over-sophistication

Submitted by yuval Brandstetter MD (Israel), Aug 23, 2010 at 10:46

Hazony is indeed sophisticated. He is Jewish ivy-league intellectual after all, and he ascribes his sophisticated understanding to the world at large.

The world is not so sophisticated. It boils down to two basic drives:

1. Antisemitism, Islamic Western and combinations thereof

2. Funds

There is nothing we can do about antisemitism. Its a disease older than most, more prevalent than most and incorrigible in the vast majority of cases. A good simile is alcoholism.

You can eliminate funding for antisemitism by eschewing oil entirely, moving to a non-oil transportation, and castigating funding for what it is: The funding of antisemitic enterprise.

Its a mistake to gloss over the antisemitic overtones and undercurrents of anti-Israel activity and "intellectual" discourse.

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