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Thread #121678   Message #2662748
Posted By: Little Hawk
23-Jun-09 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Operation Cast Lead Explained
Subject: RE: BS: Operation Cast Lead Explained
You will have no difficulty convincing me, bobad, that there is a tremendous rise in hatred of Israel...and connected to that...hatred of Jews...and old demons of anti-Jewishness are being resuscitated in Europe and elsewhere. Obviously.

The part that you don't seem to connect to is that all that is an inevitable result of the Israeli government's political and military actions of the past 50 or so years. It is the Israeli government and military who have given "anti-semitism" (as you call it) its boost and they are continuing to do so...by their actions.

Do those actions resemble Naziism? Yes...to some extent. Not to an equivalent extent, but to some extent.

Are some of their Muslim opponents equally fascist in nature? Yes. Most definitely they are. You have two sets of equally prejudiced, bitter, and paranoid people there in the Middle East, both obsessing over the past, hanging onto old grievances, and demonizing each other. The responsibility for that is shared between them. Neither Israel NOR its Muslim opponents are particularly amenable to reason...they hate each other too much to want to compromise and they are too obsessed with their own perceived righteousness and historical victimhood.

The Left is naturally frustrated with the situation. Who wouldn't be? You have 2 sets of totally unreasonable and self-righteous paranoids raving on about how awful the other one is, and no one can get them to agree on anything. Who wouldn't be frustrated with such a situation? It's ludicrous.