Rupert Murdoch explains why Israel is the canary in the coal mine
Bookworm on Mar 19 2009 at 2:28 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
So many on the Left have this dream that, if Israel were just gone, the world would be a happy place. All the Muslims would love us, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and Iran, and whatever other Muslim country, would become a democratic paradise with equal rights for all, oil prices would drop, violence would vanish and so on and so forth.
Rupert Murdoch understands that the opposite is true. Israel is the canary in the coal mine. While she exists, she is the lightening rod. Were she go vanish, aside from all the horrors that would accompany her departure as a nation, none of these problems would end. The problem you see, isn’t Israel, it’s the other nations, the nations that demand brutal theocratic control both within and outside of their borders.
I really urge you to read the reprint of Murdoch’s speech to the American Jewish Committee. It’s an important one.
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“Canary in the coal mine” is an apt metaphor, as the same poisonous atmosphere of tolerance for terrorism that would destroy Israel, would in the end destroy us as well.
John Donne may have said it best in Meditation XVII, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions:
As Israel goes, in the end, so goes the rest of Western cultlure.
ALERT: Read speech here, the site you suggested (according to my Mozilla firewall has been hacked)
http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.5018279/k.7184/AJC_Honors_Rupert_Murdoch.htm
JPost is up and running again.
Those who believe that there would be peace in the Middle East if Israel capitulated to Palestinian demands are clearly wrong as actual events have demonstrated over and over again. But even if they were right, they would still be wrong.
That’s because they are confusing goals and results. Goals and results are not the same thing, highly desired though the latter may be.
Perhaps an example will help. People who strive for the goal of personal happiness are among the most unhappy people I know. Happiness must not be a goal. True happiness comes only as the result of doing something good for someone else.
Similarly, those who make peace their primary goal wind up instead with tyranny and oppression. Peace must not be a goal. True peace is the result of standing up for and being willing to fight for freedom and individual liberty.
Those who would exchange their freedom for peace have made a very poor bargain, and in the end will not even have the peace they so craved.
The Muslims have a saying: “First [destroy] the Saturday People (Jews)… then the Sunday People (Christians).”
One has only to note the dwindling Christian population of Bethlehem, the increasing Muslim populations of Europe, the ever changing rules (Sharia Law) in Minnesota to moderate borrowing/lending rules for mortgages, the nuances of the ever changing language of the current administration, refusing to meet with their Israeli counterparts. No doubt, this room could add volumes to my short little list.
If Israel is the canary in the cage, then the western world is feeding the vultures dhimmi seeds.
To carry on a thought from another thread – Israel shall stand as a light unto Nations. Turn out her lights and we all live in darkness and the dark ages.
If Israel vanishes, you can be assured that several other countries will vanish with it: Iran, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Libya, Jordan and Yemen.
The Israelis have 200+ nukes and there is no way they are going to let Muslims take them out without doing as much as they can to obliterate the region that incubated the world’s most hateful ideology.
The pretend Muslim rulers of Egypt and Syria understand that. They’d like to not be incinerated in the name of a ill-tempered god whose best bribe for getting people to act morally is the prospect of eternal life in a whorehouse. Those guys are already getting all the nooky they want here on earth.
But the mullahs of Iran and the Saudi Wahhabists are a separate pack of nuts. I am hoping that George Bush lied when he said that he would not sell bunker-buster bombs to the Israelis. I am hoping that it was a feint to make the Iranians less likely to reinforce the nuclear sites that Israel must soon attempt to take out.
Pretty pathetic, no, having to hope that an honorable man lied?
A simply Biblical response, Charles.
Now, I have to rethink what kind of ‘light’ unto nations was intended – 200+ nukes would certainly qualify.
Charles #6:
>> The pretend Muslim rulers of Egypt and Syria understand that. They’d like to not be incinerated in the name of a ill-tempered god whose best bribe for getting people to act morally is the prospect of eternal life in a whorehouse. Those guys are already getting all the nooky they want here on earth.
