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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (9991)	2/7/2006 11:18:38 PM
From: Edscharp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Searle, Put it in perspective. ucomics.com The Nazis directed their insults at the Jews and the Jewish religion in the same way as the Danish "cartoons" direct their insult against the Islamic spiritual figurehead, Mohammed Huh? The Nazi's hated each and every jew individually. That's why they sent them to the concentration camps. They didn't ridicule the Jewish God, or their prophets, or the torah, or even just the Rabbi's. They sent everybody into those camps... including women and children!! The Arab newspapers also used those awful racial stereotypes...just like the nazis did. Much easier to hate your enemy if they look funny or different from you. Searle, I have a strong hunch you don't live in the USA. Very few people in this country would share your thought processes.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (9991)	2/8/2006 1:00:54 AM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Searle did you ever see the movie, "The Pawnbroker" with Rod Serling? It was about a Jew who ran a pawnshop in NYC and him and his family were in German concentration camps during the Holocaust. He is a man, his mind tortured by what had happened to him and his family and he has a young man working for him who wants to emulate him and learn how to be a pawnbroker. He breaks down and tells him how he started with a piece of cloth that he tore into and sold for more than the original piece and then tells him how he became obsessed with surviving by trading this cloth at the exclusion of everything else, even the love of his wife and children. It is quite moving and perhaps gives one a better understanding of what brought this man and other Jews to develop the personality that they have long been ridiculed for. It is easy to take sides and to hate a race or any number of traits that differ from us. It is always easier to look down upon another because perhaps we do not have to look at our own failures. We all do this to some degree. When we do it obsessively we become like the hate mongers that cause hurt upon our brothers. They too, have their story. My belief is that some day all races will live in peace. My hope is that God will accomplish this. James