This is why I knew we were truly afraid of his questions about why the palestinians must pay the price for the holocaust. It would have been so easy to attend and make our case and prove that it DID happen...its so extremely easy to do. It can be done via all physical evidence, german documents, photos etc.
It's not even debatable whether the holocaust happens. The scope of the holocaust and its actual effects on the various groups who were part of the holocaust is debatable though. There is no reason to fear debating these people but those who are on a power high and get off on the control they exercise through the ballot think they can just ignore anyone who dares challenge their view of the world. When they are forced to think outside of the box they prefer to invade, kill, and bomb whether than to seek common ground. This is why Osama bin Laden attacked us and why George W. Bush attacked Iraq.
We acted like it was a HIGH crime that he even questioned if it happened yet wouldnt take the golden oppurtunity to correct this horrendous wrong. It was obvious why....he said "if this happened then why must palestinians pay the price for it?". THATS WHY we refused dialogue. Thats the VALID question america hasnt asked for decades now.
Indeed it did happen and how did it happen. It happened because the German people fell hook, line and sinker for the claims made by Hitler that he was defending freedom, fighting terrorism and protecting western civilization from the barbarians. This is why those in power supported Hitler. The Jews were not favored at the time so it was easy for those in power to kill, maim and torture those who were weak and unable to defend themselves. This is why atheists, communists, gays, and Christians who dared to denounce the form of Christianity taught by Hitler and his party as anti-German. This label is now being applied to Americans who dare to stand up to the freaks who support the Republican Party and all that it represents. If we do not condemn the fake Christians such as Ann Coulter and George W. Bush we allow them to do the things they do just like Muslims allow fake Muslims like Osama bin Laden to do horrible things.
The actual quote from him about "wiping Israel off the map" is actually not correct..he said they would disappear in the pages of time like the USSR, Iran and Iraq..he is talking of REGIMES and not of nations. He is also not talking of invasion, he seems to believe that those who are in the "wrong" ultimately fall and he was trying to offer encouragement to those who feel hopeless under the weight of so much oppression by those who have so much power.
I understand that he never called for a military attack on Israel or for the use of nuclear weapons against Israel. That he disagrees with the very existence of the political state of Israel and wants to see it wiped off the map doesn't mean he is calling for a military attack on that nation. On the other hand Ann Coulter, the conservative talking head, has stated that we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. That's a nice picture. I am sure the President of Iran is very happy knowing that the voter Ann Coulter intends to vote for someone who will invade his country, kill him and convert every Iranian to Christianity.
I cant say I share his view that good always triumphs over evil or that things are ever that clear cut even.
There are times when evil will prevail as it did in the last two presidential elections, and as it did on 9-11. Confronting evil wherever it is found is something we must do even if we will not always prevail for failure to confront evil in the likes of Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush will be our own end. We have watched for too long as these warring factions, these two evils continue to spread their violence in death. Conservatives whether in the form of al-Qaeda or the Republican Party as is the case with George W. Bush and Ann Coulter are dangerous. We must never forget this.
He did say that Iran (like all other nations) have a right to scientific endeavor and I agreed with that of course.
Even if he does want to obtain nuclear weapons he has as much right to do so as we do to have them. To think that a nation who has used them on civilian populations to end a war (Japan) and has invaded a country that did not attack us (Iraq) possesses weapons of mass destruction and threatens other nations including Iran by labeling them an axis of evil along with Iraq which we invaded would scare the shit out of me if I were the head of state of that country. Let's face the hard reality that without nuclear weapons Iran will be our ***** and we can slap them around and if we were to go to war with them and it started to turn against us we might as well say goodbye to Tehran as the Enola Gay II does the will of the American people.
The palestinian plight is pretty horrific and whats sad is that we still have time to correct the situation, but its doubtful we will.
Not only did Israel come into existence through acts of terrorism on the Palestinians but also against the British during the period where they were trying to forge a system of government where the majority would rule. The Zionists would not accept that. They refused to go along with any form of government where they the minority would not have more power than the majority of the people living in that country and now the roles have been reversed. These words should tell us what the Zionist goal has always been "If we cannot be an army, let us be pioneers, let us sow the seeds a handful at a time, until we conquer the land of Israel." The Zionists understood what they were doing and that is why one of the leading Zionists who formed the state of Israel stated in no uncertain terms that they intended to CONQUER Israel. We must never forget that the call for a secular government in Israel is the right thing to do. Failure to do so and to allow the religious state of Israel to exist upon the basis of Judaism is no different than allowing Muslim religious states to exist. Every person in Palestine (calling it Israel is foolish since that has religious connotations) should have an equal say in their government and it should be secular.