Not when Liam Neeson is on their trail, to rescue his daughter, they’re not! The nookie ends there!
(That, by the way, is an enthusiastic recommendation for ‘Taken’, a very entertaining fast-paced adventure romp. Premise: If your daughter has been taken by an underworld gang and sold into sex slavery, and you have 96 hours to save her before she disappears forever, and you’ve got, er, skills from you the father have professional skills similar to Ymar’s TFT…)
An Arabic emir on his pleasure yacht churning through Paris, France, looking for some nookie with a drugged sex slave, doesn’t exactly stand a chance. Yee-HAW!
‘Taken’ is a huge surprise hit. And it’s one the MSM refuses to report on. I can’t quite figure out why. Ha!
Well, after that review I went to Imdb and read a review. Movie opened last year, but I had not even heard of it until you mentioned TAKEN.
Author: danube83 from United States
The most thrilling movie I’ve seen in a long time. Neeson is what we would fear if James Bond went to hell and came back for revenge (I doubt big budget Quantum of Solace will top this). I loved Jason Bourne; but where Bourne is confused for half the movie, Neeson is looking down a barrel of a pistol 3/4 of the time. In a three way spy battle, I would put Neeson edging out Bourne, who would be a step ahead of Bond.
Between the jaw-dropping action sequences was the subject matter of international trafficking, which was pretty miserable to watch. Although homicide is wrong, death was never more satisfying to watch.
Were she go vanish
I believe that should be “were she to vanish”.
(That, by the way, is an enthusiastic recommendation for ‘Taken’, a very entertaining fast-paced adventure romp. Premise: If your daughter has been taken by an underworld gang and sold into sex slavery, and you have 96 hours to save her before she disappears forever, and you’ve got, er, skills from you the father have professional skills similar to Ymar’s TFT…)
I actually saw that movie, although it was kind of in bits and pieces. The action scenes were very nice though.
For one thing, the villains always make the stupid arse mistake of not breaking your arms and knees. A body is always a potential weapon if it is working, and it doesn’t really matter if somebody is tied up or not. So make sure it is not working.
The thing about grabbing glass bottles was pretty dumb though. It’s not a very useful blunt instrument since it has no mass, and the jagged shards is not nearly as dangerous as a simple throat strike. Besides, the damn bottle has no grip to it. Be nice for the eyes, though, if you want someone to flinch. The flinch is great.
I can’t quite figure out why. Ha!
It’s partially cause it would hurt the narrative of them character assassinating the President of Georgia as a warmonger, given that RUssia is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, traffickers in the sex slave industry. Russia has more women than men, due to Stalin’s purges and war “policies” in WWII, but their birth rates are actually getting as low as France. Why is that? Because Russian mobs and etc grab the youngest girls there and sell them off as whores and then they die. That would make the characterization of the Georgian President from “warmongering incompetent” to “extraordinarily courageous freedom fighter and underdog”.
The Left cannot abide such a reversal. They will not tolerate it.
Besides, their Islamic allies are killing, kidnapping, and raping every woman they can find. It would be uncouth of the Left to bring much scrutiny to their Islamic brothers in their Holy Crusade against the Infidels. Very insensitive, racist, and judgmental, ya know.
but where Bourne is confused for half the movie
Matt Damon is always confused. That’s not a quality of the books. That’s a quality of reality.
Although homicide is wrong, death was never more satisfying to watch.
I don’t understand. What is this “homicide” people speak of? Clue me in here, I am but an innocent lamb before the savage wolves.
I also recommend Twilight for the same reasons I wrote here before. Gattaca was also pretty good. I finally saw Groundhog day and the plot was very good, although it was slow to start.
Movies for conservatives. Firefly, Ghost if they ever dare make a movie about it, Gattaca, Legend of Galactic Heroes (Supernova star that one).
If you liked Taken, Mike, you’d love John RIngo’s Ghost novel.
Can’t think of any movies for now. Later