Sunday, 30 July 2006 - 12:02 PM BST

^{Mr Steyne, together with all the American politicians who give their blind support to the racist state in Israel, suffers from tunnel vision.  According to them only terrorists resist the right of Israel to occupy the “liberated lands of Palestine”. They blame Iran, Syria,Osama Bin-Laden …etc for all the calamities that are befalling the people of the Mid-East. If he had an ounce of intelligence he would look at the other side of the coin. The Middle Eastern foreign policies of the various US administrations have led to the creation of strong and dangerous Islamic movements in Iran,Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Somalia…etc. Wake up for God sakes.}  

Monday, 31 July 2006 - 1:04 AM BST

Although strong on emotionalist catchphrases that work well on TV and in the soundbite era, I don't think that what Steyn says here is helpful or that it displays much depth of thought. "Talibanistan Redux" and references to "prison bitch" are somewhat reminiscent of the adolescent spoutings I see all too often from Americans at the online poker tables. Everything is about "I own you" and "you are my bitch" - references to possession, testosterone and being the alpha male.

 It's more complex than that, and you and I know it.  Steyn will always find a "baddie" in the middle east conflict, mainly because baddies aren't that hard to find. Depicting Israel as whiter-than-white in a political arena where no-one is clean of blood on their hands is just nonsense. All sides can point to wrongdoings by the others and all sides can say "if A had not done this, we wouldn't be in this situation". This is an area of perpetually shifting alliances and today it happens to be Iran that is on the US hit list. Well, good for the US; like I said, finding evidence of badness around here is a bit like finding news stories on November 23 1963; not that difficult.

 But, please, don't dress it up in this kind of, to be frank, crap writing. He thinks he's PJ O'Rourke, whereas in fact he reminds me of "Machoballs" on the $2-$4 tables at Party.

 PJ

Monday, 31 July 2006 - 6:00 AM BST

David

Can you have a read through the link below? I believe it to be very true. A refreshing read. Don't you love it when people write the truth?

Try to read it all now, as you might learn something.

http://www.patriotist.com/tlarch/tl20040809.htm

Tuesday, 1 August 2006 - 4:03 PM BST

I read it all. It's quite anti-semitic.

And I enjoyed this:

When Mel Gibson tried to make his Passion of the Christ movie, organized Jewry not only smeared him as anti-Semitic, but the powerful Jews in Hollywood tried to stop distribution of the movie.

Wednesday, 2 August 2006 - 12:14 AM BST