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May 14, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune Anti-Israeli Screed Yesterday
This just makes me ill. I don't know what the editors were thinking allowing this moral equivalent crap on the editorial pages:
Since I was born in the Netherlands and lived there as a teen during World War II, I am perhaps one of the few surviving witnesses who can recall the arrest of Jewish residents in my neighborhood and subsequent deportation, while my parents put their life on the line in hiding members of a Jewish family.
If those involved in the daring campaign of hiding Jewish residents to keep them from being deported to concentration camps could observe the current conditions in Israeli-occupied Palestine they would call the "celebration" a tragedy.
The irony of the current political situation is that the very imprisonment, restricted travel, property confiscation and destruction that the occupying German forces applied to the Jewish population during World War II the Israeli government now applies to the Palestinians.
I just have one observation, Mr. Roelofs. I don't remember the reason for restricted travel of the Jews in WWII being the fact that the jews were suicide bombing the Nazis.
Posted by Jonathan at May 14, 2008 11:27 AM
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I'm a little slow so if someone could help me understand "Israeli-occupied Palestine"? I would be greatful. Where is Palestine? Please send me a map, after 1948, that shows the state of Palestine. People really need to understand history and the actions of the United Nations before making these kind of statements. Please, please understand that the Jews did not drive the Arabs out of Israel, they were told to leave by the Arab states and join the war that would return their land to them. They lost and now expect the victors to say "sorry, we screwed up and won the war and will now return everything to you". Let's see, Mexico, France and other countries could make the same claim to the United States.
Give me a break.
Posted by: Randy at July 6, 2008 12:46 AM