“Lebanon” discovers the Israeli blogosphere
What is most striking is that many Israeli bloggers are incredibly knowledgeable about what is going on here (ie, Lebanon, but also the rest of the Arabic speaking region). Note that my mother sent me an article about the Nakba by the editor of An Nahar Literary Supplement from a New York based Jewish newspaper. I didn’t read a single article in the Lebanese press on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The lack of news about Israel – not an unimportant country in the region – is astounding.
Of course, there are crazy fanatics who get everything wrong, but many Israeli bloggers are remarkably well informed and incredibly evenhanded given everything that has happened to them.
I hate exchanging in the usual pan-Arabist tit-for-tat style argumentation, but think about what Israelis deal with on a daily basis: frequent suicide bombs, support for such attacks by the popularly elected Palestinian government, threats of annihilation from a country arming itself with nuclear weapons, constant words of hate from the Arabic speaking world, and remembrances of the Holocaust.
Responding with a litany of Israeli crimes does nothing to better understand who they are and their humanity. When we discuss Syria, we don’t talk about the utterly destroying the entire country and population because of the many crimes the Syrian government committed and continues to commit.
h/t Michael Totten.
Kate — the link the hat tip is broken.
Thank goodness for the blogosphere. Maybe the Lebanese will see that there’s no evidence that Jews are anything like their bigoted clerics tell them.
BTW, as a kid, I used to think Lebanon was where “Lesbians” came from. Imagine my surprise when I found out what the latter meant.
Hey CS!
What did they tell you about homo milk?
Andy
Norman Geras, http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/,
has an interesting post today on developements in Syria and Lebanon.
Homo milk is all we get locally. But it tastes OK. You would never know the difference, no matter who it*s meant for. TG