[Peace-discuss] More from the Pipes file

[C. G. Estabrook]

  /Surtout, pas trop de zèle./..


On 10/12/10 9:37 AM, David Green wrote:
> 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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