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The world’s “Dirty Harry”

by Mojambo ( 32 Comments › )
Filed under Israel, Progressives, Tranzis at June 11th, 2010 - 9:00 pm

Israel is the world’s Dirty Harry – doing the dirty work that the world knows must be done, but refuses to do itself. From killing the Munich terrorists, pulling off the Entebbe rescue, to taking out Saddam’s nuclear reactor, to assassinating Hamas terrorists,  to turning back the Gaza terror flotilla, too knocking off Palestinian terrorists doing arms trafficking with Iran in Dubai – the Jewish state is showing the world how it is done – all the while absorbing the slings and arrows of the more cowardly amongst us.  As the great Oscar Wilde once wrote – “No good deed goes unpunished!’

by Michael Filozof

With the recent “peace flotilla” incident, we have yet another Arab-Israeli dust-up. It’s been going on as long as I’ve been alive, and we can expect “more of the same” for the foreseeable future.

I reflexively side with Israel — every time. Why do I, though? I am not a Jew. I don’t know many Jews, either. I have a couple of Jewish acquaintances, but no close Jewish friends.

What about national security? For all the talk we hear about how Israel is an “ally” of the U.S., the fact is that we have no American military bases there, and American troops have never fought alongside Israelis in any of the numerous Arab-Israeli wars. Unlike Muslim Turkey and Muslim Albania, Israel is not a member of the NATO collective-security alliance. And of course, Israel has no oil to sell us, unlike the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, both of whom we have fought to defend.

So why support Israel? When I was a kid in the 1970s, the Arab-Israeli conflict was front-page news just about all the time. Back then I didn’t really understand what the whole thing was about. But one thing became perfectly clear: the Israelis were very tough, very cool, and very professional, and the Arabs were lunatics.

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Why has the Left turned its back on Israel and sided with the Palestinians? The same reason, I think, that “urban culture” is celebrated in affluent suburbs. It’s “radical chic.”

It’s cool to wear baggy pants and listen to rap songs about pimps, “hos,” and gangbangers, so long as there are no actual prostitutes, no graffiti, and no gang warfare in your neighborhood. It’s the same reason that the cultural Left celebrated Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice, in which he wrote that rape was “an insurrectionary act.” Fine and dandy in an English Lit seminar at UC Berkeley, so long as ol’ Eldridge wasn’t raping you or your sister or your mother. It’s the same reason Jane Fonda could go to Hanoi and talk about how wonderful “Uncle Ho” and the North Vietnamese communists were — she didn’t have to spend the next twenty years in a “re-education” camp. Communism sure is grand when you can hop a flight back to the U.S. and eventually marry a billionaire. It’s the same reason that Leftists tote pictures of Che Guevara and admire Fidel Castro — none of them actually had to face the prospect of Comrade Che putting a bullet in the back of their head in the basement of a prison in Havana.

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A good measure of the dividing line between supporters of Israel and opponents of Israel is how you react to Dirty Harry. Remember the classic 1971 Clint Eastwood flick? A crazed serial killer terrorizes San Francisco. The craven politicians want to appease the killer’s demands for ransom, and the media denounces the police for “brutality.” But Inspector Callahan, Eastwood’s character, cuts through all the crap and coolly blows the scumbag away with his .44 Magnum. Score: Civilization 1, Perp 0.

In my view, Israel is the world’s Dirty Harry. For the Left, Israel is “The Man.” Israel has become “The Establishment.” Israel is like “the pigs,” and the flotilla incident another “bust.”

If you prize civilization and oppose anarchy, you support Israel, even if it has to utilize Inspector Callahan’s methods. Israel is the Hadrian’s Wall of the West — on the other side of it, civilization ends. Anyone who were forced into exile and had the choice of going to Damascus, Baghdad, Tripoli, or Tel Aviv would be out of their mind to choose anything but the last one. But that’s not a choice that anti-Israel partisans on the Left actually have to make. Like Jane Fonda on that machine gun in Hanoi, they’ll never really have to live there. So they can afford to adopt a pose, an affectation, supporting Israel’s enemies. In the short run, it won’t affect them adversely.

Read the rest here: Israel, the world’s ‘Dirty Harry’

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