One-time Yale hopeful, Professor Juan Cole, analyzes the Israeli airstrike pattern in Lebananon and reaches a rather (sadly) predictable conclusion:
Thousands of innocent Lebanese have been forced from their homes by the bombings, especially in the South, and have headed up to Beirut (which the Israelis are also indiscriminately bombing). Some 100,000 Lebanese have fled to Syria, though Israeli bombing of roads and bridges has not made it easy for them to get out. Although, because of widespread Western racism, very few over here care about these displaced persons, they face a desperate situation. Roads have been bombed out, and bridges are gone. Lebanese television reported on numerous villages bombed. Rescue teams attempting to take an injured woman to a better hospital with more supplies were blocked when they found the bridge destroyed.
If the reports coming out of Lebanon can be believed, the Israelis are only sometimes striking known Hizbullah safe houses or facilities or missile emplacements. A lot of their bombardment appears aimed at punishing civilian populations and forcing them north to Beirut. Such an approach would help explain the high number of civilian casualties. That is, there may be an element of ethnic cleansing in Israeli tactics.
[My emphasis]
Hmm. First, let’s approach this observation from a glass half full perspective and thank Christ Cole doesn’t teach military strategy.
Second, as Tigerhawk points out, had the Israelis really wanted to engage in “an element of ethnic cleansing,” they probably could have found a far more efficient way to do it.
But then, the beauty of such a sinister conspiracy as the one the Jews are engaging in, Cole would argue, is how crafty it is; that is, it is precisely the depraved genius of their campaign that the Zionists are able to disguise their ethnic cleansing as standard military manuevers meant to cut off Hezbollah’s supply lines and keep them from fleeing the country. How devious! How perversely brilliant!
Which means, of course, that were it not for those with special insights into the poison of the Zionist mind—like say, oh, Dr. Cole, for instance—such hidden atrocities would go unremarked upon, disguised as they are as standard warfare strategy.
Of course, it could just be that Israel is engaged in “elements of ethnic cleansing” against the fighters of Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that doesn’t feel the need to hide its agenda—which, for those who need a reminder is the complete annihilation of the Jewish state and the death of 6 million more Jews—and not against the Lebanese people. But then, such an observation doesn’t require any special insights—and so it is presumably uninteresting to Dr Cole, whose ego has persuaded him that he alone possesses the ability to see through the Zionist facade and into their black Likudnik hearts.
…Somewhere in San Francisco, Diogenes Veritas drapes a pair of ferrets over his bald spot, pours himself a big bowl of Fruity Pebbles, and nods sagely at the revealed wisdom of Dr Cole…
I LOVE IT.
Dr. Cole revealed something again, but I don’t think it was wisdom.
Just to preempt Actus: yeah, we know that Hezbollah isn’t an ethnicity.
Yeah he revealed his anthropocentric, genocidal policy towards ferrets.
BECAUSE OF THE SPECIESISM!!!!!
Well, yeah. Ethnic cleansing. But do you know what really left Perfesser Cole shaken and trembling?
tw: Do you care?
You picked the obvious winner to emphasize, but I think this one is worth noting as well. The crafty Jews spend massive amounts of money on military technology to help them accurately hit targets and then decide to indiscriminately bomb in stead. Cole is a national treasure to be sure. It’s Yale’s loss they didn’t hire this great mind.
Something should be done to ensure no one listens to this idiot, and I don’t mean violence.
Hmmm, not sure how instead got broken into 2 words. My bad.
Memo to Zionists: Genocide must outpace the birthrate.
Step it up, slackers!
I, for one, want to pre-empt the Sadly, No! expose, and CONDEMN PASTY COCKENSTEIN FOR HIS OBSESSION WITH JUAN COLE’S FERRETS!!!
It’s really quite obvious. Less efficiency means more pain and suffering. It’s a form of torture; group-torture w/ an element of ethnic cleansing.
