tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994380207822924300.post7145607181486461639..comments2023-10-20T19:25:08.773+03:00Comments on The Israel Darwin Awards: Power politics in IsraelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994380207822924300.post-65333459876461569152009-03-09T05:04:00.000+02:002009-03-09T05:04:00.000+02:00People raised on hatred:“Every nation, in its time...People raised on hatred:<BR/><BR/>“Every nation, in its time of misfortune, has conspirators who do their work in secret. In our case an entire nation has been raised on conspiracy. With others the conspiracy is political; with us it is religious and national,” – Chaim Kaplan wrote in his diary during Warsaw ghetto uprising, ‘The Scroll of Agony”<BR/><BR/>“Each country can only absorb a limited number of Jews, if she doesn’t want disorders in her stomach. Germany has already too many Jews,” – Theodor Herzl<BR/><BR/>“Anti-Semitism is an understandable reaction to Jewish defects,” – Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first president of Zionist Israel.<BR/><BR/>“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” —Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994.<BR/><BR/>“Show no mercy to the people of Gaza,” - Israel\’s Chief Military Rabbi, Brigadier General Avi Ronzki<BR/><BR/>The above are a few of thousands of sayings of the Jewish leaders showing their contempt not only for the non-Jews, but also toward their fellow Jews - but no Israeli would dare to call them “anti-Semite” - one of many titles to silence critics of the Jewish occupation of PalestineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994380207822924300.post-57053631346615732872008-11-04T02:25:00.001+02:002008-11-04T02:25:00.001+02:00For what it's worth, I've read all the Israeli new...For what it's worth, I've read all the Israeli newspapers and Ha'aretz is by far the most intelligent. I think you are barking up the wrong tree here.<BR/><BR/>I also don't see any evidence of a vast left-wing conspiracy in Israel. I just see a people that doesn't know what it wants.The Candy Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13749324546753894121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994380207822924300.post-91232792150571774062008-11-04T02:25:00.000+02:002008-11-04T02:25:00.000+02:00For what it's worth, I've read all the Israeli new...For what it's worth, I've read all the Israeli newspapers and Ha'aretz is by far the most intelligent. I think you are barking up the wrong tree here.<BR/><BR/>I also don't see any evidence of a vast left-wing conspiracy in Israel. I just see a people that doesn't know what it wants.The Candy Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13749324546753894121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994380207822924300.post-83787765131083622452008-11-04T02:18:00.000+02:002008-11-04T02:18:00.000+02:00drj, you are right that they all turn left. Howeve...drj, you are right that they all turn left. However, I don't think it's simply a matter of media pressure. I think they simply tire of fighting, and realize that the best thing they can do for Israel is to try to make peace.<BR/><BR/>If anything, it's probably military sensibility that knocks it into them. The realization that they might not be able to win this struggle - or that they don't have the heart to do what it would take to "win."<BR/><BR/>For some of them, like Sharon, it takes a huge personal blunder (his parade onto the Temple Mount, which started the second, super-intifada) to spark this kind of soul-searching. But they all go through it. That's why they turn left.The Candy Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13749324546753894121noreply@blogger.com