One of the more curious aspects of the recent set of Japanese tragedies has been the inability (I caution against suggesting unwillingness) of both the Left Wing UK press and their friends in the Islington ‘chattering classes’’ glitterati to place the blame on Israel. I mention this because as a regular reader of The New Statesman et al. (http://www.newstatesman.com/politics ) I've become accustomed to all manner of global ills being laid at Israel’s door.
As an unashamed Yid I’m not ........embarrassed to state that I’m not much of a Zionist. Not much at all. But on the other hand I can see no valid reason for them to take an undeserved kicking on the world stage. And frankly that’s what I expected. And yet it hasn’t come to pass. Unless I’m looking I the wrong places of course. Quite possibly I guess.
And another thing. Israel hasn’t as far as I can see been blamed (yet) for the debacle in the Ivory Coast, Libya, the failure to find the Higgs-Bosun sub-atomic particle, unreliability of Alfa Romeo cars, failure to land a man on Mars and so on. Were I in another frame of mind, which frankly I’m not right now, I’d demand an explanation.
Are our esteemed Left Wing reporters losing their grip? Or is it that they have another scapegoat lined up. Come on you guys. (and gals?] surely it’s not beyond your wit and wisdom to invent some ‘evidence’. After all, it’s been done before. Just read your history!
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