Comments on: Eight Days

By: Nancy Ewart

Nancy Ewart — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:37:09 +0000

Hello back at you! I’ve been away a lot, taking care of my 90-year old mother, getting her moved to a supervised facility and getting the house and it’s contents cleaned up for sale. It’s been utterly exhausting and I’m not sure I’m back to “myself” yet but the increasing anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish slurs are really troublesome. On one of the blogs that you link to, I read a horrifying account of anti-Semitism in Sweden! It’s really scary and makes me wonder how far this will go. Daniel Pipes thinks that American Jews should realize that the golden age for Jews in America had ended and that the issues they (we) will face in the coming decades will be far more difficult and brutal. I feel that if you demonize one group, then why not another and another and another? American democracy has a lot of flaws; heck, every government does but it’s a decent system and I hate to see it undercut by an old evil, creeping back in under a different name. Besides, anti-Semitism is linked to so many other things – religious freedom, freedom to vote, women’s rights, to name a few. When law is replaced by mob rule, fueled by hatred and ignorance, we lose what makes our society a good place to live.

By: Kateland

Kateland — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:11:04 +0000

Well hello Nancy – welcome back. Oliver Stones suggests Jewish control of the mass media prevents the proper ‘contextualization’ of Hilter…and while we can pooh-pooh Stone, the fact remains he felt safe enough to say what I suspect a great many are already thinking. It’s not like he won’t work in Hollywood again. A number of years ago I was in a bookstore – a major chain searching for children’s books and I overhead a woman with her 12 year old daughter ask the clerk to help her find a book for her daughter which showed how the ‘Germans’ suffered during WW2. I had to leave or my inner Russian would have taken charge of the situation. This caused me to make a bet with my daughter that by the time she was 40 the common ethos would be the Nazi’s weren’t that bad. So far, I think I am winning.

By: Nancy Ewart

Nancy Ewart — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:03:10 +0000

This is pretty amazing and if the unthinkable ever happens, I hope that the Israeli War Cabinet is thinking along these same lines. Heck, they might as well take out Iran’s nuclear facilities – the blogsphere has already decided that Israel is a pariah state, should be boycotted and preferably forced out of existence. It continues to amaze me that the Holocaust has been over for less than most of our lifetimes (50-60 years) but so many people just want the Jews to “get over it.” And if they fight back for the first time in two millennium, well, Oh The Shock. Oh the Horror! I was reading a blog the other day from a “liberal” that sounded like something out of Czarist Russia with his comments about how the Jews “control” so much money and the Jews “control” so many industries. It can’t possibly be that they are smart, disciplined and hard working – no, it must be some sort of plot. Ditto for Israel. Oh, and because some evangelical Christians support Israel (and I agree that they can be a strange lot), therefore that’s another reason to condemn Israel. Again, I wonder – where is the condemnation for Iran’s nuclear program, for every Arab regime suppression of free speech, free press and the rights of women. The criticism is blind and one-sided. So, while I hope that it never comes to the worst case scenario, I hope that if it does, that Israel strikes first, hard and with lethal force. Otherwise, we might just see Tel Aviv go up in a nuclear holocaust while the rest of the world rejoices because it’s “only Jews.”

By: Kateland

Kateland — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:58:46 +0000

This is where I have to own up to my ‘nerd’ creds and say it pays to have a friend who designs war-games for think tanks for a living… who periodically takes pity on me and lets me ‘play’ on his beta versions.

By: Backseat Blogger

Backseat Blogger — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:48:36 +0000

war gaming? kewl. can u tell us more about that? where did u do it? r there sites out there to war game?