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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (168480)8/8/2005 8:56:21 AM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Dennis, I fully understand why Israel is as it is today. It is NOT, as you seem to think, due to "continuous assaults" by Arabs. Rather it is a legacy of Hitler. As Eric Hoffer observed:

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.


Israel today has far more in common with Nazi Germany than any other country on earth. I don't mean this in a derogatory manner. If the trauma of WWII and concentration camps had not affected the Jews as deeply, they would not have been human. Nonetheless the observation stands and it is not just my observation, but that of many Jews as well. I can quote you rabbis and prominent Jews who pointed this out decades ago.

None of this however is the point. The point is that Israel is a nation of very militant and armed to the tooth people who have spent their whole lives in a culture of fear, hatred, and kill-or-be-killed mentality. They have radicalized a huge portion of the world's population, some of whom match or perhaps exceed Israel's temperament every step of the way. So the end result is that sooner or later a huge catastrophe is going to befall the world (and most likely the US) and it will be directly traceable to Israel-Palestinian conflict. As such, Israel is the greatest threat to world peace.

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