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Thread #46231   Message #685034
Posted By: GUEST
07-Apr-02 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: Review: Contemporary Attacks on Synagogues
Subject: RE: Review: Contemporary Attacks on Synagogues
I think people need to seriously spend some effort on coming to understand the facts about Mideast violence, so they can distinguish between religious bigotry and hatred, and legitimate outrage towards and criticism of the actions of the Israeli government.

Second, the suggestion that anti-Semitism is at it's highest levels since WWII seems to me to be a profoundly inaccurate statement--very disingenous. What that sort of hysteria does is dismiss the real suffering of Jews in the European holocaust.

It also is an attempt to wrongly associate Arabs with the holocaust. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The holocaust was European against European, not Arab against European, and any attempt to associate the Palestinians with the Nazis who committed genocide is horrific and appalling misinformation/propagandazine which is racist in the extreme.