Reply #67: In view of the actions of the REAL Nazis, I submit that the [View All]

author of the original post is completely lacking in historical perspective.

If this is what passes for philosophy these days we are doomed. And if people have grown up without any sense whatsoever about the crisis faced by Churchill, by the people of Europe and especially by the Jews, then we are doubly doomed.

We cannot discuss ANYTHING to do with contemporary times unless we understand the past. It's pretty obvious that some of us don't get it, not even a little bit.

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The history of Europe intermeshes with the history of Mandate Palestine. Everything that happened there must be seen in this larger perspective, as well as in the broader perspective of the Middle East.

Just in the past few days, we've seen horrific events, terrible sectarian violence, unfold in Iraq. One nationstate has threatened to eliminate another, and to retaliate against its nuclear reactor and refineries should a THIRD state, attack it in any attempt to control nuclear proliferation.

Time has now telescoped. We will see what happens next. But we are not dealing with matters that can be controlled by pointing fingers at websites or complaining because this or that website is "Zionist" or this or that author is "right wing," any more than hemming and hawing and appeasement could control Hitler in the thirties.

The sweep of history and the forces that were unleased, and which swirl again anew, are too vast and inexorable for petty bitching about little matters.