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In reply to the discussion: Gunter Grass and the mute left [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)38. Of course I don't want Iran to do anything to Israel
I don't have to prove that to you. Grass(who isn't a Nazi)almost certainly doesn't want Iran to do anything to Israel either.
But threatening to attack Iran, and kill innocent Iranian civilians, isn't going to make Iran NOT attack Israel. Why pretend that it would? And why does there have to be this tactic of arguing that everybody has to back the Israeli position on this simply to prove that they aren't antisemites? There has to be some way of cooling this situation down other than constant threats to hit Tehran with missiles.
The rhetoric needs to get dialed down. This isn't 1938, and Iran isn't Nazi Germany. The governments of Iran AND Israel both bear responsibility for the tensions here.
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Riftaxe
Apr 2012
#26
No, the Jews. The anti-Israel bigots are against every Israeli gov't, not just Netanyahu's.
shira
Apr 2012
#10
The fact that it was Israeli governments of various parties STILL doesn't make it about "the Jews"
Ken Burch
Apr 2012
#11
You're changing the subject. Gunter Grass is a nazi claiming Israel is about to annihilate...
shira
Apr 2012
#12
He wrote that Israel will annihilate or snuff out the Iranian people w/ a first strike....
shira
Apr 2012
#22
Maybe it has something to do with every Israeli government following essentially the same policy.
Crunchy Frog
Apr 2012
#16
So you believe, as Glass does, that Israel will nuke Iran preemptively, committing genocide? n/t
shira
Apr 2012
#14
I don't believe the result would be "genocide"(it's not like ALL Iranians would be killed)
Ken Burch
Apr 2012
#18