Israel's vivid act of piracy may yet turn the tide of global opinion

Please ban this idiot "Tanya Greenberg" who seems to think her/his endless one line Israel bashing pieces of drivel constitute an addition to the sum of human knowledge, rather than yet more pointless electronic spam.

Not very surprising from the Guardian. Maybe it's a moving piece to some, but it is above all a piece of propaganda, mentioning the "starving millions" in Gaza, a place where obesity is mentioned as a plague.
Comparing a boat of refugees like the Exodus to a boat of activists, some very violent ones, is some of the most ludicrous things I have read on the flotilla incident.

This silly troll Tanya Greenberg is certainly treated with more tolerance by the JC than supporters of The Zionist Entity are by the Grauniad!

Cif Watch take Linda Grant to the woodshed over this despicable article:

http://cifwatch.com/2010/06/06/empty-vessels/

'Please ban this idiot "Tanya Greenberg" '

This is one more indication of just how out of touch the JC is with the vast majority of its readers. This newspaper is about as relevant to most Jews in Britain as the Church Times.

Judy of Adloyada fame on Linda Grant's article:

'Eve Garrard writing at Norm Geras’ blog has done a mordantly brilliant filleting of the way that for relatively obscure but Guardianista-approved authors like Fintan O’Toole and Ian Banks, Israel is uniquely condemned as lacking in humanity and morality despite far greater and more egregious killings and acts of aggression by such nations as Turkey, Iran, China, Russia, the Sudan and others.

Given Linda Grant’s language of “innocent civilians massaced”, “starving millions in Gaza” and all the other grotesque misuses of language highlighted by Israelinurse, Garrard’s post applies as justly to Linda Grants CiF article. But Gerrard suggests links with the way the Nazis and other anti-semites have routinely demonised Jews as inhuman, immoral, showing contempt for other nations etc.

I’m sure Grant would be horrified and outraged by such analogies.

But why has she resorted to such gross language, which as other commenters have pointed out, is the language of incitement towards a nation threatened with termination virtually weekly by Ahamdinejad, his fair weather friends and his proxies in Gaza and Lebanon.

The “explanations” she’s offered in the comments here beggar belief. She wrote in a great hurry? So why should that cause an experienced journalist and a multiple award winning author to resort to the language of demagogic incitement and over the top hyperbole? I wouldn’t begin to lay claim to her level of skill and mastery of the language, but when I write things in too much of a hurry, it usually shows up in typos and less than wonderfully constructed sentences. Why should writing in a hurry result in referring to the death of nine people as a massacre? Why should it lead to resorting to the cliche of “starving millions”? She surely cannot have believed that sentence however hurriedly she wrote it. Or does she habitually think in gross inciteful cliches and need time to turn them into considered balanced prose?

Then we get all the mysterious hinting of “I could a tale unfold” where she suggests something like a cock up (rather than a conspiracy) went on in the toing and froing between her and the immortals at the Grauniad.

What are we supposed to make of that? The happy band of editors slipped in the offending phrases to colour things up? Or she usually writes like that, but there wasn’t time in all the hurry to subject the first draft to the usual intense subediting that turns it into the acutely observed commentary that’s her journalism at its best? Or it got spatchcocked with the electronic cuttings out frpm Seumas Milne’s latest over the top rant?

My guess is that this CiF piece is all about the wish to keep up her Street Cred with the Guardian, the Guardianistas and most of all the Israeli equivalent of the Looney Left (c/o Ha’aretz), who are also accustomed routinely to call almost any action of the current rightwing Israeli government fascist, murderous etc. I’d say those groups are her reference group. Their good opinion matters to her as does their recognition of her as one of their number, never less than at a time when they stand together shooting their collective mouths off in a lather of self-righteous but utterly off the wall rage.

Commenters’ suggestions that she did this for the £85 CiF pay are really way off the mark. Given her self-proclaimed dedication to seriously expensive high fashion, she’d hardly trouble herself to an hour’s hurried work merely to make the price of a second tier fashionista t-shirt.

And no doubt the thought never crossed her mind, but those Guardianistas do include all those folk who sit on juries that make the literary awards…

Writing an article that tried to apply the same reasoning to Israel’s actions that Eve Garrard has done..well, it wouldn’t do her too much good when her next novel gets sent out to the critics and the literary award shortlisters, would it? Not, I am sure, that such considerations would ever remotely have influenced the spurts of hateful and undeserved anti-Israel rhetoric in that CiF article. Or that said juries are ever influenced in any way by the perceived politics and appropriate gender cred of the writers they’re considering for awards.'

http://cifwatch.com/2010/06/06/empty-vessels/

I'm writing to the webmaster to ask for a ban on this racist antisemite "tanya". Her blog about the Warsaw Ghetto was designed to be offensive racism.

This person is scum. I urge others to complain to the webmaster as well.

help@thejc.com

Very far from the tearjerking stupidity of Linda Grant, Obama seems to know what he is talking about...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3914316,00.html :

Report: Obama warned Erdogan of flotilla probe
Turkish sources tell al-Hayat newspaper US president told prime minister international inquiry into Israeli raid on Marmara ship 'may lead to accusations against passengers, IHH organization, could turn into doubled-edged sword'

Roee Nahmias