Posted on 08/29/2010 10:19:06 PM PDT by Nachum
The US State Department Sunday condemned as "deeply offensive" remarks by an influential Israeli rabbi who said he hoped Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas would "vanish from our world."
"We regret and condemn the inflammatory statements by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in a statement.
"These remarks are not only deeply offensive, but incitement such as this hurts the cause of peace."
Ovadia, who heads a religious party in Israel's ruling coalition, expressed hope in his weekly sermon Saturday that "all the nasty people who hate Israel, like Abu Mazen (Abbas), vanish from our world."
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And if one would google Mahmoud Abas and Abu Mazen, and see what he has to say, I’m sure there won’t be one word of “inflammatory” rhetoric or anything “detrimental” to peace. Nosiree. He’s a man of piece, he is.
“Not long ago if any great power among western civilization was faced with such murderous scum as Israel is faced with today, not only would the overwhelming majority have hoped for the savages to die and not been ashamed of it, but there would be no waiting for some divine intervention to make it happen...
Sounds like Nazi Germany.”
Bzzt, wrong answer. Nazi Germany behaved like murderous scum in launching a genocidal attack on a group of people whose only crime was to be harder-working and more successful than the average European, thus becoming the target of envy. For that (among many other reasons) their land was invaded, their cities razed to the ground, and that did not stop until the surviving germans rolled over and begged for mercy.
Had they not quit their attacks on jews by that time but kept on firing rockets and blowing themselves up among whatever group of jews they could find... well, damn right it would have been justified to wipe every last german off the face of the earth. And in 1945 the west would probably still have had the spine to do it, too.
These days though, people - even people calling themselves conservatives - draw moral equivalence between holocaust and killing of murderous scum who have proven every chance they got that their desire for killing and bloodshed surpasses even their desire to have good things for themselves.
Murder is wrong. Killing, that can be anything from wrong to excusable, to praiseworthy. There is a HUGE distinction.
This strong conservative Republican, Jewish supporter of Israel knows enough to recognize that there are plenty of good Pals. 99% of Israelis would wholeheartedly agree and would strongly disagree with your statement.
The sad thing is that Yosef’s statements are being taken seriously. He has little clout in the rabbinical world and less in the political one.
We have to differentiate between a murderous so-called government and a whole group of people. Two very different entities.
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