Actual Time Cover
Last week, Time magazine asked “Is America Islamophobic?” That query was based on the majority of Americans’ rather sensible, some might even say remarkably nuanced take on the Ground Zero Mosque. Which essentially boils down to: yes, legally, the owners have every right to build it where they wish. Morally though, the current proposed location seems highly questionable, as we’re really squeamish about a mosque in a location that’s not just in close proximity to Ground Zero, but arguably part of it, given than debris from one of the airplanes used in the attack on the World Trade Center crashed through the building’s roof. And the churlish responses from its would-be builders to both other religions, and to other competing building proposals in the area aren’t helping much to make their case as responsible future neighbors.
But that was last week’s Time magazine cover story. For the cover story dated next week, but online now, it’s Israel’s turn in the magazine’s crosshairs. As Victor Davis Hanson wrote yesterday at the Corner, “the recent Time piece on Israel by a Karl Vick is probably the most anti-Semitic essay I have ever read in a mainstream publication:”
I know it’s commonplace to read in the latest issue of Time or Newsweek that Obama is a god, that Islamophobic Americans are collectively prejudiced against Muslims, that the response after 9/11 was overblown and unnecessary (over 30 subsequent terrorist plots have been foiled, and, for some reason, renditions, tribunals, Guantanamo, Predators, intercepts, etc., have all been embraced by the Obama administration), but the recent Time piece on Israel by a Karl Vick is probably the most anti-Semitic essay I have ever read in a mainstream publication.
Among Vick’s interviewees is Heli Itach, a modern-day Shylock who brags about the money to be made selling condos in Jerusalem (“‘Even when the Qassams fell, we continued to sell!’ says Heli Itach, slapping a palm on the office desk”). The accompanying photo shows carefree Israelis on the beach.
In fact, Vick argues, the Jews are so obsessed with making money that they don’t much care what happens in the future: “The truth is, Israelis are no longer preoccupied with the matter. They’re otherwise engaged; they’re making money; they’re enjoying the rays of late summer. A watching world may still define their country by the blood feud with the Arabs whose families used to live on this land and whether that conflict can be negotiated away, but Israelis say they have moved on.”
Read the whole thing — and then check out Scott Johnson of Power Line, and Rob Miller of Big Journalism, who it seems safe to say, agree with VDH’s sentiment to one degree or another.
Incidentally, since Time broached the question about America as a whole last week, it seems only fair to return the favor today.
Incredible simulation
Related: Blogger “Yid with Lid” on “Anti-Jewish Hatred From The Folks Who Call The Tea Party Racist.”
Since you asked–
Time magazine (and the MSM )is indeed Judeophopic– Christian-aphobic, Anglia-aphopic, America-aphobic, liberty-aphobic, personal responsibilty-aphobic, technology-aphobic, reason based science -aphobic. FACT/empirical based data phobia.
One wonders. Upon what does the current media base their objectivity?
The degree of open anti-semitism in the Democrat party and their fellow travelers in the media is stunning.
Few seem to notice.
What do you guys think? I’m betting that the closer Iran gets to the Bomb, the more of this crap we’ll see from Time-ly folks.
They’re trying to justify to themselves what the Iranian regime will try to do.
Israel was born from the ashes of WW2 in 1948. It was a sense of collective guilt on the part of the United Nations (it too a product of the aftermath of WW2) that brought it forth, with a huge assist from Harry S Truman. It is both Jewish and Zionist. And now after 62 years both the United Nations and the United States are having “buyers remorse”. Maybe Israel is not legitimate after all and needs to be transformed like was done to South Africa. Eventually the Jews will either have to move or live in a nation that is Muslim and Arab. I recommend they abandon the sinking ship of the State of Israel and make their home here in the USA. Florida and New York and California would all be good choices. They can bring the Wailing Wall with them.
Actually, Israel far predates WWII.
But you don’t care about facts, do you?
Tell your editor at Time that you did your job, and deserve the bonus he/she promised.
Russ,
As the late, great Tony Snow said to Helen Thomas, “Thank You for the Hezbollah view.”
Time will end up like Newsweek, sold for a buck.
That’s a dollar more than they’re worth.
I can’t help saying this – now, you Americans are beginning to understand what Leftists really are, our Leftists are just as sick, if not more so, they’ve become marginalized cranks & wackos, I hope you succeed in ridding yourselves of this plague.
russ,
After the Israelis abandon the sinking ship of Israel to the Muslims and come to New York and Florida, just where do you think YOU will go now that the Muslims have Israel and will have set their sights on the U.S. ?
…. Israel was born from the ashes of WW2 in 1948 ….
You’re out by around six thousand years — but don’t let that hold you down.