It’s a deliberate tactic that only fiendishly clever Zionists could devise.
You would think that a race of bankers would get that simple arithmetic. Sadly, No!
Chomsky-esque circumlocutions, insipid insinuations, unquantifiable qualifiers, and suppositional suppositories:
“widespread Western racism” …
“There may be … an element … of ethnic cleansing”
Thanks for reading Juan Cole—so the rest of us don’t have to.
Defense Guy sez:
I recommend giving him a megaphone. That should do it.
You bastard, Pablo: faster and wittier than I was. Well put.
I agree Pablo, can we get the NY Times to hire him?
Yale really must be kicking itself right now for letting this man slip through their fingers.
Shaken, not stirred.
BTW, special on ethnic cleansers at SuperTarget. I use Janjawihd for my tough to erase Irish freckles.
Just out of morbid curiosity, how much attention should we pay to someone like Diogenes Veritas, who’s evidently so poorly educated he takes his pen name from two completely different languages?
What’s the matter, Mr. Cole? You look wan. Yeah, kinda pasty. Maybe you should lie down.
Ho Chi–
I think that’s a question for Patterico’s place, but Desiderius Erasmus took his name from two languages, and he was pretty well educated. I guess the difference is that he wasn’t dumb, either.
Funny how Cole’s predictions never end up happening, yet people keep listening to his blatherings.
Not to mention he “teaches” at my alma mater. Dammit, Yale, was it asking too much to take him off our hands?
Fur is murder and if toops were crafted from 2 ferrets each, Ted Danson would have put them on the endangered list after the 1st three episodes of Cheers.
Dio’s rug smacks of a more earth-friendly blend of sea grasses and warm climate mosses.
Now Jaun’s wig – it looks like a sun-baked muskrat what lost a fight with a Peterbilt radial. There ain’t no conditioner that’s gonna reanimate that scraggle.
Oddly, Cole seems to miss the implications of Hezbollah’s truly “indiscriminate” rocket barrages which are not accurate enough to be aimed at military targets even if Hezbollah wanted to.
He’s objectively pro-terrorist.
So Cole says “indiscriminately bombing” when he means “bombing heavily” because:
a) “heavily” isn’t strong enough for the “ethnic cleansing” thesis
b) use of more syllables reminds people that he knows Farsi and Bush doesn’t
c) even he realizes that the term “heavy bombing” makes intelligent people ask themselves “well, heavier than what?”
d) he doesn’t know what “indiscriminate bombing” means but he’s heard it a lot on campuses and he thinks it sounds kind of cool.
e) other
What do you guys think?
True, but presumably it can still be volumized.
I don’t think the NYT will hire Cole.
Story on Malkin now that they are shrinking the size of the paper & laying off printers in 2008.
Her headline said her fishwrap was getting smaller. So I thought it meant another not-a-professor was going on a fast.
…Somewhere in San Francisco, Diogenes Veritas drapes a pair of ferrets over his bald spot, pours himself a big bowl of Fruity Pebbles, and nods sagely at the revealed wisdom of Dr Cole…
BRAVO !
Cole can always be counted on to overreact. Unless he’s translating a speech by Ahmadenijad.
If Cole or Putin or whoever says Israel “had all of this planned” they are no different from those who insist that Hezbollah “had all of this planned.” It’s an easy temptation, but, in the end, I think, the wrong one.
In retrospect, I don’t think either side had this planned. I mean, I was impressed at the stealth with which Hezbollah mined the roads in South Lebanon, but, I don’t think they expected the conflict to get this far. By the same token, I am fairly certain the Israelis did not expect the mine, the rockets, or the long range rockets, or the ship getting hit. I think both sides have been surprised and have been improvising.
Still no ground invasion and it’s starting to look remote, which I got from watching CNN for hours last night. Stay tuned.
Or at least fluffed a little.
You know what’s worse?
The fact that the IDF is doing all of this in the service of a giant “mistake”.
