The anti-semitic double standard

The world applauded HM’s response to evil. The “international community” acknowledged that Da’esh’s wickedness must have a price. And that price is collateral damage. Sometimes a great deal of collateral damage.

It was strange that discussions of Jordan’s response in the mainstream media (both in print and online) and in parliaments worldwide has omitted two words that were top of the pops last (northern) summer.

The words are a “disproportionate response”.

These two words were not heard. Not even once.  Not from left wing protesting masses from Lane Cove to Lakemba, not at university campuses from Macquarie to Murdoch, not from the (chuckle, chuckle, “independent”) Fairfax press and not from ABC’s Lateline program.

And certainly not from the United Nations.

In fact when Israel defended itself from Hamas mid last year, there was an occasion when Israel struck a UN run school in Gaza. Not surprising, after all, munitions depots for Hamas often double up as schools in Gaza. That event received blanket media coverage in Australia.

I lie. More like blanket, doona and bedspread coverage. 10 people died, three of which were members of Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon screamed at the time that the strike was "a moral outrage and a criminal act" that had to be "swiftly investigated." President Obama’s State Department, never missing a beat to criticise the Jewish state, on cue pronounced itself as simply "appalled." Indeed it was appalled that Israel dared defend itself.

But when Jordan struck Da’esh? No. Nobody is appalled. No ma’am. No condemnation when non-Jews retaliate. Not a peep from the spokeswomen of United States Department of State. Nor from the European Union. And from the main stream media? I doubt it.

Former NSW Premier and unelected Foreign Minister, Bob Carr was not seen on television this past week or heard on radio reprimanding the Hashemite Kingdom for its “disproportionate response.” Mid last year he was whistling a very different tune.

When three innocent teenagers in Israel were brutally murdered followed by rockets raining London Blitz-like on civilians throughout Israel, the nation’s attempts to protect itself from the barrage of Hamas elicited 24/7 condemnations from the “international community” for “disproportionate response.” Bob Carrwas loudest amongst low rent larynxes doing what very much looked like the bidding of the Arab Lobby.

The same Bob Carr who refused to call Hamas a terror organisation with the aim of genocide, even as the governments of many countries including Australia, New Zealand and Canada do. Yes, the same Bob Carr who fleeced NSW taxpayers$100,000 at the tail end of his premiership gallivanting off to the United Arab Emirates, for no good reason. And to rub taxpayers’ noses in it, he had no shame in taking Mrs Carr along for the ride. On our dime.