Dirty Hari
';British journalist Johann Hari has written one of the most appalling, ill-informed op-eds I have ever read regarding Israel.
Here’s a taste:
When you hit your 60th birthday, most of you will guzzle down your hormone replacement therapy with a glass of champagne and wonder if you have become everything you dreamed of in your youth. In a few weeks, the state of Israel is going to have that hangover.
She will look in the mirror and think – I have a sore back, rickety knees and a gun at my waist, but I’m still standing. Yet somewhere, she will know she is suppressing an old secret she has to face. I would love to be able to crash the birthday party with words of reassurance. Israel has given us great novelists like Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, great film-makers like Joseph Cedar, great scientific research into Alzheimer’s, and great dissident journalists like Amira Hass, Tom Segev and Gideon Levy to expose her own crimes.
She has provided the one lonely spot in the Middle East where gay people are not hounded and hanged, and where women can approach equality.
But I can’t do it. Whenever I try to mouth these words, a remembered smell fills my nostrils. It is the smell of shit.
And it gets worse.
I had a hell of a fisking planned too, but since Honest Reporting has already done the job, I will rather point you to theirs.
Meanwhile, I have this message to Hari: If you want to stop smelling sh*t, stop writing get your head out of your ass (thanks Paco).
Update: Separated at Birth: Turds of a Feather Edition
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Another word of advice to Hari would be, “If don’t like the smell of s**t get your head out of your ass.”
http://thumbsnap.com/v/dyPr3sVa.jpg
May 1st, 2008 at 10:41 pm
What else can one expect these days from the bizarro world of British journalism, where every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote?
May 1st, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I blame Shakespeare, Kipling, Dickens and the few others who were such geniuses with words. Because these could and because they were Brits, it has lent to the over large population of puffed up egos in that country the erroneous belief that they can too. Hari’s article goes to prove that England’s image would be much more positively enhanced if they would just shut up.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 am
Dave:
Given Johann Hari’s sexuality, if he’s tasting excrement, it’s not because the scent is being emitted by Israel.
His screed is so pathetic I ALMOST feel sorry for the Palestinians. Between their dysfunctional political and religious leaders, they don’t need help from interlocators like Hari.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:59 am
Thats not acceptable in any newspaper, If that were any other country the embassy would be calling for an open apology in the mornings addition.
Actually I think I’ll phone the embassy tomorrow.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 am
The smell of shit hitting his nostrils is coming out of his own mouth: he’s gulping down too much of it at Israel’s expense.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 am
You have to admit he does have great facial skin complexion.
Must be the Preparation-H.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 am
When I read this piece of s…t, I felt so sick to my stomach, I couldn’t bear it. I read it on Yom ha Shoah. I thought I got used to the vilest abuse but when I read this, but this must have been among the worst.
I thought for a moment to start blogging again but didn’t feel up to an answer to such things. I can’t take it any more.
It’s frightening to see the amounts of hatred against Israel, and the levels people can sink to. Outright frightening.
The unfairness of it all just steamrolls all over me. Thank you to Dave and the other commentators for making me laugh.
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 am
I belief Der Independent must be fery proud of jung Johann. Heil Hari! In fact ve kan kloz down Der Sturmer and cirkulate ze much improoft British version.
J. Goebbels
May 11th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
[...] You may recall the appalling Independent op-ed by excrement-loving “journalist” Johann Hari, which was nicely picked apart by Honest Reporting. [...]