The Sullying Continues

Andrew Sullivan, the not-so-crypto antisemite of The Atlantic, attacks Maureen Dowd on her perception of Israel and the conflict the Arabs have foisted upon us.

Here's an excerpt from his blog piece:-

Nothing illustrates better the total bizarreness of the US-Israel relationship. No one in Washington - apart from a few Likudniks and Palinite end-timers - actually supports more settlements or any settlements i [sic] the West Bank. At the same time, Washington exercizes a UN veto to protect Israel from international law, funnels a vast amount of foreign and military aid to the country, helped finance the pulverization of Gaza last year, provides absurd international cover for Israel's 150 nukes, has worked tirelessly to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear capacity, and on and on.

In return? Fuck you, Obama. To which the overwhelming response in Washington is: Obama screwed up.

There is something completely awry here and it has rarely been more evident than in the last twelve months.

Funny that the infamous Baker phrase of "Fuck the Jews" is now applied to the Jews who are being screwed by Obama. Andrew, while you harp on the "settlements" theme, please do not forget that east Jerusalem neighborhoods are also included in the State Department denouncements. And that has mobilized much more than Likudniks (there really are Likudniks in Washington?) and Palinites. Israel has a very strong support group which actually does view the retention of Judea and Samaria as crucial.

And using verbs like "funneling" to describe the aid Israel gets? Nasty imagery there. Do all recipients of foreign aid merit a funnel? Or maybe some of it is quite well deserved?

Israel is most definitely not "protected from international law", Andrew but from an immoral gang of dictatorships who have overtaken the functions of legality in the international community who twist those instruments in a biased and irrational way.

The Obama has "worked tirelessly" on the Iran issue? Oh, please. Are you functionally incapable of employing basic cerebral tools that you know stoop to propagandizing, shilling for your ideological heroes?

This is not punditry. Even a putz could write better.