There was a link on Expecting Rain today to something called The Palestinian Telegraph, and an article called “That Day, This 9/11, Fox News and Bob Dylan.”

The article beats around the bush quite a bit, quoting a bunch of Dylan lyrics and wandering around thematically. Ultimately, however, the writer gets down to what is clearly the point and the reason that this piece appears in something called The Palestinian Telegraph in the first place. The point that the writer wishes to insinuate to her readers is that Israel had something to do with the September 11th, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.

I was going to quote some of the piece at this point, but just looking again at this mix of 9/11 “Truther” drivel and fevered anti-Israeli garbage makes me rather sick.

It is of-course especially astonishing and disturbing that someone would use the songs of Bob Dylan to buttress and to promote this kind of evil propaganda.

But then maybe Bob himself would be among those least surprised.

What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin’, they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.

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