Comments on: Do most Israelis and many other Jews NEED to feel persecuted?

By: Leroy Heise

Leroy Heise — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:32:24 +0000

I am a goy, and feel it, when in the company of jews, when they identify themselves as such. I cant tell who is a Jew, any more than I can tell who is a Cuban. Your comments resonate with me. The difficulty is that you are explaining the present. What about their historical position. Is it different than a Persian, or Chinese, or
Egyptian or African. When did the legacy begin? Did it originate in Scrolls that predated the Old Testament? Is the Jewish goal to make all non Jews feel guilty for something. I can feel upset about some of our treatment of others on our Canadian history, but feel revulsion, not guilt. I would believe most other cultures have some of the same feelings about their history.

By: Tim Upham

Tim Upham — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:41:48 +0000

I have met so many American Jews, who seem like they get a high off of feeling persecuted. Whenever you mention anything about a possible two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, they will scream out “Anti-Semitism, Holocaust. and we are the most persecuted people on the face of the planet, Never Again, Never Again, Never Again!” It is like crying wolf, for you can back into the past and see it. But what the present and the future?

By: Jaap Bosma

Jaap Bosma — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:04:39 +0000

“everything crumbles”

What crumbles most is probably the Zionist self-image. Zionists will not be moral giants any more, the Jewish state will not be a remedy for injustices inflicted on Jews any more, but an injustice inflicted on Palestinians

You can image that various psychological self-defense mechanisms will not allow this crumbling to happen

By: Jaap Bosma

Jaap Bosma — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:58:48 +0000

The cure is simple: to end the conflict.

Once the conflict with the Palestinians has ended there will be far less need for Zionists to justify e.g. the slow ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem, massacres like that in Gaza, taking Palestinian lands, refusing to let Palestinian refugees return, etc..

Unfortunately, as you write, it’s very hard to end the conflict will Zionism is still sick. I guess international pressure is the only way, … and promoting awareness of the real facts.

By: Jaap Bosma

Jaap Bosma — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:48:03 +0000

I always wonder to what extend Zionsts really feel persecuted due to antisemitism and the Holocaust, and to what extend the need to feel persecuted springs from the need to handle the psychological tensions associated with the need to inflict huge injustices on the Palestinians in order to realise Zionism.

My feeling is that the second reason is more important.

By: john mccarthy

john mccarthy — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:36:50 +0000

Hello Alan,

Are there any current public discussions on the subject of The Balfour Declaration; the connections and any unintended consequences for America’s entry into WWI and WWII?

http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id825.html
and
http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id831.html

How much time had elapsed between the signing of the Declaration and the contents being made public?

Did the exposure cause any ‘blow back’ for the British and or the Americans?

Do we know what affect this Declaration had on the 1947 UN Vote creating the mixed States of Palestine and Israel?

Bests,
John

By: arieh zimmerman

arieh zimmerman — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:06:24 +0000

Actually, the only presumption with which I take note, is the assumption that some so many of we Israelis are illiterate by choice. Beyond books, anyone processing any sense of shame at all, much less a modicum of empathy, and living in this land of curdled milk and sour honey, has more than ample opportunity to witness the stupidity and ill breeding of our treatment of Palestinians, as a nation and as too many heartless individuals. In any case, it is difficult to maintain exaggerated paranoia while maintaining the largest and best weaponed army in the area.

By: Karen Chadwick

Karen Chadwick — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:03:08 +0000

Alan, your work is the most important frontline effort to bring some peace to the horrid situation in Israel and it’s neighbors. As for your accountant “M” and his fear that everything “will crumble” if he has to face that what he believes is wrong – crumble, crumble, crumble. Just as every other movement based on hatred and dirty deeds has either faded away or is diminishing with time and truth, M will have a better nights sleep when he can come to the realization that caring for the quality of life for all his world neighbors is the only way to go. It’s so very very sad that the Zionists have taken hatred beyond Hitler’s old school ways.
Alan, keep up the good work. A true fan from Kalamazoo!

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:45:58 +0000

The security and the political and human rights of all Jews who decide to live in Palestine (as common folks, I’m sorry, not as a Herrenvolk any more) have to be absolutely guaranteed — certainly not “to cure the sickness of traumatized Israeli and other Jewish minds”, but because this is the right thing to do.

Jews couldn’t care less (why should they, after all?) about what you call “an acceptable amount of justice for the Palestinians”. Did the Afrikaners care about justice for black South Africans? Now, as then, they will only give up their opression of the indigenous people when the price to pay under the form of economic and cultural isolation makes it a bad deal.

By: john mccarthy

john mccarthy — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:25:51 +0000

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