On the other hand, the psychopathologically-hesperophobic Jordanians, Lebanese, Egyptians Syrians, Iraqis, Saudis, Yemenis and other Arabs pretending to the label, “Palestinian” — and to having any claim to any part of greater Israel, by any other name – including to Judea, Samaria and Gaza, began effecting that nom de guerre during the 1960s.
“I recommend they abandon the sinking ship of the State of Israel and make their home here in the USA.”
Yeah?
And, I recommend that we beat the living tar out of the Muslim colonialists and imperialists until we drive them off every last square inch of land that rightfully belongs to Jews and Christians.
Spain? That’s ours. Greece? Ours. Israel? Ours. Egypt? Ours. Syria? Belongs to us. Turkey? It’s Christian land, doesn’t belong to Turkish Muslim invaders.
Maybe we’ll let the Muslims hold onto to Arabia…if we’re in a good mood. And, maybe we’ll take that too (as reparations).
We’ve been fighting for 1400 years, trying at first to hold off the Muslim hordes, then to drive these savages off our turf. Why quit now?
Time has crossed the line from pro-socialist to pro-national socialist.
#4 russ,
Why wont you take your ideas and and go to where you came from?
Russ was probably doing a riff on Helen Thomas. On the other hand, he inspired an idea. Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia were born from the ashes of WW1. Yet they were allowed to boot the Jews out (yes there were many Jews in at least Lebanon, Syria and Iraq). Perhaps all the Arabs should all move to Michigan and Minnesota (actually Manitoba would be much better), and the Jews would make the ancient Fertile Crescent truly fertile again.
Don’t be so hard on Time (i.e. its editorial board or whoever approves crap like this). They just love Power. Not just legitimate power, but Authentic Power. As in: tribal rage, victimhood narratives, the willingness to behead the infidel on camera, fly planes into buildings. That’s the “right stuff” for Time’s post-modern sensibility. It’s the same kind of mind that worshipped Hitler and Stalin and Mao; that worships African thugocrats and Arab grievance hustlers. It has no place for facts or ethical principles. Let it go.
Ed – This magazine should change its name to SLIME (ryhmes with Time). Must agree with Annie Rhys-Davis @ #1.
Time and Newsweek seem to be very Readerphobic.
Time is not Judeophobic, it is, like the rest of the world, Zionophobic.
“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism” The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Please substantiate that “the rest of the world” indeed opposes the state of Israel.
Please note, even one nation other than the US that does not oppose it would render your statement above incorrect, and you a lying troll.
Please make sure to provide verifiable evidence from sources without bias. In other words, DailyKOS or HuffPo won’t cut it.
It’s no wonder that Time is quickly and deservedly losing readership. But it’s part of the mainstream media that somehow feels compelled to beat up the only democracy in the Middle East and the only reliable American ally in the region. Perhaps Israel’s democracy and reliability is the problem for the media. Many “journalists” are somehow in love with a totalitarian and relentlessly violent movement established by the pedophile mohamad. It is a mystery to me how anyone cannot understand the lack of Israeli interest in peace with a thugocracy that is led by genocidal sociopaths that daily feeds hatred of Jews to its children.
Does TIME have the support of Arab money?
I picked up a Time for the first time in twenty years, while at my doctors office. It has shriveled, and what remained was toxic. When they chop another few pages, it will be a pamphlet.
“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism” The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leaving aside the content of the statement IIRC MLK never said that. It’s generally considered to be a hoax.
I don’t know, but it seems a pretty stupid statement and I doubt a man like MLK would say that
Dr King’s comments were in a letter to an anti-Zionist and published in the Sat. Review 1967 and reprinted in This I BElieve: Selections from Writings of Dr Martin Luther King.
the MLK statement is NOT a HOAX the letter added to it was a HOAX
he said it in an interview and was quoted, it was not written
Up north here, we few conservatives honour our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, for his stalwart friendhsip to Israel. He has disappointed in many repsects but not in this most important one.
A better rejoinder to the Time Islamofascist-symps is a cover that asks: Is the Arab world Christianphobic?
The answer is clearly yes, given their insecurity-based refusal to allow churches or synagogues. Why is that?
A society that refuses freedom of religion is truly an insecure one, and similar to other fascist societies, must act in totalitarian/dictatorial ways that undercut its legitimacy.
Of what are the sheiks and sultans afraid? That many of their people will be won over to Christianity from Islam? I think so. As Islam is so superficial a “religion,” in fact history shows that it is more of a political movement than a religion, it would be easy to convert millions of Muslims if the West tried.
