I am informed by the Philadelphia Examiner that pet Zionist toady Glen Beck has arrived in the land of murder and hate (otherwise known as Israel) and has begun a typical hate campaign against those who criticise Israel in any way, shape or form. Whether Beck actually believes everything he says and even understands most of what he says I am not in a position to judge, but in his live show that he broadcast in Israel he made use of the murder of the settler Fogel family by a crazed Palestinian.
Beck claimed that he had visited the settler community of Itamar (the site of the murder) and seems to have been shown the ‘bloody walls’ as the IDF/Israeli police couldn’t get ‘all the blood off them’. He then typecast the murder of the Fogels as a ‘massacre’ and went on to use it as a prop for his agenda of supporting Israel at any cost regardless of whether it is to the benefit of the United States or not.
Part of Beck’s campaign is apparently to make the standard Israeli and pro-Zionist claim that ‘the media is lying to you’. Now aside from the sheer irony (and hypocrisy) of a media figure who has made his career based on yellow and highly-partisan journalism with media companies who openly have yellow and partisan journalism as part of their business strategy claiming that ‘the media’ (nice use of a rhetorical abstract: no?); of which he his necessarily a part, is (deliberately) lying to its readers/consumers. It is silly to claim that ‘the media’ is lying or ‘keeping silent’ precisely because the version of events that Beck is telling is obviously pro-Israel.
One can note that Beck’s reference to how he has ‘been shown’ the house with the ‘blood stains that couldn’t be washed off the walls’ which is simply a propaganda exercise deliberately conducted by Israel to utilise the murder of the Fogels as part of their on-going media campaign to gain sympathy for themselves and demonise those who criticise (let alone actually oppose) them in any way. In essence: one can say that the Israeli government is cynically using the murder of its own citizens to attack those who do not give the precise version of events that the Israeli government want everyone else to believe.
Beck himself; or rather those who produce him (as he is essentially a political actor and who calls the tune as opposed to who does the dancing is who is important), is using murder as a way to boost his own ratings globally by being all pally with the Israeli government. After all if Beck helps Israel then Israel will give Beck the stories he can use to gain more support from those who support Israel first, last and always regardless of their actual country of origin or whether they are jews or gentiles.
One can see this in the fact that Beck is speaking about the murder of the Fogels in the context of his own ‘event’: ‘Restoring Courage’, which from the Examiner’s report seems to be just an exercise in extreme jewish nationalism (with the usual tearing of garments about the so-called ‘holocaust’ and irrational screams of ‘never again!') He will be joined by anti-gentile rabbis and pro-Zionist nutters like the actor Jon Voight.
After all what does Beck actually gain from supporting such anti-gentile jewish nationalism?
The answer is pretty much nothing other than a boost to his ratings and career: Beck likely doesn’t care personally, but his producers probably do. Are his producers jews and/or Zionists? Well almost certainly: as why else would they slavishly follow the Israeli government’s official line and get Beck involved with extreme forms of Zionism which would (I'd hope) be normally repugnant to him if they weren't a boost for his career and ratings.
However while Beck is warbling about the murder of the Fogels he forgets that the government; and by extension the people, he is supporting and trying to give 'courage' too has and is involved in well-documented attempts to cleanse the Palestinians out of their ancestral lands. Indeed when you read of killings like that of the Fogels one needs to be aware of the context such acts and that these acts; however much we might disapprove of them, are ones of desparation from people who have little left to lose.
Beck and the supporters of Israel are oh so quick to jump on the Fogel bandwagon to condemn murder by a non-jew of a jew, but yet refuse to get on the condemnation bandwagon at all when a jew murders a non-jew in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Why don't we hear similar tales of blood covered walls and of families slaughtered when Israel launches its periodic ethnic cleansing operations in the Palestinian held zones?
Well apparently according to Beck; or rather his producers, non-jews don't actually matter while jews; of course, are an indispensible, highly valuable and finite quantity. Perhaps Beck out to just be honest for once?
Who am I kidding though? Beck doesn't write his own material like it as not and is merely a talking head for what those behind him want him to purport. He'd probably do exactly the same if anti-Semitism not philo-Semitism was the dominant zeitgeist.
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Nothing wrong with being a Zionist.