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King_David

(14,851 posts)
Sun May 11, 2014, 07:21 PM May 2014

Obama Calls for Worldwide Fight Against Anti-Semitism

LOS ANGELES — Recalling the horrors of the Holocaust, President Barack Obama urged nations to fight growing anti-Semitism and threats against Israel.

Speaking Wednesday night to 1,200 supporters of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, Obama called for “confronting a rising tide of anti-Semitism around the world."

“We see attacks on Jews in the streets of major Western cities, public places marred by swastikas,” he continued. “From some foreign governments we hear the worst kind of anti-Semitic scapegoating.”

At the same time, “it’s up to us to speak out against rhetoric that threatens the existence of the Jewish homeland and to sustain America’s unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security,” Obama declared to loud applause.


http://www.jewishexponent.com/headlines/2014/05/obama-calls-for-worldwide-fight-against-anti-semitism

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Obama Calls for Worldwide Fight Against Anti-Semitism (Original Post) King_David May 2014 OP
President Obama King_David May 2014 #1
Do you agree 100% with what PBO said about Israel? R. Daneel Olivaw May 2014 #2
An interesting tidbit... R. Daneel Olivaw May 2014 #3
Just as I thought. Nothing from the King except dead air. R. Daneel Olivaw May 2014 #5
Why would they? Shaktimaan May 2014 #6
Of course, of course... R. Daneel Olivaw May 2014 #7
So Shaktimaan May 2014 #8
I just find it curious that the R. Daneel Olivaw May 2014 #10
Part of the silence is to never mention that 'Arabs are also Semites. Viva_Daddy May 2014 #9
LOL King_David May 2014 #11
And... Shaktimaan May 2014 #12
Kick King_David May 2014 #4
 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
2. Do you agree 100% with what PBO said about Israel?
Sun May 11, 2014, 07:35 PM
May 2014

Also, it is a good thing to stop out all racism everywhere regardless of who the target is. Right?
 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
3. An interesting tidbit...
Sun May 11, 2014, 08:36 PM
May 2014
The work is continuing with testimonies from the last survivors of the 1915 genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and of the Japanese massacre of Chinese in Nanjing in 1937.


I guess that the foundation also had the surviving members of the Nakba recount their tales of ethnic cleansing at the hands of the founders of Israel.

Right?


Perhaps not. I guess some atrocities have to be buried in order to promote the myths of the homeland.

Shaktimaan

(5,397 posts)
6. Why would they?
Sun May 18, 2014, 10:31 PM
May 2014

The foundation clearly focuses on genocides. Are you seriously going to try and compare events like the rape of Nanking or the pol pot genocide with the Nakba?

The reality is that countless examples of ethnic cleansing followed the global changes following WWII. The Nakba isn't a particularly severe or straightforward example either, compared with the atrocities associated with India's partition or stalin's massive, forced population shifts. All of which qualify as atrocities. The Nakba however is far less cut and dry, to anyone who knows the historical facts of the matter.

I guess some atrocities have to be buried in order to promote the myths of the homeland.


Right. Because no ones ever heard of the Nakba. It's a big secret no one knows about. You're probably the only person who knows about it I'd bet.
 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
7. Of course, of course...
Sun May 18, 2014, 11:53 PM
May 2014

Why would anybody want to mention the Nakba, or the ethnic cleansing of 720,000 Palestinians...along with mass killings in some of their villages, when it is better off kept an uncomfortable secret in plain sight...especially since the birth of Israel could not have come about without such an expulsion?

Seemingly more than half of Israelis would probably like to forget it ever happened at all.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4516743,00.html

or...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/08/what-passover-teaches-us-about-the-nakba.html#

The minimum that we should do is to learn together about the deep tension between the narrative of independence and that of catastrophe or Nakba. Instead we attempt to create a chasm of silence in order to pretend it doesn’t exist.


Like I wrote before. I guess some atrocities have to be buried in order to promote the myths of the homeland.

Shaktimaan

(5,397 posts)
8. So
Mon May 19, 2014, 01:22 AM
May 2014

In your view it's the equivalent of the holocaust or the Armenian genocide?

You do recognize the difference between ethic cleansing and genocide, right?

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