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LGF linked to this Caroline Glick article: Leaving the hall of mirrors

It’s mainly about the MSM being retarded (literally and colloquially), as it always is, but it includes this paragraph

This week at the Jerusalem Summit conference, Etti Livni, a Member of Knesset from the secular Shinui party and self-proclaimed feminist participated in a panel discussion regarding the persecution of women in Muslim society. Livni stated that in her view, the stories of abuse of Muslim women are similar to tales of abuse of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women. The preposterousness of this claim is boundless. In Egypt, the majority of girls are forced by their fathers to undergo the barbaric procedure of genital mutilation euphemistically referred to as female circumcision. Where does this happen in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities? According to a report released this week by Human Rights Watch, one third of Egyptian women have been beaten by their husbands. In what ultra-Orthodox community are comparable numbers to be found? But admitting that Muslim societies and countries are misogynistic and systematically enslave half their members would make Israel look good by comparison, so it is better to sweep the evil under the rug.:

Now, I understand why people like this do these summits on the suffering of some group of people, and I understand why members of these summits tend to lash out at the most powerful guy in the room (if only the evil US cared enough, there would be no AIDS/hunger/pain/disease/flooding/hurricanes/locust swarms/terrorism/candy corn), but I don’t understand why this Etti Livni (I like that name, it reads lyrical. Dunno if it sounds lyrical, cuz I wouldn’t be the one to try to pronounce it correctly.) would try so hard to keep Israel from looking good by comparison. Unless it’s just guilt, which I understand. But she’s an Israeli, the summit is an Israeli one. It’s being reported in the Israeli media. If Israel is just as bad, what gives her any moral authority whatsoever to preach to the Muslims about their sins? Shouldn’t she prop Israel up just the slightest bit so she can actually help those she wants to help? Or she should fix her own society first so she can fix others.

It just makes no logical sense. It’s like a fat person pulled up at the McDonald’s drive thru waiting for his supersized meals preaching to the 16-year-old in the window how his company is ruining the health of the nation. No one would listen to him. It would be ridiculous.