Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: The Jews Face a Double Standard

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The Jews Face a Double Standard
Why doesn't Israel have the same right to self-defense as other
nations?
By MARVIN HIER
The world-wide protests against Israel's ground incursion into Gaza
are so
full of hatred that they leave me with the terrible feeling that these
protests have little to do with the so-called disproportionality of
the
Israeli response to Hamas rockets, or the resulting civilian
casualties.
My fear is that the rage we see in the protesters marching in the
streets
is far more profound and dangerous than we would like to believe.
There
are a great many people in the world who, even after Auschwitz, just
can't
bear the Jewish state having the same rights they so readily grant to
other nations. These voices insist Israel must take risks they would
never
dare ask of any other nation-state -- risks that threaten its very
survival -- because they don't believe Israel should exist in the
first
place.
Just look at the spate of attacks this week on Jews and Jewish
institutions around the world: a car ramming into a synagogue in
France; a
Chabad menorah and Jewish-owned shops sprayed with swastikas in
Belgium; a
banner at an Australian rally demanding "clean the earth from dirty
Zionists!"; demonstrators in the Netherlands chanting "Gas the Jews";
and
in Florida, protestors demanding Jews "Go back to the ovens!"
How else can we explain the double-standard that is applied to the
Gaza
conflict, if not for a more insidious bias against the Jewish state?
At the U.N., no surprise, this double-standard is in full force. In
response to Israel's attack on Hamas, the Security Council immediately
pulled an all-night emergency meeting to consider yet another
resolution
condemning Israel. Have there been any all-night Security Council
sessions
held during the seven months when Hamas fired 3,000 rockets at half a
million innocent civilians in southern Israel? You can be certain that
during those seven months, no midnight oil was burning at the U.N.
headquarters over resolutions condemning terrorist organizations like
Hamas. But put condemnation of Israel on the agenda and, rain or
shine,
it's sure to be a full house.
Red Cross officials are all over the Gaza crisis, describing it as a
full-blown humanitarian nightmare. Where were they during the seven
months
when tens of thousands of Israeli families could not sleep for fear of
a
rocket attack? Where were their trauma experts to decry that
humanitarian
crisis?
There have been hundreds of articles and reports written from the Erez
border crossing falsely accusing Israel of blocking humanitarian
supplies
from reaching beleaguered Palestinians in Gaza. (In fact, over 520
truck
loads of humanitarian aid have been delivered through Israeli
crossings
since the beginning of the Israeli counterattack.) But how many news
articles, NGO reports and special U.N. commissions have investigated
Hamas's policy of deliberately placing rocket launchers near schools,
mosques and homes in order to use innocent Palestinians as human
shields?
Many people ask why there are so few Israeli casualties in comparison
with
the Palestinian death toll. It's because Israel's first priority is
the
safety of its citizens, which is why there are shelters and warning
systems in Israeli towns. If Hamas can dig tunnels, it can certainly
build
shelters. Instead, it prefers to use women and children as human
shields
while its leaders rush into hiding.
And then there are the clarion calls for a cease-fire. These words,
which
come so easily, have proven to be a recipe for disaster. Hamas uses
the
cease-fire as a time-out to rearm and smuggle even more deadly weapons
so
the next time, instead of hitting Sderot and Ashkelon, they can target
Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem.
The pattern is always the same. Following a cease-fire brought on by
international pressure, there will be a call for a massive infusion of
funds to help Palestinians recover from the devastation of the Israeli
attack. The world will respond eagerly, handing over hundreds of
millions
of dollars. To whom does this money go? To Hamas, the same terrorist
group
that brought disaster to the Palestinians in the first place.
The world seems to have forgotten that at the end of World War II,
President Harry Truman initiated the Marshall Plan, investing vast
sums to
rebuild Germany. But he did so only with the clear understanding that
the
money would build a new kind of Germany -- not a Fourth Reich that
would
continue the policies of Adolf Hitler. Yet that is precisely what the
world will be doing if we once again entrust funds to Hamas terrorists
and
their Iranian puppet masters.
In less than two weeks, Barack Obama will be sworn in as president of
the
United States. But there is no "change we can believe in" in the
Middle
East -- not where Israel is concerned. The double-standard
continuously
applied to the Jewish state proves that, for much of the world, the
real
lessons of World War II have yet to be learned.
Mr. Hier, a rabbi, is the founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center
and its Museum of Tolerance
----
"una facile scusa per dimenticare il presente" (Luca Logi /
rodewalder / Golda Meir)
cfr 
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2008/12/una-facile-scusa.html

 wrote:
Andrea Zanardo, ti riesce di stare fermo con lo stesso nick per almeno
dieci minuti?
Stamattina hai già postato con tre indirizzi diversi e non siamo ancora
a mezzogiorno
andrea...@gmail.com
andrea....@gmail.com
yossi...@googlemail.com
il tonibaruch che tanto era indignato per un presunto morphing adesso
non ha nulla da scrivere per uno che cambia tre indirizzi in due ore, e
soprattutto lo fa sistematicamente, tutti i santi giorni che il Signore
mette su questa terra?
-- 
Andrea Zanardo prossimamente su questa signature

 non ha nulla da scrivere
"Io ho fatto morphing, ma c'è chi ne fa peggio di me": quando uno
cresce, di solito capisce che alle argomentazioni si risponde nel
merito, e non cercando di discreditare l'interlocutore. Il Logi,
invece, poverino... Un classico caso di complesso del fratello minore.
---
"Vorrei smentire l'errata impressione che io abbia mai cessato di
usare il mio nome per intervenire sui newsgroup. E' capitato che abbia
usato per limitati periodi e su singoli newsgroup degli altri
nick" (Luca Logi / rodewalder / Golda Meir, gennaio 2009)
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2009/01/il-nome-e-il-come.html

La mia mail è valida.
 
Da piccolo voleva tanto entrare nel MOSSAD!

 "Io ho fatto morphing,
ho scritto *presunto morphing*; visto che non leggi mai bene, ti ripeto
che ho scritto *presunto morphing*; visto che fai finta di non capire,
ribadisco ho scritto *presunto morphing*; per tua informazione, faccio
notare che ho scritto *presunto morphing*
tu invece fai morphing costante, continuo, incessante, fastidioso: che
cosa hai da nascodere, Zanardo?
-- 
Luca Logi - Firenze - Italy        e-mail: 
ll...@dada.it
   Home page: 
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/archivarius
                   (musicologia pratica)

 il tonibaruch che tanto era indignato per un presunto morphing
Io?
Tb

 visto che non leggi mai bene,
però quoto con attenzione. Hai visto la mia signature?
(ora che ne diresti di provare a commentare l'articolo citato? Ti vedo
un po' nervoso, eh)
---
"Vorrei smentire l'errata impressione che io abbia mai cessato di
usare il mio nome per intervenire sui newsgroup. E' capitato" (Luca
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