Posted on 05/05/2024 11:39:29 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
During the address, the Prime Minister turned to the world in English: "Eighty years ago, in the Holocaust, the Jewish people were totally defenseless against those who sought our destruction. No nation came to our aid.
"Today, we again confront enemies bent on our destruction."
Netanyahu continued: "I say to the leaders of the world, no amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum, will stop Israel from defending itself."
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
The Smithsonian article is giving you an accurate idea of what the mood in America was.
The country was gripped by war fever and suspicious of everybody. The borders were in something like a lockdown.
FDR was neither pro-Semitic nor anti-Semitic. People today love to read back into the past what they know now that the actors at the time didn’t. In summer 1942 FDR had no knowledge of Nazi death camps and genocide. The Nazis hadn’t decided on their Final Solution plan until the Wansee Conference of February ‘42 and they didn’t advertise what they planned to do.
“Remember,FDR and the dems thought it was okay to destroy Japanese americans because dems were fearful”
I’m always amazed at how conservatives manage to latch on to some of the favorite accusations of the Left. And this one in particular. Here’s some background:
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611
“Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast During Ww II Paperback – July 1, 2000
by David D. Lowman”
“In late 1940 members of the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service broke Japan’s highest level diplomatic code and then constructed a machine that was an analog of the one used by the Japanese. This allowed the U.S. to read Japan’s diplomatic traffic from then until after the end of the war. Intelligence thus gained was cover named MAGIC because it seemed that only magicians could have produced it.
Among the decoded messages of 1941 were a number detailing espionage planning and operations involving Japanese-Americans along the West Coast. In February 1942 President Roosevelt authorized the evacuation of all persons of Japanese ancestry.
In 1983 a congressional commission, ignoring available declassified intelligence and ignorant of MAGIC revelations, concluded the President’s action was the result of racism, war hysteria and lack of political will.
Now for the first time David D. Lowman, using MAGIC messages and declassified Army, Navy and FBI reports, presents the real reasons for the evacuation. As a former high level officer in the National Security Agency and a witness before congressional committees dealing with the evacuation he was uniquely qualified to tell this story. Those who could never quite believe the base motives attributed to our wartime leaders and our country will find Lowman’s story compelling.
“But back to WWII error I’m a bit skeptical it was pure anti semitism about the refugees or hesitance to bomb the camps etc”
Dennis Prager loves to bring up the idea of bombing the rail lines leading to the camps.
I don’t know how much Prager knows about the accuracy of WWII bombs, but I suspect it’s pretty close to “nothing at all”. And the same goes for how long he thinks that it would take to repair railroad tracks. (it can basically be done in hours)
WWII bombs are called “dumb bombs”. They weren’t accurate and that’s why fleets of bombers dropped a whole lot of them when trying to hit a target. If you bombed the rail lines leading to the camps you were equally likely to blow up the camps and the prisoners too.
Diverting bombers from campaigns that would destroy Germany’s ability to wage war wasn’t a convincing argument either. The quicker Germany was crippled the sooner the war would be over for everyone, including the American GIs getting maimed and killed by the thousands each week.
Blinken
Yes!!
You should read THE JEWS SHOULD JUST KEEP QUIET by Rafael Medoff......
Thanks for the info!
I'll keep this in mind.
I'm left wondering at what age does a female become considered a 'maiden'?
HMMMmmm...
In your example: I don't think this is saying that it's permissible to rape a child. Rather, it's discussing the status of girl who has been raped.
I don't know much about ancient Israel, but I've read that in Iran, if a girl is raped and her rapist is caught, her rapist will be forced to marry her. The marriage is just a formality (just signing some papers at the police office), and will be immediately followed by a divorce. The idea is that the girl's marriage prospects will be better as a divorcée than as an unmarried non-virgin (yeah yeah, patriarchy, I know), and if the girl has fallen pregnant, the baby will have the benefit of not being a bastard.
This sounds similar to me. According to what another poster linked to (before his comment was deleted), the Talmud says that a girl under the age of three who is raped will still be considered a virgin, but a girl over the age of three who is raped won't be considered a virgin anymore. I suspect that might be because they're confident that a girl under the age of three won't fall pregnant, but aren't so confident about a girl over the age of three.
It seems that these rules you've quoted have the purpose of declaring that such a victim (over the age of 3) will automatically have the status of being married to her rapist, and regardless of whether that's a good thing or not, I don't think those rules are necessarily stating that it's "permissible" to rape such a girl.
Contrast that with people who still believe rape, lying, murdering and butchering Jews is fine. I think the disingenuity of your comments are hereby laid bare.
Nixon did terrible things to court southern democrats I assume?
Care to elaborate?
For my two cents and having been there in real time I can tell you it didn’t take much persuasion after Johnson and McGovern
The Deep South had been all Goldwater years before
Folks forget that
The civil rights act of 64’ and the voting rights act of 65” was enough to stir the pot of white dems to white republicans.....
Annnnd Nixon encouraged it.....
There will be peace in that region when the last Muslim is dead.
Most or all hostages are buried in unmarked graves by now.
This is true, Id say about 90 percent of the hostages have been dead for a long time now, but they still have a few here and there that can be saved..either way, go into Rafah and finish Hamas off
If you watch kiddy porn you should be careful. I’d say you are telling us who you are.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.