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A commentary by TheAZCowBoy:
Midway into the last century--because of the Holocaust and of-course the ensuing world sympathy--the Jews were allowed to patent two word's very unique to Jews. One was the word HOLOCAUST and the other was ANTI-SEMITISM.
Over the years, the Jews have cherished and hung on for dear life to these two 'Jewish patented words.'
If you recall the murder's in Rawanda ( over 500,000 Tutsi's were murdered, massacred and maimed, as the US and the world read about this horrific 'pogrom' ( another word the Jews love--patent pending? ) and looked the other way. ( S 'matter, fellows, 'no oil in Rawanda? ). These blatent murders were 1st discribed as a 'Holocaust' in the US & world media.
But immediately, the Jews from around the world objected to this blasphemous use of their 'holy' word Holocaust--and the media responded by backing off.
Then about 1947-48 the world media began to refer to the murder, wounding and displacement of the 'Semitic' Palestinian's by those of the Jewish faith as 'anti-Semitic' acts and once again the Jews clamored--STOP IT! :(
Now we have the US supporting these Zionist hyena's and the US Jewish dominated media struggles to keep these hallowed Jewish words in proper prospective. Jews murder Palestinian 'terrorists ( some as young as days old ) and others a mere 6 to 17 in age in 'self defense!'
The Zionist hyena's murder many Paly children with 105mm US supplied antipersonnel shells aimed from their Merkava tanks at young rock throwing teenaged Palestinian's in 'self defense' of-course, and when they are really pissed off they use the horrendous US supplied hellfire/TOW antitank missiles fired from US supplied Apache helicopters--witout even a secong thought!
The US Jewish media and AIPAC/ZOA harlots and poster boys in the US Congress '2nd the motion' anytime Sharon demands it. ( He's not the type that 'begs' for special favors--right DIM BULB? ).
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By John Chuckman
YellowTimes.org Columnist (Canada)
(YellowTimes.org) – George Orwell understood the power of words, and
he understood the power of ideology to utterly corrupt their meaning.
He identified tyranny with expressions such as 'war is peace' or 'ignorance is strength.' But absolute government is not necessary to experience the corrupted language of power and the abuses it hides.
A nasty democratic minority, supported by a population choked with
fear or prejudice, or a ruling majority full of hate or bad intentions
is perfectly capable of producing them.
We literally see this happening before our eyes, both in the United
States and in Israel.
Mr. Bush calls Mr. Sharon a man of peace. Mr. Sharon rockets and
bulldozes his way through the West Bank and Gaza, murders suspects, arrests the families of suspects, threatens to deport whole families guilty of no crime, and calls his dirty work a fight against terrorism.
North American defenders of his brutality call any
conscientious person questioning these actions an 'anti-Semite.'
It is impossible to understand how bulldozing homes of 'suspects' and
the idea of rounding up their families for deportation reflect
anything but the most elemental hatred and vengeance. And just so, the many assassinations of 'suspects,' along with the countless violent arrests that include no trials, no proof offered, just outright public murder and improper arrests.
I don't think it's possible to imagine what Britain would have
unleashed had she followed the same policies in Northern Ireland.
American public opinion would have exploded had she done so. It was
Americans, after all, who largely financed the IRA's guns and bombs.
Imagine Spain's late General Franco, that unapologetic fascist,
behaving as Israel does to the neighbors and families of Basque
separatists.
The world's condemnation would have been deafening.
Apartheid South Africa did do the same horrible things, and America
with her racist leanings and mindless social-Darwinist ideology never
condemned them until the disapproval of decent people everywhere had
become overwhelming. Israel, to her shame, did a lot of business with South Africa, sharing many defense interests, apparently including nuclear-weapons technology.
Of course, one understands that hatred often derives from ignorance and fear. This is what we teach our children when we try to have them understand why hatred and prejudice exist.
But not everyone teaches children these things. We hear from defenders
of Israel's abuses that Arabs teach their children only hatred. All
Arabs? Only hatred? Now, I have no doubt that is true of some Arabs, but is it any less true of some Israelis?
Judging by what I read, it is scarcely love and peace being taught in
a number of Israeli and North American Jewish homes. One finds columns
printed by major American newspapers using expressions like 'blood-libel,' ( Ah, another 'patent pending' Jewish favorite! ) surely the kind language that would have brought a knowing
smile to Dr. Goebbels' deathly lips (For those unfamiliar, this crude
expression has been used many times by right-wing American columnists
in respectable, major newspapers).
What of Rabbi Kahane's violent, racist teachings? Or the teachings of a number of lesser-known extremists both in Israel and the U.S.? What of the Israelis who murdered Mr. Rabin? What of the fundamentalist Jews who not very long ago desecrated the temples of other Jews in
Israel who do not share their extremist views?
