Double Standards
Via Norm, an interesting article on recent events from the Israel-Palestine front. I hope that by quoting these two paragraphs I am more or less meeting the author's requirements.
The conclusion to be drawn from the episode, the big conclusion, is that the occupation has been able to corrupt us and to take us to places that years ago we would never have imagined that we’d arrive at. Obviously what happened is not the norm but woe betide us if we content ourselves with that, because there’s a climate, a breeding ground, which allowed the phenomenon to appear and which has penetrated much more deeply than we would like.
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There is no question of a double standard. Quite simply, you know that we are morally superior and therefore demand from us what you don’t demand from others. I believe that this is how things are and that you are right. We are superior, so superior that the revelation of immoral conduct came from us, not from you, from an Israeli and Jewish NGO called and, and not by chance, B’Tselem, which means “in the image of” , a name taken from the Bible which says that all men were created in the image and likeness of God.
I’m glad that you make these demands on us, but don’t get carried away; none of you will be able to demand of us that which we demand of ourselves. Furthermore, you lack the most minimal moral authority to ask anything of us
posted by Alan Adamson @ 8:45 PM
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