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Abdullah abdicates rationality on West Bank nationality : Comments
By David Singer, published 24/2/2010Historical facts become important when looking for solutions to sovereignty in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
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And as I've said for the umpteenth time, most Muslims do not agree with what their governments do when it comes to Israel.
Case in Point:
One of the OIC countries that has relations with Israel is Egypt. The Jew hatred of the populace is tempered only by the need to protect Egypt's profitable tourist industry. Even so, Egypt's tightly censored media seem to be trying to compete with the Third Reich when it comes to Jew hatred. Have you forgotten eg "A Knight Without a Horse" – a "documdrama" based on the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"?
You call me a defeatist. I call myself a realist.
What I am about to write will strike many as harsh. Nonetheless I believe it is the only realistic way of assessing the situation.
There is only ONE lesson worth learning from the Holocaust:
When people demonise Jews, when they compare us to apes and pigs, to slimy subhuman beings, to viruses and cancers, then assume that eventually they are going to try and massacre us.
That is the ONLY lesson worth remembering. If we ever forget it six million Jews will have died in vain no matter how many memorials we erect.
The Holocaust did not "just happen". For centuries Europe was drenched in anti-Semitic propaganda. See for example "Saint" Chrysostom's Homilies against the Jews.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chrysostom-jews6.html
The kind of material about Jews that pervades the Ummah today makes Chrysostom look like a pacifist! I can only compare it to Der Sturmer.
David,
I do not know whether war can be averted or whether Israel can survive. But this I do know. You do not save a nation by indulging in fantasy - which is what you are doing. Successful survival strategies need to be grounded in reality. Unfortunately reality included the unremitting and ferocious hatred emanating from the Ummah which poisons everything.
It is what it is.
My usual disclaimer. I am NOT debating rights and wrongs or "legalities", merely describing the situation as I see it