Jews gone wild: Why camcorders and booze don't mix

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I read somewhere that for Jewish nationalists, it is necessary to see themselves as continuously under threat from enemies, which makes sense because that's essentially the same line of thinking as the neo-cons like Cheney.

Its a pretty common phenomenon - applied to this country too after 9/11.

I don't know if it's "necessary to see themselves" as under constant threat. It's a pretty obvious reality that they are. There is still a state of war between Israel and Syria, as well as other Arab states, that dates back to 1948. Hamas and Hizbollah continue provocative rocket launches onto Israeli towns, and instigated the 2006 Lebanon war by kidnapping Israeli soldiers who were patrolling the border. Iran continues its violent anti-Israel rhetoric even as it ramps up its nuclear program. You don't need paranoid conspiracy theories to see that Israel is surrounded by nations that are either actively at war with it, or whose regimes are tacitly at "peace" even while the popular sentiment in their population is to confront Israel with force. The threats are perfectly real. What to do about those threats is what's under active debate between left and right.

I don't dispute that there is ample historical evidence that the Jews have been (and continue to be) persecuted, and it isn't terribly different from the assertion that US blacks have been (and continue to be) recipients of a system that was stacked against them generations ago by white racists from the colonial days.

I agree that the threats are real too - what I'm saying is that its no coincidence that far right nationalist politics take root in such a situation.

[almaty 19]

commie boobs, FTW!

[scandal 951]

commie boobs, FTW!

The very best kind

(ty Brother Dean for actively helping me hijack my own thread ..... I strongly believe that the only reason for starting OT threads in the first place is to get them around to important subjects like commie boobies )

[almaty 19]

always a pleasure to help out a brother

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