re: #318 Cato the Elder

So depressing.

I managed to avoid talking to any of my kneejerk Israel-hating moonbat relatives today, until just now, when I had a phone conversation with My Moonbat Brother(™), who proceeded to tell me how Israel is purposely starving little babies to death in Gaza.

I challenged him to come up with one (1) credible link showing that this is the case. Splutter…cough…splutter. He mentioned J-Street, which he supports financially. Does J-Street actually promulgate the starvation myth? We’ll see. He has swallowed the bait.

An old, old friend from Greece has now replaced his Facebook avatar with an image of the entire State of Israel covered with the Palestinian flag, followed by the words “Freedom for Palestine” in Greek. You might think that a guy who once took me on a tour of a park in Athens featuring statues of Greek martyrs to the cause of independence from the Ottomans (at least one of whom died roasting on a spit) could maybe might have a little more sympathy for a state that is surrounded by Muslim fanatics, but you would be wrong.

And another Facebook acquaintance, an old colleague who used to prance around the office in a “Free Palestine” bumper-sticker T-shirt that also showed Israel smothered in the “kill the Jews” flag, announced today that he is looking for accomplices to go and chain themselves to the Israeli consulate in New York tomorrow.

Then an English FB friend suggested that people who were for drilling in the Gulf should be used to plug the hole in the BP well. Later, he revised that to say that the US should just go back to doing what it does best - “blowing shit up”.

I can hide people on Facebook, or defriend them, but how do you hide from a brother who actually thinks the “flotilla” was about delivering aid to starving babies?

You go kick his ass. That’s what good brother do when their sibling has gone around the bend.