tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post6476981443458535173..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Mizrahi ReconstructionMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-49816282935290659512014-12-03T09:08:38.081-08:002014-12-03T09:08:38.081-08:00Assuming of course you recognize that 'technic...Assuming of course you recognize that 'technically' Jews weren't completely emancipated in the United States until 1876. It's easy to think of 'those southerners' as unregenerate reprobates but America's not really been an entirely friendly place to specifically the Jews either. No dogs no Jews no Irish wasn't all that long ago. And you have to keep in mind that Reconstruction was rife with corruption and lawlessness all its own too. One wonders if Lincoln had survived would it have out so poorly for so long. Instead we had an ex Southerner alcoholic president followed by a Union General war hero guiding the hand of events through reconstruction. Neither of them was particularly amenable to letting the south up off the floor and neither worked very hard to reconstructed the shattered states of affairs in the south. <br /><br />Maybe another view of it is how Germany was sliced up governed militarily after WW2. To the victor the spoils and all that but w/in 4 years the west Germans were given their elected government back for better or worse. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-60711063555082484632014-12-01T10:41:10.037-08:002014-12-01T10:41:10.037-08:00However, it also should be noted that from a histo...However, it also should be noted that from a historical perspective, what I have written above is absolutely true.<br /><br />After 1,300 hundred long years of persecution, often much worse than Black people suffered under Jim Crow, we Jews freed ourselves from persecution and immediately upon doing so were attacked - and continue to be attacked - by members of the majority population.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-17027682852646615662014-12-01T10:30:51.929-08:002014-12-01T10:30:51.929-08:00You are on the right track, Sar Shalom.
I tend to...You are on the right track, Sar Shalom.<br /><br />I tend to be wary of historical analogies, but there is no question that Hamas and Fatah / PLO are essentially the Klan. Just as the racist night-riders wore hoods to hide their identity, so do the racist enemies of Israel.<br /><br />We need to discuss this on two levels, the popular and the academic.<br /><br />What matters most is the popular and that case should be relatively easy to make.<br /><br />The Jews of the Middle East have been a persecuted and much diminished minorty under Arab-Muslim imperial rule since the 7th century. Just as Black people were enslaved by Muslims and others and sold to white traders, so Jews were imprisoned for millenia within the racist system of dhimmitude.<br /><br />Just as the Klan in the US represented an effort to roll-back the freedom of Black slaves after the Civil War, so Hamas and Fatah want to roll-back the freedom of Jews following the 1948 War of Liberation.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.com