COMMENTS TO AN ARTICLE BY CHLOE FARAND IN THE INDEPENDENT
‘Have we not learned
from the war?’ Re-emergence of Germany’s far-right brings back memories of
darker times
The nationalist
Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party won 93 seats in parliament, the first
time a far-right party has entered the Bundestag in almost six decades
Oh, please, it is Angela Merkel whom you should be
addressing.
Her policies created a backlash, policies from supporting
Obama's hideous Neocon Wars to embracing the chaos they created with millions
of refugees.
The vote was a protest.
Saying anything else is just unobservant.
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Response to a comment
which said “The horrors of anti-Semitism are sadly on the rise...
at the Labour party
conference”
Only in your mind and in the minds of others who simply do
not like Jeremy Corbyn.
Minds which are too afraid to say what they really believe
and fear.
It is Corbyn's fair-minded views on the Middle East which
are hated, not any non-existent anti-Semitism.
All the empty charges hurled about are just shabby attacks
on a decent man.
And they are an effort to influence Corbyn in an indirect
and dishonest fashion should he come to power.
No genuinely liberal-spirited person can be anti-Semitic. It
is quite literally an oxymoron to say so.
It is nonsense which is promoted in Israel where the word
"liberal" has been deliberately turned into a dirty word when applied
to any foreigners.
Why is that? Because liberals are the truest critics of
oppression and barbaric policies, so they are hated in a place where those
things are openly permitted to exist.
People always forget who the Nazis and fascists really were.
They were the Right Wing - whether in the United States,
where there were plenty of them, with people like Henry Ford or Charles
Lindbergh, or in Germany whose great industrialists financed Hitler, or to
Britain where the Royal Family and good parts of the aristocracy adored him.
It is precisely today's attacks on liberals that are
dangerous and short-sighted if you really think about it.
The Right Wing - whether David Cameron or the kings of Saudi
Arabia or Egypt’s el-Sisi or Benjamin Netanyahu himself - gets a pass.
