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November 15, 2003

CIVILIZATION VS. BARBARISM

Our Western liberal utopian fantasists regard savagery as a problem to be understood, something produced by early deprivation and failures of empathy. It is not an irreducible phenomenon, an expression of human nature that needs to be subdued and contained by the superior force of civilized peoples. The more primitive its form, the greater the need of our therapeutic utopians to "explain" it, as a reaction to something--injustice, discrimination, lack of empathy. A barbaric culture like that of the Palestinians needs a state, we are told, as if the 21 backward states that comprise the Arab world require one more to appease ancient grievances. What if, however, the sheer pleasure in savagery is real, that the Palestinians who celebrated 9-11 and celebrate the murder of innocents really mean it, that they get a huge psychic charge out of the murder of innocents? Here is evidence that indeed, the Palestinians are a murderous collection of cowardly savages, supported by a genocidal culture that enjoys the pleasure of killling Jews far more than it yearns for the satisfactions of civilized life.

Nov. 15, 2003
PA pays tribute to Metzer terrorist
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

"Under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, a rally was held in Tulkarem on Friday in honor of Sirhan Sirhan, the Fatah gunman who last year carried out the attack in Kibbutz Metzer, killing five people, including a mother and her two children..."See the rest here.

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Comments

Keep 'em coming, Steve. This is a valuable service you're performing, whether it's widely appreciated or not.

More people should confront this sort of barbaric obscenity. Altogether too much forbearance has been extended to murderers and savages, by civilized persons who ought to know better.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto on November 16, 2003 05:49 AM

Barbarism, like ignorance, is a description of the condition of a person or people or culture. Making this known in a public way is a public service. Those that endeavor to identify this condition are attempting to make their world better and safer. Those that are opposed to exposing the condition to the light of day are ignorant and short-sighted.

Keep up the great work!

Posted by: steve on November 16, 2003 09:43 AM

Bassam Mirai, a senior Fatah leader... praised Sirhan's "contribution and sacrifice" for the Palestinian cause, saying all Palestinians will follow suit "until the homeland is liberated."

But why mince words? Why not just say it: 'We will not be happy until we kill all the Jews'?

Posted by: Bernard on November 16, 2003 11:07 AM

Thank you Steve. If only our State Department and those academics and commentators who insist that there is any difference at all among Hamas, Islamic Jihad or the PLO would read Horsefeathers.

Posted by: Ruth King on November 17, 2003 01:51 PM

When will the U.N. finally condemn these suicide bombers as "War Criminals" When you target civilians (innocent children included). How in the name of God can you call them freedom fighters? They are cold-blooded killers, and any Religion that justifies such crimes is Hellish in its convictions.

Posted by: V Leta on November 17, 2003 07:25 PM

Whenever I read about these rallies I always think "what a target rich environment for a few well chosen Apaches and Fighting Falcons!"

Posted by: Joel on November 18, 2003 09:41 AM