This is why you mouth-breathers don’t get it: you have no concept of logic.
See, you have to realize that Israel is occupying Palestinian territory and is thus not really a country. Therefore, logically, any organization who wants to remove the Zionists from Palestine are not really performing ethnic cleansing, for how can you cleanse a country that’s not even there?
It’s equivalent to saying “I’m going to ethnically cleanse all the Munchkins from Oz.” Oz doesn’t exist, man! And just as Oz doesn’t exist, Israel doesn’t exist. Q.E.D.
Conversely, Lebanon and Syria do exist, and any bombings that occur on their soil hurt real people. Furthermore, everyone knows that Hezbollah places their headquarters in civilian areas, so anyone who attacks them has to live with the blood of innocent children on their hands.
Honestly, this type of “shoot the hostage” mentality might work for Keanu Reeves, but civilized countries know better. Only by giving people what they want all the time will the world be a better place.
Except the Jews, of course. They don’t count.
Hmm, I was using some Hutu militias to get rid of my fruit fly problem but I ended up just having to repot my plants. They didn’t even know how to shoot!
Oh, before I forget: Go Buckeyes!
I have absolutely nothing else to add. Sorry JohnAnnArbor.
Clearly, distinguished Professor (of Modern Middle East and South Asian History, no less!) Juan Cole has never heard of Occams Razor.
I was a little surprised by Richard Cohen’s column, but only a little. Whereas, say, 10 years ago, I would have been shocked. But there is a certain pessimism afoot, maybe related to fatigue, I really don’t know.
Yeah, Catbird, but why doesn’t it exist? Huh?
Yeah, but look at his argument:
He starts with something that isn’t true; that is, that the bomings are indiscriminate bombings. You know where he’s going before his conclusion: Jews bad! (But he throws it in these nice little parentheses so his readers will just roll right over it without actually thinking about it; it’s just obvious, isn’t it, that the bomings are indisciminate, right?)
Then, it’s all about the could-maybe-if: “If the reports can be believed”, “appears aimed at”, “it would help explain”, “there may be.” Therefore, Jews bad!
I just can’t believe (shocked, shocked) that Yale passed on this fellow. He’s such a smart guy.
steve, I rather like Ralph Peters’ formulation about the Middle East: Never ascribe to reasoned conspiracy what you can chalk up to passionate incompetence.
I’m still betting the farm on a ground invasion, as even Netanyahu is advocating such. Kadima as a new party might go wobbly on us, and that is a big problem, but they are not leftwing so much as centrist. I think Israel’s internal politics requires an invasion.
AND Hezballah nor Hamas will not give up the abducted soldiers without a prisoner exchange. That won’t happen, and even if it does, the violence will escalate sooner rather than later, prompting another invasion.
If Israel is not bombing indiscriminately, and then it is discriminating in its bombing. Discrimination in connection with lethal force is equivalent to ethnic violence and/or cleansing. I am in law school and know a wicked lot about these things.
I wouldn’t call it a “ground invasion” as much as I would call it a “synercetsi team building exercise at creatice problems solving with dynamic heavy weapons utiliization groups.”
That way it’s “training” and tax deductable.
damn, I really can’t type until that second cup of coffee.
Ethnic cleansing is such a nice combination of words. It creates images of a mountain spring on a warm July day. Beautiful tan skinned women bathing with flowers floating around them. Birds chirping and ferrets prancing…..
Pardon. It means what?…..
JAYSUS CHRIST! THAT’S HORRIBLE!
Bushmert doesn’t care about “collateral damagesâ€Â: someone who enthusiastically destroyed Bagdad, the former capital of an empire stretching from Spain to India, won’t have second thoughts about razing a small Levantine city-state with no oil to steal.
