Comments on: “Liberty Baptist Is A Long Way From Walter Benjamin” http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/03/liberty-baptist-is-a-long-way-from-walter-benjamin/ Since 2002, News, Technology and Pop Culture, 24 Hours a Day, Live and in Stereo. Editor of the PJ Lifestyle Website. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: furious http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/03/liberty-baptist-is-a-long-way-from-walter-benjamin/#comment-10714 furious Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:34:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/?p=24928#comment-10714 I think a cinema analogy is apropos here... The Chosen People are much more sympathetic as victims lining up meekly for the cattle cars in <i>Schindler's List</i> than they are as victors striking back in <i>Raid on Entebbe</i> or <i>Munich</i>. Liberals always root for the Underdog, which for Israel would entail queueing on Tel Aviv's beaches for their turn to walk into the sea. Speaking of Stephen Spielberg, when Golda Meir in <i>Munich</i> says "Sometimes a nation must compromise on its principles", is she referring to "Never Again"? I think a cinema analogy is apropos here…

The Chosen People are much more sympathetic as victims lining up meekly for the cattle cars in Schindler’s List than they are as victors striking back in Raid on Entebbe or Munich.

Liberals always root for the Underdog, which for Israel would entail queueing on Tel Aviv’s beaches for their turn to walk into the sea.

Speaking of Stephen Spielberg, when Golda Meir in Munich says “Sometimes a nation must compromise on its principles”, is she referring to “Never Again”?

]]> By: John http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/03/liberty-baptist-is-a-long-way-from-walter-benjamin/#comment-10709 John Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:28:08 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/?p=24928#comment-10709 The long knives for Israeli may have been sharpened during the 1967 and 1973 wars, but in the U.S. they didn't come out until 1977, when Menachem Begin and Likud won election over Labor for the first time in the nation's history. Labor may have fought the Soviets' client states, but their social policies were in tune with what liberal Democrats in the U.S. supported. Once Likud with its more free-market policies got into power, the left saw no reason to show any lingering support for Israel. The long knives for Israeli may have been sharpened during the 1967 and 1973 wars, but in the U.S. they didn’t come out until 1977, when Menachem Begin and Likud won election over Labor for the first time in the nation’s history. Labor may have fought the Soviets’ client states, but their social policies were in tune with what liberal Democrats in the U.S. supported. Once Likud with its more free-market policies got into power, the left saw no reason to show any lingering support for Israel.

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