thejc.com – Palestinian attack on JC website. For the background of this event there is a somewhat long post by David: Treppenwitz – A week in (Egypt) England.
I have been thinking about the sweeping metaphors, like “Egypt”, etc. Douglas Rushkoff for example says the “dark ages” got a bad rap, but then he falls into the same trap by describing that ten centuries period as “good”. Lars Brownworth laments the historical clichés about the Byzantine millennium. The soundbite descriptions are not even true for the eight years, as in the “Bush decade”, let along centuries. So when you start a conversation with a sweeping and patently inaccurate metaphor your description trends towards the one-sided oversimplifications, hopelessly inadequate in portraying the complex, multidimensional and multistaged historical dramas.
We all know the precarious posture of the European Jewry, the Islamic expansion in Europe is a political hot potato, considered by many a threat to the entire European civilization. But it is astounding that David Bogner fails to mention that he lives in the west bank town armed and surrounded by a wall, travels to nearby capital in a bullet proof bus, and I believe David walks around with a gun. His town Efrat is precariously perched on the edge of the Palestinian annexation. And he still complains about the security in London? In fact the security detail in London is there to guard against the terrorist virus hatched within a mile from the David Bogner’s new home, the deadly virus now spread all over the western world.