Perspective on leftist media and Israel (The author is too kind)

[melvin_udall]

"In all of 2013, for example, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed 42 lives- that is, roughly the monthly homicide rate in the city of Chicago. Jerusalem, internationally renowned as a city of conflict, had slightly fewer violent deaths per capita last year than Portland, Ore., one of America’s safer cities. In contrast, in three years the

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[justgoto]

Indeed.

[x_eleven]

You don’t need to be a history professor, or a psychiatrist, to understand what’s going on. Having rehabilitated themselves against considerable odds in a minute corner of the earth, the descendants of powerless people who were pushed out of Europe and the Islamic Middle East have become what their grandparents were-the pool into which the world spits. The Jews of Israel are the screen onto which it has become socially acceptable to project the things you hate about yourself and your own country. The tool through which this psychological projection is executed is the international press.

Note: Emphasis mine

It is this, more than anything else, that pisses off leftwing whacko-birds. They were fine with Israel and Jews when they were poor, pitiful war refugees. They were fine with American Jews when they were dirt poor refugees huddled in New York slums. They were fine with Jews as a potential "victim" class they could take under their wing

[asher63]

Yup.

[mosinging1986]

Bravo!