Beating Up on Krauthammer

In response to this, I posted:

Kraut: Saw you on Fox the other day, thought it was a scene from 28 Days Later.

Do me a favor and drop into your next pro-Israel column a breif discussion of the history of the formation of the modern state of Israel. The history begins with Skyes-Picot and the covenants of the Anglo-French Declaration of 1918. The Arabs of Palestine (and their 3,00 years of history) have a right to exist as well. They carved out Ottomans in World War I and provided support throughout WWII. The Arabs who fought those battles, having controlled Palestine, since the end of the Last Crusade, were "dispossessed" by a body in which they had no representation. Their land, their property, taken away not at the end of a sword, but with the stroke of a pen. Throughout the Middle East, a sense of "dispossession" persists-- maybe it was the betrayal of Sharif Hussein for Saud, or the installation of the Shah; hell, they might even be a bit peeved about the occupation of Iraq.

Against this backdrop of this oft-unmentioned history, Krauthammer wields a sense of condescension towards what he seems to assert are backwards-thinking "victims."

Look, Chuck, I refuse to subscribe to anti-Semitism, yet often ignore pleas of an "isolated Israel." I believe Israel to be a state imposed on the Palestinians with unwielding support from the United States; which support includes indifference towards, and likely a continuous supply of, military hardware and nuclear technology to Israel. That's not fair to anyone in the neighborhood, yet you rattle your pen at Iran for exercising its rights within the NNPT.

Ask yourself, if Mezicals were granted an independent state in Southern California, or the Cherokee nation in Missouri, would you support their right to soverignty? Each of those races has a claim to the land, and history as aged and rich as the Jews. Why not return them to their homeland? What if the Chinese armed them wth nuclear weapons? Think you might get upset? Maybe fight against the existence of a Mezical state? Oh, that's right, you do fight against that...


Two more things:

This comment above was insightful. If it's true, then I wish it were broadcast more often.
"But the number of Arab members of Israeli Parliament exceeds the number of Jews in the parliaments of all the Arab countries combined."

Second, and returning to China, Kraut bloviated that Israel is:
"the only nation in the world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same religion and same language as it did 3,000 years ago."

The Chinese, as well as the Arabs, have a proven history of civilization dating back much longer than 3,000 years. Absent invasion, those Arabs did a noble job in advancing mathematics and science, enough so to bring Eurpoe out of the Dark Ages.