Re: Israeli Ambassador Destroys Swedish Art

On Sunday 18 January 2004 22:13, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Taking censorship to a new (visible) level, an Israeli government official
> physically destroyed a work of art (before being booted out) in a Sweden
> museum while there on official business (hence, it is an Act of State).
>
> The work of art was sympathetic to the genocide a/g Palestinians and,
> importantly, created by two Jews.  But that does not stop the neo-Nazi
> Israeli ambassador from claiming it is "anti-Semitic", comparing it to Nazi
> Germany and claiming the right to destroy it.
>
Where do you read it was sympathetic to the genocide? It just depicted a 
female suicide bomber in a sea of blood.
It's certainly not anti-semitic like it's accused of, but hardly the opposite 
either.

> He should rather compare himself and his own country to Nazi Germany - this
> incident makes the German Olympics scandal seem rather benign in
> comparison.
>
> See e.g.
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/18/intern
>ational1326EST0489.DTL (showing the power of these fascists around the
> world).
>
> How can anyone doubt Israel is a neo-Nazi state?  It boggles my mind.
>
I can understand your frustration, but you can't move public opion in large 
jumps, and especially using a discussion stopper. I think you suffer from the 
same problem Jews does when talking to europeans, you simply _do not_ compare 
_anyone_ to nazis. If what they do is bad enough it does not need comparison, 
and comparing to nazism is so overused and childish that no one takes such an 
argument serious. It is this observation that lead to Godwins law, and it 
covers any political discussion where I come from.


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