So how come no comment on this piece.
US GIs are tortured and killed by Germans just because they look Jewish.
They could have been agnostics, atheists or even converts to whatever.
So maybe, after all, there is a case to be made for the State of Israel.
[snip]
Others "bulk post" things, so here's an excerpt from "When Innocents Are the Enemy", by Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, 12Sep01, p.A29. I think it covers at least some of the issues:
"The long age of imperialism bequeathed to this century a world full of questions of who wronged whom, and who stole whose land, and what should be done. Absent the relative stability imposed by... the half-peace of the Cold War..., the grievances... have much more room to grow.... [/] There are two great problems. The first is that, in the end, the whole world was stolen from somebody, most of it repeatedly; there are claims and counterclaims and counter-counterclaims.... The second is that people (and the governments they form) do not like to give back what they have acquired, whether that acquisition is of dubious morality or not. [/] So, those with territorial claims turn to force. But here arises a third problem: By and large, the aggrieved do not possess the force necessary to win their way in open battle. Given this, a common response has been the use of terror: attacks by the aggrieved not on the soldiers of the enemy, but on the people of the enemy -- on innocent victims, chosen at random, the more innocent and the more random, the better, tactically speaking... a philosophy that accepts the murder of innocents as a legitimate expression of a legitimate struggle. [/] Given that this is murder, you would think that terrorism would have a hard time finding adherents. But tribalism is a powerful corrupting force, and so is ideology, and an awful quality of modern times has been the degree to which terror by various movements has been accepted as legitimate by those who support the goals of those movements."
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