http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2008/10/28/un-watch-report-the-durban-ii-draft-declaration-even-worse-than-2001/ The blog of UN Watch: monitoring the United Nations, promoting human rights. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2008/10/28/un-watch-report-the-durban-ii-draft-declaration-even-worse-than-2001/#comment-585 Augean Stables » Meditations on Moderation and Demopathy Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:45:18 +0000 http://blog.unwatch.org/?p=224#comment-585 [...] Thus the classic demopathic pattern emerges – Palestinian “moderates” demand their side’s human rights, even as they defend fellow Palestinians who seek not just the systematic refusal of rights to the Israeli “other,” but even their annihilation. And of course, Israeli and Jewish dupes, eager to believe that by assuring the rights of the other, peace will come, embrace the Palestinian moderates. Mix such a near-unbeatable combination of demopathy and credulity with blood libels like Al Durah, stir with the potent cry of western radical and Islamic jihadi outrage, and voil [...] Thus the classic demopathic pattern emerges – Palestinian “moderates” demand their side’s human rights, even as they defend fellow Palestinians who seek not just the systematic refusal of rights to the Israeli “other,” but even their annihilation. And of course, Israeli and Jewish dupes, eager to believe that by assuring the rights of the other, peace will come, embrace the Palestinian moderates. Mix such a near-unbeatable combination of demopathy and credulity with blood libels like Al Durah, stir with the potent cry of western radical and Islamic jihadi outrage, and voil

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