I'm sure you are fully aware that there are entire organizations whose purpose is to seek out and call out anti-semitism worldwide. Perhaps you're aware of a recent case.....
“throughout the Muslim communities that I visit, and indeed throughout Europe, there is significant anger and resentment and, yes, perhaps sometimes hatred and indeed sometimes and all too growing intimidation and violence directed at Jews generally as a result of the continuing tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories and other Arab neighbors in the Middle East…every new settlement announced in Israel, every rocket shot over a border or suicide bomber on a bus, and every retaliatory military strike exacerbates the problem and provides a setback here in Europe for those fighting hatred and bigotry here in Europe.” ~ Howard Gutman, US Ambassador to Belgium
I suppose you've heard of the firestorm around those comments?
HockeyDad wrote:
This is very interesting in the way reactions have been reported. Gutman does not speak for all of Judaism any more than I do. And not everyone agrees with the theory he espoused that there are 2 kinds of antisemitism, traditional hatred vs political. Interesting also is that you pick a memeber of Obama's team with whom to align yourself as a victim. Strange bedfellows.
You have called me a right wing conservative because I support Israel, and you mock the Obama/liberal regime too. Yet you liken yourself to Gutman when I asked for examples of you personally being called antisemitic due to your antiIsrael rantings. I am hardly a right wing exteremist and you are hardly a supporter of Obama...and I still have not seen anyone, including me, accuse you personally of being antisemitic. But Gutman is under attack and you seem to be saying you are in his camp. Really? That just happened. When were you attacked before this episode? How many more times can I say I disagree with your stance on Israel but do not believe you hate Jews?
There is another belief that states that antisemitic revisionists need to prove that the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews is a fable, never happened, in order to then declare Israel an illegal state. The current champion of this ugly school of thought is the Iranian spokesman. Is there any doubt he is a Jew Hater of the first degree? And sadly there are Jewish apologists that accept blame for creating neuveau-political-antisemitism as a result of Israel's aggresiveness. They believe in the 2 types theory. Gutman verbalized it. But he is incorrect. Blaming the victim for being hated is BS. Antisemetism is antisemitism. And placating one's enemy does not deter them.
Now, as an American, I can easily accept anyone's argument that they do not want American dollars used to support foreign governments. That is a totally different discussion. But if a war starts with Iran, Iran will have earned it. Their leader has been unambiguous in his desire to wipe out Israel. And you say that Israel has caused fear in other countries with their superior military capability...yet there has never been an utterance about Israel's dream to wipe out any nation, about taking over the middle east, even though they could have done so many times in the past. Evidently their defense is really for defense, not offense. And it has been working.
Try to tell us that Israel woud still exist without their military prowess. Yet the poor weaklings surrounding them are still on the map too. By your thought process, this is oxymoronic.
I would love to see you hold any country that wants to erase Israel from the map to the same impossible standards you demand from Israel. Why are they exempt from your wrath? We armed Iran AND Iraq for chrissakes! Egypt received tons of aid. Yet you remain silent when it comes to the worst nations on Earth. No harsh words for Imadinnerjacket? He cool with you? Forget war, is he cool with you?
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