Israeli settler abuse compared to pre-Holocaust Europe

From AlterNet:

The head of Israel's largest Holocaust memorial, Holocaust-survivor Yosef Lapid, said that the behavior of some of Israel's settler's toward Palestinians reminded him of the anti-semitism before WWII.

Referring to a recently televised incident in which: "a Hebron settler woman hiss[ed] "whore" at her Palestinian neighbour and settler children lobb[ed] rocks at Arab homes," the sometimes fiery Lapid commented on Israeli radio:

"It was not crematoria or pogroms that made our life in the diaspora bitter before they began to kill us, but persecution, harassment, stone-throwing, damage to livelihood, intimidation, spitting and scorn," he said.

"I was afraid to go to school, because of the little anti-Semites who used to lay in ambush on the way and beat us up. How is that different from a Palestinian child in Hebron?"

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An apt comparison that, given the politically charged and overly propagandized climate in both the US and Israel, only an Israeli could make. That is, AIPAC and Christian Zionists have politicians and the media so cowed in the US, that any sympathy at all toward the Palestinians is viewed as being anti-semetic, which is why one must be obviously not anti-semetic in order to speak the truth. The bottom line is that the days of any serious terrorst threat to Israel's existence are long gone--I mean, Palestinian terrorism is a very real thing, and some of their loudmouths run on about destroying Israel and all, but they just can't be taken seriously anymore; Israel won, decisively, many years ago, and their real enemies, their immediate Arab neighbors, are either friends or impotent. Today, Palestinian terrorists strike because Israel treats their people like shit, ghettoizing them, breaking promises, stealing from them, murdering them. I'm sure you get the idea: Palestinians are to Israel as Native Americans once were to the United States, a huge problem that needs to be removed.

It really is intolerable, and our tax dollars are paying for it. Thus, we bear responsibility.

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