<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The WaPo&#8217;s Israel&nbsp;Problem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Jennifer Rubin re-tweeted <a href="http://badrachel.blogspot.com/2011/10/gilad.html?spref=tw" target="_self">this</a>&#0160;vile post by&#0160;Rachel Abrams, which regards the captors of Gilad Shalit as &quot;animals&quot;:</p> <blockquote> <p>Throw  them not into your prisons, where they can bide until they’re traded by  the thousands for another child of Israel, but into the sea, to float  there, food for sharks, stargazers, and whatever other oceanic  carnivores God has put there for the purpose.</p> </blockquote> <p>Rubin&#39;s own version of the diatribe was as follows:</p> <blockquote> <p>“gilad is free and home. now round up his death-worshiping captors and turn them into food for sharks&quot;</p> </blockquote> <p>The leaders of Hamas are indeed often despicable in their war crimes, but it&#39;s a mark of civilization that we do not descend to this kind of tribal, racist, fascistic bile. And notice that Rubin is endorsing the notion that God Almighty views the captors of Shalit (who, unlike many prisoners under Israeli and US control in the past, was not tortured) as inferior to the &quot;children of Israel.&quot; He put sharks in the ocean to eat Arabs. Moreoever, given a chance by the Washington Post ombudsman to take back the endorsement of this sentiment, Rubin <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/post-roast-jennifer-rubins-retweet/2011/11/07/gIQAxxLQ1M_blog.html" target="_self">doubled down:</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Rubin told me that she did agree with Abrams. Rubin said that she  admires Abrams, has quoted her a lot, thinks she’s an excellent writer  and endorsed the sentiment behind the Abrams blog post.</p> </blockquote> <p>So we have a blogger at the WaPo endorsing throwing Arab prisoners into the sea to meet righteous divine punishment. Can you imagine a Arab writer pennng that about Israelis and surviving at the Post?</p>]]></html></oembed>