"Jewish Identity Can't Depend on Violence"
"Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience -- a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends. The holocaust was the result of the warped mind of an individual who was able to influence his followers into doing something dreadful. But, it seems to me the Jews today not only want the Germans to feel guilty but the whole world must regret what happened to the Jews. The world did feel sorry for the episode but when an individual or a nation refuses to forgive and move on the regret turns into anger."
"Arun Ghandi, the fifth grandson of Mohanda K. "Mahatma" Ghangi, was forced to resign amid charges that this article is "Anti-Semitic".
Yet, he makes a valid point. The United States was not responsible for the holocaust. Indeed we sacrificed much blood and treasure to STOP Hitler completing whatever plans he had. Yet Israel persists in claiming that Americans today owe Israel for what the Germans supposedly did to Jews in the middle of the last century, currently to the tune of $30 billion a year (while American women, children, and Iraq war veterans sleep in alleys and eat out of trash dumpsters).
Now, civilized behavior is that when someone rescues your ass, you express gratitude. You don't sit there whining about they didn't do enough and that they should continue to prop you up. Such ingratitude does produce, as Ghandi observes, eventual anger and rejection.
And bitch-slapping the people who point that out does not make the situation look any better." -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
Now the reasons for my swearing rants are so much clearer, thank you!
