Ignorance of Americans
Do they realize that terrorist attacks against America, such as 9/11, are due to our foreign policy?
America has given more than 99 billion dollars to Israel in total, including more than 62.5 billion dollars in military funding. This is why they hate us.
(data from http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/U.S._Assistance_to_Israel1.html)
Only because of America's help has Israel been able to harass its neighbors and murder their stone-throwing children, such as those shown above. What would you do if they were your children?
Wouldn't you want to kill Americans if you knew they helped kill your loved ones?
Israel has killed more than two times as many Palestinians than the number of Americans that were killed in 9/11.
While Israel insinuates that it Palestine is an aggressive terrorist state, this is trivialized by the fact that more Israeli soldiers have commited suicide than have been killed by Palestinians.
(http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/deaths.html)
Of course, Jewish organisations like the Anti-Defamation League label anyone who opposes Israel an antisemite. To many Americans, "antizionist" and "antisemitic" are synonyms. Neither party, especially the Republicans, opposes Israel for this reason and so Americans believe it is not an option. However, Americans have the right in this democratic republic to do whatever the majority wants, so if they want to breed more hate and suffer from continued terrorist attacks, then they may continue the aid the Israel.
posted by Nathan Finkelstein at 2:30 PM
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By the way, ignorance is spelled with an 'n' before 'c'. Try being a little less frenzied and you may avoid some of the typos and bad grammar that litter your blog.
By the way, ignorance is spelled with an 'n' before the 'c'. Try being a little less frenzied and you may avoid some of the typos and bad grammar that litter your blog.
I believe you are mistaken, as my spelling in the title is actually correct.
Besides, English is my third language.
Oh, by the way, nice job posting twice, you disgusting Zionist slime-bag.
Just out of curiosity, are your parents siblings?
The important thing is that it can be understood, it's the content which is important.
Greetings Nathan, I'm from the UK and I would like to wish you luck with your new blog.
Interesting Audio link on
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15394.htm
detailing a conversation between British MP George Galloway and Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe which you might be interested in listening to Nathan.
am from Spain, Nathan, and wish you the best in your blog.
Great blog. I'm from Japan and I like Americans, but I just cannot stand with the US government. I believe Americans should realize what terrible things their government has done to the world and try to change it. I hope you still check with this blog. Keep it up!
Shalom Nathan,
I am touched that there are Jews out there who actually care about what goes on on the other side.
Good luck in your blog, and may God bless you.
You and other Chassidic (Satmar-type)fringe radicals give all Jews a bad name. If you recall in the story of Chanukah and its aftermath some of the most "religious" Jews felt that it was forbidden to fight on Shabbat. Soon enough the enemy learned how easily Jews were defeted on that day each week. It took bravery and common sense (sechel) to learn to fight for and defend the Jewish people regardless of holidays. You would have the Jews around the world willingly submit to serial injustices rather than defend themselves. You are right, the early Zionists were anti-religion, pro-Nation of Israel, but did they not fulfill the same role as those who helped create the Miracle of Chanukah? Were they always right, of course not. Don't kid yourself that without Zionism the Jews collectively would be better off. The Nazi "final solution" had nothing to do with wanting to send away European Jews and everything to do with destruction of European Jewry. Hitler used the centuries-old European tradition of anti-semitism as a springboard to help lauch himself to power. "The Jews were to blame for all of the German suffering," post-WWI etc, etc. There were already Russian pogroms in Eastern Europe without Hitler. Many people sympathized with Nazi intent to destroy Jews. You want to wait for some supernatural mashiach and won't accept that the beginning of the end of Jewish exile from the land of Israel was the establishment of the modern state. You want a return of the Temple and the Sanhedrin, neither of which will happen if there are no Jews willing to put themselves on the line to make it possible. You would like to return to some fantasy time when "good" Eastern European Jews wore black clothes and furry hats as if it were some sort of standard. Do you in any way think that "good" Jews in Temple (first or second) times dressed so? Things were never "good" in Eastern Europe--the Jews made due with what they could, what scraps the Gentiles allowed them to have, which they could take away on a whim if it so suited them or if the Jews became too successful at their pursuits. Perhaps you are upset with secular Israelis, but I'll bet neither you nor your family put their life on the line to defend Jews from harm. Rather, your type huddles even more closely, tightening the walls against outside influence, creating new stringencies with which to bind our lives, and becoming more estranged from modern reality. Middle eastern Moslems believe Jews are on their land based on a religious which espouses conversion by the sword and that everything that they take by the sword is eternally theirs. You do not even recognize them as the Amalekites, Egyptians, and Assyrians that they are. I don't forgive the early Zionists for their anti-religionist attitude, but they helped build the beginning of the end of world Jewish exile. The Nazis would have still killed Jews by the millions regardless if there were a handfull of collaborators. The Arabs would still want to destroy Jews whether Israel existed or not (hence the massacres of Jewish civilians in Arab or Brittish controlled Palestine predating modern Israel. More so do I not forgive your type which would rather the Jews remain sheep, sit around and bemoan their lot in life and await for G-d to intervene. You pick and choose Talmudic quotations to support your notions, but the Talmud is a very large piece of work from which modern-day Israel-supporting Jews could also find justification for their actions building the Jewish homeland. Were the early Zionists nationalistic? You bet! Jewish history, prayers, teachings and traditions are all filled with the notion of the "Jewish People", the "Children of Israel", "the Holy People". This is part of what defines us. Although Jews are not a "race" as some have claimed (including some of the early Zionists), it is a people with a common belief in G-d, common core values and ideals, a common language (even though many Jews speak many other languages), common rituals, etc. So if some Jews are from Italy, others from Poland, Yemen, Morocco, etc., they are all still Jews and all still part of the Jewish people and are all still welcome in the modern country of Israel. You can, if you choose, continue to live as if eighteenth century Eastern European Jewry was the pinnacle of Jewish life, (just like the Amish live in their own world)or you can join the world creating a modern Jewish influence, spreading Jewish values, ideals and ideas and help to create modern Israel developing it into a place for all Jews.
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