Where the left goes wrong, and where Glenn becomes this wilfully disingenuous Bush-like code talker, is on the issue of Israel. Israel allows the age-old Jewish narratives to take root, where they explode under cover of "legitimate criticism." Glenn claims his critics claim *all* criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, but this is just like saying *no* crtiticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. Even more crucially, claiming your opponent's critique of you conflates to *all* is the very some=all leap that Glenn claims his opponents are making.

Glenn claims his critics claim *all* criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. But by making this claim, Glenn conflates the specific with the general. Glenn now speaks for *all*. The singular becomes the general. By expanding the specific to an all/nothing binary, Glenn conflates his own argument into the 0%/100% binary he claims to be opposing.

Goddamn, what kind of nonsense is this? The Palestinians in Gaza are being suffocated (and now bombed to death) by the Israeli war machine. Israel removed its settlements in Gaza but maintained control over land, air and sea. Israel continues to build settlements in the West Bank.

Is this clear enough? Please, I beg you, stop this first year student garbage.

and remembered something I noticed before from Zionists, regarding their behavior and viewpoints, as reflected in their arguments.

They are essentially part sociopath and part narcissist. They don't believe the rules of international law apply to their tribe. They don't believe their tribe should be criticized for ethnic cleansing, though they're quick to criticize others for having previously done it to them. They demand a free pass, and feel a certain entitlement to it.

They can do no wrong. They view anyone who criticizes their ideology, or Israel's actions in the worst possible terms. They see these people as the enemy - as blatant 'anti-semites'. And they relentlessly try to crush them politically, professionally, and in any way they can. They slander them, label them, petition their employers, and pull every string available to them.

The Palestinian perspective is irrelevant - it's all about the Zionists and their tribe, and their selective historical perspective. They see their propaganda, lies, distortions, rhetorical labels, as just a means to their ends. They get caught in lies, fallacies of logic, etc .. and they don't care, they just dust themselves off, and continue spewing more of the same.

Look, just because Winsmith is misusing and distorting history to puff up his own consequence doesn't mean that that history doesn't exist.

This:

Hateful views of Jews as being subhuman did not have to be invented by Nazi theorists such as Hitler, Goebbels, Rosenberg and Streicher. This ideology was simply adapted from statements of political Zionists such as those found in the writings of the Zionist Yehezkel Kaufman in 1933. -- Chris Sinnard

May be true, but the tropes are much, much older than 1933. These stereotypes prevailed in Mitteleuropa and eastern Europe throughout the 19th century and fueled the pogroms.

Read the "Merchant of Venice". It's a play by Shakespeare, written over 300 years before the era you are citing. The roots of European Gentile stereotyping of Jews go far beyond what is covered in that excerpt and remained remarkably constant throughout.

People have written books on this matter. The documentation is extensive.

What I'll never understand is why its Palestinians and not Europeans who have to take responsibility for that history.

And then, when we look for these terrible "Anti-Semitic" statements, we find that the only overtly anti-semitic statements are the ones made by Zionists (or whatever the hell these folks think they are) characterising what they imagine others are saying, and then whining about it.

And this process, the provacatory anti-semitism, and then the attempt to hit us over the head with it, is fully out in the open, and they come back and do it again!

And from them, we should take advice, accept their facts, and respect their conclusions? And if we don't, we are anti-semitic? The real mystery is what power they think that accusation, made without any harm or foundation, has? In the past, have they gotten folks to start weeping and beg their forgiveness? And then, wonder of wonders, these poor Zionists, the human dust, the most powerless remnants of humanity, threaten us with Attorney Generals!

Now, since we cannot shake in any way Winsmith's (et al) belief, not only in the righteousness of his cultural megalomania (Why, because it mutated somehow out of your religion?), but the methods of doing it, which he considers our moral failing not to accept a priori, is there any reason to doubt that Washington and the media is appealed to on this same level and with the same methods, if perhaps somewhat more sophisticated.

So lets cut out the middlemen, and get to the operative axiom, baby: To prove you don't hate Jews, you have to applaud Israel's war crimes and other transgressions. Nothing less will do!

Sickening to hear the anti-semitism and the piling on the band wagon of Israel hating jew baiting creepo stuff on the web, that seems to be a new wave 1930's esque anti=semitism that could lead to a unimaginably horrible end. Israel is restrained. They do not want to kill innocent people.This entire situation is the fault of Hamas and they should cease fire immediately. The international community is also at fault for failing to hold Hamas accountable for endangering their own people by attacking Israel from their most heavily populatated cities and using Mosques and schools where ordinarily people could take refuge, by using these facilities as launching sites. In addition, while massing missiles brought in through underground passages for their planned attack, they did not bring in supplies and food and medicines to help these poor people during the siege that would follow. Clearly they are not interest in helping the citizens of Palestine, their purpose is to demolish Israel and in case you haven't been listening, they say so, over and over and over again. They blame Israel for the death, destruction and misery they cause themselves. Something like the younger child starting a fight and when the older child slugs them, they go crying to mommy and daddy.

Many of you bleeding hearts have caught some strange strain of diminishedd brain capacity. If you truly care about civilian Palestinians and Israelies you should be admonishing Hamas to acknowledge Israel and make peace. This whole situation is sickening because the international community continues to blame Israel when they have the most at stake and have no interest in harming these poor people.

The only people who gain from this are Iranian mullahs and Hamas fanatics that belive making peace with Jews is to fail god and for wimps and that the only way to get to sit by the Prophet in heaven is by waging a jihad no matter how many die. These people do not care a fig about commerce and a soft quiet life for the common man. They seek only the glory of the holy warrior.

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