Beck, Ha-Shoah, and Cantor Oh My:
This is going to be fun. First things first: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/11/13/wolraich.beck.soros/ Beck shot his mouth off by pointing out that George Soros did in fact survive the Holocaust by working with a Hungarian who looted Jewish homes. This indicates complete ignorance of how the Nazis actually perpetrated the Holocaust. The Nazis knew very well that if Jews got so much as half a chance they'd either rise up or try to flee the camps, which happened more than once. And of course there's the Warsaw Ghetto uprising as another example of this. To prevent the Jews from realizing what was actually happening quite so quickly the Germans had Jews browbeat into collaborating with them.
Again, Jews didn't passively submit to the slaughter like sheep in a slaughterhouse, they took every chance to resist violence by violence they got, and given the enormous odds against them put up a heroic fight. What Soros was reduced to may be to people today on the level with the Sonderkommando but three squares with what he did and starvation with not doing what he did is a calculus most people would end up deciding in favor of having food to eat.
Besides someone pushing the ideas of Cleon Skousen, a major Bircher of the 60s, one of the "Flouride in the water turns people gay" crowd from a church that baptizes the remains of Holocaust victims had best consider the log in his own eye before criticizing the speck in his neighbor's.
And in the other bit of interesting news, a sitting member of Congress pledged to sell out his country's interests to a well-armed Middle Eastern state following an ancient religion with increasing barbaric practices and a class of people who do nothing for that state but hurt it. Only instead of it being the Shah and Iran, he made this promise to Israel: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/13/israel/index.html?source=rss&aim=/opinion/greenwald. If a person of Greek or Nepali or Australian descent made that same promise I'd object just as much.
IMHO the only difference between this man's actions toward Israel and what others in his party do is he's at least honest about it. In my opinion also supporting Israel is increasingly costing the United States and is one of many irrelevant legacies of Cold War power politics retained I suppose for inertia more than sense. Israel's hard power is weakening and the Charedim are going to trigger a very, very big problem there before too long. Even with its hard power weakening it's also more than sufficient to defeat the Arabs.
Again, Jews didn't passively submit to the slaughter like sheep in a slaughterhouse, they took every chance to resist violence by violence they got, and given the enormous odds against them put up a heroic fight. What Soros was reduced to may be to people today on the level with the Sonderkommando but three squares with what he did and starvation with not doing what he did is a calculus most people would end up deciding in favor of having food to eat.
Besides someone pushing the ideas of Cleon Skousen, a major Bircher of the 60s, one of the "Flouride in the water turns people gay" crowd from a church that baptizes the remains of Holocaust victims had best consider the log in his own eye before criticizing the speck in his neighbor's.
And in the other bit of interesting news, a sitting member of Congress pledged to sell out his country's interests to a well-armed Middle Eastern state following an ancient religion with increasing barbaric practices and a class of people who do nothing for that state but hurt it. Only instead of it being the Shah and Iran, he made this promise to Israel: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/13/israel/index.html?source=rss&aim=/opinion/greenwald. If a person of Greek or Nepali or Australian descent made that same promise I'd object just as much.
IMHO the only difference between this man's actions toward Israel and what others in his party do is he's at least honest about it. In my opinion also supporting Israel is increasingly costing the United States and is one of many irrelevant legacies of Cold War power politics retained I suppose for inertia more than sense. Israel's hard power is weakening and the Charedim are going to trigger a very, very big problem there before too long. Even with its hard power weakening it's also more than sufficient to defeat the Arabs.