This should be a major goal of western churches and governments. We should use even a government-sponsored “Radio Free Arabia” to proselytize to the Muslim world the true religion of mankind — Judeo-Christianity. By converting millions of Muslims to Christianity, we would be serving our own national security interests. This would be money much better spent than the trillions that we have wasted thus far.
Do the Liberal (Progressives) sheep of America know what “The Cordoba Initiative is? Of course they don’t.
A Masque Next To Ground Zero by Hal Lindsey
The plan is to build a 13-story Muslim mosque and cultural center literally only a few hundred feet from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. The leader of the project, Imam Abdul Rauf, says that the mosque is intended as a gesture to build “bridges between faiths.” Another proponent claims that the mosque, which will occupy the site of a 152-year old building that suffered damage in the 9/11 attack, is really a “celebration of America’s religious tolerance.” Why would a religion founded on fealty to one law, one leader, and one god — a religion whose modern defining characteristic is its intolerance of all other faiths and traditions — actually “celebrate” America’s religious diversity. That’s the very thing Islam HATES about us. How could a religion that reduces women and girls to mere chattel and considers all non-Muslims to be second-class citizens conceivably “celebrate” a non-Muslim society that believes all humans are created equal in God’s sight? It’s laughable. Yet our leaders and the media-types have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker. Are they that stupid or have they been intimidated into acquiescence? New York City already has more than 100 mosques. We’ve already proven that we really are an open, tolerant society. To say with a straight face that this is Islam’s celebration of America’s religious tolerance would be like the Southern Baptists building a church in Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District to “celebrate” Holland’s sexual promiscuity. It doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t make sense.
I’ll tell you why the Muslims insist on putting a 13-story mega-mosque (which, by the way, will eerily resemble a World Trade Center tower) within earshot of Ground Zero. It will be nothing less than a traditional act of Islamic triumphalism. It’s a symbol of conquest. Although the Muslims have changed the name of the proposed structure to “Park 51 Mosque,” the campaign to build it is still called “The Cordoba Initiative.” For all of you I’m going to share with you a short history lesson about the symbolism of “Cordoba” in the Islamic mind. And trust me, the Muslims are big on symbolism.
The world should know that the ‘Cordoba Initiative,’ the New York City based organization desiring to construct a massive Islamic house of prayer at ‘Ground Zero,’ has posted on its website, a peculiar and disingenuous statement indicating the desire to bring back the atmosphere of, “interfaith tolerance and respect that we have longed for since Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together in harmony and prosperity eight hundred years ago.”
I point this out because contemporary scholarship has clearly demonstrated that there was no ‘harmony’ or ‘prosperity’ for non-Muslims in Islamic Spain. The Cordoba Initiative is attempting to revisit some sort of mythical “tolerance and respect” which never existed.
What is irrefutable is that living under Islam, the non-Muslim population was always mandated to submit to Islam, accept discriminatory laws, and make payment of a mandatory Quranic tax imposed upon every non-Muslim. For a period of about 800 years, most of Spain was ruled by Muslims and this area was known as ‘Al-Andalus.’ Islamic rule ended in 1492, when the city of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Western Europe, capitulated to the Spanish Catholics.
The Cordoba Initiative is an organization whose very name makes reference to what was, 1,000 years ago, one of the world’s most advanced cities, Cordoba, Al-Andalus (Spain). This was a city that was politically and religiously dominated by Islam, and a city that was conquered by jihad (holy war). Today, there are Islamic groups such as Al-Qaeda that have a dream of seeing a pan-Islamic world that would extend from old Al-Andalus (Spain). This is based upon Islam’s principle of dar-al-Islam, which means a world where Islamic sovereignty prevails over the citizenry. Dar-al-Islam is attained through jihad and the media is replete with Al- Qaeda’s calls for jihad and their claims to Al-Andalus and its major cities such as Cordoba.
Clearly, Islamic Cordoba was once a city where a number of intellectual Muslims such as Averroes (Ibn-Rushd), influenced European thought with Arab philosophy related to the scientific teachings of Aristotle. In mathematics, the Arabs built upon the foundations of Greek mathematicians. At one point there were dozens of free schools in Cordoba for the education of poor Arabs and at some point there existed some 600 mosques. However, even with all of this scholastic and societal grandeur, the route to get to such a point of magnificence was through violent warfare.
Not only were successive battles for Spanish cities bloody, but desiring more than Spain–the Arabs declared a jihad against France, then crossed the Pyrenees, and in successive swarms spread over the southern regions of the French countryside, slaughtering the Christians by thousands, and burning their churches to the ground before being halted.
We must remember that a practice associated with conquering Islamic armies was the construction of a mosque at the location where their triumphant battle was won. Thus, this modern Islamic organization is seeking to build a mosque at the site of 9/11 attack—an attack which was carried out by 19 Muslim hijackers who considered their mission holy war.
