Thursday, January 8, 2009
Abraham Miller perfectly explains the role Western useful idiots play as Hamas stalking-horses...perpetuating the violence while they claim to be against it: Villains and Victims in Gaza:
...Then there is the constituency comprised of those groups who are so wedded to the embrace of victims -- real and imaginary -- that the most despicable violence is not an act of evil, but a cause for investigation; a statement written in desperate measures by desperate people. Once a group such as Hamas has been defined as a victim, then its acts have to be explored, dissected, explained, rationalized, put into a context, but never condemned. Victims are, by such groups' definitions, incapable of evil.
For four decades I have been attending forums on the Middle East conducted by liberal church congregations, colleges and universities, self-anointed peace and justice groups, and the usual gaggle of what are referred to as "the good people." These people and their groups are intrinsic to the terrorists' strategy. Their rationales for terrorist violence are vital to the continued use of violence. These so-called "good people" are the conduit to evil, and they are invariably self-proclaimed "progressives" or "liberals."
All terrorist groups want people who will ask, "Why?" They want people who have long ago forsaken moral judgments for moral relativism. They want the guy who will stand up at the PTA meeting and say, "9/11 is the result of our foreign policy," and not conceive of the possibility that he is uttering a cliché he could not intellectually defend, but think he is being profound.
It is not just that such people, by justifying violence, contribute to the continued perpetuation of violence, but also by being partisans for evil, they have given up the claim to be honest brokers for peace. In the case of liberal church groups, they have become so supportive of Palestinian terrorism that they would be incapable of being a broker for serious engagements or dialogues for peace. Does anyone think that the leadership of the Presbyterian Church, for example, exudes any moral authority when it comes to the Middle East? They are simply another militia, albeit one that justifies other people doing the killing they tacitly support...
