Keep the march of fear alive


By yankeeuxb
September 20, 2010
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In the latest tabloid headline from the JC we are told that we may be next.

What is meant by ‘next’ is underlined by a huge photo of a salivating, hysterical Muslim not unsimilar in style to the salivating, perfidious Jew employed by the Nazis to demonise an entire people.

That real people, Roma, are being forcibly expelled from an EU state and that Mosques are fire bombed in the UK and the US is barely, if ever, mentioned as this would take away the special status we have as victim number 1.

The constant march of fear is a distraction from the suffering of others. Because we are ‘in fear’ we are excused the impunity with which we kill thousands of trapped Palestinians and those who wish to help them. The constant drum of fear beats out a relentless and untruthful rhythm. Whilst our safety is perhaps, maybe, might be in jeopardy real Palestinians are killed in their hundreds and their communities are broken and decimated by huge walls, incursions, air raids and illegal settlements

The fear factor suits the politicians. Not least because it excuses the occupation and the siege but also because it maintains Israel’s status as a welfare state, a state dependent on the benevolence (and the tax dollars) of the US and EU. Occupation pays.

It is dishonourable to play the victim whilst ranging first world armed forces against a trapped civilian population whose only defence is a collection of ragged fighters armed with guns and home made rockets.

The real threat, as it has been for sixty years, is the threat aimed towards the Palestinians. They have lost their homes, their land, their freedom and their dignity. It is time to recognise that they, too, are people who deserve a future, a future away from the fear of air raids, incursions, abductions and death.

There is no fear for us in the UK. Stop the hyperbole and stop the victimhood. Start preaching empathy and compassion towards others be they Roma, victims of Islamophobia or, God forbid, Palestinians. That way some more of us might begin to demonstrate similar.

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Jessica Elgot

20 September, 2010 - 11:25

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Are you talking about the front page of the paper? Because it's not "a huge photo of a salivating, hysterical Muslim".
It's a photo of Jews in Uman at Rosh Hashanah at the grave of Rabbi Nachman.
Words fail me...

mattpryor

20 September, 2010 - 11:58

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Words fail me too Jessica. All I can say is that if lying, twisted propagandists like Yankeeuxb are the only advocates for Arab rights then it is no wonder they have had such a miserable and squalid history.

telegramsam

20 September, 2010 - 12:42

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Yankee you be wrong on so many levels.

Jon_i_Cohen

20 September, 2010 - 13:04

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Jessica,
This is exactly why the JC web site should not be open to the likes of "yankeuxb" and the other Israel haters regularly blogging on this site.

mattpryor

20 September, 2010 - 13:12

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Jon:

I don't agree. I think the JC should carry on letting people like yankeeuxb make idiots of themselves.

Miriam Shaviv

20 September, 2010 - 14:15

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"That real people, Roma, are being forcibly expelled from an EU state... is barely, if ever mentioned" - there was a whole article on this just last week. Do you actually read the paper??

Yvetta

20 September, 2010 - 16:28

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Priceless!!!
Oh, how I chortled at his blooper - just like the blooper when he (or an identikit) mistook Jabotinsky's photo for a real live blogger's!

amber

20 September, 2010 - 18:24

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yankeeuxb, your understanding of the Middle East is as ERROR PRONE and hate driven as your racist post here.

You really are a fool. I don't know how you would have the audacity to ever post anything again and expect to be taken seriously.

Jonathan Hoffman

20 September, 2010 - 19:31

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Words don't fail me Jessica though there need to be some asterisks there.

He's an a*s*h***

jose (not verified)

23 September, 2010 - 17:43

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"That real people, Roma, are being forcibly expelled from an EU state and that Mosques are fire bombed in the UK and the US is barely, if ever, mentioned as this would take away the special status we have as victim number 1."

Roma that are being expelled are those who overstayed their tourist visa. Presenting this as a racist action is stupid. What is racist is to give orders to the police to target Romas explicitely, but Romas are not expelled illegally.

Mosque are bire bombed? Much less than synagogues, by the way, and even if we do not consider the ratios of synagogues to mosques. But your double standards imply putting special emphasis only on those you support.
Mosques are rarely protected, because they just don't need protection. The terrorists rarely attack their places of worship anyway. They prefer synagogues for that. So synagogues are usually protected. Despite that, synagogue attacks are more numerous than mosques and church attacks altogether.

jose (not verified)

23 September, 2010 - 17:46

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"The real threat, as it has been for sixty years, is the threat aimed towards the Palestinians. They have lost their homes, their land, their freedom and their dignity."

Well, you'll have to prove first that it was "their land" since they were occupied for 500 years by the Ottomans. Why wouldn't it be Turkish land? Remember that Arabs have been occupiers and settlers for centuries in countries that are not "theirs". Why don't you mind that and support Arab occupation? Double standards means racism.

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