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Subject: Thoughts on Israel, Helen Thomas, Turkey and the world's weird views on those topics....
RockyMTNClimber    6/13/2010 10:19:34 AM
Victor Davis Hansen has a great article on National Review On-line last week. He points out the bizarre differences between the world treats Israel and other countries with border disputes. He places the concept of "proportionate response" and compares the circumstances on the ground in Gaza and other similar places around the world. He arrives at some questions not a conclusion. Questions that need to be asked. ht***tp://article.nationalreview.com/436085/helen-thomas-turkey-and-the-liberation-of-israel/victor-davis-hanson?page=1 "It is hard to become much more influential than the doyen of the White House press corps, who is given a ceremonial front-rows seat at press briefings and press conferences. So when Helen Thomas suggested that the Israelis should leave their country and “go home” to Poland and Germany, this was not some obscure, eccentric anti-Semite, but a liberal insider who has come to enjoy iconic status and a sense of exemption from criticism. Note that Ms. Thomas did not call for just a West Bank free of Jews. And she did not just wish for the elimination of the nation of Israel itself. Rather, Thomas envisions the departure of Israelis to the sites of the major death camps seven decades ago where six million Jews were gassed." "The Palestinian “refugees” — a majority of whom are the children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren of people actually displaced in 1948 — compose a small part of the world’s refugee population. There are millions of refugees in Rwanda, the Congo, and Darfur. Well over a half-million Jews were ethnically cleansed from the major Arab capitals between 1947 and 1973, each wave of expulsion cresting after a particular Mideast war. Again, few care to demonstrate for the plight of any of these people. Prime Minister Erdogan has not led any global effort to relocate the starving millions in Darfur, despite his loud concern for “refugees” in Gaza. The United States gives far more millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians than does their Muslim protector in Turkey, who saves cash in winning Palestinian support by practicing anti-Semitism on the cheap. Nor have I heard of any German suicide bomber blowing himself up over lost ancestral land in Danzig or East Prussia, although that land was lost about the same time as some Palestinians left Israel. Few worry that in 1949 tens of thousands of Japanese were forcibly expelled by the Soviet Union from Sakhalin Island."
 
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YelliChink       6/13/2010 8:35:24 PM
Anybody who reads real history knows what is going on here. I don't want to go to all the socio-economic history of Ottoman Empire in the region or records of Bedouin raids that desolated the region, but lies are just lies. Nevertheless, Goebbels principle prevails at our time. Time will come when the Lincoln principle applies, but some will always believe the lies. When we have members of a culture or religious establishment refuse to believe otherwise, we have a perpetual conflict.
 
Confront those useful idiots with how almost all Mizrahim Jews ended up in Israel and the US, then you will watch how their face frozen by the hard, cold fact. Then you will see their rage of being ashamed by their own ignorance, and they'll blame you and call you names instead of recognizing their own imbecility.
 
 
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