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To: SamuraiScot

Members of the RF served against the Nazis, as disgusting as the support from Edward was, and it may have actually have been treasonous and cost British lives, the whole RF wasn’t Nazi-obsessed.

Naturalman1975 is a close friend of the Prince. I take exception to you calling him an anti-Semite, I think that’s a terrible and simply incorrect accusation. I know Naturalman will take greater exception.


66 posted on 11/29/2014 2:14:19 PM PST by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman
Naturalman1975 is a close friend of the Prince. I take exception to you calling him an anti-Semite, I think that’s a terrible and simply incorrect accusation. I know Naturalman will take greater exception.

Let me emphasize that I am pro-royal, and pro-Mountbatten. But Prince Charles's public pronouncements in recent years have been bizarre. I loved his public dig against modern architecture decades ago; his recent enviro-obsession has been embarrassing. And as to anti-Semitism, I'm open to other interpretations, but I have trouble seeing much daylight between siding with countries whose foreign policy consists of promoting the extermination of the world's only Jewish state and antipathy toward the Jews themselves.

An ethnic group and its government can represent very different things. For example, you can love Persians and despise the Iranian government—in fact, if you love Persians, you should. But Jerusalem is not Tehran. It's not as if the Jews had set up some barbarous, totalitarian splinter regime that oppressed its own people, was a threat to other countries, and was unrepresentative of the Jewish people as a whole. On the contrary, Israel is practically a Nobel-prize factory, with freedom of speech, the press, and religion—even for crazy Moslems, whom it permits to be citizens. The arts, commerce, science, medicine, literature, and the intellectual life flourish there at a world-class level. Israel has (IIRC) more patents per capita than any other country. Its soldiers are renowned the world over for their courage, effectiveness, selflessness, and protection of non-combatants. Its medical services are famous for offering top-level treatment, not only to Israelis, but to wounded enemy soldiers and citizens of hostile Arab countries.

One can agree or disagree with this or that policy of any country. But to shun it like a pariah while embracing states that target not only Israel, but the entire Christian West with terrorism? If that's not anti-Semitic, it's something worse—such as cowardice and the betrayal of civilization at a time of crisis.

If there is more to the picture, I would seriously like to know of it. You raise an important question. So far, I can't see meaningful difference between these two things: 1) the push from Western intellectuals and diplomats to banish Israel from the community of nations; and 2) accepting today's renewed persecution of the Jews in cities all over Europe and the Middle East—where schools and synagogues are being burned and Jews are attacked on the street.

90 posted on 11/30/2014 2:50:51 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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