In a devastating attack on editor Ken Whyte and his make over of Macleans into the new Alberta Report, Greg Felton in his latest column takes on Whyte and Macleans for their pandering to Zionism and the Right at the same time, no small feat that.
This is a column that neither Paul Wells nor Warren Kinsella is going to like, nor can one expect them to.
Wells is an apologist for his boss Ken Whyte and the Alberta Report journalism he has proffered on good old Macleans. Like his statement in his blog Inkless Wells on January 4th of this year when Macleans added more of Whytes right wing pals from the his days as editor of the National Pest to it's pages. The descent of Maclean's into a pathetic right-wing supermarket trash-tabloid rag continues, or at least that's the way the usual suspects will spin this.
He of course is the token liberal a position that he positively wallows in, being the big frog in a small pond,while rubbing elbows with his new compatriots on the right.
Kinsella is an apologist for Zionism so Whyte's recent attack on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran should warm the cockles of his heart. But Whytes attack on Steven Spielberg, damn liberal, for his movie Munich should leave him spinning his tires in trying to defend one and criticize the other. Which is probably why he has not written about it.
Whyte's attacks on the Iranian president in one breath and Steven Spielberg in the next is not so unusual. Underneath the Right Wings defense of Israel is the idea of the coming Christian Rapture of Revelation.Israel is seen by these bible believing protestants like Pat Robertson as key to manifestation of the Anti-Christ and the war in Heaven.
The Right Wing Christian view is that Israel is important not for being a Jewish state, but for the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem in fullfilling the prophecies of the Book of Revelation about the coming conflaguration between states that leads to the return of the Christ.
Their defense of Israel is the defense of a strong State, the right loves a strong State. In defending Israel they indirectly defend Zionism. It's good PR.
It is a way of distancing themselves from the rank and file of the Protestant Right which is filled with Anti-Semitic conspiracy freeks and true believers.
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Zionism is the reclamation by Jews of their ancestral homeland.
ReplyDeleteZionism as a movement worked through the United Nations so that the Jewish people might share British Mandate Palestine with the Palestinians who also wanted to establish a State of their own.
The Palestinians and the Arab world rejected the U.N.'s plan for sharing, and while still demanding a Palestinian State rejected the right of Jews to theirs.