More fun with trolls

I've mentioned on a number of occasions that keeping a blog provides nearly limitless opportunities to be abused, and frequently forces one to endure missives from some of the truly unbalanced people in the world.

To be clear, I'm not talking about the people who strongly disagree with things I've written here, and who somehow manage to express their opinions in an intellectually honest manner (i.e. without resorting to personal attacks on me, or attacking me from behind the veil of presumed anonymity). No, I'm talking about trolls who, time and time again, prove the GIDT:

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Last night I received such a splendid proof of the GIDT that, after initially deleting it from the comment thread, I decided that I just had to share it.  The best part is that the author thinks she is anonymous.  But I know who she is.   'Nuff said. 

Anyway, here it is in all it's glory... with editorial comments added by your host (don't thank me... I'm a giver):

"Wow. First visit to your blog [ed: Um, no it's not... but nice head fake] and I can see you are far more of a racist than I ever imagined.  I'm impressed!  [Ed:  Why would you imagine me to be a racist if you'd never visited my blog?]

You said: "I say that when an Arab terrorist is caught and killed within a yeshuv, the settlers should hold the body for ransom. And when it is finally returned, it should be liberally coated in pig fat and missing its private parts."  Charming. [Ed:  To be clear, I never said it would be charming.  That was you.]

Treppenwitz [Ed: No need to be formal... we've had coffee together.  You can call me trep!], you are but a squatter, living off someone else's land, effectively. Tell me, how can you sleep at night with the smell of blood? [Ed:  Thank you!  I'd been thinking we had a leak in the sewer line... and all along it was the smell of blood.  Honey... mystery solved!]

Here is the real story [Ed: Ah, so have some insider information?], though, not the one you see through your squatter-goggles [Ed:  Are those anything like beer goggles? Oh never mind.]:

Man wants to commit attack on settlers illegally occupying his land, eating his crops, harming his family and frightening his kids. During the attack - and here I quote the Israeli press "a 9-year-old boy was lightly wounded when he was stabbed in the hand." [Ed: Nice use of the passive, dis-associative form.  So you are saying that the man wanted to carry out an attack for a long list of presumably valid reasons... and that a boy was lightly wounded when someone stabbed him in the hand.  Any word on whether these two events are in any way related... or who might have stabbed the boy?]

A bunch of settler terrorists [Ed:  Ah, there are the terrorists.  I knew they were in this story somewhere.] decide to go on a rampage in the nearby village (without having any idea whether it is or not the village of the perpetrator). They shoot at people, burn houses. Destroy cars and private property. Randomly assault people - men, women, children, indiscriminately. They leave EIGHT [Ed:  Oooooh Cap-lock!] victims behind, then retreat to their illegal squat they call a settlement [Ed: I checked 'The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage' and I'm pretty sure that even if a person is being referred to as a 'squatter' you can't call the place in which he/she has established unauthorized domicile as a 'squat'.  Check me on that, though.] , where they will of course be patted on the back by likewise terrorists, and the government will shake its hand in disapproval. [Ed: I could be wrong, but I think you were going for 'head', since shaking ones hand would just come off looking odd... like a case of the DTs or maybe even Parkinson's]

And the only thing you can find, however, rather than condemn what happened, is to spew more of your hatred and attempt to justify settler terrorist activity to cover up for the first crime - settling in Occupied Palestine. [Ed:  Actually, if you look closely, I used almost 600 words in my post (and G-d knows how many more in the comment thread) unequivocally condemning the retaliatory attack by the residents of Yitzhar.  Strange how you missed that and instead zeroed in on the one hypothetical comment I made about what should be done with a terrorist's body if he/she were ever killed inside one of our towns.]

It's people like you who give Israel a bad name." [Ed: I can't come up with a suitable retort to that parting shot.  Feel free to offer your own.]

And you thought being a blogger was all glory and adulation.   Hah!