gives a free pass to Putin and Assad under the incoming administration … the moral risks are bottomless.” These characters should talk to a lawyer who will tell them that if America will be named accessory to murder, it won't be because it did not stand up to Russia but because it was arming the rebel groups in Syria the way it has been arming Israel, already named war criminal.

Finally, because there can never be a Jewish discussion without pointing the finger at an innocent scapegoat and blaming the whole thing on him, the editors of the New York Daily News performed as expected and came up with this: “It is the largest single blot on President Obama's stained foreign-policy record”.

They insulted the man and he should not be bothered for a moment. On the contrary he should consider it a badge of honor and wear it with pride.