COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Holocaust Memorial Day
2018: 92-year-old Kindertransport survivor warns about politics of division
'Lessons have not been
learnt in the 20th century. As far as the 21st century goes, we seem to not
only have not learnt the lesson but are on track to copy it'
“Lessons have not been
learnt in the 20th century."
Absolutely right.
Just look at Israel and the concentration camp it runs in
Gaza.
I'm not sure human beings are advanced enough to learn
anything of the kind.
Chimpanzees with big brains.
And we know now from animal researchers that chimps are
quite murderous.
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Response to a comment
about dangers of the extreme Right:
Au contraire.
Extreme anything.
The Left is just as capable of horrors as the Right.
The Right had Hitler.
The Left had Stalin.
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Repose to a comment
saying thousands of Jews were leaving France for Israel:
Thousands leaving?
I don't think so.
That's a commonly repeated nonsense.
Of course, the violent, ugly prime minister of Israel has,
against all standards of appropriate international behavior, actually travelled
around France actively seeking people to come to Israel and leave France.
He did so on his uninvited and unwanted visit following the
events of Charlie Hebdo.
But you would have to be a mighty foolish person to leave a
country like France to go to a place like Israel, which is little more than a
garrison state.
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Response to a comment
citing the old cliché about being condemned to repeat history:
George Santanyana's saying is much over-quoted and, despite
a superficial appeal, is actually quite incorrect.
Humans simply always do the same human things because they
are human.
And, most importantly, there is no such thing as a true
repeat of history.
Herodotus had it right twenty-five hundred years ago when he
said history was like a flowing river where you could never dip your hand into
the same place twice.
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Response to a comment:
Yes, indeed, and I'm glad you included, along with the
Palestinians, Syria and other places.
The Neocon Wars since the time of Cheney-Rumsfeld-Bush have
likely killed about 2 million people.
They have sent several million running for their lives as
refugees, too.
Arabs, of course. Muslims, mostly, of course.
And what has all that violence been about?
Tyranny? Nonsense. The US and Israel love tyrants who know
their place – Mubarak, el Sisi, Salman, Abdullah, al-Sabah, Al Khalifa, etc,
etc.
Democracy? Where do you see that, including in Israel where
they want only one kind of person?
No, the Neocon Wars are a kind of geopolitical cleansing
operation of the region around Israel. The creation of a vast cordon sanitaire.
