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The name Arnold Schwarzenegger came up in conversation this afternoon. Later, I stumbled across this video. I'm sure he has his flaws as we all do, but boy, he can really deliver a message. Too bad he can't run for President.
I'd been watching the rise and increasingly virulent antisemitism on college campuses for the last quarter century. However, I'd not suspected moral depravity to be so deeply widespread among Americans. The Hamas monsterousness has exposed our national cancer.
ReplyDeleteI have lost sleep and walked in daylight fear. These students and educators and politicians who have endorsed or lauded this crime, a crime that far outstrips My Lai - raping women, breaking the victim's legs, murdering her, and then decapitating, and perhaps buring her. Boasting of it to one's parents while providing film and pics to victim family members? Burning cluster of babies?
The white college boys and girls ripping down the posters of the hostages. These Americans mostly look like me.
I am a patriot who does not recognize the soul of his countrymen.
Wow Jack…….powerful and important, I hope your loyal readers will invest 12 minutes and hear this
ReplyDeleteI'm not big on self-help stuff, but his new book is quite good, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad that one of the best examples of a quasi-respectable Republican politician that we can still point to as having a functioning moral compass (kind of) is freaking Arnold Schwarzenegger.
ReplyDeleteThis really speaks to how far the GOP has descended into the depths of depravity and stupidity.
Are those Republicans shouting anti-semitic slogans and tearing up pro-Israel posters?
DeleteWell, are they?
Their style is more marching with torches, chanting 'Jews will not replace us;' promoting white nationalism; and invoking the specters of George Soros and Jewish space lasers. But, maybe also doing those things too.
DeleteI guess we are living in 1984 now.
ReplyDeleteThat's a powerful message. But why is it that anyone who questions Israel's policies towards the Palestinians is immediately labeled an antisemite?
ReplyDeleteWhen Israel was created, most of the land was not privately owned but was still occupied by mostly non-Jewish residents. When Israel conquered the lands around it, most of those lands were not privately owned but were occupied by mostly non-Jewish residents. The government declared itself the owner of lands already occupied by local non-Jewish residents and evicted those residents in favor of Jews.
Is it antisemitic to question those policies? Is it antisemitic to wonder if Israeli policies toward the non-Jewish natives of Palestine are as morally questionable, on a smaller scale, than the holocaust perpetrated by the Germans? I was horrified by the Hamas attack on Israel, but I can be just as horrified by Israeli policies without being an antisemite.
Yes, it is antisemitic to compare Israel’s policies to that of Nazi Germany. It’s a comparison that doesn’t fit, deliberately selected to wound Jewish people. I’d suggest that if you are well intended that you drop that one from your play list.
DeleteThank you for answering my question. So you are saying that nothing Israel has done is morally questionable? Or is it only morally questionable if I don't bring up Nazi Germany?
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