Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Now we know what "Never again" meant
News item from UK Guardian:
You don't often get such transparency from major leaders.
Now we finally know what "Never again" means.
"Never again" is shorthand for "Never again will Germany get a chance to be the world's genocidal bully, invading countries just for psychopathic fun. From now on, Israel will be the world's genocidal bully, invading countries just for psychopathic fun."
The only good part of this mess is that Obama is courageously trying to hold back the bully for a few seconds. But he doesn't have much support; most of Congress is ready to help the bully. ¶ 4:07 AM
The Israeli prime minister invoked the Holocaust in saying he would not allow Israelis to "live under the shadow of annihilation". He said he had in his desk a copy of a letter from the World Jewish Congress asking the US war department to bomb the Auschwitz death camp in 1944.
Netanyahu said that in their reply the Americans said that such an operation would require them to divert too many aircraft from other missions and it probably wouldn't succeed.
"And here's the most remarkable sentence of all, and I quote: 'Such an effort might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans'. Think about that – 'even more vindictive action' - than the Holocaust," he said. "Today we have a state of our own. The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, by itself, against any threat. We deeply appreciate the great alliance between our two countries. But when it comes to Israel's survival, we must always remain the masters of our fate."
You don't often get such transparency from major leaders.
Now we finally know what "Never again" means.
"Never again" is shorthand for "Never again will Germany get a chance to be the world's genocidal bully, invading countries just for psychopathic fun. From now on, Israel will be the world's genocidal bully, invading countries just for psychopathic fun."
The only good part of this mess is that Obama is courageously trying to hold back the bully for a few seconds. But he doesn't have much support; most of Congress is ready to help the bully. ¶ 4:07 AM
