I haven't posted in a while, perhaps because I haven't felt particularly passionate about anything. Here's something I am passionate about, having dealt with it recently on a plane back from Israel: We all know the feeling. You're sitting on an El AL plane to Israel, the seat belt sign is on, it's some ungodly hour and everyone is sleeping as you're flying over who knows where, when suddenly tens of hat, streimel, and kippa wearing ...
On the eve of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) I feel it necessary to keep up the crusade against those who resort to petty, simplistic Holocaust comparisons in an attempt to score cheap shock value points. When Hamas engages in Holocaust exploitation, such as their recent claim that the Shoah was a Zionist engineered conspiracy to kill off weak Jews who would be useless to the Zionist state, it is not surprising anymore. When a mainstream figure such as Al Gore refers to global warming as an ecological Kristallnacht it's obviously more painful. But it's particularly hurtful when Jews engage in this type of exploitation. An Israeli author recently testified in the Knesset that Israel's chametz laws (which were recently overturned by an Israeli court as being undemocratic), which ban the public sale of leavened bread by Jews over the Passover holiday, are comparable to the Nuremberg laws. He was rightfully decried by both religious and secular lawmakers. A groups of British academics took out an ad in a UK newspaper stating that they won't celebrate Israel's 60th birthday, since Israel's founding was a "Holocaust to the Palestinians." ...
US officials just confirmed what has already been widely reported since it happened in September: that Israel bombed a Syrian nuclear reactor which was being built with help from North Korea. The event was shrouded in secrecy until now, but the US Congress has been pressuring the Bush administration to publicly brief them (and the American people) ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently declared Israel's military incursion into Gaza to be "worse than the Holocaust." Ironically, Abbas' "doctoral thesis" was a work of Holocaust denial, so it's not clear what insult was being insinuated by comparing Israel's actions to something that he claims never happened (perhaps it was actually meant as a compliment?). But it's not just terror supporting Holocaust deniers who play the Hitler card. Right here at home, Robert Byrd, Rick Santorum, Howard Dean, Tom Delay, and others have all compared their political opponents to the cartoonish, mustachioed German dictator. Hillary Duff, Bill Clinton, the Pope, Martha Stewart, and people who smoke have all been compared to Hitler. Strangely enough, Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe once compared himself to the Fuhrer. Global warming has been called a modern-day Holocaust. And who can forget when PETA equated the consumption of chicken to the murder of 6 million Jews. ...
This is my first post (finally, after much arm cajoling) so I decided to make it an attention grabbing one. I've noticed people seem to be confused over Barack Obama's ethnicity. In his first run for Senate in Illinois, he apparently received a large share of the Irish vote because people saw his name and thought it was O'Bama. I have ...
