After spending two hours on YouTube watching “Jewish Warriors,” the first segment of Christiane Amanpour’s documentary, God’s Warriors, I’m wondering if a blog can even do justice to the flaws.
My eyes will continue glowing in the dark long after my overheated monitor cools down. So I totally relate when Immodest Proposals considers drunk-blogging, “Muslim Warriors,” the next segment:
So that I’ll still be alive by the end of this program, I’ll limit myself to a sizeable gulp at each instance of moral equivalizing. Any other rules I should follow? Should I finish off whatever’s left in the glass for each use of the phrase “religion of peace”?
A few points that struck me:
• There were no comments from any mainstream Israeli rabbis to lend a sense of perspective to the religious views of the settlers Amanpour talked to. Will mainstream Muslim and Christian clergy balance out the views of their fringe elements in the next segments?
• Blaming settlements for Palestinian rage is lunacy. Arab terror predated the 1967 war and the settlements that developed only afterwards.
• Issues of the American-Jewish lobby’s clout and its alleged “suppression of free speech” have nothing to do with Amanpour’s story, which is ostensibly about the spiritual values of fringe groups within the mainstream settler movement.
• The tug of war over Jerusalem was underway before Israel bulldozed the Mughrabi Quarter by the Western Wall. In violation of the 1949 armistice agreement, Jordan refused to give Jews access to holy sites in eastern Jerusalem.
Pardon me while my eyes go into screen saver mode.
