[Peace-discuss] More from the Pipes file
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 12 09:37:02 CDT 2010
In a recent letter in the N-G, in response to liberal Zionist Urbana
councilcreature David Gehrig's feigned concern with Islamophobia from Cal
Thomas, I wrote that we should be more concerned about "mainstream"
Islamophobia, including that promoted by local Jewish institutions. The sponsors
for the Pipes event testify to that. If the more "respectable" people at the
Program for Jewish Culture and Society (Matti Bunzl, Bruce Rosenstock, Michael
Rothberg) object to Pipes, let them publicly say so, or forever hold their
sanctimonious and cowardly tongues about racism, hate, and "Holocaust memory."
The same goes for Gehrig--let him flaunt his pathetic liberal ACLU cajones with
a few sharp words for the Pipester. It will never happen.
Here's an item from my files:
Daniel Pipes’ Acrimonious Remarks Embarrass Organizers of Portland Panel on
“Healing Words”
By Elaine Kelley, from Northwest News, reprinted in Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs, July 2001.
Pipes is well-known for his hawkish views and inflammatory statements. He
recently angered Middle East peace advocates in his April 25 National Post
commentary “Being nice won’t help Israel,” in which he asserts that Israel must
“convince Palestinians not of its niceness but its toughness,” arguing that the
more flexibly Israel behaved, the more “Palestinians smelled blood and became
enraged at the very existence of the Jewish state.”
Early in his comments Pipes had remarked, “It is deeply unfortunate that Ateek
compares the Germans’ treatment of the Jews to Israel and the Palestinians.”
Using innuendo, Pipes compared the final fate of the Germans after WWII with
what Palestinians may have to succumb to in the future: “When the Germans lost
World War I they came out with a sense of grievance and felt stabbed in the
back; but when they were thoroughly destroyed in World War II they came out of
that with something modern and new. It’s time for Arabs to move on.”
What Israel should do, he added, is “respond with force. Punish those that would
hurt [Israel], and their ambitions to do so will fail.” Asserting that “Arab
people live in some of the worse conditions in the world, without freedom to
travel or modern media,” he blamed those conditions on the Arabs’ “political
obsession with Israel.”
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