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| Op-Ed: The Price of Conscience for a Peculiar Breed of Israeli |
| 2015-09-13 |
| The arguments and disclosures about to follow rely on a peculiarity found in Israelis of a certain type. You could say that Israelis of that type are a breed on their own. After all: picture a Greek, or a Scot who makes a living out of running down Greece or Scotland. If you can't keep a straight face, then try it with an Israeli. Picture an Israeli who crafts a career, and makes good money out of bad mouthing Israel. A quick scout around NGO Monitor's website divulges case studies by the cupboard-full on this peculiar breed. To skip to a practice not very different: we recall the paparazzi, and how they fed like vampire bats off the late Princess Di. A scandal story or photo of a stolen private moment made some media workers rich. So it is with Israel and her paparazzi hounders and "moral minders." A complete economic sector lives on stories that vaunt the inhumanity, crimes and misdemeanors of Israel's leaders and soldiers. "Made in Israel" crime pays. Europeans and anti-Zionist philanthropists write blank checks for stories on Israel behaving badly. The UN and BDS linked groups can't get enough of this bad behavior. Fat rewards incentivize Israeli suppliers of the precious bad stories for world consumption. It's no accident that a large part of this breed's activity is spent on courting donors, which means dancing to the donors' tune, which will always be, towards Israel, a bitter tune. The big money is never on sweet, pro-Israel tunes. You'd never get a sweet tune out of Holland, for one. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |