Hate Crimes

No one seems to care about the hate crimes in Gaza right now. As I've said before, I support the pullout, but don't think it'll work.

There comes a certain point you reach with friends or people you know to be self-destructive. Maybe you try to help for awhile, but eventually it becomes both pointless and terribly depressing. They start to resent even your help...well, how can one not feel the same thing about Palestine? How can you want to give aid and help to this place, while it descends into chaos, anger, and hatred?

Interesting comparison - see the NY Times article on the pullout. The "anarchy" section is left to the end, and there seems to be no mention of the synogogue burning.

Imagine if the Jews were burning mosques? Remember Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount? What an outrage.

UPDATE: And what to make of this. As a filmmaker, I think "Wow, clever." As a human being, I'm horrified.

UPDATE II: NPR has a piece on the Gaza pullout.

Okay, so I'm listening to the NPR piece and not suprisingly, it's more mild mannered than Powerline. No one calls the synogogue burning a hate crime...they point out the fact that the Israeli government agreed to destroy all buildings not "of use" to the Palestinians. This included a bunch of homes that were destroyed because everyone felt their would be violence over the homes. Sounds retarded to me, but they are looting piles of rubble and greenhouses which were supposed to employ Palestinians, so I guess the decision was smart. But at the last minute, Israel decided not to take down the synogogues...it's not explained why, I guess the implication is that Israel meant to provoke the Palestinians by not taking them down..? The synogogues, one would argue, are representative of Israeli occupation and therefore legitimate targets of hate and anger...

Then again this line of argument is applied to all of Israel by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, both of whose flags fly over Gaza now, both of whom the US government considers terrorist organizations, and both of whom would drive Israel into the sea, if they could.