Or the ones who burned
some women alive in a Tel Aviv house because they were regarded as
prostitutes? (This act wasn't political, but those who do such things
are capable of anything.) Or the Israeli who gunned down dozens of Palestinians in a mosque? Or the settlers from New York or London who swagger around with sub-machine guns in the midst of people they have no respect for?
I am always disturbed by violent, senseless crimes. They tear at the
precious, delicate fabric of civilization. But when such events take
place at the hands of Palestinians, they do not warrant the horrific
vengeance Israel routinely inflicts in return.
The United States holds the record in the advanced world for murder
and violent crime.
Disgruntled, sick, and frustrated people abound in America. It wasn't very long ago that the annual murder rate in New
York City produced more victims than September 11, every eighteen
months.
New York's rate was modest compared to Houston's or Washington's or Alanta's. Yet, the world would regard it as savagery were the American government to bulldoze the homes of these violent people, arrest their relatives and threaten them with death or deportation.
Imagine the world's reaction to an attack with F-16s on a
neighborhood in which some of these people were suspected of living?
Not that there aren't a good many Americans who would willingly do
such things, but their vicious tendencies are checked by laws and
social pressure.
The word anti-Semitism, after the Holocaust, became a terrible epithet
imbued with the blood of millions of innocents. Now, less than 60
years later, it is being twisted and abused, even trivialized, by, of
all people in the world, some Jews.
This word is carelessly, foolishly thrown around today, particularly
in the United States. Write something criticizing policies in Israel, and you are anti-Semitic. Stand up for reason, justice, and decency - applied to all, not just to some - and you are anti-Semitic.
Point out the fact that a murderous thug is now the prime minister of Israel, and you are anti-Semitic.
I actually had one individual write me saying that he knew I was glad Jewish children were being murdered. This was written to someone who gave up the country of his birth rather than murder children in Vietnam.
The words are precisely the same kind of filth I receive from true anti-Semites or black-hating racists aroused by other issues.
Let any kind of violent crime be committed anywhere today, and if the victim is Jewish, the crime is, ipso facto, anti-Semitic. The very government of Israel becomes involved, as it did in the recent murder in Los Angeles airport by a distracted, demented man. Another example is the murder of a Jewish man with a beard and a yarmulke by a young drugged-up thug in Toronto. Literally, teams of people busied
themselves trying to prove there was anti-Semitic intent, their acts rendering the victim less important than his identity. (Lest anyone misunderstand how unusual that murder was, the murder rate in Toronto, a city proud of having the most cosmopolitan, diverse population in the world, is a tiny fraction of that for any American city.)
Undoubtedly, thanks to the immensely-heightened anxieties and human
misery generated by Mr. Sharon and an endless stream of mind-numbingly
dishonest rationalizations in his defense - stuff that tirelessly repeats war is peace – anti-Semitism likely is on the rise in the world. Always such violence and dissonance affect most those on the
margins of society. That is the group of people from which the early
Nazis recruited SA thugs for their street brawls.
This is all the more urgent reason for Israel to end her morally-
reprehensible practices in the West Bank, which are at the very heart
of the matter.
Talk about hideous language, language that loses its meaning to
ideology, consider the frightful words casually written recently by an
American Jew, a lawyer, advocating the execution of the relatives of
suicide-bombers.
This lawyer quotes scripture, the Torah, to justify a repulsive idea.
But you cannot hide behind ancient scripture, the stories of people who lived twenty-five centuries years ago, to defend what is plainly
barbarism today. Do we quote the Incas on the appropriateness of human
sacrifice? Or the writings of the Holy Inquisition on burning heretics alive? And why not? Because civilization's sense of morality, thank God, develops over time.
Thus we see the kind of intellectual and moral debasement Mr. Sharon's
blood-soaked policies yield, with some using scripture to defend
serial murder. Others using epithets like anti-Semitism against those
who object. Not to mention a president of the United States too
intellectually and morally weak to say 'stop, enough!'
[John Chuckman is former chief economist for a large Canadian oil
company. He has many interests and is a lifelong student of history.
He writes with a passionate desire for honesty, the rule of reason, and concern for human decency. He is a member of no political party and takes exception to what has been called America's 'culture of
complaint' with its habit of reducing every important issue to an
unproductive argument between two simplistically defined groups. John regards it as a badge of honor to have left the United States as a poor young man from the South Side of Chicago when the country embarked on the pointless murder of something like three million Vietnamese in their own land because they happened to embrace the wrong economic loyalties. He lives in Canada, which he is fond of calling 'the peaceable kingdom.']
John Chuckman encourages your comments:
jchuckman@YellowTimes.org
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