The JVoices Loony Left Show! Israel Commits “Genocide�
Sometimes I get exhausted (for like, five minutes) bitching about fundamentalist places like Big Aish and Dark Light. I need some hope; a sign that we aren’t being pulled and pushed to the polar extremes in the Jewish world.
That’s why I check out JVoices, the Jblog voice of moderation. (Belch)
So at first, there I was, thinking I was reading an old post condemning Satmar for being anti-gay, which is really a good use of one’s time. Because they’re really concerned about appearing reactionary. Satmar is listening; the dialog continues.
But as I read the post, it became clear this was not about Satmar. This was the most vicious slap to the Zionist Entity’s face on a supposedly Jewish group blog I’ve ever seen.
“Ariel� (presumably not Ariel Beery) writes, without any capital letters, because they are oppressive to lower-case letters, “how do you deal with israel knowing that it is committing genocide and that it is an apartheid state? i am curious about this.�
Well, Ariel, as a matter of fact, I don’t agree with the misappropriation of the term “apartheid,â€? because it is…hey, wait a minute…wtf? “Committing genocide?!?â€? Are you out of your mind? What “genocide?â€? Hey Jeannette Friedman, didn’t I tell you all that Holocaust education accomplishes very little and even backfires?
Who needs whatreallyhappened.com when we have JVoices? Cole Kravitz may be the most irresponsible editor of a “Jewish” group blog on the net. I personally think it is unfortunate that he is tolerated and included in the communal conversation by more responsible, reasonable, and nuanced voices on the Jewish Left.
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Color me surprised.
I don’t know why Ariel is complaining. I think the new gas chambers in Gan Sacher in Jerusalem are very tastefully done, a real effective marriage of function and aesthetic, and if you focus on something else, you barely hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth as 300 million Arabs are led to their deaths.
Although perhaps we could convince the gender crusaders at JVoices to help us out. Due to rampant Palestinian male phallocentric patriarchal oppression of the proud, noble Palestinian female, the Palestinians have a birthrate of about 6 children per women, which has made their population explode from 600-700,000 original ‘48 refugees to more than 9 million 2006 “refugees.” And that, my friend, makes it really hard to put an effection genocide into motion. Free the Palestinian uterus!
I’m not saying I agree with Ariel’s post, but genocide does not refer only to the death tolls and methods of the Holocaust. While an incendiary word that closes off the conversation about possible human rights violations in Israel, “genocide” does not imply the extremes of gas chambers and Einsatzgruppen. To have this discussion for real, read http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/genocide.htm, then when someone writes “genocide,” you can say, “Actually, according to the Convention on Genocide, Israel’s actions are legally exempt from prosecution for these reasons…”
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