Reply #51: Actually I did not come from Eastern Europe, but south of the

[nadinbrzezinski]

border.

Oh and I don't mind their communism.. even if they are hard line stalinist. Hell it would be fun to get into a doctrinaire discussion with any of them... it could be lots of fun... and I have the education to do it

;-)


My big issue with them (as well as many groups from the right) is their antisemitism, which is on the rise it the US.

When I hear their presentation of the Palestinian Israeli crisis (and it is a crisis) the hairs in the back of my neck go up... I've heard that song and dance before, not only as a historian but as a Daughter of the Holocaust who actually took the time to study the rise of Hitler in detail and his war on the Jews... that took me to how the Ruskies used antisemitism as well, and it is now fashionable and I have heard college students who are Jewish who are afraid to even speak out in campuses.

Now let me clarify, as I have done in a far longer thread... the Israelis are not saints, not at all... no I am not going to defend their actions, such as the wall, or the incursions. I am not gong to defend Hamas either... but I am not going to white wash the history either, for either side.

Moreover, as I have clarified in an even longer thread, when they try to connect the war with the Palestinian issue I have to laugh, given that the war on tera truly has noting to do with that... not at all, as AQs little platform does not have any destroy Israel or cooperate with the PLO anywhere even close to the top of the list... it is all about the Great Satan, which is us... and the PNAC papers have nothing to do with Israel, in spite of Krystol's wet dream he posits in the American Spectator (or for that matter Buchanan's who has never liked Jews or Israel).

That is my issue with answer... to me it is like an african american voting for Republicans, which is akin to Chickens and Colonel Sanders... by the way, the extreme right wing scares me for the exact same bloody reason...

that said Americans in general are not very politically savvy, so it is time for people to get an education of where movements comes from... oh and Trotkytes are far more tolerant of Jews, after all Leo was a Jew (and one reason why Stalin hated his guts, if not the main one)