Remember the conservative folks dragging Sikh cabbies out of their cars and beating them in NYC after 9/11? This is the Israeli version of that sort of thing. Just imagine what the rest of the world thought of us during that time. And then we cried about the French protesting our invasion of Iraq and started calling our fries "freedom fr…
Remember the conservative folks dragging Sikh cabbies out of their cars and beating them in NYC after 9/11? This is the Israeli version of that sort of thing. Just imagine what the rest of the world thought of us during that time. And then we cried about the French protesting our invasion of Iraq and started calling our fries "freedom fries." I wonder if they have "zionism burgers" in Tel Aviv now.
Yeah, similar mentality it seems, although there's also apparently extremist factions that do actually want to ethnically cleanse non-Jews from Gaza (again, I hope a very tiny faction). I guess Bibi thinks he can't go against them in order to stay in power? Which seems incredibly, rather evilly craven.
There were extremist factions here who just wanted to kill Muslims too (and would have liked to at least kick them all out of the US). I ran into a few of those guys when I went into the Marines in '04 myself. One of our squad leaders at the time was a sergeant who had previously deployed to Afghanistan and was of either Pakistani or Indian decent (I forget honestly) and had the words "DIE HAJI" carved into the side of his car as it sat in the battalion lot one night. I never told anyone I was Jewish while serving because of shit like that.
My point is that we've got plenty of that sort of thing over here both before and now. The GOP political class after Bush/McCain didn't want to rein in any of their racist base. In fact, they wanted to capitalize off of them. That's part of how Trump got his rise in the first place. A refusal to stamp it out by the GOP's political class and the decision to embrace it via dog whistles instead. Then we got Birtherism and Trump.
Mother is Jewish, father was protestant and converted to Judaism later on after the divorce. I’m an atheist technically speaking but that wouldn’t stop the nazis from throwing me into the oven.
I agree. With the Republican's apparently unqualified support for Bibi and his coalition (apart, weirdly, from Trump himself due to being butthurt about Bibi's recognition of Biden's win), they are kind of extending it internationally now.
Remember the conservative folks dragging Sikh cabbies out of their cars and beating them in NYC after 9/11? This is the Israeli version of that sort of thing. Just imagine what the rest of the world thought of us during that time. And then we cried about the French protesting our invasion of Iraq and started calling our fries "freedom fries." I wonder if they have "zionism burgers" in Tel Aviv now.
"Zionism burgers" just doesn't have the alliterative zing of "Freedom Fries."
Yeah, similar mentality it seems, although there's also apparently extremist factions that do actually want to ethnically cleanse non-Jews from Gaza (again, I hope a very tiny faction). I guess Bibi thinks he can't go against them in order to stay in power? Which seems incredibly, rather evilly craven.
There were extremist factions here who just wanted to kill Muslims too (and would have liked to at least kick them all out of the US). I ran into a few of those guys when I went into the Marines in '04 myself. One of our squad leaders at the time was a sergeant who had previously deployed to Afghanistan and was of either Pakistani or Indian decent (I forget honestly) and had the words "DIE HAJI" carved into the side of his car as it sat in the battalion lot one night. I never told anyone I was Jewish while serving because of shit like that.
My point is that we've got plenty of that sort of thing over here both before and now. The GOP political class after Bush/McCain didn't want to rein in any of their racist base. In fact, they wanted to capitalize off of them. That's part of how Trump got his rise in the first place. A refusal to stamp it out by the GOP's political class and the decision to embrace it via dog whistles instead. Then we got Birtherism and Trump.
Travis, did I just read that you're a Jew? Did I miss this before?
At any rate, given your language and thinking ability, I have to say, as a shiksa raised by a very smart lawyer father, no surprise.😊
Mother is Jewish, father was protestant and converted to Judaism later on after the divorce. I’m an atheist technically speaking but that wouldn’t stop the nazis from throwing me into the oven.
No, it wouldn't.
I agree. With the Republican's apparently unqualified support for Bibi and his coalition (apart, weirdly, from Trump himself due to being butthurt about Bibi's recognition of Biden's win), they are kind of extending it internationally now.
Authoritarians around the world are uniting and helping one another. Why should Israeli and American authoritarians be any different?