woolfe: I don't even know where to begin with this.
M: When I here that I naturally assume the message is that I am too far gone to be dealt with in a logical manner and that the intention is to shame me and that just tells me things about the person I'm talking to.
w: I'll keep my remark brief.
M: I myself will take as many words as I want because you will be worth all of them to me.
w: Anti-semitism today is not unlinked to anti-semitism of the past.
M: That is not what I said. It is linked but it is very different. We are not on about Jews, most of up Israeli critics, because Jews are Christ killers. I have become far far less sympathetic of Israel, as I explained, because their 60+ years of intransigence and their blame of the Palestinians for that has cost America dearly, in terms of treasure and lives and our reputation in the Middle East. It would be a massively different world if Israel never existed and a much better one for the United States, in my opinion.
w: Neither is any other form of bigotry, or any sort of attitude, belief, or perception for that matter. Beliefs about anything and everything are passed down from parent to child, and reinforced by teachers, peers and other authority figures.
M: Exactly, each bigot is created fresh with the latest updates in bigotry. Ones bigotry is only as old as oneself. And one person can end a 2000 year old chain.
w: With respect to anti-semitism in particular, it isn't just that it has existed for 2,000 years. It's that there are running themes that repeat generation after generation: "Jewish power,"
M: Have Jews acquired power? Always prejudice against that.
w: Jews being disloyal and alien to the body politc of whatever nation they reside in,
Yay Jews! Jews, being outsiders see what the body politic can't see, being too close to it. All my greatest idols are just these kinds of Jews.
w: Jews duping gentile proxies to do their dirty work, Jewish money.
M: Like the 1 percent.
M: Blaming the Jews for the financial crisis is just the same hoary old anti-semitic cliche, different time and place. No, I do not accept as mere coincidence that Jews are blamed for the recent financial crash and have been blamed for various economic troubles going back thousands of years, because it quite clearly isn't a coincidence.
M: There are a lot of folk who are bigoted against Jews. I don't think any of what you said is true at all except there are some Jews to which it applies. Bernie Madoff was a really upstanding guy. He made off with quit a bit.
w: Israel's behavior is not needed to explain this anti-semitism. It has a life of its own.
M: Amplified and exaggerated by Israeli behavior. I have lost a great deal of sympathy solely because of their behavior. I think Israel went down the path of self destruction.
w: So far as Israel itself goes, your opinions are wrong because your facts are wrong. But that is a different discussion for a different thread.
M: I wasn't speaking of facts, but what I regard as facts, my opinion. I am totally disinterested and unbiased in this and respect my own opinions. I believe you have a bias that I do not. I have no dogs at all in this race. I just hate to see all the misery that exists between Israel and the Palestinians and I believe it takes two to tango. I am pretty sure I am not alone is being sick of hearing about Israel and the Palestinians, and what that leads to is the wish for a pox on both their houses. The mistake Israel made was to go up against a people who are just as willing as they are to be hard nosed assholes. And I am also sure a lot of Israelis are far more sick of it than I am. As I said, Jews are the greatest critics of Israel. I don't even count.