Glenn Beck Doesnt Get It…
How disappointing. Glenn Beck doesn’t get it. Despite his staunch pro-Israel credentials and his comforting words about how Israel is not alone etc etc, the conservative media star expressed a common naive western misreading of Middle East reality as he told a special Knesset Committee session today that Palestinians and Israelis are all just people and want the same things. “We have to believe in common decency..”
After lavish kudos from a string of MKs who are understandably overjoyed to find an American celebrity who praises Israel, it took MK Aryeh Eldad of the National Union party to set Beck straight. The physician/MK told Beck, who had explained to the Knesset members how he was not a journalist but a story teller, two stories about Arab patients he had treated.
Both cases are well known in Israel–the shlemiel terrorist who tried to blow up children outside a wedding hall in Jerusalem but slipped and severely injured himself as he tried to make for an entrance where more kids were standing, and the woman who was treated for injuries sustained at the hands of her family for some honor offense, and then returned to Soroka Hospital strapped with explosives and blew herself up.
These are NOT people with values like ours, Eldad declared and that has to be understood if the civilized world wants to win.
It wasn’t clear whether the message got through to Beck, or whether his August 24 Jerusalem rally will be another feel good event for the masses.Site Feed