The Arab League and its Saudi and Egyptian “pillars†did nothing for Iraq in 2003, even though TeX-Aviv was then exclusively targeting their fellow Sunni Arabs…
One shouldn’t expect the Wahhabi thugs of Riyadh to lift a finger for Lebanon’s Christian and Shiite civilians who are suffering the brunt of Israel’s disproportionate retaliation.
Four days ago, the house of Saud sent a crystal clear message to Bushmert- a man who appreciates “moral clarity†whatever that means:
“The massacre can continue. Please Sahib President, make sure Yahweh’s glorious air force destroys in priority Beirut, the South, and the Beqaa valley. Allah blesses you. Saudi Arabia is your friend. You can always count on us. The Supreme Council of the Riyadh ‘Ulamas is praying day and night for your victory. We love you Mr. President. Allah loves you.â€Â
Although, because of widespread Western racism, very few over here care about these displaced persons, they face a desperate situation.
That’s funny, Juan, because the fate of the Lebanese (specifically those with ties to Detroit/Dearborn) has been on the cover of OUR paper every day. I believe they get the Detroit News in Ann Arbor.
Simple. Oz (Israel) was a fictional country created by L. Frank Baum (Theodore Herzl) for his book “The Wizard of Oz” (“Der Judenstaat”). It was then made into a movie by MGM (The UN General Assembly) that has pleased audiences (the United States) for years.
Pink Floyd is still Pink Floyd in this metaphor.
I mean, it’s obvious.
Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Are you brain dead?
Cole may be an idiot, but you gotta give him his props for working in a Rodney Allen Rippy reference.
Someone else needs their morning bowl of Fruity Pebbles, hmmmmmm?
Juan Cole is a completely crazy fellow.
He says, the Israel’s appropriate response to get the 2 soldiers back would have been to release 3 prisoners.
Huh?
Firstly, Hezbollah wanted all the prisoners released.
Secondly, Israel had warned these guys of destruction if the soldiers were not released.
Thirdly, why the hell do these people keep provoking Israel? Why do they keep shooting rockets into the country? Cole says that if they stopped provoking Israel, Israel wouldn’t want peace. Where does he get these ideas from?
Hooray! A Doktor Vic sighting!
Whatever you may think of Juan Cole he deserved better from Yale, given that the search committee presumably spent a little more time on his body of work than the knee-jerk Likuniks on this site.
More than that, my money would be on Cole in a debate with Professor Torture Warrant up at Harvard and his plagiarism-ridden Case for Israel. Indeed, that is why Yale didn’t hire Cole; the endowment would suffer for Yale having a pro-Arab voice.
Were Cole as incompetent as suggested here, the Sharonistas wouldn’t have bothered to play that card.
O’Brian, someone was impersonating Actroid. Had it been the real Actroid, you would have felt the oxygen leaving the room.
MUAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
knee-jerk Likuniks
Yeah, that’s what I call those thoughtless people who think raining down rockets on the heads of Jews all the time should have zero consequences.
/sarcasm
should have drastic consequences, I meant.
Too tired today.
Would that be Dr. “Evil” Horowitz. Well having him mop the floor with Noam “Check my website” Chomsky, Horowitz has one major advantage over Cole; he can speak Engrish. Other than that, hell I’d debate Juan Cole any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I cannot think of anyone with less knowledge of the world than “Informed Comment” Cole.
Catbird,
Are you saying, in effect, that our society isn’t inclusive enough to recognize the Munchkin state simply because they, the Munchkins are a fictional people? And they wonder why we’ve lost our moral authority?
Dude, where’s my cheese?
It takes a leftist tenured academic to be both that pompous and condescending, yet utterly clueless. There’s a good reason why roads and bridges are being bombed (“war crimes” to the shaken and trembling Cole):
Prepping the Battlespace
The destruction of Lebanon by Israel will seal the fate of the “Zionists”. How stupid will Israel remain? Peace
Yes, verc, but (not to mix my synecdoches) what about Bolton’s mustache cockslapping Cole’s? That would be fun to watch.
