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Abu Zakariya
Yes, I made an assumption. But only after asking you and not not having gotten an answer. But still, I shouldn't have assumed anything, you're right. I'm sorry. I guess you don't support the ban on free thought in Israel?
By the way, you made an assumption about me as well.
I'm not the biggest supporter of Israel's policies anyway. It is run by a secular entity and acts sometimes as an oppressor, forgetting the days we were oppressed. Now this does not mean Israel is wrong at all, or any more accountable than the Palestinians or Arab world in general who have continually refused to recognize Jewish existence in Israel, and have subsequently attacked Israel many times.
Therefore, I view Israel strictly within the context of Jewish law.
Israel should respond to attacks against it, but should always act with higher morality, then its enemies, because the enemies of Israel show no morals in battle and Israel should defeat them with morality as its largest weapon. For the Jews are commanded to be moral, and we should always act morally superior to our enemies.
Holocaust denial laws are a very tough subject. The Holocaust happend, it is fact, millions upon millions of Jews were led to gas chambers to die and never see their families. The survivors went back to find their houses taken by their non-jewish neighbors, many were slughtered by resident of towns after surving years of death camps as slaves with little food in freezing weather. A perfect example of ingorance is nothing was done as the bodies were burn into ashes and many of these camps were over looked by Polish towns. Here is an example of what happend to the Jewish corpses after being killed:
They were burn into ash. This ash is still there and in a dome a mountain of it is saved as a rememberance:
So now I must as this question. Should it be against the law to deny facts? No matter how disgsting it is, should denial of a fact be against the law? My answer is probably
no. It could hurt many feelings, but in reality, we cannot lower ourselves to the opression Germany and most of Europe was under during Nazi reign. This was the kind of censership they had, and we should not have it, although I am not sure if we could seriously compare Nazi censorship, to Europe and Israel's censorship to denying a fact because how emotional and terrible it was and how many survivors and children of them there are that lost all of their family.
I still stand by my opinion though.
Yes, these are pictures I took when I visited the place over 50 of my family members died, and the place my grandfather refuses to and will never go back.