" We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.."
There are still people today who would discount the validity of this axiom because the man who penned them was white and a slaveholder. Among them and behind them scribbling up excuses and broadening the reasons for which people's rights should be abnigated is one Richard Cohen. You see he wrote stuff like this:
The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.
The basic import of this vector? Israel should not exist. Why not? Because it exists in proximity to people who by definition should hate them. This is nothing more or less than racist essentialism. If you are a European Jew, there can be no kind of arrangement through which essential differences can be mediated with Arab Muslims. Not only is it a racist slam, but a direct refutation of the value of nations and governments instituted among men. Hezbollah is not a nation and has made, as far as I can tell, no effort to get recognition as one. The leaders of Hezbollah are content to occupy South Lebanon in the wake of its civil war, un-disarmed, provocative and abetted in principle by misguided cretins like Richard Cohen.
Over at Whizbang are more excerpts of this spew.
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