Here's the United Jewish Appeal of Toronto urging a rally over the crisis in Southern Israel:
Join
thousands across Canada in a national show of support for the people of
Israel living with constant missile attacks by Hamas terrorists.
thousands across Canada in a national show of support for the people of
Israel living with constant missile attacks by Hamas terrorists.
Yes, there are victims of the cycle of violence in southern Israel. But the crisis truly pales beside the slaughter that is taking place now in Gaza. And who has control over thir lives? Who has sovereignty personal or political? No wonder the kids are marrying out, they don't like these attitudes…
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The moral midgets of Toronto UJA (who can't even bring themselves to type the word 'Gaza') are answered by a march in Montreal:
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MONTREAL – Thousands of placard-toting, flag-waving protesters spilled into the streets of Montreal on Sunday, calling on the Canadian government to apply pressure on Israel to stop its military offensive in Gaza.
The boisterous-but-peaceful group made up adults and children shouted slogans such as "Israel terrorist" and "Free Palestine" as they snaked through the downtown core in a bone-chilling cold.
The Montreal march was the latest in a series of events this weekend across Canada denouncing the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/01/04/7916376-cp.html
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If Gaza were wiped off the map by a mushroom cloud, Toronto UJA would report, 'Large explosion felt in Sderot; no Jews injured.'
Talk about living in the 7th century — most moderners can't even conceive such inbred, reflexive tribalism.
Marrying out?
Fuck you Phil. I'm married to a lovely non-zionist jewish woman. I would have been happy to marry a non-jewish woman as well (all my siblings have), but you fall in love with who you fall in love with.
You're such an asshole sometimes Phil. Maybe you should run these by your wife before you post. I get the feeling she is way more intelligent about these things than you are.
Phil – Please try to refrain from making such an arse of yourself. I'm married to a lovely non-zionist jewish woman. Just because you got turned down by all the hot jewish girls doesn't mean the rest of us didn't score. (I'd have been happy to marry a non-jewish woman as well, as all my siblings have – and not because they don't love jews)
Seriously Phil, try not to be such a weenie so often.
Talk about living in the 7th century — most moderners can't even conceive such inbred, reflexive tribalism.
Ever spent any time in the Middle East Haygood?
You're another one who is totally full of yourself. The amount of projection by some of the commenters here on to the Jewish People is severe.
Quibble over Phil's last line (or Haygood's comment) all you want, NZJ. I note that you have no answer to the more basic issue raised by Phil in this post.
"I would have been happy to marry a non-jewish woman as well."
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
My wife put together some recommendations for Muslims, who must deal with Jewish tribalism: … Victims of a Holocaust. Really?
I would probably have used terms like Jewish or Zionist racist or extremist where she uses simply Jew, but I have read the same polls she does and must concede that excessive precision may obscure the reality in this case.
Anyway, not only has anyone that uses terms like Jewish people been completely mentally colonized by Zionism, but it shows serious confusion and misunderstanding to treat occasional outbreaks of potentially dangerous religious fundamentalism in the ME as comparable to the utterly evil ethnic fundamentalism that is so pervasive among a much too large subset of Jews.
(Karin would probably have just said "Jews" and argued that decent Jews should follow the example of Marlene Dietrich and stop identifying with the Jewish community entirely.)
Almost a decade ago on my campus, I went to a "Stand with Us" rally on campus and left with a "Stand with Us" sticker on my coat. As I was leaving I overheard two middle-eastern looking students commenting frustratedly to each other as they approached the speaker's stage, "They're not getting the whole story."
How very right those students were.
Since when do we substitute "cycle of violence" for war of national liberation?
When we objectively side with the agressor in an effort to embrace pacifism!