tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post546973145252460452..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: Why the BBC - and the rest of the left-liberal media - got the Israeli election result wrongScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-76354710761920999502015-03-21T13:06:02.354+00:002015-03-21T13:06:02.354+00:00"...you mealy-mouthed dick-head. Now why don&..."...you mealy-mouthed dick-head. Now why don't you shut your gob and give your arse a chance?" - I'm pretty sure you're quoting Charles Moore there. I see Obama has yet again displayed his magnanimity, big-heartedness and respect for democracy by threatening to withdraw US support for Israel because they voted for the wrong man. God, what a truly petty little man Barry is.<br /><br />I was reading Charles Moore in the Telegraph this morning on the Dolce & Gabanna/Elton John spat over gays and "pet" babies and not for the first time wondering if the day will ever come when this once-great newspaper appoints another editor as clear-headed, articulate and conservative as Moore. I can't remember the last time he wriote anything with which a sensible right-winger would disagree.<br /><br />I too suspect Bibi of being a bit of a bastard - but when you're surrounded by savages who all want to kill you, I'd be inclined to go for the "bastard" option - after all, the enemies of Israel appear to be incapable of gratitude and uninterested in compromise, so I'm not sure why any Israeli leader with his countrymen's interests at heart would want to be "reasonable".Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-80744722650920489682015-03-20T19:07:45.397+00:002015-03-20T19:07:45.397+00:00"An official from the Palestine Liberation Or..."An official from the Palestine Liberation Organisation said Israel had chosen 'the path of racism and occupation'." In an otherwise unhelpful article in the DT [19/3] David Blair gets at least one thing right: "...whenever they have relinquished territory in the past, by leaving South Lebanon in 2000...or evacuating settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005 - nothing has been gained except for barrages of rockets launched by Hizbollah and Hamas."<br /><br />J.M.Coetzee on Israel and Palestine: " There is such a thing as defeat and the Palestinians have been defeated. Bitter though such a fate may be, they must taste it, call it by its true name, swallow it. They must accept defeat and accept it constructively. The alternative unreconstructive way is to go on nourishing revanchist dreams of a to-morrow when all the wrongs will be righted by some miracle. For a constructive way of accepting defeat they might look to Germany post-1945." ["Here and Now: Letters 2008-20112"].<br /><br />I suspect Benjamin Netanyahu is extremely unpleasant to deal with, but he is not only a "Realpolitiker" [like many Israeli politicians he has a distinguished military record unlike the whey-faced cream puffs who have been running the show in the West for the last 25 years] but also a "conviction" politician whose prime motivation is for his country to survive as opposed to himself getting re-elected simply so he can continue to enjoy the trappings of power. David Blair in the DT says that "King Bibi...offers nothing but a swaggering and articulate brand of paralysis". No Blair [dread name], he offers the Israelis a continuing hope of survival and that's why they voted for him in great numbers, you mealy-mouthed dick-head. Now why don't you shut your gob and give your arse a chance?<br />SDGnoreply@blogger.com