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By Tanveer Ahmed, published 17/2/2009With each Israeli show of force, their story of victimhood becomes less and less palatable for many people around the globe.
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On the face of it, I would agree; but, like Tanveer Ahmed, I don’t really know much about modern Israel or how modern Israelis think about their ancestors’ feelings of ‘victimhood’.
But, Ahmed thinks that way about a ‘nation’, conveniently overlooking the fact that Muslims see themselves as victims no matter where they live. You don’t see Christians frothing at the mouth over what happens to people of their religion in countries far away. Modern Jews tend to see themselves as belonging to the countries they live in, too. We see too many of the older Jews who actually experienced the Holocaust and other atrocities to be able to believe that modern Jews might not think of themselves as victims.
I’m pleased that I am a non-believer so that I don’t have to answer for all the baggage that goes with religion: things which should have nothing to do with human beings and how they act or do not act.
“The remaking of Anzac Day and Gallipoli is a craving for such an identity rooted in blood, especially for younger Australians, as evidenced by the huge turnouts to dawn services in recent years.”
Rubbish! The old codgers are pressuring the naïve young into carrying on (after the old ones are gone) something that has been mistaken for patriotism and national pride; pride that we do not have, thanks to multiculturalism and a ‘everybody-welcome’ immigration policy. Celebrating a military disaster involving a European war 90 years ago cannot overcome the steady erosion of Australia as a country to be proud of; a country ruined by multiculturalism and political correctness.
The rest of the article is just more of the ‘Israel bad, Hamas terrorists good’ junk that comes up every time Israel defends itself from Arabs. Not worth reading