– That was extablished to the affirmative some time ago. The question puzzeling leading experts in the field, is how the empty head continues to put together complete, if non-sensical, sentences. Most NIH scientists believe it’s the “chicken with its head cut off” process. Nuerological automata, continuing on, long after en toto mortus delecti.
TW: Proving insipidness is just a matter of degree.
Via PJMedia, Allison Kaplan Sommer says [Israeli] “Army Radio is airing reports now that Hezbollah is firing on Lebanese citizens who are trying to flee their towns after being warned by Israeli Air Force leaflets that they will come under fire and are trying to get away!?”
As someone on the internet recently noted, it really sucks that the Lebanese are caught in the middle of this mess so soon after the Cedar Revolution. Hopefully, Israel will rid them of Hizbullah and make that part of the world a better place.
What article did you read there Skip? Pro-Arab?
If Lebanon has its own government, you wouldn’t know it by reading Cole.
That was prescient.
..leaflets.
In a clear escalation of the conflict in Lebanon, the Israeli Air Force began dropping pamphlets on Hezbollah-occupied towns in the south of the country. UN officials are warning the Israelis not to begin dropping catalogs.
I’d be willing to bet Israel agrees to pick up a big chunk of the tab for rebuilding parts of Lebannon once the fighting ends. Syria and Iran’s influence in Lebannon will be shot. Israel winds up with a new ally in the Middle East. Syria winds up isolated geographically.
I can’t think of any reason Israel wouldn’t WANT to rebuild Lebannon afterward.
im a hot head…
“Zionist”
Zionist
Which is it?
Too funny. But how far back do you want to go? Before the British established the Colonies and we should do away with the United States? Or further? Maybe we can remove the human race so the dinosaurs get another shot.
Israel is here now and will be staying here. Wishing them away doesn’t solve anything. Of course, Johnny Catbird may be a parody that I fell for. Hard to tell sometimes.
TW: Up close and personal
Dan, no.
We can be all inclusive to the point that we can celebrate the beliefs of all cultures, including those that may or may not be “real”. However, when children start dying, we need to say, “Hold up, Bucko.”
Unless a culture is harming their own children, at which point we need to realize that’s just how they do it.
The FACTS are:
* Oz is not real.
* Munchkins may be real.
* I like waffles.
From this, we can prove that Zionists are wrong. Always.
The esteemed Dr. chooses to ignore the fact that the Islamists want all that empire back – and more. But in his worldview, maybe that would be a plus.
“Bushmert doesn’t care about “collateral damagesâ€Â: someone who enthusiastically destroyed Bagdad, the former capital of an empire stretching from Spain to India, won’t have second thoughts about razing a small Levantine city-state with no oil to steal.”
The really great part about this line is that Dr. Vic truly cannot tell Bush and Olmert apart. Smart guy.
He seems not to understand that the “someone” who was in Iraq is not the same “someone” in Israel. Smart guy.
Also, the fact that Bagdahd was once the “former capital of a blah blah blah” is a non sequitur since it ceased to be that capital long before “Bushmert” came on the scene. Smart guy.
Don’t tease me, Jim…
SB: It’s all about the conditioner.
Indiscriminate bombing? I think not. The Joos, being of the thrifty pesuasion, wouldn’t waste bombs.
Come back with a better argument, Professor.
On second thought, don’t.
I think that his point is that since the Islamic states in the region, by and large, don’t recognize Israel, that Israelis are therefore non-entities, and, axiomatically, that means that murdering them en mass isn’t like . . . you know . . . killing people.
If you can’t tell, then I’m doing my job.
Actually, I’m probably not doing my job, since I’m posting on a blog instead of real work.
Unless you’re from Human Resources, at which point, I’m definitely doing my job.
You’re finally grasping the new logic, Dan. Kudos.
Catbird,
I buy your argument about the waffles. I have no rejoinder to that. But then what are we to make of the Native American tribe to which Ward Churchill belongs?
