* Cal Thomas, in his Jan 4 column, condemns Hamas as Nazi-like, as the Nazis of modern times. He espoused the invasion of Gaza that is now underway, that he hopes will be pressed to total victory. Judging from his earlier writings he believes that the western Judeo-Christian civilization can better vanquish the middle-east jihadists if Muslims are dehumanized as Islamofacists.
* I don't admire mullah government, Wahhabi madrassas, female oppression and terrorist tactics more than does the next Euro-American, and I have no patience for the word "infidel"; but, looking over the sweep of history from the 4th century to the present, I see much to justify some modesty on our part. We Judeo-Christians have committed the greatest crimes--senseless wars, impulsive invasions, slavery, female oppression, colonialism, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the domination and exploitation of nearly every other nation on earth. Our wasteful ways are almost entirely responsible for despoiling the planet, leaving an impoverished environment for future generations. Our sense of entitlement is boundless.
* If the self-righteous Cal Thomas could imagine himself as a Gazan, displaced from his ancestral land, crowded in a virtual concentration camp, blockaded from the outside world, and experiencing daily deprivation and humiliation, he might see Hamas as analogous to Comanches or Apaches resisting domination by the more technologically advanced and better organized European tribes.
* Israel needs a brave new paradigm for peace as do we.
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