“Jews must be very, very wary of defending themselves if that might impinge on the freedom of those doing the attacking.”
Tel Aviv, November 17 – More than seventy years’ worth of Jews defending themselves against Arab violence, and acting to prevent or punish such violence, took on, in some depictions today, the characterization of those Jews ignoring what their own experiences at the receiving end of genocide should have taught them: let it happen.
Critics of Israel’s investment in military personnel, equipment, and technology called the Jewish State’s reliance on such tools a failure to learn the lessons of the Holocaust, implying that the proper response to having one third of one’s nation exterminated involves taking careful steps to avoid stepping on anyone else’s toes in the pursuit of self-defense, and where conflict emerges between self-preservation and not curtailing the rights of those who threaten Jewish self-preservation, the experience of the Holocaust dictates that Jews must err on the side of not curtailing the rights of those who seek to do Jews harm.
“It’s regrettable that Jews haven’t learn the lesson of the Holocaust,” lamented former UK Labour Party chief Jeremy Corbyn. “If there’s a lesson to be learned from the world standing idly by as Jews were shot, gassed, starved, worked, and otherwise abused to death in horrific numbers, it’s that Jews must be very, very wary of defending themselves if that might impinge on the freedom of those doing the attacking.”
“You’d think that a people that came so close to extinction would be more sensitive about this when others try to finish what Hitler started,” remarked Palestinian activist Ali Abunimah. “Not that I’m saying Hitler did what the Jews accuse him of doing. I’m just saying if the Holocaust happened as we’re told, Jews should really be more careful about stopping it from happening again, because that’s not what they should be doing. They should be working very hard not to defend themselves robustly, because preserving the honor and rights of Arabs is more important than some vague notion of Jewish survival. Jewish survival might be nice, but not at the expense of Palestinians maintaining the rightful, traditional place of superiority over Jews.”
Activists vowed to continue trying to correct the erroneous Jewish response to the Holocaust. “We’re almost at the turning point, I think,” argued Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). “All we need is a convincing display of violence to show the futility of continued Jewish resistance to the inevitable. Jews are reputed to be more intelligent than others, but I’m seeing them take much longer than they should to draw the proper conclusions from all this.”
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