Jewish Odysseus: THE NO-LONGER RELIABLE WALL STREET JOURNAL [III]

Saturday, June 19, 2010

THE NO-LONGER RELIABLE WALL STREET JOURNAL [III]

"Aid" carried by "passengers."

Well, I suppose this is one way of putting it:

"Israel had also been quietly and gradually easing the restrictions on some civilian goods long before its naval commandoes killed nine passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara aid ship on May 31."

“Passengers”…"Aid ship…” Riiiiiiight…Just like those “ultra-religious Jooooooooos” slaughtered in Mumbai in 2008.

Words have meanings...But meanings can be changed. What is a "passenger"? Does a "passenger" saw off the railings of a ship to use as a weapon when the ship is lawfully boarded? Does an "aid ship" deliberately avoid a depot set up to deliver aid cargo, but instead broadcasts "Go back to Auschwitz!" over its command radio to a lawful boarding party?

Just why would WSJ reporter Charles Levinson spew this swill? Hmmmmmmmm...

Levinson (and let’s not even hazard a guess as to his native religious persuasion, ooyyyyyyyyy) continues the WSJ’s slow but steady march into New York Slime’s-land.

When Confucius was asked what should be the first task of a new ruler, he replied: "What is neccessary is to rectify names...If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success."

We sure could use a lot more Confucianism today. Especially at the WSJ.

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.