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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: spiral3 who wrote (102278)6/21/2003 8:37:38 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
>>If Israel was created as an act of expiation for crimes against the Jews, so this reasoning goes, then its legitimacy depends upon its not oppressing other people. <<

Wow, talk about rhetorical jiu-jitsu. Assuming (and I don't believe this is true for one minute) that the creation of Israel had ZERO to do with the Holocaust, aren't we constantly being asked to never forget the Holocaust? Aren't we constantly being reminded how horrible it was? Has a year passed yet where some former concentration camp guard wasn't prosecuted, where some lawsuit was not pending against a corporation that benefitted from the Holocaust. Is it all over yet?

When we learn about the Holocaust, it would make a stone weep. And then to turn around and see Jews, of all people, oppressing others -- what are we to think?

It's beyond ironic.

Should we just throw up our hands and say, "Go ahead, kill them. You're entitled."?

No. Sorry, it doesn't work like that. Jews have asked me to have moral outrage at the way Jews were treated. I now expect them to have moral outrage at the way Jews treat Palestinians. It has nothing to do with the 1947 partition and everything to do with justice. Jews have awakened a sense of justice in my heart and I expect them to live by their own word.

There's no way around it. You can't expect people to walk though Auschwitz without being changed forever.
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