Comment by magic_hamster

1 month ago

You're detracting. You made a comparison between Israel and the nazis, which is wrong, and is extremely far reached.

Answering with "all people have the capacity for evil" is once again a subtle misdirection which seems like a recurring theme in your comments. This wasn't what you implied.

Put simply, Israel and nazis are night and day, you are villifying a country and its people with extreme and factually wrong accusations.

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ignoramous 1 month ago

> Israel and nazis are night and day

Depends on who you ask. People are allowed to see similarities, like Lebensraum & Occupation, as two examples. They don't need anyone's certification or permission. And intimidation, I believe, has stopped working. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisons_between_Israel_and...

I mean, "Judeo-Nazi" was a term coined by an Israeli polymath Yeshayahu Leibowitz & has been part of the Revisionist discourse for quite some time; ex: Better a Living Judeo-Nazi Than a Dead Saint (1983), https://www.jstor.org/stable/2536162 / https://archive.vn/uX42N

throwaway3060 1 month ago
You would be wrong. This happens to have been a propaganda campaign invented decades earlier in the Soviet Union. In fact, it is quite stunning how similar all this is to the modern propaganda Russia uses.
- ignoramous 1 month ago
  
  > You would be wrong
  Well, looks like Leibowitz did not coin the term (much to his chagrin perhaps?), but I guess he was one of the more prominent Israelis to never apologize for using it.
  May be Leibowitz spoke truth to power; may be he was a Soviet asset.
  > quite stunning how similar all this is
  Hm.
  Michael S: Aren't you exaggerating when you use the term "Judeo- Nazi?" Do you truly believe that we are liable to decline to the level of the Nazis? Yeshayahu L: When the nation (or in Nazi terminology, the race) and the power of its state become supreme values, human action is no longer inhibited. This mentality is also widespread among us. In the territories under our occupation in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon, we are already behaving as the Nazis behaved in the territories under their occupation in Czechoslovakia and the west.
  https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=jud-001%3A2018%3A...
  
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