Cocktailhag, the blog

The Huffington Post has a charming feature I like to call “The Island of Misfit Toys,” wherein they let embarrassingly cuckoo nonentities write something and put it way at the bottom, providing unexpected delight to the eager reader.  On a slow news day, you can go in and read has-beens like, say, Tony Blankley lying out his ass, or in this case, you can read an unhinged Jew-trum from former NY Mayor Ed Koch that makes Joe Lieberman look like Mohammed somebody.  I’ve edited it somewhat for those susceptible to diarrhea or vertigo:

President Obama’s abysmal attitude toward the State of Israel and his humiliating treatment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is shocking. In the Washington Post on March 24th, Jackson Diehl wrote,

Obama has added more poison to a U.S.-Israeli relationship that already was at its lowest point in two decades. Tuesday night the White House refused to allow non-official photographers record the president’s meeting with Netanyahu; no statement was issued afterward. Netanyahu is being treated as if he were an unsavory Third World dictator, needed for strategic reasons but conspicuously held at arms length. That is something the rest of the world will be quick to notice and respond to.

Well, naturally Koch starts with a disastrously slanted piece of nonsense from the neocon Post, but he introduces it in a way that would make Sarah Palin seem thick-skinned, and nearly as smart.  Go on, Ed, you ol’ closet queen….

It is unimaginable that the President would treat any of our NATO allies, large or small, in such a degrading fashion. That there are policy differences between the U.S. and the Netanyahu government is no excuse. Allies often disagree, but remain respectful.

I’m sure that when the checks clear each month, America has been plenty respectful….  but unlike normal hookers, Israel likes to take the money and skip the blow job.  Koch, with whom no one has had noncommercial sex since 1970, ought to at least concede that point, but of course he doesn’t.  He goes on to lie about development in Israel’s supposed “capital,” (sic) of East Jerusalem and leap headlong into the usual victim-blaming, which I’ll spare you from enduring, since it’s neither new nor interesting.  But Koch’s little history lesson is perhaps the most unintentionally revealing and funny part of the whole piece.  (of what, I’ll let the reader decide…)

Prior American presidents, beginning with Truman, who recognized the State of Israel in 1948, have valued Israel as a close ally and have often come to its rescue. For example, it was Richard Nixon, during the 1973 war, who resupplied Israel with arms, making it possible for it to snatch victory from a potentially devastating defeat at the hands of a coalition of Arab countries including Egypt and Syria.

Yeah, and also ruined the economy, as it happened.  Does he really want to bring up such calamitous policies?  Well, yes.

President George W. Bush made it a point of protecting Israel at the United Nations and the Security Council, wielding the U.S. veto against the unfair actions and sanctions that Arab countries sought to impose to cripple and, if possible, destroy, the one Jewish nation in the world. Now, in my opinion, based on the actions and statements by President Obama and members of his administration, there is grave doubt among supporters of Israel that President Obama can be counted on to do what presidents before him did – protect our ally, Israel. The Arabs can lose countless wars and still come back because of their numbers. If Israel were to lose one, it would cease to exist.

After Koch unsubtly denounces Arab breeding habits, he goes on to applaud the congress for bowing much more deeply than Obama to AIPAC et al, and perhaps inadvertently lets perhaps a bit too much slip as he starts speaking in tongues that sound a bit like Dick Cheney….

But Congress does not make foreign policy. It can prevent military arms from going to Israel, but cannot send them. Congress has no role in determining U.S. policy at the U.N. Security Council. The President of the United States determines our foreign policy – nearly unilaterally – under our Constitution. So those Congressional bipartisan wishes of support, while welcome, will not protect Israel in these areas — only the President can do that. Based on his actions to date, I have serious doubts.

And, if you weren’t nauseated enough, here comes the ol’ holocaust….  Complete with a requisite Niemoller quote;  Why woudn’t ya?

In the 1930s, the Jewish community and its leadership, with few exceptions, were silent when their coreligionists were being attacked, hunted down, incarcerated and slaughtered. Ultimately 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. The feeling in the U.S. apparently was that Jews who criticized our country’s actions and inactions that endangered the lives of other Jews would be considered disloyal, unpatriotic and displaying dual loyalty, so many Jews stayed mute. Never again should we allow that to occur. We have every right to be concerned about the fate of the only Jewish nation in the world, which, if it had existed during the 1930s and thereafter, would have given sanctuary to any Jew escaping the Nazi holocaust and taken whatever military action it could to save Jews not yet in the clutches of the Nazis. We who have learned the lessons of silence, Jews and Christians alike, must speak up now before it is too late….   Where are the peoples’ voices? Remember the words of Pastor Niemoller, so familiar that I will not recite them, except for the last line: “Then they came for me, and by that time, there was no one left to speak up.”

If it were possible to be more manipulative and dishonest, it literally escapes me how.  Finally, Koch lets go and turns into the teabagger in a yarmulke to which old age and dementia have reduced him, and concludes:

Supporters of Israel who gave their votes to candidate Obama — 78 percent of the Jewish community did — believing he would provide the same support as John McCain: this is the time to speak out and tell the President of your disappointment in him. It seems to me particularly appropriate to do so during Passover. It is one thing to disagree with certain policies of the Israeli government. It is quite another to treat Israel and its prime minister as pariahs, which only emboldens Israel’s enemies and makes the prospect of peace even more remote.

Please, Ed, stop.  You’re making Rudy look good.