Posted on 12/25/2005 7:34:08 AM PST by Alouette
The widely publicized and condemned remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel and the Holocaust reflect the range of anti-Jewish thinking in the post-Holocaust era.
It has often been said that after 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, it was not respectable to be openly anti-Semitic. Often hatred of Jews manifested itself in hatred of the State of Israel, not merely legitimate critiques of Israeli policy, but denial of Israel's right to exist and seeing the Jewish state as the source of all evil in the Middle East, if not the world. In recent years, however, in some circles there has been more of a willingness to express hatred of the Jews directly, without the mark of anti-Zionism.
The statements by Ahmadinejad in recent weeks reflect the evolution of several of these approaches. Take his words on the Holocaust and its relationship to the State of Israel. They contain within them the mode of anti-Israeli thinking that has existed in the Arab and Islamic world for decades. In their struggle against Israel's very existence, Arabs and Muslims for a long time acknowledged that the Holocaust happened and was a terrible event, but, they asked, why should we Middle Easterners pay the price for what the Europeans did to the Jews? In other words, they saw Israel's existence as an illegitimate imposition on the Arab Middle East by Europeans who felt guilty over the annihilation of the Jews. Of course, this reasoning ignores the fact that the Jewish claim to Israel rests on thousands of years of connection to the land and to the concept of return and not on the Holocaust. Ahmadinejad's comments that the Europeans ought to set territory in Europe as a homeland for the Jews follows that long-standing approach.
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Merry Christmas to you, Abe!
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Foxman is still a jackass.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Shouldn't Jews be standing up to Christians first?
Email the Iranian President and ask him why he is such a meathead.
Isn't if funnny how Foxman turns into a right wing hawk when the topic is Israel?
"Isn't if funnny how Foxman turns into a right wing hawk when the topic is Israel?"
Like Dershowitz. Amazing, isn't it?
His batteries burned out awhile back..
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
No.
Abe is crying all the way to the bank over your hurtful remark. You see, this clymer, merely for behaving like a jackass, gets paid about a half-million a year, plus perks, of course.
He has at his disposal a budget of some $60Million. Obviously this jackass thing was a wise career choice.
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