I would like to inform Alicia Colon and the rest of y'all that it's highly debatable whether the Iranian President really endorses attacking Israel. Most linguists and Iranian experts have explained that what he actually said, properly translated, is that Israel should "fade away into history". I am quite sure that all this scare-talk about Iran is just more pro-Israel, neocon facist war mongering and propaganda. The fact remains that Iran has never invaded any country, and it has a large population of educated, pro-western citizens. The U.S. and Israel have invaded other countries many times, and killed millions of foreigners as well as their own people. Open your eyes. The U.S. and Israel both violate human rights and make their own citizens suffer and slave away for the state and their elites. Attacking Iran would be a disaster for us, as they would hit back hard and would have every right to. How would we in America react if Iran sent 3 aircraft carrier battle groups one mile offshore of New York? We'd be livid, and would probably nuke them back to prehistory. So why do we think we have the right to send our military all over the world to intimidate and occupy other countries? It's sheer arrogance, of the megalomaniacal self-righteous variety. No wonder so many countries and people despise the U.S. Our government is a bunch of immoral, raping, murdering thieving lying thugs. We should look to correct our own faults before criticizing others. Our government is now the most corrupt and evil in the world. Please ask yourself, are you being lied to? Why does our government take 60%+ of our money and tell us how to live every aspect of our lives and deny our Liberty and Rights? Something might be wrong here, don't you think?
Nicolas Leobold New York, N.Y. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Forgetting The Past Is Fool's Game, By Alicia Colon, artical about Ralph Rubinek <http://www.nysun.com/> March 13, 2007 Edition > Section: New <http://www.nysun.com/section/1> York > Printer-Friendly Version Forgetting The Past Is Fool's Game BY ALICIA COLON March 13, 2007 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/50356 Whenever the issue of gun control hits the news, I get an e-mail from my friend Ralph, a Staten Islander who is a staunch defender of the Second Amendment. His latest missive heralded the news that a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruling had overturned Washington's gun control law, calling it "unconstitutional." Inevitably, Ralph identifies himself as a child of a Holocaust survivor who stressed the danger of denying citizens the right to arm themselves. I don't have the heart to tell Ralph that New Yorkers don't really care about the Holocaust anymore. If you're honest, this should not sound shocking. I often tell opponents of legalized abortion that it's pointless to compare abortion to the Holocaust because many Americans don't care about either unless they are personally involved. What is particularly sad is that some Jews are among those who have distanced themselves from one of the greatest human tragedies of the 20th century. Now how would I, a Roman Catholic, know this? What I've seen and heard over many years has led me to this conclusion. Several years ago, I happened to tune in to a radio broadcast called "Jewish News and Views," conducted by Shefar Hoffman. The callers were berating Ms. Hoffman for spreading what they called the myth of rampant anti-Semitism. One man said he was tired of hearing about the Holocaust, and that "we Jews ought to stop whining about it." I called in and identified myself as a Christian who was very much aware of widespread but hidden anti-Semitism. I was invited to appear on the show, which was broadcast from Staten Island. I took calls from other Jews who refused to believe what I had to say about this anti-Semitism because it was assumed that, as a Christian, I shared this sentiment. Nothing could be more false. The nuns that taught me history emphasized the Holocaust as a human tragedy. We were taught to imagine the Nazis storming into our own homes and dragging us to the concentration camps. In some of Ralph's e-mails, he attaches hate mail he receives from other Jews. They call him a self-hater and Christian convert because he dares to suggest that Christians are more likely than liberal Jews to support Israel. At the end of Mass on Sunday, a man came to the podium who identified himself as a Christian from Bethlehem. "Sixty years ago, we were 28% of the population. Now we are only 2%," he said. Israeli security measures against Palestinian Arab terrorists have included travel restrictions on non-Jews. These restrictions, along with terrorist activity, have badly damaged tourism. The parish visitor brought many handcarved artifacts from Bethlehem to sell because it is so difficult to travel there. "There is no Holy Land without Christianity," he warned. The Christian right understands the importance of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East, unlike the liberal elite and some anti-Zionist Jewish groups. In December, a number of Orthodox Jews traveled to the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran, Iran, and were photographed shaking hands with the man who threatens to destroy Israel. Madness, simply madness. Did these rabbis think that by joining in condemning Israel, they would be spared in the new holocaust? What fools they are. It's regretful that so many who were offended by Mel Gibson's drunken, anti-Semitic tirade last summer subsequently boycotted his film, "Apocalypto." Hollywood naturally made sure that the film was not nominated for the best picture Oscar when it actually was a brilliant film masterpiece. What hypocrisy. Hollywood certainly overlooked D.W. Griffith's blatant racism in his film "Birth of a Nation," when for decades it presented a director's award named in his honor. There is a scene in Mr. Gibson's film that is absolutely haunting. A man running from his Mayan hunters stumbles across a sea of bodies. It reminds one of the Nazi films of the ditches the Nazis filled with Jewish corpses. While "Apocalypto" chronicles man's inhumanity to man in a primitive culture, how do we explain the 20th-century Holocaust? How do we explain the hundreds of thousands of Saddam's victims uncovered in Iraq, or those in Rwanda, or in Darfur? People like Ralph recognize the danger of forgetting the past. What will it take to remind us all that we are closer to another holocaust than we are to the end of the planet due to global warming? That is, indeed, an inconvenient truth. March 13, 2007 Edition > Section: New <http://www.nysun.com/section/1> York > Printer-Friendly Version _____ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000339> AOL.com. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
