Just for the record:

On 25 August 2012 at 8:27:36 AM David G posted the following:

>>If there has been hatred of Jews over centuries then there must be some reason for this which must have something to do with Jews themselves.>>

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=14025&page=0

This tells me what sort of a person he is.

Long experience has shown me there is never any point in trying to engage in any sort of dialogue with such a person.

Under the circumstance I do not see any point in responding to his posts.

Stevenlmeyer,I think you miss the point.The Jews do not have the monopoly on halocaust or oppression.There were 60 million Chinese murdered by Mao.20 million murdered by Starlin and only 6 million murdered by Hitler.

Is a Jewish life worth far more than a Chinese or Palistinian one?

I was brought up in the Catholic faith a long time ago and they had the Zionist arrogrance in the 1960's of believing that only Catholics were worthy of an after life if we belived their BS.What's the difference between the Catholic ,Muslim and Jewish BS? They all believe that they are superior to everyone else and need to wage war to prove it.WTF?

Arjay, i do not deny flawed decisisons by West.

My opinion, however, much geater influence by authoritarian China would be much worse.

Chris, you need to take a long hard look at what is actually going on in the US -China confrontation. I suggest that you take a few minutes to read William Engdahl's latest piece published yesterday in www.globalresearch.ca.

I think that it is tolerably clear that the US is pursuing policies that will inevitably lead to a catastrophic confrontation with China. Australia is affected in multiple ways. It is clear that the Australian government got its orders when Obama was here last year and addressed Parliament.

I think that your choice between authoritarian China and the "democratic" west is a false dichotomy. Following the US line has got us involved in disastrous and illegal wars, and a party to multiple atrocities around the world. Bob Carr's refusal to condemn the latest, US supported, act of international aggression by the Israelis is a sign of where our allegiances do not equate with our best interests.

I urge you to read Engdahl. He is more often right than wrong and there is much in that article to ponder.

James and Arjay, I strongly support your views and I condemn Australia supporting the world's biggest imperialist and warmonger: the U.S.A.

Our politicians are mainly brain-dead or controlled by the corporations and they will leave our country isolated from the region we are located in.

The U.S. is a malignant curse and has been since its inception! It is leading the world to hell!

Stevenlmeyer.
I know from experience that there's no point talking to a rape victims about what motivates rapists or a battered wife about trends in domestic violence, it only upsets them and makes one look mean.
So it its with believers of the narrative of Jewish suffering,there's no point in discussing statistics, matters of history and causal relationships in relation to the Pogrom, only emotions matter.
I'll give you an example:
As Mark Dreyfus pointed out in response to Christopher Pyne's recent "Downfall" soundbite, such comments are offensive to Holocaust survivors and all "right thinking" Australians, ie only feelings matter.
A better rebuttal would have been to point out that Pyne was in fact being deliberately provocative but that he's making a factually correct comparison, Hitler's closest supporters and admirers stayed with him right until the end, for better or worse, so it is with Gillard and her inner circle, Dreyfus could have pointed out that, for better or worse the Labor faithful will stand up for their leader and their beliefs, instead he chose to condemn the remarks (of a person who seems to know no shame anyway) on the basis that "feelings" might be hurt, playing on a victim mentality instead of turning the tables on Pyne with a witty riposte and a bit of old fashioned machismo.