Israel = Hitler and even worse

format_quote Originally Posted by SirZubair

Question is, does afghanistan want to exist under taliban rule

Apperently, some do !?

Both Lebanon and Israel are wrong....end of discussion.

format_quote Originally Posted by Lamaggad

I'm really not going to defend or waste time on discussing things such as your pointless example that you keep pointing out... but you have to know, no matter what you keep saying, the picture is perfectly clear after Qana, Marwaheen Gaza beach and all those massacres that doesn't ends...
israel HATES ARABS... it's all about HATE towards Arabs.

This stupid war against Hezb Allah where they are only killing Lebanese and destroying Lebanon, not to mention they have BADLY FAILED in the War field and couldn't destroy Hezb Allah in the ground...

Hate is growing now every were and the MAJORITY all over the world are holding Hezb Allah's flags up in the air and Nassr Allah's picture are held up by all those who support Hezb Allah all over the world, not only Lebanon... Every one is watching Al-Manar TV bcz they are worried about Nassr Allah.

what would israel do..? have a war with the whole world?! attack every one who supports Hezb Allah in Lebanon and out side Lebanon?!?

israel false power is loosing control and must stop... if they want to have peace then they should accept the fact that they are in the middle east not israel

58 years full of violence, massacres and hate bcz of this ridiculous country that they call israel.

THAT'S MORE THAN ENOUGH

There are over 1 million arabs living in Israel with some participating in the government. Tell me again how they hate Arabs?

Lamaggad, A. learn to spell. B. Both sides are continuing with this. C. Both sides are killing.

Writer Jacqueline Rose Psychoanalizes Zionism

by John Sutherland - The Guardian -- November 28, 2005


The vitriol Jacqueline Rose's ideas have provoked is, perhaps, more startling than the ideas themselves. After Rose spoke on the winning side in a public debate on Zionism in January, Melanie Phillips -- one of the speakers on the losing side -- described her as one of "three Jewish persecutors of Israel who strutted their repellent stuff," and accused her of implicitly suggesting that "the Jews are responsible for their own destruction."

Earlier this month, Amnon Rubinstein suggested bitterly in a Jerusalem Post article on books about Zionism, which included Rose's The Question of Zion, that "Iran's president is not alone in wanting to wipe Israel off the map."

In her book -- an analysis of Zionism that examines the paradox between what was a secular political cause and its inextricable link with a Messianic vision -- Rose criticizes the Israeli state. Most provocatively, she draws tentative analogies between Israel's treatment of Palestinians and Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews. Even a sympathetic reviewer raised an eyebrow, observing that "in Jewish consciousness ... to compare Jews with Nazis is beyond blasphemy." Unsympathetic reviewers were simply outraged, and expressed their outrage at length.

Although she began her career as a critic of 19th-century children's literature, and remains professor of English at Queen Mary University of London, Rose has always seen a clear connection between her work in literature and geo-political issues. "It's all profoundly linked," she says. "The interest in children's fiction was an interest in collective fantasy and what makes a certain image of the child take hold in a culture. In the case of J.M. Barrie, I felt that passion for the innocence of Peter Pan was covering a multitude of sins as to how children were actually being treated and pervasive sexual anxiety as to what a child is. So there's always been a sense for me that the way such collective fantasies organize themselves can be deceitful, self- blinding or damaging to those they claim to represent. The second linkage is to psychoanalysis, which for me has always been a radical form of thought -- something that takes the lid off our values and reveals all the disturbing and challenging thoughts that you have but don't dare to have."

In The Question of Zion, therefore, she was uncovering the collective fantasies that have plagued Israel since its birth, and trying to look behind the state's proclaimed public values.

Rose explicitly applies psychoanalysis in order to lift the lid, so to speak, off Zionism. When I ask whether she believes Israeli democracy has the resources to absorb and use the kind of criticism that Rose and others like her friend the late Edward Said, bring to it, she replies:

"It's a very difficult question. Psychoanalysis says if you have a rigid symptom, the symptom will end up being too psychically or economically expensive, as it were, and will cease to be viable. In my book on Zionism one of the things that really made me very happy to discover, like a coral at the bottom of a pool, was this extraordinary tradition of dissent inside Israel. Part of the argument I'm making is that Zionism knows itself better than it appears. In psychoanalysis, Freud said famously that the patient is in the position of knowing and not knowing at the same time. I believe that Zionism is a very rigid system of thought but with incredibly creative forces running through it and a self-critique at the heart of it. I believe that other side will assert itself. So in that sense I'm optimistic."

