Should Jewish-supremacist teachings and "Israeli war crimes denial" be crimes?

Question

Yes, Jewish Supremacist ideas like this, " "A MILLION ARABS ARE NOT WORTH ONE JEWISH FINGERNAIL."
That is what Rabbi Perin said in his eulogy at the funeral of New York doctor Baruch Goldstein who used an assault rifle to kill 29 men, women and children while they were worshiping at a mosque (quote first reported Feb. 28, 1994 by Clyde Haberman in the New York Times).

Or this one, "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
David Ben-Gurion (Polish born Israeli Statesman and Prime Minister (1948-53, 1955-63). Chief architect of the state of Israel and revered as Father of the Nation, 1886-1973)

Or this one, "Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."

-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online

Or this one, ""It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."

-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

BTW, retard below, the Nazi Holocaust was not the worst persecution of any group ever. That's disgusting to say and imbecilic seeing that there are groups that have been persecuted to extinction. 400 Nations of Indians are no longer with us, dumb a$s.

Answer 1

I thoroughly reject the strange proclamations of the "holocaust deniers" but I don't believe they should be imprisoned for their expressing their beliefs. There is no question that Israel has engaged in war crimes. Destroying nearly 400 hundred Palestinian villages and denying the Palestinians who were driven out of their homes in 1948 the right to return was a violation of the Geneva Convention. Despite overwhelming documentary evidence that this took place, some Zionists will always deny the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. You won't get any further arguing with them than you will with the Holocaust deniers. Both groups are in a state that borders on psychotic. The right to free speech must always be protected, even when it's crazy.
Given their tragic history, I can well understand why Jews would seek a state of their own. The European powers decided to provide them with one in Palestine. This had catastrophic consquences for the Palestinians who were about 98 percent of the population in that late 18 hundreds and about 90 percent of the population as late as 1931. At the time of partition, despite waves on colonial settlement by Jews, the Palestinians were still two thirds of the population. They were accorded less than fifty percent of the land. No group would find that proposition acceptable. The result was war and the dispossion of most of the Palestinian people. They fled as a consequence of a systematic and bloody ethnic cleansing. Their homes and villages were destroyed. They died in massacres. Those that remained in Israel today lost about two thirds of their land.
Many of the fleeing Palestinians live today in what amount to the same kind of places that the native Americans were provided. In the US they were called reservations. In South Africa, the Africikeers, who also claim the status as Gods chosen people, the indigenous population was driven in what were called Bantustans.
When a prescuted group seeks to provide themselves a homeland, someone is always going to pay a heavy price. In the US in was the Indians. In South Africa it was the blacks. Every colonial settler society claims that they have a special entitlement. They assert that God wants them to have the land, that it is their "Manifest Destiny" They also act to deligitimize the human beings whose land they are expropriating. They are deemed "savages" or "terrorists" or,to be "Not a people."
What exist today in Israel very much resembles apatheid South
Africa. Having lived in both countries, I would have to say that the apartheid practices currently in place in Israel are every bit as cruel as those in place when the Boers ruled in South Africa.
The blacks in the "Bantustans" had more rights than Israel has afforded Palestinians under occupation. There weren't Whites Only roads in the Bantustans. There are Jews Only roads on the West Bank.
Any society that has as it's underlying premise that race or religion forms the basis of a special entiltment is inherently immoral. I thank God I didn't grow up in conditons that would have lead me to be a Zionist or adherent of White supremacy in Africa. Trying to change the views of those that believe in such systems is impossible. Apartheid and Zionism are both pathologies that drive other wise decent human being to behave like Nazis.

Answer 2

While I have no idea if your quotes are true (perhaps you got them from an anti-israel web site?) they certainly to not reflect the current thinking or position of the state of israel, or their people.

I know a bit about David Ben-Gurion - and that quote seems quite unlikely.

I've never heard about "Jewish-supremacist" teachings Is this something made up by some anti-jew web site? or by yourself?

You've got quite a chip on your shoulder. Did some Jewish person do something bad to you once? What have you got against Jews? Do you wish to wipe them off the face of the planet (like their surroundingn arab neighbors do)?

Answer 3

Some of your quotes are forgeries.

One quote, assuming it was true, was completely benign and rational.

Another quote, assuming it was true, is merely the opinion of one individual rabbi.

But let me that the quotes are true. And let us assume, for argument's sake, that it is indicative of "Jewish supremisism". That being the case, if that is to be a crime, than so is Jew hatred. Since you are an anti semite (not that I have any hard evidence of that assertion but hey, if you can make fact free statements, so can I) then would that not mean that you are engaging in a crime by merely posting this lame question on Yahoo Answers?

Answer 4

Any war crimes should be prosecuted.

But if you're talking about "war crimes" against their neighbors...nobody wants to touch that. Jews have been persecuted for millennia, culminating in the Holocaust, the worst persecution of any group ever.

If you persecute the persecuted and they retaliate, I think you're just going to have to accept it. Why should it be a crime for them to stand up for themselves?

Why are you angry at Israel for taking care of itself? Are you jealous, or what? If everybody left them alone, I bet they'd leave everyone else alone.

Israel was supposed to be compensation for the miseries of persecution and the Holocaust. So why are they being pressured and threatened on all sides, hmmmm?

Answer 5

jewish supremacist teachings? where? please show me evidence of a jewish supremacist teaching that is accepted by jews to be true.

israeli war crimes denial? pardon? it seems to me that whenever israel does anything questionable, let alone completely illegal, everybody knows about it, and its plastered all over the evening news. which is strange. since we control the media, you'd think we'd be smart enough to keep all of israel's faults off the news, eh?

Answer 6

No. And I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that I don't even think your Jew-paranoia/Jew-obsession (whichever it is) should be crimes either, although I do think they're a bit silly.

Answer 7

Um, sure Sparky. Right after they make it a "crime" to believe an Invisible Sky Pixie watches everything you do.