Ghost of a flea: No

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June 06, 2010

No

In fewer than 10 days’ time, nearly 40 years after the event itself, and 13 years and £191 million after it was established, the Saville Inquiry on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry will report. This saga is a terrible lesson in what happens when the wrong narrative is allowed to capture the public consciousness. This week’s event, perhaps prompted by a similar, ill-disciplined impulse to teach bad people a lesson, may well be used against Israel at the bar of world opinion 40 years hence.

Things could have been so different if Israel had set the stage.

But... no. To a specific sort of mind, the Crucifixion is all the "justification" one needs to hate Israel and the Jews. As to the English, we are still apologizing to a Celtic fringe for having turned up (invited, I might add) to protect them from Picts and all sorts. One and a half thousand years ago.

It isn't the "narrative"; it is our hearts and, ultimately, our lives. If we cannot harden our hearts against the things we need to do to defend ourselves, we are going to lose so much more than the plot. No enquiry, no reason, no accounting of the facts, will change the minds of anyone who was paying attention to the story before it unfolded. They had all already long made up their minds.

To argue the kiillings were unintended by the Israelis is more foolish than futile. The Turks and the Arabs and their Christian slaves know the deaths were no accident. They staged this. These deaths were by their design. These deaths were no accident, they were intended.

Update: Get thee to The Jawa Report. The images are worth a thousand words about Muslim brotherly love.

And while we are on the subject: We need to do something about CTV News. They are worse than the CBC.

He looked like any other traveller, smiling as he came through the frosted doors of the arrivals hall at Pearson airport, the hooded look in his eyes the only indication of the horrors of the past week.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 6, 2010 06:57 AM