Recent Israeli actions and massacres

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Originally posted by Undertoad
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Here's a WashPost editorial that's really swaying me. </I>

Go to Charles Krauthammer's archive (the author of the editorial you linked), and read his previous articles. Some of them have titles such as 'Banish Arafat Now', and 'Arafat's Harvest of Hate', just to name a few. Reading them, it is immediately obvious that he has a <B>very</B> strong pro-Israeli agenda, and that he is on the far right of the US political spectrum.

He spends much of his time unquivocally bashing the left, and bipartisanship; in fact, he even briefly wondered why Bush even thought about cooperating with the Democrats, as bipartisanship is wrong. His rant against anti-religious liberals is truly something to behold as well.

(Including such gems as unqualifiedly and praisingly stating that "It is a tenet of conservative faith, as it were, that religion ought to have--and until relatively recently did have--an honored place in the public square.")

(He also unequivocally equates 'Islamism' with 'anti-Americanism', which is something new and interesting to many Muslims I know.)

I was most impressed with his complete condemnation of Vladimir Putin, blaming his ascension entirely on Clinton. Now that Putin and Bush seem to be bosom buddies, he has fallen remarkably quiet. But all of this was only drawn from briefly skimming his archive for five minutes. Do give yourself an hour to understand why the far right is infused with such vitriol; it's good reading.

His archive is linked at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...hammercharles/

People would instantly jump and attack a column by, say, Hillary Clinton; it is necessary to understand where the author is coming from. In Krauthammer's case, it is the far right of the political spectrum. As is the case with all extremes, his vision is impaired, the same way that a Communist's view of politics would be channelled through his own ideological framework. (Interestingly, Krauthammer was briefly a speechwriter for Walter Mondale in 1980.)

As a complete aside, Charles Krauthammer is one of the star columnists of the Jewish World Review. Of course this has nothing to do with his fervent pro-Zionist views.

Something to think about, if nothing else.

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