February 6th 2009
Watcher’s Winners
T
he Watcher’s stand-in for the week, Freedom Fighter, has posted the winners in this week’s search for clarity and truth in our little corner of the blogosphere – and what a big corner it was this week! We read about Kentucky and Katrina, Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and Shimon Perez in Davos. An Israeli soldier took us into an apartment in Gaza, and The Right Truth took us into the very will of God.
In other words, just another week with the Watcher’s Council.
Winning in the Council entries was Soccer Dad’s The No-State Solution, seemingly an analysis of Tom Friedman’s latest NYT pontification on the so-called Saudi peace plan, but really more a raw view into the unfairness wrought by Arab hatred of all things Jewish.
Freedom Fighter’s own: “Obama: “Screw Kentucky” came in second. I rarely write posts about Council posts, but this one moved me to write Obama’s Katrina.
Arab hatred of all things Jewish was at the start of the winner of the non-Council entries, a WSJ piece by Judea Pearl about the death of his son Daniel, and the world’s response:
Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar Saeed Sheikh, according to several South Asian reports, would be planning terror acts from the safety of a Pakistani jail. Or that his murderer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now in Guantanamo, would proudly boast of his murder in a military tribunal in March 2007 to the cheers of sympathetic jihadi supporters. Or that this ideology of barbarism would be celebrated in European and American universities, fueling rally after rally for Hamas, Hezbollah and other heroes of “the resistance.” Or that another kidnapped young man, Israeli Gilad Shalit, would spend his 950th day of captivity with no Red Cross visitation while world leaders seriously debate whether his kidnappers deserve international recognition.
Daniel Pearl and the Normalization of Evil is not merely a father’s condemnation of his son’s killers; it is his condemnation of a world that gets it all wrong. I saw an interview with Judea Pearl several years ago, when he himself sounded like an apologist; now that is gone and Pearl writes a confrontational and powerful piece that should be required reading at every university.
Coming in second was my nominee, Letter to Gaza Citizen: I Am the Soldier Who Slept in Your Home, which is the flipside of the Pearl piece: A Jew pleading to a citizen of Gaza to take an individual step to break the crushing, violent death cult of Hamas and make a stand for peace.
Find out about all the winners at Watcher of Weasels. Thank you, Freedom Fighter, for the number counting.
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