The Dead Baby Strategy

The Dead Baby Stategy

by repost Thursday,

Jan. 29, 2009 at 12:12 PM

http://www.solomonia.com/blog/

http://charlesjacobs.org/

Alan Dershowitz calls it "Hamas' CNN strategy." When Palestinians fire a rocket that kills a Jewish child, they win. When the Israelis fire back and inadvertently kill an Arab child, Palestinians win even more. "Look at my dead babies!" they cry to CNN, which eats it up and rings the cash register. Dead Arab children seem to be the life blood of BBC ghouls. Well, certain sorts of dead Arab children.

You see, the stipulated motive for this anti-Israeli outcry on the part of the media and the "human rights" activists -- the "deep concern" for murdered and maimed Arabs -- is a disprovable fraud. Look at the math. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Arabs and Muslims have been butchered, most of them by Arabs and Muslims.

Israel's "contribution," including all the wars and the two Intifadas has been quite small -- in proportion to Arab deaths -- yet it disproportionately fires up the media and the "human rights" establishment. In Iraq, on average, scores of Arabs are killed, assassinated daily. Every week one reads how a Sunni blew herself up and killed 40 or 60 Shiites. Babies included. Guess what:

This is not headline news. Nobody makes posters of these dead Arab babies. CNN cameramen don't get excited over this particular carnage. Algeria: In 1992, civil war broke out. Psychopathic Islamists with machetes hacked to death 110,000 Algerian civilians. No tears flowed down the cheeks of Western "rights activists." No pictures of these dead Arabs -- babies, children, women and men -- appeared on posters in European or American streets.

No marches to protest on behalf of these murdered Arabs. Maybe it would be seen as Politically Incorrect to show a non-Western culture as barbarian. Can that possibly outweigh the souls of the dead Algerians? To "rights groups" -- yes it does. The Syrian dictatorship killed 10-20,000 civilians in the town of Hama, in 1982. No photographers were allowed of course, but there were images of the dead on the internet.

Yet you never saw any of that on a "human rights" poster. In Darfur, the jihadis are slaughtering and enslaving African Muslims. Darfuris do get some notice, but only because the PC "Save Darfur" movement bends over backwards to hide the war's cause: age-old Arab imperialism. But guess what: the hard anti-Israeli left, with its Islamist allies, defends Khartoum and calls the Save Darfur movement a Zionist plot. (A Zionist plot to cover up Arab imperialism in Africa?) All this does not begin to account for the millions of non-Arabs and non-Muslims murdered, enslaved, subjugated and/or dispossessed by jihadis -- in this century alone. Christians in Iraq, Sudan, and Egypt murdered and enslaved.

Somehow their dead children don't evoke pain in the hearts of the anti-Israel crowd. This is a fraud: These folks are not deeply concerned about Arab deaths. Their tears flow only when Jews (fighting back) cause these deaths. It's not about human rights. It's not about dead children. It's Western guilt, now focused on Jews.