I’m not blaming Jews here, I’m blaming Israelis. There is a clear difference. But nice try to conflate the two.
As for pointing to ISIS, that is an attempt to change the subject.
Israel is a fascist nation implementing fascist policies and oppressing the people of Gaza. It is not legal to bait little boys with taunts and then machine gun them. That is happening. It is not legal to bomb civilians to get to a few criminals. It is not legal to blockade a whole people and refuse to let them come and go as they please. Many people have asserted in this thread that this is not the same thing as the Warsaw Ghetto. Other than the intensity of the starvation and pace of the murders and the not yet murdering everyone at once (although there are of calls for just that in Israel), what is the difference? Fascist oppression and murder is fascist oppression and murder.
Yes, Auschwitz survivors can be wrong, but Dr. Meyer lays out his case at the two links I’ve provided, you all have asserted that he is wrong, you make no counter argument on the topic, you beg the question. You are begging in favor of fascist oppression.
The only people who have any practical chance of being heard in such a fashion as to change the Israeli government, either in who is elected, or policy (not a real possibility) are Israelis or Jews. There will be no checks on Israeli abuses voluntarily, or through quiet “let’s not criticize openly” channels. It just goes on and the Israeli policies stay the same and the people get murdered. If we, as people of Jewish heritage don’t speak out, like Dr. Meyer and Prof. Bauman and Prof. Cohen and the survivor’s and their heirs can’t get listened to are we just going to sit around …
http://ijsn.net/gaza/survivors_and_descendents-letter/
and be content because today they are not coming for us? Does the solemn vow of “Never Again” mean it is okay as long as “we” as people of Jewish heritage are never pursued again? It sure as hell isn’t okay with me that the U.S. Government is financing this.
Joan Rivers gets away with calling for death to all of them and the public is largely silent. Except for the “silly idiots” who condemn her.
And what is worse is that all the usual defenders are compared to years past, so quiet and measured and circumspect. It’s nice to see all the restraint in what a mere five years ago would have got me called an Anti-Semite all up and down this board. That is because you don’t really believe it anymore. It is a big deal. I was taught morality by Christians and Jews, but I was taught to be contentious more by my Jewish relatives. Silence in the face of evil is a grave moral failing.
Who have we as Americans become? When we say that God created us all equal, are we secretly smirking at the bullshit, or willfully blind? When we say everyone is entitled to equal protection under the laws, are we laughing at the fools who believe it and just don’t care? When we say that everyone has the right to vote, do we put up barriers to voting to make sure the sub-humans don’t vote, or think it isn’t such a big deal?
When we had the opportunity in WWII to denounce the Nazis for their atrocities against the Jews were we silent for fear that speaking up for the Jews would turn the public against the Jews?
You have all sworn, “Never again”. So, are you against http://open.salon.com/blog/markinjapan/2014/08/05/why_israel_lies and willing to openly ask your representatives to be openly against it, or are you worried about being called an Anti-Semite? Are you in favor of it, like Joan Rivers? Or are you silent? Or is it okay because it is better to be on the dishing out rather than the receiving end of crimes against humanity.