How did Rose get to where she is now? "I am Jewish and Israel/Palestine was part of my identity, growing up as the daughter of second-generation Holocaust survivors. It was a very slow process of gradually understanding that something was really terribly wrong in the way that Israel had constituted itself and was conducting itself. The decisive moment was in 1980, when I visited Israel for the first time and met Dima Habash on the plane on the way there. She was the niece of George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. She asked me to come to Ramallah and see the refugee camps.

"We went to visit Dima in Ramallah where her mother was running a United Nations relief operation for young Arabs. A whole crowd of girls rushed up to us, all in blue overalls, all incredibly excited that we foreigners were there. They were overjoyed to see us. Then they smiled and their teeth were rotten. There was no dentistry in the refugee camps. That was like a political education in a split second and it's never left me. It still gives me shivers when I talk about it. Those were the decisive moments and, if anything, I would say it's taken a while for my intellectual life to catch up with those moments."

So does she see what is going on in Israel now as an ideological civil war or something more like a lively internal debate with the possibility of hopeful political conclusions?

"It's an ideological civil war. The voices of dissent and opposition are very strong inside Israel. But I think things have never looked worse in the sense that Ariel Sharon [we are talking before his decision to leave the Likud party and set up his own political group -- and also before he was felled by a major stroke] is now a hero in Israel among large parts of the population and the Gaza disengagement is seen as a success. Meanwhile the annexation of swaths of the West Bank and the building of the wall are proceeding apace. It's a very dangerous moment and it's a very pessimistic moment. But the good thing that's happening is that it's so rigid and brutal in its enactment that it’s going to provoke increasing resistance. And it's also going to fail. It cannot work. As W.G. Sebald says in Austerlitz, no fortification in the world has ever succeeded in defending what it wanted to defend. Fortifications, like the wall in Israel, breed defiance and their own eventual destruction. It's non-viable. So I would say the combination of the internal dissent inside the country, and the non-viability of the solution, means that something must change"

(The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose is published by Princeton University Press. This article was edited for the Friday Magazine)

How many gas chambers do Israel have? How many Arabs are in Israel? How many Pals have been killed in the bast 10 years? Your numbers that compare Israel to Nazis aren't adding up. It must be that new math

Do you think people who think like this are helping bring peace...NO. Shouldn't that be what we are focusing on instead of "Oh you're wrong!" "No you're wrong!"

lavikor! .......... "Geronimo, any sane person knows how dumb these arguments are. There are a lot of insane people here though." ????????????????????????? what are you doing in here????????? its an islamic forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i will keep saying it......... islamic forum

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lavikor! .......... "Geronimo, any sane person knows how dumb these arguments are. There are a lot of insane people here though." ????????????????????????? what are you doing in here????????? its an islamic forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i will keep saying it......... islamic forum

You gotta be insane to be on an islamic site? I think a lot of people here would disagree with you.

i ue´sed to think, and still do that what happend to the jews in ww2 was horrible.......... and i still cry when i see some thing from that war........ but the truth is the jews didnt learn anything from that........ and what you do in the middleeast is a perfect examble of that....... instead of living side by side(that is possible) with your neighbors........ especially the palæstinens ... no you do to them , what hitler did to you!............ and i am so sorry, but did allah not tell you that you didnt have a land/country?????? because you didnt obey allah............... oh is this only in the books of muslims and christians? that it say so??????

format_quote Originally Posted by lavikor201

In 1948 when the UN decreed that a Jewish and Arab State be made out of the British Mandate, 7 Arab Countries decided that they did not want to 'live side by side' with Israel. Israel was created by the UN and was attacked a day later by 7 Arab countries. If no Arab country ever attacked Israel, then only half of what is Israel would be Israel today, and there would be peace in the region. The Jews did learn something from the Holocaust. When the Jews are attacked and threatened we no longer stand back, we defend ourselves.

100% true.