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By Alon Ben-Meir, published 4/3/2025Anyone who denies that the brutal occupation of the West Bank and war in Gaza has not fueled the rise of antisemitism is willfully naïve.
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We don't need a lesson on anti-Semitism, nor the crap about it being fault of the Jews themselves.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 8:08:50 AM
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The solution to anti-semitism is for Jews / Israels to stop doing things that would give rise to criticism and animosity in the first place.
- But they can't, and they instead feed off conflict and play the victim. They've historically been expelled 1030 times from 109 countries. http://archive.org/details/TheCompleteListOfThe1030JewishExpulsionsInHumanHistory/mode/1up - Is it not similar to a man being accused of domestic violence 1030 times by 109 different women? And you would expect one to believe it's not this mans fault, but that all the women were themselves the primary cause of the conflict and the man was merely the victim. The big question in my mind recently is this: 'What were the EXACT reasons Hitler hated the Jews?' The problem is I don't really want to read Mein Kamf to find out. But there is a 1922 speech translated to english, and I've listened to part of it. http://x.com/UncutSpeech/status/1893140713975558602 Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 9:40:16 AM
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the brutal occupation of the West Bank and war in Gaza
Elon-Ben.Meir, And, what preceded these actions ? Ever since I was a kid in Europe & all my nearly 60 years in Australia, all I ever heard of was about the antics of the Palestinians. Both sides in that insanity are guilty but the Palestinians appear to be the ones perpetually tearing at that scab ! Both sides need to just say "Ok, tomorrow is Day 1 when we'll start to exist side by side like 90% of the World's humans" ! Option 2 is for one side to finish up altogether ! The World is tiring of your nonsense ! Posted by Indyvidual, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 9:40:30 AM
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One for the sad and deluded AC.
Here’s a new entry under a new chapter: Palestinians expelled and exiled to Jordan, from Gaza and the West Bank. Thousands of Hamas terrorists baking in the midday sun, on wooden crosses erected among the rubble of their insignificant empire of horrors. Thousands confined to tunnels to die of thirst and starvation, never to see the light of day again. Thousands sold into servitude and slavery in Qatar, eyes gouged out and blinded. Thousands of Gazan Muslim women gang raped and as a parting gesture, their genitals shot out at point blank range, their children brutally murdered by bare hands at ceremonies arranged on stages, and cheered on by pathologically violent Israelis. Thousands of innocent Gazans machine gunned to death clutching their children, and bodies mutilated and burnt to cinders. Hundreds of innocent Gazans decapitated in front of their families and friends. Hundreds of Gazan unarmed youths, machine gunned to death at a Muslim festival of peace. Do you need more? Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 10:50:57 AM
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Dear Critic,
«'What were the EXACT reasons Hitler hated the Jews?'» Hitler was a special case: never before in history were Jews and their descendants persecuted unconditionally. Previously, Jews were always at least allowed the option to convert, and those who did were from then on considered respected citizens, some of whom even married royalty or rose to the rank of bishops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Lustiger Not so with Hitler, who kept persecuting people who considered themselves Christian and were not even aware of having Jewish grandparents until the Gestapo knocked on their door. So no, finding out about Hitler's motives would not teach you anything about past and present anti-Semitism... with one exception: many copies of Mein Kampf were found in Gaza, with passages highlighted, indicating that Hamas were studying the book seriously. This might indicate that even if all Israelis willingly left and went on exile, leaving behind "Palestine free from the river to the sea", Hamas would still continue to pursue them wherever they go. And then even, if they found them already dead then they would mutilate their corpses. I am not even sure that Hitler really hated Jews, he just wanted to kill them, presumably to fulfil his obsession with creating a pure German race. Other anti-Semites may as well be just ordinary sadists and bullies who do not hate Jews, but just enjoy killing and taunting others and find Jews an easy target. Posted by Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 3:36:43 PM
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I suspect that our Adolf disliked any non aryan. Jews included.
