Xingu displays a good deal more concern for his credibility than do Fox and the members of her "innocent Israel" posse.
Fox has claimed that Hezbollah launched thousands of rockets before Isreal took "massive" military action, but can't provide any evidence for it, and has to quibble about and attempt to twist a definition of massive military action--and to lie. She lies about what those who disagree with her say, and she lies about what she has said (although her posts can be quoted). She lies about the number of air strikes the Israelis launched. But she's not the only one.
Ican't posts an article in which he enlarges and bold faces a passage about 400 rockets being launched in five days. That is not thousands of rockets, and Ican't ignores what is clearly written in that same article--that in the period specified:
Ican't's quoted source wrote:In the last five days Hezbollah has fired about 400 rockets into Israel, killing at least 16 civilians.
Israel has killed at least 80 Lebanese civilians since Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed two others in a cross-border raid on Wednesday.
On Friday and Saturday the Israeli air force also struck several Hezbollah targets across Lebanon.
That's sixteen Israeli civilians as opposed to 80 Lebanese civilians, and that's several attacks as opposed to Fox's contention of "a few" air strikes.
Advocate re-writes history, claiming that Isreal has only ever acted in self-defense--ignoring that Israel invaded Egyptian territory in 1956, and that in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 and 2000, Israel has driven people off their land, invaded the territory of her neighbors, seized territory and refused to give it back despite solemn diplomatic engagements to do so. These jokers ignore that Israel has consistently stolen water and mineral rights, and settled people on land which she had promised to return to the rightful owners.
In short, they ignore any evidence which does not support the chimera of "poor, innocent Israel," viciously attacked by her inhuman and terrorist neighbors.
I once considered the Isrealis admirable, their military invincible and their cause just. I laughed at the Arabs in 1967 along with almost all of the rest of Americans. But i've read too much history now, and done so without blinders. I've seen too many current events, too many news reports, not to recognize that Israel is at least as responsible for her woes as anyone people are pleased to brand a terrorist and dismiss.
Some of the motivation for the warped view which so many people in the United States is simple ignorance, such as Gunga with his hilariously uninformed remarks about history, and his vitriolic racist remarks against Muslims. Sometimes it is a more subtle, selective ignorance, such as Advocate's, which attempts to make simplistic claims about Israel's "right of self-defense" without a rigorous review of the events of the last sixty years, and Israel's responsibility in them. Some are motivated by their preferred, goofy religious superstition and a concommitant affection for Jews without reference to reality at all--which is what i suspect motivates Fox. Some are just ranting western imperialists, who will make things up, and hilariously mistate facts even when confronted with them, which is what appears to motivate Ican't.
Regardless the motivation, all these Israel apologists share a common trait--the inability to recognize simple truths which don't happen to be lost on the rest of the world. Israel makes a lethally dangerous bed and whines about being obliged to lie in it. And her American apologists repeat the whining and wailing in venues such as this.
