Letters to the Editor
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Paranoia
The paranoia of some of our Jewish brethren here would be sad if it were not so frightening. Just in the last few days and because Glenn, a Jewish person himself, criticized Israel, some of the Jewish folks around here have accused the commenters of blood libel, wanting to incinerate Jews in their Synagogues, or alternatively wanting to round them up and send them to Delaware, and threatening to nuke Israel.
So we are no longer merely anti-semitic or self hating Jews anymore, we have advanced to contemplating atrocities against the Jews. We are accused of contemplating atrocities not because we have criticized Jews for being Jews, but because we have criticized the State of Israel, it's policies, and US policies in re the State of Israel.
In other words, some of you accuse some of us of wishing atrocities upon the Jews merely for disagreeing on matters of policy. You are lumping us in with Stormfronters. I resent it. I reject it. And I accuse those of you engaging in such repulsive behaviour of deliberately fomenting an atmosphere of fear in order that public discourse on all matters Israel conforms only to what right-wing Israel firsters want to hear.
Grow up. You are making yourselves appear hysterical and are certainly not winning any converts to your pov. You might get a few who mouth the right words out of fear. Is that really what you want?It appears you don't care. But with your breathless, baseless, and vile accusations against people who would never even think such things, you are definitely making it impossible to listen to a word you say on the subject. How does that help the situation?