Did Cannonfire get "Megaphoned"?

As readers know, a rather innocuous recent post by dr. elsewhere on political problems within Israel, along with another post by yours truly on the Israeli "art students" and "movers" conundrum, led to a flurry of posts by people trying their damnedest to make both the doctor and myself out to be racists.

The accusations were quite bizarre: Apparently, referring to Jews as brothers is now considered "patronizing" and "contemptible." Of course, anyone intent on doing so can scry racism into any text. Fortunately, most rational people can recognize sophistry on sight.

Here's the odd part: A lot of these commenters seem unfamiliar with this blog. Take, for example this gem:

We in part were responding to your ludicrous attempt to give credibility to that outworn and hackneyed story of some "art students” (Jewish oh so very Jewish) dancing the Hora and giving each other high fives while Rom..Twin Towers burned. Oh those hateful jews must have planted the bombs inside all those really really tall buildings while peddling art inside then like all jews do.

Now, anyone who has spent any time here knows that I'm fairly notorious for my opposition to all "controlled demolition" (or CD) scenarios of 9/11. If I do not announce a delete-on-sight policy, the "trannies" (my derisive term for the CD aficionados) tend to take over the comments section every time I mention that date.

Just look at the phrases used by this commenter: "dancing the Hora," "hateful Jews," "Jewish oh so very Jewish," "like all jews do." Nothing here even remotely resembles what I actually wrote, nor does this bilge resemble the way I think. But these, alas, are the sentiments that certain lying bastards want to ascribe to me.

Am I angry? You bet.

Can you please list what you do like, appreciate, or respect about Jews? Just so we can all see that you really really do care about us. Otherwise you are a ahhhhhh stupid hare brained idiot and a jew "disliker".

What is a Trannie also?

Here we see another indication that we're dealing with an influx of newcomers who are too lazy to use the "search" function at the top of the page.

Of course, I'm being baited. When I talked about the Jews I've known, worked for, grew up with, had in my extended family, made love to and respected, I was called condescending. Now, we learn that anyone who does not talk about such things stands open to accusations of anti-Semitism. Ya can't win!

The people who offer these baiting remarks do so knowingly, in cold blood. They are not actually offended. They are pretending to be offended for tactical reasons. They are part of a team. We know who they are and what the plan is.

Thanks to a link provided by a reader named sunny, we learn Israeli students are using software expertise to search out blogs such as this one:

Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.

In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.

That's why newcomers to this blog suddenly showed up to make disgusting accusations.

The ploy is obvious: If any writer slams Israel -- or if someone does a little original research into something like the "movers" story -- hit 'em with charges of racism. It doesn't matter if the charges make any sense. The goal is to make the blogger sorry he even broached the topic.

I'm on to you, guys. And thanks to your efforts, I hereby promise 1. to keep this blog alive (I was hoping to shut it down soon) and 2. to spend more time criticizing Israel.

That "megaphone" just backfired right into your faces, didn't it?

Oh, one more word to our friends at the WUJS and elsewhere: The use of students in this "megaphone" network adds even more credibility to the well-documented story that Mossad used students to spy on DEA offices and, it seems, to track Atta's team. The problem with using student labor is that young people lack experience and cannot think more than one move ahead. That's why Suter's lads made such clunky, obvious and self-incriminating remarks on 9/11.