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Who are you trying to fool, Mario?
Palestinian Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini actually played an active role in the Holocaust.
We had Hitler branded stores in Gaza until recently & Gazans love Hitler.
🇮🇱 “The lesson of the Holocaust wasn’t that you should act like Nazis. It was that you shouldn’t. For some reason, this is a hard concept for some people.”
That’s Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish author, descendant of Holocaust refugees, and one of the most articulate voices against Zionism alive today.
I brought him on to discuss what I believe could be a turning point in Israeli politics. He pushed back on almost everything.
On Eisenkot: “These people don’t actually diverge on ANY of the main issues. A lot of this is theater.”
On the election itself: he argued that any election excluding millions of Palestinians from voting cannot be called "democratic" in any meaningful sense.
On Jewish victimhood: “The Jews are the most wealthy, most educated group in the U.S. And yet you’ll be in Beverly Hills and people say ‘they’re coming for us.’”
I don’t agree with everything Moser says. I remain cautiously optimistic that Eisenkot represents a step, however small, in the right direction.
Change in Israel will be gradual, not overnight.
But I appreciate his perspective and this is an interview you won't want to miss...
@BenMoser123
Yes due to many existing laws and immigration quotas that were already in place since 1920's many of which was racist so called "progressive" policies back then not Christian ones. They were meant to exclude Eastern and Southern European Christians, as well as Jews.
I'm not "excusing" anything, just pointing out key facts. Largest mob riot that lead to killings in Spain was instigated by a renegade cleric who didn't listen to the higher church authorities. Over 90-95% of Jews left Spain or converted. Somewhat different from Nazi policies.
Slavery was the norm pre abolitionism. It was the norm in Judaism and Islam as well. Muslims were some of the biggest slaver traders. The word "slave" actually comes from slavs, the Slavic people enslaved by Muslim slave traders.
Abolitionism was championed by Christians.
Nazis used parts of Darwin's findings while selectively rejecting others like one common ancestor. They've created their own version of Nitzchean Darwinism and twisted both Darwin's and some of Nietzche's ideas, not all though. There was big overlap with Nietzche's martial views
Actually Hitler famously asked "Who remembers the Armenian genocide?" A genocide perpetrated by Islamist Turks on Christian Armenians.
And the Mufti of Palestine lobbied for the Jews to be sent to the Polish gas chambers instead of to Palestine. Lead to big change of plans.
Some, yes. But you also had cases of Christians who protected and saved Jews.
One of the top Nazis who was an actual Christian worked against Hitler and saved Jews, the guy Hitler sent to negotiate with Franco. He was a devout Catholic unlike the top Nazi leadership.
In Iraq and Afghanistan we're talking thousands and many of the casualties were combatants. These are the number for the Iraq war. Afghanistan is bit higher but nowhere near a million.
In Iraq you had Shia and Sunni fighting each other, Iran sponsored terror and that's on them.
