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Related: About this forumHolocaust Survivor Mourns What Israel Has Become
The Young Turks * Published on Jul 31, 2014
"As a Jewish youngster growing up in Budapest, an infant survivor of the Nazi genocide, I was for years haunted by a question resounding in my brain with such force that sometimes my head would spin: How was it possible? How could the world have let such horrors happen?
It was a naïve question, that of a child. I know better now: such is reality. Whether in Vietnam or Rwanda or Syria, humanity stands by either complicitly or unconsciously or helplessly, as it always does. In Gaza today we find ways of justifying the bombing of hospitals, the annihilation of families at dinner, the killing of pre-adolescents playing soccer on a beach.
In Israel-Palestine the powerful party has succeeded in painting itself as the victim, while the ones being killed and maimed become the perpetrators."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Gabor Maté / The Star:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/07/22/beautiful_dream_of_israel_has_become_a_nightmare.html
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Holocaust Survivor Mourns What Israel Has Become (Original Post)
DeSwiss
Aug 2014
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freedom fighter jh
(1,782 posts)1. Cenk says it so well. nt
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)2. I've said it before - it bears saying again. . .
There is NOTHING "noble" about being oppressed or being in poverty.
No "redeeming virtues" about those things, either.
Anybody who says otherwise should have their head examined.
. . .and those things do not necessarily make better human beings out of those who used to be poor and/or oppressed. Especially among children. The only things they learn at that point are about survival at any cost, at an age when they should be enjoying simply being children.
No "redeeming virtues" about those things, either.
Anybody who says otherwise should have their head examined.
. . .and those things do not necessarily make better human beings out of those who used to be poor and/or oppressed. Especially among children. The only things they learn at that point are about survival at any cost, at an age when they should be enjoying simply being children.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)3. K&R! For speaking the truth
jimlup
(7,968 posts)4. You can tell by Cenk's demeanor that he is upset
Thanks Cenk for speaking the truth
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)5. I couldn't have said it better.
I grew up with so many Jewish friends, I can't count them. I lived in Jewish neighborhoods, I was their Shabos goy even. I feel that I am part Jewish by osmosis.
I am appalled by the violence on both sides.
I am also appalled by the fact that Israel is using some of the same tactics that were used against them during WWII, and it's okay by them.
I wish this would just stop.
Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)6. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, DeSwiss.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)7. A moving, thought-provoking piece.
Thanks for sharing, Deswiss.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)8. HUGE K & R !!!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)9. And Another...