Thanks to Andrew Sullivan (he tends to get a lot of thanks on my blog...) for pointing out the backwardness of so much of the Western Left's opposition to the war in Israel. Check out this picture from a rally in San Francisco: supporting Nasrallah?! Do people know who he is? The man who shoots unguided, shrapnel-filled missiles into pouplated Israeli cities in order to tear apart as many Israeli civilians as possible? Who bragged about the inevitable weak response of Israel to his provocations? Who is supported by a theocracy in Iran and a Baathist dictatorship in Syria? It's exciting to support freedom fighters (why everyone wears Che Guevara t-shirts and listens to Rage Against the Machine), but let's please discriminate between freedom fighters who care about freedom and radical, murderous terrorists. This is a group who wouldn't shrink from committing atrocities of the likes of 9/11, Bojinka, etc. The fact that the West allows popular resistance to war, public demonstrations, etc. is what makes it such a wonderful place to live in. It's what gives it its moral and political legitimacy. But when I see people touting such crap as this it makes me wonder what would happen if they were taken seriously... C'mon people. Anti-war demonstrations are the bread and butter of America. But if we're going to have them give us something serious, not this self-contradictory, anti-Semitic, ignorant bullshit.

(Photo from here. Click on it to see some truly terrifying anti-Semitism from our Lefty friends in San Francisco. Isn't it a hate-crime to say some of these words?)