Insomuch, it is this man’s opinion that a Muslim house of prayer that would be cemented in the ashes of catastrophe at the foot of New York’s lost Twin Towers would be a symbolic victory flag for Muslims who seek the destruction of America. Further, it is my honest opinion that no matter how the construction of a mosque at ‘Ground Zero’ may be perceived by well-meaning Americans, the construction of a mosque on the spot where Al-Qaeda brought jihad to the United States will unquestionably represent victory to the worldwide forces of Radical Islam.
What bothers me, though, is the double standard. Diners at a senior citizens center in Georgia can’t publicly say grace over a federally-subsidized meal. The Left says that amounts to a government endorsement of religion. But the President can make a pronouncement defining Islamic theology at a Ramadan dinner in the White House, and that ISN’T a government endorsement of religion?
…here’s a paste from Google…”Phobia
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A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος,phóbos, meaning “fear” or “morbid fear”) is an irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations…”
…A lot of folks are using this “..phobic” suffix lately. My eye was caught by the word…”irrational…” in this pasted definition.
I see nothing at all “irrational” in my personal fear of Islam. So…if I’m not literally Islamo-”phobic”…what is the term to be applied to my very rational fear of Islam?
I’m not asking this to read like some smart-ass sophomore….I pose the question because words/terms/expressions are tools of the skilled propagandist and are used against us by the likes of Fareed Zakaria in Time Magazine, Newsweek, The NYT, and Washington Post, each of which presents itself as a smug paragon of virtue.
Charlie, you have a point. Where I live we had cotton mouth moccasins but no rattle snakes. These are poisonous but not especially aggressive. I do not fear these snakes but neither do I want to get bitten. I think that is the fear you are talking about more than a phobia as is often the case with spiders. It has elements of knowledge, intents, risks and dangers. You don’t want these critter running around loose in your yard and neither do I. The Muslim seems to be a religion of works rather than faith. They have a routine for their prayers but the Lord may not be listening. They worship the Koran as an idol and especially Mohammad but will be greatly offended by this thought. If their religion was by faith they would not be offended. The Christian has been accused of all manner of evil but we do know that they that do such things will not inherit the kingdom of heaven and we strive to be found worthy through faith for all things are open to God and nothing can be hid. There is never any respect of persons. Annanias and Saphira are examples of what happens when we try to lie to God but the Muslim needs works. If they can show otherwise then, good, I will modify my belief.
That’s right. TIME’s gone. Let it die. Cancel subscription, don’t renew, don’t buy, don’t read, don’t quote, don’t bother with who’s Man/Woman/Machine/Planet/Ecosystem/Collective Consciouness of the Year. If it does something totally egregious as this cover and article, expose it, sure. But understand it’s really not TIME any more: the grandkids took it over and ran it into the ground.
Move on and leave it to die.
When I first read the article i did not catch the anti-Jewish implications. It was the presentation that was negatively suggestive. THE VDH article pointed out the devil in the details. The Israelis are sick of war, but they are also sick of waiting for the Arabs to make peace and have wisely moved on. Vick’s suggestion that peace with the Palestinians should be uppermost in Israeli minds is symbolic of his own ignorance of the situation. Apparently someone forgot to tell him that the Palestinians were created as a stick to hit Israel with; that they are the only people in the world whose entire identity is dependent on the destruction of another people (show me a book, poem, or song that can be called uniquely Palestinian that does not deal with Israel) and that making peace with Israel would be tantamount to announcing that they made the whole struggle up and that they really do not have any “right” to the land. I could go on but anyone with commonsense and a knowledge of history knows the the Palestinian cause is a racket. The Israelis do, Mr. Vick does not.
As for Mr. Vick’s implication that the Israelis are unnaturally preoccupied with money, when you live in downtown Manhattan and have a West Virginia salary you are preoccupied with money, and that is what living in Israel is like. Economically it is tough, when I lived there rents had to be paid six months in advance. BTW, critics like Vick are a dime a dozen in Israel, the Israelis scoff at them, the way Americans scoff at university leftists who attack the US.
you’re damned right ISRAEL moved on- what going to wait for MUSLIMS to approve of them?? yeah as if that day will EVER come
Losers of 5 wars who think they are winning- put EVERY ENERGY to hating and destroying WHILE
yes ISarel makes a life, security, a good economy, people LIVE PRAY WORK TRAVEL
that’s what most people do isn’t it??
the best revenge is living well
the WORLD and ISLAM may continue to HATE JEWS and spew- but NOT ONE ISRAELI will wait in LIMBO for that to change-