There is an increasingly vocal and aggressive direction being taken
by some Christians. That many American Christians supported the Bush
administration and its wars is well known. At present the level of
dehumanization of Muslims and outright advocacy of genocide is becoming
much louder.
Consider the following exchange on Facebook (I'm
going to keep these people anonymous). Someone posted, "If the
Palestinians put down their weapons there would be peace, if the
Israeli's put down their weapons there would be no more Jews". The
supportive comments started coming in. I replied with,
I don't know. It would behoove the Palestinians to engage in civil disobedience. They'd get a lot more support that way (witness the Freedom Flotilla).
If Israel stopped oppressing, Israel as we know it would cease to exist, but no more Jews? The Afrikaners said the same kinds of things in South Africa to justify Apartheid. While it's very true that Mandela & his successors are making a mess of things, there's been no slaughter.
Consider this about the fighting:
The Israeli government, like the one ruling us, thrives on crises and seems to go to great lengths to cultivate them. As I've pointed out before, there is a sick symbiosis between the Israeli regime and Palestinian terrorist chieftains, a relationship documented by Richard Ben Cramer in his valuable and infuriating book How Israel Lost.
"Things are not as they seem," writes Cramer. "The [Palestinian Authority's] business intersects with Israeli business at the highest levels of Israeli political life." This explains the tacit "arrangement" in which Israeli and Palestinian rulers sustain each other through carefully timed incidents of lethal violence.
Before Yasir Arafat died, he would be regularly "rescued" by Israeli military strikes against Palestinian targets, Cramer observes. The same was true of Arafat's supposed arch-enemy, Ariel Sharon: "If his polls dropped, something terrible happened -- dead Jews all over the TV" -- and Sharon's political fortunes would dramatically improve.
From "We Bought The Bullets"
Every state needs its Emanuel Goldstein, don't be fooled!
The hate began. During the discussion one person replied with these two comments,
If the Israelis would just use all of theirs, we could stop talking about all the other cockroaches. They want to be martyrs, let's help the [sic] succeed... all at once, right now.
Followed later in the discussion with,
Israel is going to have to wipe them all out eventually, in order to survive. That being the case, and we all know it is the case, why not just get it over with? How many thousands of their cirizens [sic] can be saved by not waiting to be hit first (for the ten thousnadth [sic] time)? Just do what needs to be done, we did it to end WW2, and look how effective it was. No we've turned into a bunch of female genitals (poltically [sic] speaking) and look at the manure we routinely put up with, just like Israel. Just push a few buttons and send 'em to their blow-up doll virgins in hell. That's my vote.
Referring to people as cockroaches is using the language of the
Rwandan genocide of 1994. Another disgusting example of dehumanizing an
enemy to justify killing them. One is reminded of the Nazis referring
to the Jews as rats.
Another person decided to turn their hate
on me,
Thanks XXXX! Sometimes you feel alone battling against the blockheads who think Peace Flotillas, are peaceful, and that hitting a terrorist BACK is bad. There are just so many stupid people in the world, and we don't have enough bullets!
The person who posted the above has since deleted it, which is quite
understandable, I'd be embarrassed to have written that too.
Along
the same lines there was an exchange at the Future of Freedom
Foundation's event "Restoring Liberty and the Constitution" on Friday
June 4, 2010. (Which I attended.) During the question and answer period
a woman took exception to James Bovard calling for the rights of the
prisoners at Guantanamo, Cuba being respected. The woman went on to say
that "those bastards" have to be stopped so they won't kill our
families. They don't need to be Mirandized, she said. They're guilty,
the government wouldn't just arrest people "willey-nilly", she went on.
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