Like the great majority of American Democrats I support Israel. Jews comprise 2% of the US population, 50% of total donations to the Democratic party are from Jewish sources versus 25% of total donations to the Republican party. The Democratic party is overwhelmingly pro Israel, except for a few nutters on the left.
Netanyahu was criticized for claiming the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem put the idea in Hitlerâs head to exterminate the Jews. That is hardly denying the holocaust.
Yes all anti Semitism is wrong, but an elderly Jewish man being beaten unconscious on the streets of New York is more serious than someone painting graffiti on a synagogue.
I am pretty confident Israel would accept it if there was clear acceptance by all Arab and Muslim majority countries in the region of their right to exist, and if Hamas disbanded.
Netanyahu: Hitler Didnât Want to Exterminate the Jews
Prime minister tells World Zionist Congress that Hitler only wanted to expel the Jews, but Jerusalemâs Grand Mufti convinced him to exterminate them, a claim that was rejected by most accepted Holocaust scholars.
Prof. Meir Litvak, a historian at Tel Aviv University, called the speech âa lieâ and âa disgrace.â Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, a specialist of German history at Hebrew University, said, *âWith this, Netanyahu joins a long line of people that we would call Holocaust deniers.â
Isaac Herzog, leader of the opposition in the Israeli Parliament, said the accusation was âa dangerous historical distortion,â and he demanded that Mr. Netanyahu âcorrect it immediately.â
Calling people ânuttersâ does nothing for your argument, especially when you refuse to call out the likes of Trump, Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the anti-Semitic evangelical right who infest the Republican party
Youâre downplaying some types of virulent anti-Semitism now. Itâs mad to think youâve reached this stage.
In modern history, neither Palestine nor Israel existed as countries. The region known as Palestine was part of the Ottoman empire for five hundred years before the Brits ran them. The Brits created a map (the British mandate) which comprised Israel, the occupied territories, and Jordan of today. The UN divided it up further in 1947 and proposed a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish state was never accepted by any Arab countries even though they control 99.9% of the land in the Middle East, and the proposed country for the Jews was 0.1%. Huge tracts of land? Look at a map you fucking clown, Israel is the size of Munster.
Based on what? What serious evidence is there that Israel has ever accepted a two state plan? What evidence is there that Israel has ever even considered dismantling the illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem? What evidence is there that Israel has ever remotely considered accepting the right of return?
You use the word naivety a lot. To call that projection is a massive understatement.
Yes - the took huge tracks of land. Nothing akin to what European Americans did - who slaughtered the native Americans and broke every single treaty they signed - but significant land grabs relative to the size of the area in question.
Israel is 0.1% of the land of the Middle East. If Israel were actual colonizers and given their military might donât you think they would have grabbed a bit more? Maybe 0.2%? If they were land grabbers why did they return Sinai and the Golan Heights?
There have been 17,000 tweets in one week in May saying Hitler was right, including two journalists, one working for the BBC and one affiliated with CNN.
When you post this sort of stuff you lay bare your tactics. Your tactics are to mendaciously paint anybody who sympathises with the Palestinian cause as âHitler loversâ.
But you canât condemn the man who shamelessly whips up so called âwhite nationalismâ (white supremacy) in the US and courted anti-Semites and actual Nazis at every turn.
Which results in atrocities like the Tree Of Life massacre.
You canât condemn Netanyahu for actually trying to downplay Hitlerâs intentions as regards Jews, ie. an actual form of Holocaust denial.
