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The writer suggests that Israel’s founding included the “ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians.” What he fails to tell his readers is that the Arabs of the British mandate launched a genocidal civil war against the Jews in November of 1947. By leaving out this critical piece of context he seeks to demonize the Jewish people as ruthless beasts who, for no reason whatsoever, marched on the perfectly innocent, huddled Palestinians who wanted nothing more than to live in peace with their neighbors. It is a lie of omission designed to demonize Jews. Just as the Nazis claimed that Jews of the Holocaust generation provoked war for their own nefarious ends, so this Flyswatterbanjo person claims that Jews of that very generation did so, as well. He is, in effect, repeating Hitler’s talking points.
He references the war in Lebanon without breathing a word concerning Hezbollah and its affection for launching missiles at Israeli civilian targets. He references the blockade of Gaza, without mentioning the 2005 Israeli pull-out of that region, nor Hamas’ own affection for killing Israeli civilians. He references the recent flotilla nonsense, without mentioning that the Mavi Marmaracontained violent Jihadis seeking martyrdom through the time honored method of attacking Jews.
In these ways, and more, this writer is demonizing the Jewish people in a manner if not as bad, than almost as bad, as the Nazis did in the 1930 and the first half of the 1940s. During a period of rising anti-Jewish violence, and while actual Jihadis are joining forces with western leftists in opposition to the United States and Israel, he is stoking the flames of hatred toward the Jewish people via the Jewish state. And he’s doing it on the number one Democratic blog around.
Meanwhile, Markos Moulitsas, the owner of Daily Kos, remains mum, allowing the hatred to be spread on a daily basis. It’s not that Moulitsas is a fascist – because he is most definitely not one – but he allows the dehumanization of the Jewish people (as well as Christian conservatives) a prominent place on his blog. And I would suggest that dehumanization is at the very heart of what fascism is and was.
And, to my constant horror, these are Democrats.
Remind me again why are so many Jews are Democrats as well?
Ah, heck, you do not need to remind me. I was a registered Democrat up until about 5 minutes ago, myself. The problem, of course, is that most Jewish Democrats are liberals and thus support the Democratic party. If they had the slightest idea what was simmering just beneath the surface of that party, I promise you, most would run screaming into the hills.
