Palestinian Solidarity Campaign disrupts Israeli Concert. Yeah!!!

Foofie wrote:

[You've sold me. Jews should emigrate somewhere else and make that land its Zionist State. Any suggestions? Preferably a temperate climate, since the Czar was "breeding" my ancestors (a la raping Cossacks) for a colder clime.

Are you offering any place in particular? Or, should they go to the moon?

No - you are merely denying the obvious and practical alternatives. Jews in Israel should make peace with their neighbors in practical stages - starting by granting full political rights to the Palestinian residents of the West Bank territory controlled by Israel, and declaring their intention of creating a state that aspires to protect the rights and lives of all of its citizens equally - with the ultimate goal of a single state for all of Palestine. It may seem like a foolish impossibility to you now, but so did peace and tolerance seem impossible to the Former Unionist Stormont government in Northern Ireland.

Jews represent, in my opinion, a group that are just too good competitors for many people's level of comfort. As I recently read in a book about the Nazi era, an older German from the WWII era confided to the author that in pre-Nazi Germany, the Jews "owned everything; the department stores, the factories; it just couldn't go on." This was the rationalization for the Holocaust. It "freed" the Germans from the yoke of Jewish success.

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My point being that the world views Irish as different from how the world views Jews.

Stop making these grand pronouncements, Foofie, that serve only to display your own ignorance and sweeping racism.

The Irish were treated to a great deal of racism from "Americans" just as every other new ethnicity has.

Foofie wrote:

Jews represent, in my opinion, a group that are just too good competitors for many people's level of comfort. As I recently read in a book about the Nazi era, an older German from the WWII era confided to the author that in pre-Nazi Germany, the Jews "owned everything; the department stores, the factories; it just couldn't go on." This was the rationalization for the Holocaust. It "freed" the Germans from the yoke of Jewish success.

So you convict the entire Western World for these actions? I believe your implication that Jews are, always and everywhere, "too good competitors" for the comfort of others, both laughably inaccurate, and hateful in its content. I suppose one could, today in Europe, make the same observation about Germans, and in Asia about the Chinese (I was in Beijing and Shanghai a few weeks ago and - apart from the smog in Beijing - their achievements have been spectacular). Then there is the case of Singapore, where an amalgum of malay, Hindi and Chinese people have created an extraordinary (but monotonous) high achievement super state. All of these facts suggest that what you cite arised far more from the circumstances of the people than from their genes. (I also recall in college reading old newspaper files from the late 19th century, decrying the influx of "uneducated uneducatable peasants from Central Europe" - Ashkenazi Jews from Poland and Russia - into this country. The author's grandchildren likely had a hard time competing with their grandchildren - though his self serving blindness and conceit was no different from yours.)

That aside, the western world still perceives Jews as inherently different. It is just an intractable belief.

And, now you blame all Jews for the excesses of a paramilitary organization.

I do not believe you are correct in this assertion. Available data suggests the Israeli Arabs enjoy a considerably better average standard of living than their counterparts in the West Bank and Gaza, and in some respects they enjoy the civic services of a better functioning and more representative government.

Don't forget the religious nut jobs.

You've sold me. Jews should emigrate somewhere else and make that land its Zionist State. Any suggestions? Preferably a temperate climate, since the Czar was "breeding" my ancestors (a la raping Cossacks) for a colder clime.

Are you offering any place in particular? Or, should they go to the moon?

Mind you, anti-Semitism is not just pogroms or holocausts. It is also the clannishness one finds in Gentiles.

The Haganah was not the official State of Israel military. You are quoting facts during the British Mandate.