HOW THE LEFT SEES THE TEA PARTY

The Haaretz Daily is the newspaper of choice for Israel’s far-left. Bradley Burston is one of its columnists. A native of Los Angeles, he moved to Israel after graduation from the University of California at Berkeley, that hotbed of Marxist professors. From his columns one would have to conclude that his professors succeeded in getting Burston to accept the far-left’s hatred of Israel.
　
If you read his columns, you will see that he criticizes every move and policy of Israel’s conservative government. He is an ardent supporter of Peace Now, the group that seeks peace at any price and turns the other cheek whenever Israel gets attacked by Palestinian terrorists. He favors dismantling of all Israeli settlements and wants Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza strip. Burston either seems oblivious to or supports the vows of Abbas and Fatah that there will be only ‘one state from the river to the sea.’
　
By ignoring the Palestinian vows to eradicate the Jewish state, I suspect that had Burston lived in Europe during the Holocaust, he would have volunteered to be first in line to the gas chambers and ovens of the Nazi extermination camps.
　
Name calling of its opponents is what the left does best. In his blog, A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL, Burston accuses America’s Tea Party of being exactly like Israel’s right-wing. Here is how he described both movements:
　
"That distinctive brew of left-baiting, Obama-hating, poorly veiled racism, clergy-driven jingoism, clergy-fanned derision of the Supreme Court, the Luddite insertion of anti-government bile where an ideology should go, a majority which feels victimized and discriminated against and threatened by minorities of indeterminate legal status."
　
It is obvious that Blurston is clueless about the Tea Party. While there are individuals in the loosely organized group who fit his descriptions, the overwhelming majority of party followers are ‘none of the above.’ They are merely fed up with the direction our government is going and with the members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans. I am sure that the left in our country sees the Tea Party in the same way Burston sees it.
　
I suspect that if the Tea Party succeeds in defeating the incumbent members of Congress, the party will fade away once its followers discover that ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same.’