Or am I missing something?
It looks like cole is saying that at best, collateral damage is here a collateral benefit. Frankly I have no idea whether cars on the road to syria look so much like bad guys that we have to kill the people in them. I have no idea if people were leaving areas they were told to leave. So who knows.
Dr. Vic’s already proven he’s a poor hand at the demography and geography of religious affiliation, but God love him, he’s still trying…
TW: Waiting. Yep, still.
I don’t talk about Ward Churchill, Dan. He’s claiming the $20 he borrowed from me was for reparations. Or maybe he said it was a gift.
Still, it doesn’t matter. All I know is I can’t ask for the money back without being called… well… you know.
Ya know, my granddad used to take chickens he had just decapitated and fling them on top of the chicken coop, where they would continue to flop around.
So I understand exactly what you mean.
Do you think “actus the Headless Chicken” would make it on the Cartoon Channel?
Yeah, but I don’t think you see my angle. Because if we can get tribal recognition, we can open up a casino and take peyote for religious purposes. And we can name it something catchy, like New Amsterdam.
I think it implied that Israel didn’t exist because it shouldn’t have been created in the first place, but that could have been a holdover perception from the link just prior to that post.
I just can’t tell sometimes if someone like Catbird is serious or just a parody being intentionally outrageous since I’ve seen similar and worse on some of the left-wing blogs.
Color me fooled if he’s not real
TW: I often feel foolish when I catch myself thinking the libs may listen to reason.
Okay, so the local city police force went after a violent gang in my city last night, and three illegal aliens from Mexico, who were members of this notorious gang, were killed in the exchange of gunfire. The police were discriminant in their target (said gang), and used lethal force (firearms), so by your definition the city is conducting ethnic cleansing against Mexican nationals by these police actions.
Weeping Jesus on the Cross, no wonder we are in such deep trouble if this is the sort of claptrap that passes for logic that they are apparently teaching in the law schools! (or maybe just actuss’, tell me, does the “law school” in question advertise on mathbook covers?)
TW What was I thinking, replying in kind to this loon?
Godd. Now say it faster. And louder.
The other day, I watched an attractive Hispanic girl showering. Now there was some quality ethnic cleansing!
Teacher, it was a parody.
Unfortunately, it is more difficult to discern if Skip is a parody intentionally or unintentionally.
I’m as serious as Charles Bronson. Or Robert Deniro, pre-“Meet the Parents”.
And as for New Amsterdam, Dan, I’m in. Our motto should be: “We’re utoperific!”
So….Tall enough to see through the window there Dave?
no judgment.
Welcome to Noplace, Unincorporated.
Nopulation, Unknown.
What part do you have to cut off to get them to notice that some internet handles have an extra “s” at the end?
Well at least all these “Doctors” (Cole, Frisch, de la Vega, etc.) remind us all that a PhD is more a measurement of perseverence than it is of intelligence.
TW: actually; as in actually, in my own case, just a lack of anything more intrigueing during my earlier years. Damn, I could have been an electrician! Maybe.
Now really actus. Would you care if someone were impersonating you? It is the highest form of flattery.
Its just that I hate to see BBH confused.
Flattery is a form of oppression in some cultures.
You mean Dr. Vic is serious in his comment? Cripes, I thought for sure that was parody. My bad; carry on.
TW: Believe. I can’t.
Dr. Vic has just got to be Jeff. So very rich….
Why? What happened the last time you were connfused and you saw BBH?
Bushitlerhallimerton doesn’t care about “collateral damagesâ€Â: someone who enthusiastically destroyed Dan Rather, the former capo of a propaganda empire stretching from 6:00 to 6:30, won’t have second thoughts about razing a small Levantine convenience store to build a Wal-Mart.
The downtown merchants association and its hardware and liquor “stores†did nothing for Apu in 2003, even though the adult bookstores had already been shut down and demolished.
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