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On the mainsite, I have an article arguing that Jews can do nothing about Arab/Muslim hatred so long as Arabs/Muslims, amongst other things, refuse to be in the same room with an Israeli.
I cite the example of the Lebanese judo team refusing to work out the in the same room as the Israeli judo team during the London Olympics. The organizers placed a screen in the room so that Lebanese judo team would not be scarred for life looking by gazing upon a Jew.
Well, Lebanese antipathy towards Israel is hardly confined to athletics. A similar incident occurred last December in Washington, D.C. when two Lebanese academics refused to share the same dais with two Israeli academics during a meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. The Israeli academics were asked to sit in the audience while the Lebanese professors presented their papers. (H/T Michael Warren of The Weekly Standard).
As shameful as the behavior of the Lebanese athletes and academics has been, the response of both the Olympic Committee and the American Council of Learned Societies (which organized the conference). Instead of telling the Lebanese “up your nose with a rubber hose” both the Olympic Committee and the ACLS facilitated anti-Semitic prejudice. As Edmund Burke said, “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.” It also triumphs when good men do the wrong thing.
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Occam's Tool| 8.14.12 @ 5:44PM
Well, one has the ultimate Jack in Wi. Libtard field trip: to be a Moslem for a month. See Weasel Zippers for details, Jack.
I just expect Arab academics, businessmen, etc. to be swine except for Lebanese Christians, Kurds, and Druze. (Some Bedouins, too, I believe.)
I especially like the Kurds and Druze. But as for the rest, they will eventually change, or they will get the war they want, and lose.
JmsA| 8.14.12 @ 7:11PM
Drowing in hate yet asking for more, the dhimmis no doubt will continue to oblige.
Paul McGrath| 8.14.12 @ 7:26PM
When your five year old has a fit because you didn't give him ice cream, you punish him. You don't relent and give him ice cream, then pat him on the head and tell him he's a good boy.
When nations of the world refuse to act civilized, you don't acceed to their demands, you punish them. If the Lebanese judo team refused to be in the same room with the Israelis, you simply say, "Fine, you are no longer welcome in these Olympics, in the Olympic village, or anywhere else in England. Out."
There should have been a lengthy, heartfelt, deeply moving tribute to the Israelis who were murdered forty years ago. It would have been a civlized way to show that the West will not tolerate barbaric behavior. And if somebody didn't like it, too bad. Out.
Until the West begins to stand up to uncivilized behavior, it is going to continue to happen. And when we don't stand up to uncivilized behavior, we make it almost impossible for moderate Muslims to do so.
Maxwell| 8.14.12 @ 8:55PM
Mr. McGrath, with all due respect, to do what you ask would take a set of stones. It is easier to just let it slide and **** the Jews.
Jack in Wi| 8.14.12 @ 9:51PM
Laet see: The Israeli'e murdered 10's of thousands of Lebanese over the last 3 decadeds. They treat the Arabs, Muslim and Christians under their control like dogs and vermin. Their planes overfly Lebanese air space at will, violating Lebanese sovereignty. They use nuclear blackmail and interfere in their neighbors business all the time. Now all that and a lot more is supposed to be forgotten and forgiven and the everything is suppposed to be palsy walsey. If you want to be pals, then make peace. The Arabs have offered Israel a full peace with full trading rights and diplomatic relations, for the last 10 years. Of course they would have to go behind the Green line of 1967, with negotiated ajustments. The Zionist shills here preach nothing but hate, genocide and murder against hundreds of millions, of mostly innocent Middle East Muslims and Chritians. Are we really supposed to take all these crocodile tears seriously?
RJ| 8.15.12 @ 1:24AM
Of course if the shoe were on another foot, almost any other foot, the Olympics and the American Council of Learned Societies would not have accommodated such intolerance. Can you imagine the uproar if the situation was reversed? These two events show us about the bias all too prevalent in Western society against ourselves and are additional examples of how presumably good people do bad things.
Bob K| 8.15.12 @ 8:20AM
Perhaps when the inevitable regime change comes to Syria, an event that some writers here on AS have supported, the Lebanese will change their attitude towards Israel?
I'm skeptical about that though and would have to see it to believe it.
Skippy| 8.15.12 @ 12:39PM
"The Arabs have offered Israel a full peace with full trading rights and diplomatic relations, for the last 10 years. Of course they would have to go behind the Green line of 1967, with negotiated ajustments. "
Are you f*cking kidding me Jack?
The Arabs offered peace?
The Arabs offered war after war and got defeat after defeat.
They lost! What about that is so tough to understand?
"Dateline Tokyo, 1/14/46. Japan offered peace terms to the Allies today." Good luck with that one.
The surviving Arabs and their pedophilic cultures are lucky they still have one stone stacked atop another. Their best bet would be to beg Israel not to evaporate their various desert sewers and get to the business of making peace with the tiny nation that has kicked every Arab ass that wanted to fight for the last 75 years.
Unbelievable hallucinatory arrogance!
ejac| 9.5.12 @ 11:53AM
Anti-Semitic? The author is apparently ignorant of the fact that Lebanese are Semitic people.
Everything always has to the holocaust, doesn't it?