Comments on: Perspective and Wording Matters When It Comes to Criticism of Israel http://www.poligazette.com/2009/03/13/perspective-and-wording-matters-when-it-comes-to-criticism-of-israel/ Because Common Sense Transcends Distance Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:13:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Noga http://www.poligazette.com/2009/03/13/perspective-and-wording-matters-when-it-comes-to-criticism-of-israel/comment-page-1/#comment-87316 Noga Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:26:34 +0000 http://www.poligazette.com/?p=11251#comment-87316 There is more to it than just criticism from an outsider/insider perspective. Freeman's criticism goes way beyond criticism. It reflects Arab sensibilities and much worse, it manifests an indifference to Israel suffering or indeed survival. One gets the impression that he prepares the way to American disengagement from its alliance with Israel by demonizing both Israel's history and Jewish support for it in America. And the question is: why would he do that? If criticism is all he intended, why take that belligerent hostile tone? In my view, he seems to want to prepare American attitude to the possibility that Israel may find itself unable to survive, or survive intact, without American support. If such an eventuality were to happen, he wants to make sure Americans will remain indifferent to Israeli plight: if it's all their doing, their fault, then why should anyone care about what happens to them? He wants to remove any concern based on morality and friendship from Americans towards Israelis. This is why he calls himself a "realist". There is more to it than just criticism from an outsider/insider perspective. Freeman’s criticism goes way beyond criticism. It reflects Arab sensibilities and much worse, it manifests an indifference to Israel suffering or indeed survival. One gets the impression that he prepares the way to American disengagement from its alliance with Israel by demonizing both Israel’s history and Jewish support for it in America.

And the question is: why would he do that? If criticism is all he intended, why take that belligerent hostile tone?

In my view, he seems to want to prepare American attitude to the possibility that Israel may find itself unable to survive, or survive intact, without American support. If such an eventuality were to happen, he wants to make sure Americans will remain indifferent to Israeli plight: if it’s all their doing, their fault, then why should anyone care about what happens to them? He wants to remove any concern based on morality and friendship from Americans towards Israelis. This is why he calls himself a “realist”.

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