Moral Retardation in Israel/Hamas Fight
I am weary of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I am weary primarily it reveals the moral retardation of Western society. As a term of art, moral retardation has been rolling around in my skull for a few years. I use it to describe someone who is unable to tell the difference between Guantanamo Bay and Auschwitz. The morally retarded look at George Bush and Adolf Hitler and see little difference. The morally retarded look at the death penalty for convicted murderers as a grave evil that must be stopped, but the death of a third trimester baby as “choice” that must be defended. Morally retarded people stand silent as Hamas militants fire rockets with warheads with the intent of striking Israeli civilian targets, and howl with outrage when Israel inadvertently harms civilians. For this reason I am weary.
Trying to explain is so very trying. If a man starts firing a pistol into a schoolyard, I hope to kiss a duck the cops respond with disproportionate force. I want to see a pile of cops six deep on that guy right now. Expecting Israel to show “restraint” in this situation is stupid and disgusting. It is deeply regrettable that civilians were injured and killed when IDF counter-battery fire, but under any sane moral regime those responsible for the deaths are those who set up mortars in a schoolyard.
The morally retarded don’t think that allowing terrorists to cynically hide behind human shields and reap a PR bonanza for their barbaric cause invites more barbarism. The morally retarded empower these wicked men by refusing to draw a moral difference between the two. The morally retarded let a deported terrorist write a column for the Los Angeles Times.
Israel is a sovereign nation and a liberal society, and by liberal I mean liberal in the sense I would hate to live there what with all the taxes and socialistic regulation and whatnot. Not my nation, so not my problem, but by and large the morally retarded who occupy the commanding heights to the leftist media and leftist academy ought to hold them up as the shining example of what a truly wonderful society ought to be. About the only thing that is conservative about Israel that parallels what passes for conservative here in this nation is not wanting to be butchered, bombed and driven to the sea.
The morally retarded are effectively Anti-Semites. Hamas, and pretty much ever other Arab organization is dedicated to wiping the middle east clear of Jews. A moral retard may have Jewish friends, may like a bagel and a schmear, may like techno-klezzner music like all the other hip people, but if you see a bunch of maniacs screaming death to Israel and you nod and say “I think they have a legitimate grievance” how exactly is your attitude different from a garden variety bigot?
Israel is the only democracy in that who crappy area. They have a right to exist and defend themselves as they see fit, unless you are morally retarded.
Terrorists setting up a mortar next to a school, doing a “shoot and scoot”. Counter-battery fire is the predictable result. Hamas clearly doesn’t care that the school is in grave danger. Dead kids serve their purpose.
