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What "Waltz With Bashir" can teach us about Gaza The stunning new Israeli film reveals painful parallels between one of Israel's darkest moments and the current conflict.
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  • @Xanthro

    Thank you for that.

    You see?

    You.

    Me.

    We CAN meet eye to eye.

    Instead of:

    Eye FOR an eye.

  • Only problem with Gary is his Jew Hating

    Gary has problems with Jews?

    It sounds more like you have problems with Gary.

    -- Klytus

    Only Problem I have with Gary is his Jew Hating. While I'm not very fond of his writing, I don't have issues with him outside of this.

    Greenwald also has a problem with Jews, but often I find his writing on other topics to be exceedingly well thought out and researched and enjoyable to read. I even make a note to compliment him on some of his articles. I just wish he'd apply the same standards to issues concerning Israel. I know he's capable of it.

    You'll also note, that even with Jew Hating posters, I don't carry that over to threads that have nothing to do with Jews. I don't have a personal problem with them, I just think Jew Hating posts or articles should not go unchallenged.

    I don't dismiss posts or articles by Jew Haters just because of their stance on Jews. I'll objectively review their post, then reply.

  • "Greenwald also has a problem with Jews"

    Yeah, that's right. Glenn Greenwald, the self-hating Jew.

    The things you Zioclowns say to resolve your cognitive dissonance are pathetic.

  • "compared Gaza to Nazis camps"

    So high level officials at the Vatican posts letters on Salon.com?

    You all should head over to James Kunstler's blog where you can all hold hands and cry about how everything critical of Israel and its war crimes comes down to Jew-Hating little Hitlers.

  • I've never understood that 'self hating' phrase

    It really means "People who's ancestors were Jewish but the current generation is probably 2 or 3 generations removed from that". They are no more Jewish than any random stranger in the street. And it's representative of nothing at all.

    Antisemites come in all flavors. They often trot out "Jews" and people with Jewish sounding names to bolster their case, as if saying "Here are some Jews who hate Jews, who better to prove that it's true?" I happen to know a third generation Baptist named Elliot Goldberg.

  • No answer to my question

    Well I figured as much.

  • If rocket attacks are some sort of permanent existential price that israel must pay until it solves the political problem how come there are no rockets coming from the west bank

    apparently Palestinains CAN, under some circumstances, (and with the help of walls) refrain from making war on Israel.

  • It really comes down to what do you think the responsibility of the state is?

    Should it even bother to protect people? Why have police - most people don't get murdered? Why have seatbelts? Why have the FDA? Why have any laws at all? If there is no duty on the state to protect its citizens then you should say that. Of course when people take matters in their own hands you'll criticize the Jews for doing that as well. Unless you're truly ready to put your money where your mouth is and start espousing 'jewhad' where Israelis systematically go to Gaza to suicide bomb mosques, buses and restaurants in lieu of the army trying to protect its citizens?

  • whats the different betweet Hitler and new israeli leaders??

    the only real different between Hitler and the israeli leaders now is we didn't fall for Hitler and we didn't give him our tax dollars,but the new hitlers in israel is taking most of our tax money that suppose to help other suffering people in other parts of the world and they are using it to kill childeren and women in Palistine.and also the different between the holocaust and the new holocoust is the old holocaus was most likely a hoax and full of lies and most historians don't even beleive there was a holocaust, but the new holocaus we see everyday on TVs is real and nobody can deny it.israel has commited the worst and the ugliest massacres in the history of mankind against palestinians,yet israelis are talking about peace and terrorism?what a shame

  • Zero

    You are 100%

    A bullshitter

    The 31 flavors

    you relish and savor

    Are all

    Of 'em

    The same:

    BLIND 'n BITTER...

  • You learned to swear

    Isn't that nice.

  • Self Hating

    "Greenwald also has a problem with Jews"

    Yeah, that's right. Glenn Greenwald, the self-hating Jew.

    The things you Zioclowns say to resolve your cognitive dissonance are pathetic.

    -- Chris Sinnard

    Yes, Greenwald has a problem with Jews. Whether Greenwald himself is a practicing Jew, or of Jewish descent, I don't know nor care. His religion or his background are of no concern to me.

    While I've seen people post that Greenwald was asking for people to confirm if they are Jewish or not on his blog, I didn't personally see this. (which would make me doubt he is Jewish if this is true)

    Also, it's not at all unheard of for some Jews to be Jew Hating. The most extreme religious Jews see their exile as God given divine punishment for their sins, and they oppose Israel as an affront to God. Others may hate their brethren for other reasons.

    Finally, last name is little indication of background as well, unless you think Alfred Rosenberg (died Oct 16, 1946) was Jewish.

  • And people want to argue that Salon doesn't have Jew hating posters, with Dona Britzman on here

    Also the different between the holocaust and the new holocoust is the old holocaus was most likely a hoax and full of lies and most historians don't even beleive there was a holocaust, but the new holocaus we see everyday on TVs is real and nobody can deny it.israel has commited the worst and the ugliest massacres in the history of mankind against palestinians,yet israelis are talking about peace and terrorism?what a shame

    -- Dona Britzman

    Not only a complete detachment from reality, and a complete lack of historical knowledge, but Jew Hating and Holocaust denial in one paragraph.

    Sadly, what's happening in Gaza right now doesn't even make the top ten list of current civilian deaths from political violence. Much less the worst in the "history of mankind"

    Dona, like most Jew Haters, denies the Holocaust, but sure sounds like s/he would have been happy it if were more successful.

  • Hear that?

    What a relief!

    Gaza isn't on the Top Ten List..

    Of misery, mayhem, massacre, slaughter, or grief...

  • Top Ten

    Hear that?

    What a relief!

    Gaza isn't on the Top Ten List..

    Of misery, mayhem, massacre, slaughter, or grief...

    -- Klytus

    It's not in the top ten. Sadly much of the suffering in the World gets no attention.

    How much press does the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army. Ugandan Rebel group) get?

    You'd think that a group that kidnappers hundreds of children less than 10 years of age, the brainwashes them and makes them kill their own parents, might at least get enough press that people have heard of the group.

    Yet, I doubt that 1 American in 1000 could tell you who Joseph Kony is, despite his group hacking to death an estimate 485 people around Christmas 2008.

    By hacked to death, I mean people rounded up in churches and literally cut to pieces with machetes.

    So, 500 civilian in Gaza get killed in 17 days of conflict (where they are not the direct targets) and the story is carried everywhere, but 485 people get hacked to death in a couple of days (and the civilians are the only targets) and the press can hardly be bothered to write a single story.

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