Posted on 09/02/2006 3:41:53 PM PDT by churchillbuff
EVER WONDER what it's like to be a pariah?
Publish something sharply critical of Israeli government policies and you'll find out. ..
This, at least, is what happened to Ken Roth. Roth whose father fled Nazi Germany is executive director of Human Rights Watch, America's largest and most respected human rights organization. ...In July, after the Israeli offensive in Lebanon began, Human Rights Watch did the same thing it has done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Congo, Uganda and countless other conflict zones around the globe: It sent researchers to monitor the conflict and report on any abuses committed by either side.
It found plenty. On July 18, Human Rights Watch condemned Hezbollah rocket strikes on civilian areas within Israel, ...
Human Rights Watch also criticized Israel for indiscriminate attacks on civilians. Roth noted that the Israeli military appeared to be "treating southern Lebanon as a free-fire zone," and he observed that the failure to take appropriate measures to distinguish between civilians and combatants constitutes a war crime.
The backlash was prompt. ...
In the United States today, it just isn't possible to have a civil debate about Israel, because any serious criticism of its policies is instantly countered with charges of anti-Semitism. ...
How did adopting a reflexively pro-Israel stance come to be a mandatory aspect of American Jewish identity? Skepticism a willingness to ask tough questions, a refusal to embrace dogma has always been central to the Jewish intellectual tradition. Ironically, this tradition remains alive in Israel, where respected public figures routinely criticize the government in far harsher terms than those used by Human Rights Watch.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I'm amazed it took this long. May she/he/it (say it out loud) enjoy eternity in Troll Hell.
He has been repeatedly banned on an on and off basis over the past couple of years. IMHO this time it is likely to be permanent.
From your mouth to G-d's ears.
Birds of a feather watch Lawrence of Arabia together.
British Mandate for Palestine (WW I to 1948)
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate.php
This is the first time I've seen your allegation about Soros. Can you point us to anything in writing (besides your own post) to suggest that Soros aided the Nazis in WWII? I think that if this were true (or if anyone credible said it -- ever before) we would have heard about it before, but I would be happy to learn something new.
Was rather surprised to find they all thought highly of him.
BTW, I don't regularly check out the neo-nazi sites so you'll have to tend to that yourself.
The Jewish references to his WWII activities show up in small discussion threads.
Most folks want to let this guy off the hook because he was just a kid.
I disagree.
One of the safer sites to visit is
http://www.scribeandscroll.com/?p=9 where David Horowitz and Richard Poe defend their Soros material with direct quotes from Soros himself.
I'm not getting into this particular battle since it is rather esoteric and the sources, beyond Soros, are a tad limited, but you claimed to be surprised, so here it is.
As they say up in the mountains "It's all your'n".
Mark
Thank you for the link, which contained information that was new to me.
I loathe Soros, and I have done so for several years. However, I have more sympathy for him than anger/disgust based on his behavior as a 14-year-old in Hungary.
In my opinion, it must have been quite scarring for Soros, as a 14-year-old Jew, to hide his identity and tag along with a top Nazi as he confiscated Jewish estates in Hungary. I see this as qualitatively different from being a Kapo in a concentration camp, for example, or initiating the land confiscations. It's true that many Jews became members of the resistance, as Horowitz writes, but I can't condemn Soros for not having done the same. I simply cannot put myself in his shoes.
Soros failed.
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