That’s not really relevant to what I was asking, but I’ll answer that.
THe German government probably has faith in our ability to capture criminals. So there would be no need to retaliate. Besides, it’s not as if we were sponsoring the gangs or encouraging them to commit violence. Arafat incites Palestinians, even those groups he does not directly support, with violent and anti-semetic rhetoric. So he is responsible for the violence.
Anti-semitc rhetoric? yes, all criticism of Israel is antismetic especially when there killing your people. He does encourage resistance to the occupation, which I don’ think anyone can criticize him for, but he does not encourage attacks of this kind.
There is much to criticize Arafat for but your barking up the wrong tree.
After all that stupid WMD malarkey, does it never, ever strike you that that is what you’re supposed to think - I will never understand how so many millions of otherwise intelligent Americans seemingly have their critical faculties removed in relation to politics and simply accept whatever nonsense they’re told to believe.
No wonder they keep trying to get away with it, it’s because they can. It’s utterly bizarre.
**Anti-semitc rhetoric? yes, all criticism of Israel is antismetic especially when there killing your people. He does encourage resistance to the occupation, which I don’ think anyone can criticize him for, but he does not encourage attacks of this kind.
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Arafat goes way beyond criticism of Israel and attacks Jews as a people. I’ll have to go get some quotes now.
Oh, so when you were saying the region is hatefilled, violent, and lawless, you just meant only Palestinians are hatefilled, violent, and lawless. I just want to get this pro-Israeli bullshit straight.
[nitpickyness] Aren’t Arabs (inc Palestinians) as Semetic as Jews?
So “Anti-semetic” meaning “Anti-Jewish racism or tribalism” is a slighly odd in this particular context. [/nitpickyness]
Uhhhh, no. Anti-Semitic is ASSUMED by many to mean “against Jews”. That 's a modern corruption of the real meaning.
Literally Semite means " descended from SEM" (son of Noah). The Semites were eventually classified into 4 groups if I remember correctly, depending on what region they settled in. Those 4 groups INCLUDED arabic speakers as well. Hebrew speakers were one group, but not a majority. The term "anti-Semite was coined as a poor catch-phrase for “one who is against Africans and Asians”, because the descendants of Sem spread all the way to the far East… they originated in the middle East, but so did a gaziliion other groups.