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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-19-06 03:48 PM
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MANUEL VALENZUELA: The Untermensch Syndrome -- Israel’s Moral Decay
Manuel Valenzuela -- World News Trust

The labeling as anti-Semitic of anyone critical of the state of Israel’s policies in the continued destruction of Palestinian identity and the increasing domination into American foreign policy no longer has the sting of threat or intimidation it once mastered. For too long this masquerade has been used to silence those opposing anything Israel, shouted at anyone disseminating truth and seeking justice. Like the boy who cried wolf, this charade has lost its power or hypnotic control, and today only serves to breed more anger and resentment against the apologists and smear mongers protecting the cancerous tentacles of Zionism and the crimes against humanity it spawns.

A once powerful marketing tool used to sequester valid criticism and deny truth to millions has been eroded thanks to its overlords’ continued over-abuse and labeling of the term ‘anti-Semite’ to anyone even remotely critical of anything associated with Israel and the tentacles of Zionism. To criticize Christianity does not make one anti-Christian. To criticize Islam does not make one anti-Muslim or anti-Arab, just as uncovering truths about the Bush administration does not make one anti-American or unpatriotic. To speak truth about any government in the world does not make us racist or xenophobic to the people of that nation. Why then should criticism of Israeli and/or her government’s policies subject us to false labeling and acts of intimidation whose only purpose is to silence truth into submission and hijacking justice from ever emerging and being served?

The time has come to stop bending over to the dictates of intimidation and scare tactics used by Israel’s protectors, defenders and apologists. The time has come to say “Never Again” to such fictional libel and slander whose only purpose is the continued subjugation of truth and awakening. The labeling of “anti-Semite” does not bother us, nor does it stop us from writing truth to justice and reality to intimidation because we refuse to be frightened into submission and silenced into acquiescence by a mechanism we know to be false.

Our convictions, search for truth and want for justice supercedes the trash invented to protect the malfeasance ruining humanity and the crimes perpetrated against our fellow human beings. The time has come to stand up and be heard, refusing to believe the smears and the labels, instead living life in truth, devoid of veiled threats and intimidation tactics whose power over us continues to erode thanks to its incessant overuse and abuse. So smear if you must, defenders, appeasers and apologists of human wickedness, continue to blindly believe in the majesty of a fiction you know to be false, ensuring your daily complicity in the crimes against humanity being committed by those you protect and defend.

We are above your labels, above your intimidation and smear tactics, following the path of truth in the voice of our writings and in the convictions of humanity. If pursuing truth, fighting criminality and awakening justice makes us anti-Semites, then guilty we are. If seeing the dehumanization, exploitation and utter destruction of the Palestinian people makes the voices of reason anti-Semitic, then guilty we stand. To defend the humanity of other Semitic people is to defend humanity itself. To speak out against injustice and dehumanization makes us human, to defend it makes you complicit.

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http://worldnewstrust.org/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=3929
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-19-06 04:57 PM
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1. Oh my fucking word
this has to be one of the most unhinged pieces i've ever seen posted on DU. It's so bad, it's not worth deconstructing. If you can't see what's wrong with it, it's undoubtedly hopeless to try and explain it.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-19-06 05:14 PM
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2. Usually the only people who are called anti-semites at the DU are
the original authors of nutbomb pieces like this.

We discuss Israel/ME all the time and nobody calls anybody anti-semetic. Cause we discuss.

What is he talking about?

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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-20-06 12:08 PM
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4. I've never been able to read him.
Reminds me of Buckminster Fuller, that way. Two paragraphs or so and my mind veers off in the ditch. It's not so much what he is trying to say as the way he says it.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-20-06 05:48 AM
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3. Oh come on,
you posted this, why don't you explain why.
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Mir Donating Member (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-20-06 04:09 PM
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5. I don't get it,
I keep seeing things on here talking about anti-Semitic charges, but I have yet to see one for myself. Granted, I don't even have a hundred posts yet, but I've seen, and written, some pretty critical stuff about Israel, and have never seen anybody accuse anybody else of anti-Semitism. What is the point of this drivel?
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