(Bobab, Bruce and Keith - and whomever else it may concern)
Our discussions here are over - now you have reverted to personal abuse this thread can have no future, which will suit your inability to put up an intelligent case for what is happening in Israel at present.
You have made quite clear that your agendas have nothing to do with the Jewish People, but rather, to defend the actions of what has gradually become an ultra right wing State
None of you are prepared to defend the obvious antisemitism by one of your number that blew the gaff on your real intentions, so now that has been placed in the open let's move on. there can be little defence of the openly extreme behaviour of what is happening on the Israeli/Gazan border anyway, as your "what about" shift to Syria has shown.
It is about time the world began to question whether Israel has become a fully-fledged antisemitic state.
Jews who do not support the extremist right-wing behaviour of the Israeli Administration have now had their 'Jewishness' stripped from them by Israeli politicians and have been declared "non-Jews" or "self-hating" or "self loathing Jews" – they have been stripped of their cultural identity by a political party – that is not just antsemitic, but it an act of Facism for any political group to question the cultural validity of huge groups of people because they will not ‘toe the party line’
At first it was the actions of groups of extremists, but when Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked, declared it publicly and was not sacked for doing so, it became official party policy
For some time now the very language to describe the Jewish opponents of Israel is reminiscent of that used by the Nazis in the 1930s
In a review of his book in an Isreali newspaper, ‘The Iron Wall’, Professor Avi Shlaim is described as “Slyme” – straight out of the Nazi propaganda press.
The leadership of Israel is now allying itself with antisemites like VIKTOR ORBAN in HUNGARY and drawing support from Europe’s far right SUCH AS GERMAN FASCIST GROUPS
The Government had declared it will name the main station of its planned underground railway in Jerusalem afterANTI SEMITIC DONALD TRUMP
There is something rotten in the State of Israel; it’s about time that was discussed rather than pointing fingers at the extremist behaviour of other states to avoid what is happening on the Gazan/Israeli border
Jim Carroll