Posted by ateday, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 6:02:42 PM
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Well I just want a world where we can all try to get along.
'Love thy neighbour' and stuff, 'peace and goodwill to all'. A place where everyone can live with respect, decency and dignity, not conflict. Not so much a place where some live in ivory towers and others live in tents. Not so much a place where governments don't even care about their citizens. I know it maybe sometimes seems like that's not what I'm about. And that I sometimes push difficult issues a little too far. Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 7:32:53 PM
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Both, Arabs & Jews could start easing tensions by stopping to wear the things that identify them as being different to the rest of the World's people.
One wouldn't know if someone was Arab or Jewish if they didn't don those coasters & tea towels. They single themselves out & draw attention to themselves deliberately ! Stop doing that & confrontation will ease ! Posted by Indyvidual, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 7:34:06 AM
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Before Hitler turned his eyes on the Jews, he set about exterminating those with mental defects, physical disabilities, homosexuals and Romani.
I have seen photographs of young teenagers (German) strung up with piano wire. Their crime? Listening to Jazz, which was considered degenerate music originating from the Black community. Posted by WhiteMouse, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 10:27:03 AM
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Indy,
Perhaps if jews ceased considering themselves as "the chosen people" life might become a tad easier for them. Chosen by who or what, some mythological creature....... Posted by ateday, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 10:32:01 AM
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The Israelites (Jews) being the chosen people is found in the Book of Deuteronomy 7:6.
I have never come across any Jew who was infatuated with the idea of being of the chosen people. But I have come across extremely devout Christians who identified Jews as being chosen. Jesus and his followers were all Jews, as devout Christians will tell you. I haven't known many antisemites - in fact very few - but those I have known all shared the same traits. They were disfunctional, inadequate and of lesser intelligence with a huge chip on their shoulder. On mentioning this to an academic, he agreed. Apparently such people are often not successful in life and need to boulster their fragile egos by believing that there was a conspiracy against them ... (conspiracy theories loom) large)...and pinned it on Jews - they had never met one. Now this is not necessarily my viewpoint, but certainly was the assessment by this highly qualified person. Antisemites are definitely members of the tin foil hat brigade. Posted by WhiteMouse, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 11:07:09 AM
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Hitler was actually Austrian.
He fled to Munich, Germany, in May 1913 to avoid arrest for evading his military service obligation to Habsburg Austria. The German in Mein Kampf is extremely poor, and while it is riddled with appalling racism, it is extremely banal. Not the work of an educated nor intelligent person. Posted by WhiteMouse, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 11:34:27 AM
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Should Israel just abandon the hostages? After all everyone dies at some stage .... does it really matter if death arrives somewhat earlier for any particular group. Considering they would have been tortured ... death would be a relief. I suspect someone on this forum might consider this a logical reason to abandon them.
If Hamas laid down its weapons and released the hostages, then peace would ensue. QED. But Hamas are terrorists with no regard for the Palestinian populace. Indeed they are useful as shields, and even more so if they are dead. Indeed the dead are martyrs. How fortunate they are! There are 22 Arab states. They are not rushing to take in their Muslim bretheren, Palestinian refugees. They don't want the risk of bringing in Hamas. Also, these states have experienced Palestinians before - they are feared and detested. Posted by WhiteMouse, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 12:59:35 PM
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Should Israel just abandon the hostages?
http://x.com/josephMuztich/status/1893260166063128666 I guess Netanyahu will probably kill them himself sooner or later, so maybe they're better off with Hamas. OTOH, he probably killed about 500 Israelis on October 7, so a few more probably won't matter much. You support Israel and don't seem to think their lives are all that important? - So why should anyone else care? Posted by Armchair Critic, Friday, 7 March 2025 9:43:04 PM
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AC of the constantly rolling eyes.
No one looks at those ludicrous links you provide. They have no credibility whatsoever. Look up the meaning of Dunning-Kruger effect ... that's you. Posted by WhiteMouse, Friday, 7 March 2025 11:03:23 PM
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