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Heretical Ideas pointed me to a very interesting and though-provoking article about the rise of anti-semiticism. In it Mr Halkin makes a strong case for the theory that anti-Isreali feeling around the world is actually hidden anti-semiticism. While at first I thought this was a bit of an overstatement. Mr Halkin makes a very convincing argument for this theory.
One aspect that he did not touch on which I would have like have seen is the problem with the left. It seems almost cruel to point out that Jews in the west are more often than not supporters of the left and socialism. It is these self-same left wingers who are the ones who are most anti-Isreal currently. The apologists for Islamic extremists and Palestinian terrorists are almost universely on the left of the political spectrum. Some of the most avid gentile supporters of Isreal in the US and UK are the Republicans & Conservatives. Surely it is time for Jews to re-examine their, mostly, erroneous belief that parties of the right are anti-semitic.
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Bush and Blair have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian MP. Currently there is a poll on the BBC site and as one would expect, the vote is almost 60% against. No doubt the anti-war/pro-Islamic apologists have gotten their networks buzzing to skew the vote.
Well two can play at that game, I encourage all my readers to go vote for the men. The BBC believes the two men’s chance of winning is “unlikely” because one of the judges was against the war.
One can just imagine the fit that the BBC and the left will have if Bush & Blair win. Can you just imagine the column inches that would fill Le Monde, the Guardian and the other European organs of the left?
This is yet another reason for admiring the Norwegians. First they voted against entrance to the EU and now this.
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Natalie Solent has an interesting post on her blog. It is one that made me feel less of a freak. She claims to routinely, even daily, search for her name on Google. She wants to see who mentions her.on their site.
“And I love it. It sends adrenaline zooming through my veins, fills me with vim, zest, zip and other monosyllables containing letters that score high in Scrabble.” Confesses Natalie to her, obviously, stunned readers.
She is not the only one who does a personal search every day on Google. I used to it, every so often. most often after a few, and often with a friend. It usually led to us typing in the names of all the people we knew to see if they had a secrets “hiding” on the internet. Now I do it daily, to make sure I know who mentions me. Then I know what blogs need to go on my link list.
One wonders how long it will take some well-meaning sociologist to call it a condition. “Personal Search Syndrome” will be written up in great detail in the Guardian. This is, of course, after the government has funded an expensive study into those who suffer from this malady. It will be decried as yet another sign of the breakdown of society. There will then be calls for the government to pass legislation to deal with PSS. ISPs will be forced to block all searches for one’s own name.
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