The Last Exile

When you have friends like these, and I feel for the good Dr. Dawg, I really do.

Yesterday the good Dr. Dawg treated the blogsphere with a defense of his ideological sister-in-tweets for her invoking the old dual loyalty canard against a prominent Jewish Canadian politician.

Dawg’s pulled the red-herring and injected a little bit of ideological damnation against Cotler for speaking out preemptively against the UN Goldstone report.

Irwin Cotler himself is a case in point, writing an inflammatory two-part article in the Jerusalem Post denouncing the Goldstone Inquiry before it had even issued its report.

Jay Currie tried to suggest in the comments it just meant Cotler was a little bit smarter than your average leftwing ideologue for reaching the conclusion he did before the report was officially released. Dawg would not hear of it. Of course, Cotler just might have followed those annoying paper trails. For example, one Prof. Chinkin signed her name to a protest publicly before being enticed to join Goldstone’s team as an ‘official investigator’ for ‘unbiased’ UN report. The declaration was published in the Times Online on January 11, 2009 and starts like this.

ISRAEL has sought to justify its military attacks on Gaza by stating that it amounts to an act of “self-defence” as recognised by Article 51, United Nations Charter. We categorically reject this contention.

The rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas deplorable as they are, do not, in terms of scale and effect amount to an armed attack entitling Israel to rely on self-defence. Under international law self-defence is an act of last resort and is subject to the customary rules of proportionality and necessity.

Remember – thousands of rockets terrorizing a Jewish civilian population isn’t a good enough rationale to militarily defend a nation’s citizens. Good to know, so we can now spell ‘impartial’ as ‘biased’.

When is an anti-Semite not an anti-Semite? When he/she’s a socialist. In a post immediately before the tweeter outage, Dr. Dawg dipped his paw and rushed to emote on Honduras and defend ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya and I quote:

You will remember the ouster of the elected President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, a few weeks back, in a coup that has been supported by much of the right side of the blogosphere, not to mention a few crackpot newspaper columnists.

Ostensibly this was to defend the country’s constitution. Zelaya wanted a non-binding referendum on constitutional change to take place at the time of the next election–when he wouldn’t even be running.

That was too much for certain forces in Honduras, wary of the President’s leftist way of thinking, so they ran him out of the country. For some, as I’ve noted before, democracy is far too precious a commodity to be squandered on the people.

Now read and weep for the Dawg’s democratic heroes and I do all have their shots up to date. Miami Herald

TEGUCIGALPA — It’s been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power. He’s sleeping on chairs, and he claims his throat is sore from toxic gases and “Israeli mercenaries” are torturing him with high-frequency radiation.

“We are being threatened with death,” he said in an interview with The Miami Herald, adding that mercenaries were likely to storm the embassy where he has been holed up since Monday and assassinate him. “I prefer to march on my feet than to live on my knees before a military dictatorship,” Zelaya said in a series of back-to-back interviews.

Zelaya was deposed at gunpoint on June 28 and slipped back into his country on Monday, just two days before he was scheduled to speak before the United Nations. He sought refuge at the Brazilian Embassy, where Zelaya said he is being subjected to toxic gases and radiation that alter his physical and mental state. Witnesses said that for a short time Tuesday morning, soldiers used a device that looked like a large satellite dish to emit a loud shrill noise.

Honduran police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said he knew nothing of any radiation devices being used against the former president. “He says there are mercenaries against him? Using some kind of apparatus?” Cerrato said. “No, no, no, no. Sincerely: no. The only elements surrounding that embassy are police and military, and they have no such apparatus.” (…)Israeli government sources in Miami said they could not confirm the presence of any “Israelis mercenaries” in Honduras.

Ah, the dreaded Zionist Death Rays, I know of it well and of course, the Israeli government would deny it….

Dr. Dawg’s last words on RATIONAL discourse -

But in any case I am confirmed in my variation of Worker Bee’s observation every time a new comment appears in my threads from the “Israel right or wrong” crowd. You just can’t have a “RATIONAL discussion” with any of them.

On reflection, it really does take a rabid kind of chutzpah to refer to the IDF as a ‘brutal occupying army‘ in a place historically known as “Judea”.