Taking a Jab at the JIBs?

(check out SerandEz who also addresses this--actually he caught a number of points I missed)

JC General doesn't like the JIB's, one reason being some of those who got nominated:

So how does a trio of gentiles get nominated for (and in Chuck's case, win) a best "Jewish and Israeli" blog award. Well from what I can see, being either Jewish or Israeli isn't as important being politically in line with about ten percent of the Jews in the United States. That is to say you must be almost almost genocidal in your support of Israel. I'll admit that 10 percent is a guess, but I think it's a good one. While most Jews support Israel, I doubt that more than 10 percent would consider genocide or ethnic cleansing as desirable methods for achieving security. Even the General won't go that far. From what I've seen at the JIB nominated websites, the majority of the nominees are eager to collectively punish brown people as viciously as possible. That might not be in line with the thinking of most Jews, but I guess that isn't the point of these awards.

While he supplies no links to indicate that either LGF or Cox and Forkum actually "would consider genocide or ethnic cleansing as desirable methods for achieving security," he does quote some other blogs--whom apparently he thinks do fall into his guesstimated 10% who are "almost genocidal" in their support of Israel.

I suppose there are some blogs like he describes, but you won't find them by looking at the examples he gives.

The Only in Israel post may be in poor taste--it's not clear the commenters and the post are on the same wavelength--but to actually make his point, JC General should be able to find a explicit post and show it. He doesn't.

True Smooth Stone defends the gist of what Pat Robertson said. He also writes, and this was not quoted by the General:

I don't claim to know what G-d thinks, but I am sure as heck allowed to speculate and Pat Robertson, dopey and a schm_ck as he has been in the past, also has the right to speculate. I am more than willing to trust that what G-d Says and that what is written in the Torah to be unflinchingly true - it would not only be sinful, but also criminal, to carve up the one tiny spot of land given to us by G-d

So Smooth Stone--defending the thought, not the person--believes that G_d is active in the world and JC General takes offense? Just because it doesn't fit his politics?

He quotes Soccer Dad and how he "responds to the news that a the family of a brown child killed by Israeli troops donated his organs to Israelis:"--actually this is way out of context. Soccer Dad starts off with:

I don't mean to be churlish. Really I don't.
It is wonderful that Ismail Khatib chose to donate the organs of his son Ahmed to any and all who needed them and that Mr. Khatib is proud that some of his son's organs went to Jews.
But the coverage of this heartwarning incident strikes me as cynical. [emphasis added]

I don't understand which part of the post which the General does quote--which notes both the carelessness of the child who was carrying a toy gun near soldiers and the duty of Israeli soldiers to protect themselves and innocent civilians--he actually finds offensive.

The Muqata writes about the importance of picking up hitchhikers [as an issue of pikuach nefesh--a phrase the General does not translate, which means "saving a life"] because "there are wild pigs there (the animals and the arabs)" and this is a vote for "genocide or ethnic cleansing as desirable methods for achieving security"?

Zion Report thinks having Arabs hold seats in the Knesset is seen as a sign of weakness and is suicidal--and this the General finds offensive??

Keep in mind too that some of these bloggers live in Israel and deal with the threat of suicide bombers and artillery fire from Gaza from an enemy that supposedly is engaged in peace talks. Those bloggers not in Israel I assume have friends and family--as do I--in Israel. We are not talking merely about matters of philosophy and politics. This is--without exaggeration--a life and death struggle. And the General is offended by name-calling.

If he can find actual posts to back up his 10% number or his accusation--that these blogs, including Little Green Footballs and Cox & Forkum, "would consider genocide or ethnic cleansing as desirable methods for achieving security"--let him go ahead and do so. In the meantime, I think both his position and his attempt to back it up terribly underwhelming.