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Monday, June 03, 2002
Allow me to put forward a corollary to Godwin's Law - call it the Law of Olivier - and postulate that the more indefensible one's position becomes, the more likely one is to try to invest it with decency by associating it with Martin Luther King. Earlier in the day, I found one of the more disreputable hunt-and-peckers posting a quote from The Great Man on Zionism. It has since been removed, though I recall it being the following: "And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of Africa and freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is discrimination against Jews, my friend, because they are Jews. In short, it is anti-Semitism."
Reading the above I was moved to consider the other Great Men who have promoted the Zionist cause, and came up with this nowhere near exhaustive list:
Jan Smuts: The Boer are a cheery people fixed tight to their Old Testament. Jan Smuts, colonist, general and South African Prime Minister, supported Zionism hugely. His level of humanity can be gauged by his assertion that the indigenous San were to be "looked upon as vermin and exterminated on contact." Would the warbloggers denigrate those who questioned Boer apartheid as anti-white?
Franklin Roosevelt: The conservatives' favorite president, Roosevelt II urged the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which "should be for the Jews and no Arabs should be in it."
Claude Pepper: The Florida Senator who though a Democrat presaged Katherine Harris and said of the then (and still) massively disenfranchised blacks in his state that "Whatever may be placed upon the statute books of the Nation, however many soldiers may be stationed about the ballot boxes of the Southland, the colored race will not vote, because in doing so under the present circumstances they endanger the supremacy of a race to which God has committed the destiny of a continent, perhaps of a world."
Richard Meinertzhagen: Whatever energy he didn't expend in his ruthless slaughter of Kenyans he applied to the promotion of Zionism. posted by Anonymous2:10 PM
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