Comments on: Who said the Korean media is out of touch with world trends?

By: montclaire

montclaire — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:46:30 +0000

When in fact they use the mucus of Arab children to spread on toast in South Korea. You think it’s called Isaac for nothing?

By: Zhang Fei

Zhang Fei — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:36:38 +0000

Trachys: “Iran’s proxy war” - that’s hilarious! Always fun to hear from a Bill O’Reilly fan.

Trachys: [Al-Hamishmar, May 10, 1978]

I’ll take Bill O’Reilly over Al-Hamishmar any day of the week. Note that the Arab media publishes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as fact, and suggests that Israelis use the blood of Arab children to bake their bread.

By: Won Joon Choe

Won Joon Choe — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:59:20 +0000

Nathan,

You echo my thoughts on the issue almost to the letter.

By: NathanB

NathanB — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:03:36 +0000

I certainly read the cartoon as being anti-Semitic. Dogbert is right on the money with his “Arab nations around Israel + Iran” comment. Significantly, Israel itself is not named on the map. Nor is Kuwait, which we all remember Bush Senior rescuing some years ago.

I’m disappointed in the anti-Semitism I see around the world, including here. I remember how, at my old hagwon, my most advanced class of elementary teachers read through Shylock’s monologue “hath not a Jew eyes? [etc],” and I was dismayed to see that most of them empathized not with the Israelis, but with the Palestinians, despite the murderous death cult that has enslaved that people.

I think one could argue that the state of Israel, founded in the aftermath of western guilt over centuries of European pogroms and persecutions culminating in the Holocaust, should probably never have been formed. It was also formed in bloodshed and terrorism (against both the British and the Palestinian Arabs). On the other hand, many Jewish immigrants also purchased land quite legally, and this has often been conveniently forgotten by those who wish to expand the scope of their grievances. Whatever one’s views of the origins of the modern state of Israel, it is ridiculous to expect, as do Hamas, Hezbollah, and the regime in Tehran, that all six million Jewish Israelis, most of whom were born in Israel, should pack up and leave.

It is a great shame that so few nations give Israel the moral support it needs. Anti-Americanism throughout the world will cause people to take the opposite position of the US on any given issue, regardless of its merits or lack thereof. A couple millennia of anti-Semitism trends in the same direction, in this case. While Korea hasn’t really partaken of the latter (except, perhaps, during the Japanese rule), I think it is guilty of the former.

By: slim

slim — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:01:01 +0000

The irony of a guy quoting Leninists making spurious allegations about me and Bill O’Reilly was probably lost only on Trachys, who I concede may have been drunk when he wrote — or drunk when he chose his world view.

“Your revolution failed, Lebowsky.THe bums lost.”

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:31:47 +0000

Trachys quoted from Lenin’s Tomb, a blog where “most but not all contributors are revolutionary socialists.” Dude, you killed more people than fascism, but you guys lost in 1989. Get over it. The only places where your ideology still exists are a tropical island known for its stogies and supplicating visits by Hollywood film directors and a dysfunctional dynastic tinpot personality cult (loved by the Film Actors Guilld, I might add).

By: slim

slim — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:19:49 +0000

Laugh away trachman, then read up on your Hezbollah history and get back to us.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:02:32 +0000

Trachys, if “adjuvant of the empire in the Middle East” is your code for Israel being a proxy power of the U.S., you’ve already had enough to drink.

And at any rate, I believe he’s got the power relationship mixed up. As any fan of Middle Eastern cartoons will tell you, it’s the Jews who control the “empire,” not the other way around. You know, if we were to ignore for a moment the blatant Jew-hating, it’s almost touching in a way, like they almost believe the United States is basically a good country that’s just being manipulated by outside forces.

Funny thing is, I occassionally hear people here make similar arguments, blaming the impending collapse of the Korea-U.S. alliance on “evil Japs” whispering in Washington’s ear.

By: snow

snow — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:11:43 +0000

Funny how that is. When Israeli defence leaders admit targetting civilians (in the past), it’s a big deal. What about the numerous Palestinian and Arab military leaders who have always sought to hit civilians? It’s just business as usual.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:08:54 +0000

“I suppose the argument could be made that the symbolically bloody Star of David is an anti-Semitic reference…” I’d say a very good argument.

Trachys, if “adjuvant of the empire in the Middle East” is your code for Israel being a proxy power of the U.S., you’ve already had enough to drink.