"….the threat of being pushed into the sea." Does Duncan Greive do no editing? (Jun. 2, 2019)

2 June 2019 at 2:14 pm

"….the threat of being pushed into the sea." Does Duncan Greive do no editing? How did this garbage get through?

After the March 15 massacre in Christchurch, someone calling herself "Sara Green" wrote a mostly anodyne and unremarkable little response to it. Most of this piece is pedestrian, but she ("Sara Green" is a pseudonym) veers off into fanaticism and propaganda near the end….

Israel is a Jewish homeland and sanctuary. Yet every day its citizens, both Arabs and Jews, live with acts of terrorism and with the threat of being pushed into the sea.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-06-2019/on-being-jewish-after-march-15/

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• greywarshark23.1

  2 June 2019 at 6:50 pm

  Why Jews all the time?  Quoting religion and the taking of Jesus' life is given as an excuse.   She just is thinking through her feelings after the Christchurch massacre.   She explains it all in these paragraphs:

  She visited Israel:

  And – horror of horrors – I noticed the hierarchy. At the time of my visit, those at the bottom of the pecking order were refugees from the dissolved Soviet Union; before that, I was told, it was the North African Jews. All Jews were clearly not equal in Israel.

  Israel is a Jewish homeland and sanctuary. Yet every day its citizens, both Arabs and Jews, live with acts of terrorism and with the threat of being pushed into the sea.

  It’s an unfortunate fact that you can’t alter extreme and rigid beliefs with rational argument. So we can’t change extremists, only ourselves – potentially.

  Threats remain against Israel although it has taken extreme defence measures, including getting an atomic bomb.   But the threats unite the country and make it easy for a military backed political party that responds to Palestine armed protest with unequal violence.    It can even be said that they provoke attack so they can justify their scare tactics and propaganda.    But this is what the Jews have had in the past, can't forget.

  Jews are used to being on the move, to being expelled, from Rome in the 1st century AD, from England in 13th century and from Spain in the 15th century. They are used to being directed where they can live, to ghetto life. The Pale of Settlement (now Belarus). The Warsaw Ghetto. Pogroms. Jew-baiting.

  How can people behave in such a way towards members of their own society?

  The history of their suffering over the generations is always there.    How can you relax completely when time and again the country you live in turns against you.    It was almost The End in Germany and other places also.
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