Thursday, September 14, 2006
Calculate Your Cluenessness Quotient
Subject: Your Cluenessness Quotient
Are you a Clueless Defeatist?
Take the Quiz and Grade Yourself!! Compute your Cluelessness
Quotient!
prepared by Steven Plaut
There is some confusion these days over who exactly is *really* in favor
of peace, who is still clueless, who is a defeatist, and who has failed to
learn anything at all about the Middle East conflict over the past 20 years.
In order to assist in making sense of things and separating the
sensible folks from the truly God-awful foolish, we have constructed a
little self-quiz for you to test your own political orientation.
Start with a grade of zero. Then for each question, add a point if you
agree with the statement, but do not add one if you disagree.
All set? Here goes.
1. I think it is more important that Palestinians driving about not be
inconvenienced at checkpoints than it is for Palestinian terrorists to be
apprehended.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree - Add 0 to score
2. I think that Israeli military units should risk the lives of their
men in battle rather than obliterate with artillery buildings or villages
from which katyusha rockets are fired into Israel.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree - Add 0 to score
3. I think the proper Israeli response to al-Qassam rockets being fired
into Sderot in the Negev is to conduct talks with the Hamas.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
4. I think that conducting talks with the Hezbollah and the Hamas
serves Israel's national interest, even if the talks do not produce
agreements. It lowers tensions and is helpful psychologically.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
5. I think Israel should just defuse the conflict with the Hezbollah by
turning over to Lebanon the Shabaa Farm.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
6. I prefer to get Israel's captive soldiers released by exchanging
them for terrorists Israel is holding in its prisons rather than through
armed conflict.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
7. Palestinian terrorism is caused by the socioeconomic problems of the
Palestinian civilian population.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
8. There are no military solutions to the problem of terrorism.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
9. Because the Hamas won the Palestinian election, the Hamas is now the
legitimate representation of the Palestinians and Israel must conduct talks
with it.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
10. Israel should neutralize Syria as a belligerent by returning the Golan
Heights to it.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
11. Israel should not use cluster bombs or any other weapon against the
Hezbollah if they can cause civilian injuries.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
12. Targeted assassinations by Israel simply enrage the Arabs and cause
terrorism to increase.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
13. Israeli Arab Knesset Members are simply patriots interested in
Israel adopting a more flexible policy position.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
14. Capital punishment does not deter terrorism or violent crime.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
15. *Betselem* and Human Rights Watch are neutral and objective watchdogs
who care about human rights for all.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to
score
16. All disparities in income between demographic or ethnic groups in
Israel (and in general) are because of discrimination.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to
score
17. Reconstructionism is a *bona fide* branch of Judaism.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to
score
18. Israel needs a strong Histadrut (trade union federation) to keep the
economy healthy.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to
score
19. "Judicial Activism" is the way to make Israel more democratic and
tolerant.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to
score
20. Settlers are evil people who torment and assault Palestinians.
Agree - Add 1 to score Disagree � Add 0 to score
****
Ok, now add up your score. Here are the results:
a. If you scored zero, then you are a reactionary unprogressive neocon and
possibly even a Zionist. Welcome to our club! No admission dues charged.
b. If you scored 1-4, there is yet hope for you and you may yet achieve
sufficient enlightenment to join the club in section "a" above.
c. If you scored 5-9, you may have spent the past few years on some other
planet and cut off from news sources and from the terrestrial reality. We
are hoping you will yet recover.
d. If you scored 10-14, it may be due to the fact that you have been
reading The Nation, Haaretz and Tikkun while doing much more than taking one
toke over the line.
e. A score of 15-19, then you must be a member of al-Qaeda or at least a
serious potential recruit.
f. A perfect score of 20. You must be a faculty member in one of the
departments of the humanities or the soft social sciences at Tel Aviv
University.
2. Ivy League Toxins:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16997
3. With the Conservative Synagogue movement about to go bonkers on gay
"marriage", worth reading this:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15431
4. Pork in the Galilee
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1157913624169&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
5. Resuscitating the Right:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1157913624780&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
6. Dying for Spin:
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/762448.html
7. Campus War:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24351
8. The Left joins the Jihad:
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10320
9. Ottelenghi on the war:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjFjNzM2NWFmZDA5NjU4YjA2YTJhOGFkMTZjYThkNjU
10. Beware the Chamishite Conspiracy Nuts:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWFkZjBhZThjMjQxY2RlN2EwZGYxNGU4N2YzMTlkZjU=
