Who here still feels sympathy for the Jews? 50-60 years of Guilt. Enough already?

Question

One can only cry so much and the tears will sooner or later dry up. Especially when you see the person you are crying for is prepared to malign and dish out the same ill-treatment to someone else.

sinistermooess, No compunction at all. Blacks do not crave pity and guilt and want to hold the world to ransom for the actions of 1 madman. We are also not paranoid killers. Hope that answers your comparison.

Tom Fry, I know, and they are plain to see because they haven't freed themselves from mental slavery. The rest of us just try and get on despite the hidden racist supremacists we encounter on a daily basis.

KEV D, what is the difference? Unmitigated killing is murder. PERIOD

Answer 1

i have come to observe that those of the jewish faith like to whine. they call it kvetching. they do it very well. oy. they had to follow moses around in the hot sand for 40 years. oy. somebody did this to them. oy. oy oy. how can i break my granny's trust fund to fix my hampton's house without using my earnings? oy. vhy didnt you become a doctor instead of a lawyer, son?
whine moan whine moan. complain is what they do best.
eventually a whiner gets verrrry boring. yawn. yes, enough already indeed!

Answer 2

I think that if race any equation I am making in my mind, then I am being racist; similarly for religion.

Race and religion should not enter any equation when deciding what we think of /'judging' people. So there is no point feeling sympathy, guilt... If you did then you should feel sympathy for victims of coloonialism and especially forcible expropriation: slaves, original tribes... Harm has been done and in some way some reparation has to be made to level the playing field again; for example special funds for education, public infrastructure provision. Acknowledge the past, see what can be done to alleviate the issues caused by the past, but guilt or feeling sorry shouldn't be involved.

If you are thiking of the present situation in Israel/palestine/Lebanon, then you should differentiate between Jews and Israel. Israel was created by the colonial forces and given a piece of land which happens to be holy to a few religions. That couldn't have been a brilliant idea, but we now have to live with that. Furthermore, water is scarce in that region, and people are willing to fight and die over it because survival depends on water. While you can have an idea of how people think, what you think of the situation depends on what you think on 'pre-emptive strikes'.

Is it alright to attack another country to make sure some people in that country do not attack you at some point in the future? Remember, kidnappings of soldiers is not new and nobody went to war over this, as pointed out by the father of one of the guys kidnapped. The kidnappings were just an excuse to make the attacks look les pre-emptive and get more of public opinion behind them.

To stop rambling, we should:
1 decide how to treat people on characteristics other than race or religion
2 differentiate between Jews and Israel
therefore between 'the russian pogroms', 'the inquisition', 'the holocaust' and the present situation in the Middle East. (It is amusing though to think who were the perpetrators of the 3 above had in common).
3 decide whether pre-emptive strikes are acceptable to us

Answer 3

Why do you say " the Jews?" That's discrimination. People are all individuals, whether they share a belief or not. Many Israelis hate the war. Zionist is not the same as jew. And Israel has always been considered a sitting duck by the surrounding Arab nations, whose terrorist factions have tried to prove this from time to time during 5 decades.

Answer 4

Israel has every right to defend it's borders and protect itself. I'm personally sick of the Palestinians. They were given Jewish settlements and trashed all the homes that the Jews build (home they could have lived in) and voted in Hama.

Who is playing the guilt card here? Hezbollah is launch bombs behind Mosques, hospital and civilian neighborhoods in Lebanon and creating victims - and they trot this victims out for the TV cameras. The Jews are playing the guilt card?????

I'm not Jewish, but I know who I don't feel sorry for.

Answer 5

Apparently you don't take a look at what is going on in Palestine in Lebanon? Do you see what they do everyday to children and women and men and pregnent woman? Do you realize that they have no pity for muslims at all? Do you not notice that Israel is a country bulit and the Palestinians backs and childrens and men? Do you not know how many babies and how polluted there waters is in Palestine and Lebanon? People who have pity for the Jews don't have a clue as to what is going on in the countries that it fights with. One more thing do you even know the meaning of Pity to began with? Please take the time to look at pictures and not listen to the American Media for once and take the time to hear it from the arab side that way you see both sides and then you will know who to have pity for.

Answer 6

If you are referring to the current crisis involving Hezbollah and Isreal and the USA's (and therefore Britain's) support for Isreal it is out of sympathy for the Jewish people it is because of the massive Jewish population in the US (the highest in the world). If Bush were to oppose Isreal and support the Islamic groups they fight then he would lose massive amounts of support from within the Jewish community in the US.

As for myself, when I meet a Jewish person I do not think 'Oh you poor soul' and I don't think the vast majority of people do. Jewish persecutions have been terrible and should not be forgotten but that is not to say we should automatically associate the word Jew with the word Holocaust

Answer 7

I feel sympathy for all races. We need to pull our heads out of our butts and realize we are all human beings. With the right too choose how we as individuals wish too worship. All war does is kill not solve anything. If we came together and started thinking about how we could help each other instead of try to figure out new ways of killing each other wouldn't it be a better place for us all. But that will never happen sadly as we as human beings will never fully trust each other and there will always be that one person who wants to hold all of the power. Sad isn't it.

Answer 8

i still feel sympathy for them...i don't cry for them, but, i do feel some type of sorrow for the way they were treated...i feel the same over the african slaves...over the ancient christians, over any unjustice done to anyone regardless of the time frame...
as far as them preparing to dish out the same ill treatment, well, that is what war is all about...people don't always learn from mistakes...and most think that power over another is the thing to have...some will never learn that peace is by far better than war any day, any generation

Answer 9

What have they dont wrong, other than defend themselves? You obviously have no idea what is going on in the world.

A group of people's sole point of existance is to wipe out israel. They are hiding in lebanon, living firing missles from civilian villages, without the lebonese government saying a thing. They are also aided by syria and Iran.

If you were in charge of israel's defense, what would you do? Just sit there and take it?

Answer 10

Well zionists are one thing but you have to read up about Israel and Jews. Although Israel is almost completely populated by Jewish people and was created for Jews, there are a lot of Jews who hate what Israel's doing. It's the zionist movement that is causing this horrific hippocrasy towards its enemies.

www.jewsagainstzionism.com

Answer 11

Look, I know what you are saying, but I pose this in return. Are you judging the Jews? If so, are you not as bad as them - putting your self in a position of judgement. I think these kinds of questions are borderline religion based (apologes if I am wrong in your case) adn , if so, leave it to God. He will have the last say. The Jews have a history of pain and suffering. I am not saynig I agree with them or agree with Hezbollah, but in thier eyes they have given over 6 million lives to have paid for their peace. Have you given 6 million anything? No. Me neither.