Heh.

Goldblog wonders, what's up with these Israeli Jews playing the Nazi card?

It's a perfectly nice thing for these Israeli women to bring Palestinians to the beach; this is the sort of protest against the occupation that seems both clever and humane. If these Israeli women think they're going to change Palestinian minds about the rationale for a Jewish state, they're kidding themselves, but still, it seems like a humanizing gesture. But comparing Israeli behavior on the West Bank to the Nazis? Is Hanna Rubinstein a blithering idiot?

Doesn't she understand, it's only Jewish-American men like himself who are qualified to see deh Nazis everywhere? It's just not fair *stomp, stomp, stomp* to let the ladies, who actually, you know, live there and raise their own sons there, to have any important input on these matters. No, this is for the Goldblog-like men to solve. Experts in victimry, fear and all.

Trouble is... their ways ain't working.
And the rest of us are getting sick of paying for it.

The "boogedy boogedy Nazi's-gonna-getcha card" just doesn't play so well anymore; most Big Boys have conquered that fear anyway. And perhaps the Israeli woman, who actually, you know, lives there, might better understand behavior modification and the consequences of "doing unto others as you'd have done unto your own boys and girls" a bit better than a macho (and condescending) suburban Jewish-American man living in the suburbs who presumably styles himself as an expert on all things Israel, simply because that's how he collects his change here in the States.

Keep rallying against the influx of all things German-engineered, bud? That's laughable too, but at least it's an unfair wrong you can right in your own country...

Leave the Palestinian and Israeli women to work, in their own small ways, toward creating a common peace in their own country. (Hey, it worked in Ireland.) And remember, it's their sons -- not Goldblog's American boy, tucked safely in his suburban American bed -- who are at real risk of having ethnic violence shatter their lives.

The reason Mr. Goldberg can pretend he's afraid of Nazi's in this day and age, even with a nuclear-weapon equipped Israel operating out of a set-aside state helpfully financed by American taxpayer dollars for defense -- is that he's fat and ... safe. Making his living, feeding his own family off the "conflict", in fact. Able to hype false fears, because he knows ultimately, he and his are at no risk over here.

The Israelis and Palestinians though -- so long as outside men like Goldberg are playing in the process -- something tells me there's much more blood to be shed before they ever wise up and see that a peaceful co-existence is in everyone's best interest. The occupiers and those currently occupied.

Hope this helps, Mr. Goldberg.
You really ought to get out more, y'know.

(What would he do -- why he'd be identity-less -- if he was forced to abandon the idea that Jews aren't perpetual victims of innate hatred? To acknowledge, it's more that right now in Israel anyway, they're hated for deliberate actions, how they think they must oppress and take from others in order to build what they think they need, or merely want at the expense of so many other innocent players? Which, of course, is why he continually needs to hype the Shoah, seeing it everywhere, even where it only exists in his own fearful, conditioned imagination. Find another "extreme sport" for artificial risks to spook ya? Or better yet, start privately funding your personal fears...)

ADDED: See what I mean?

Marc Tracy Scores My Fight With Danny Ayalon
By Jeffrey Goldberg
He has me up, thank goodness. Read the whole thing.

This is what hanging out too long in the Jewish ghetto gets ya. Maybe take up a real hobby or sport, preferably something cardiovascular-related? Maybe he doesn't see it now, and perhaps too many close to him encourage this behavior as "cute" (and again, the man makes his living off it), but trust me, in the long run, something like jogging or playing physically with your kids will probably do more good than such performance art, scored, "fights".

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