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Is This the Most Offensive Pro-Israel Ad in History?

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Aye Pod8/15/2012 6:21:32 am PDT

re: #22 Bob Levin

You would be surprised how large this vine is—of the Protocols. The Protocols simply summarize thousands of years of antisemitic canards. If one is Jewish, and paying attention, the tunes are familiar. One doesn’t need to carry a copy of the Protocols in their back pocket to be able to recite from them. It’s a greatly understudied field of psychology—how this is possible.

As I’m sure you know Jewish people do not all think alike. Plenty of criticisms of the right in Israel from Jewish people - somehow I doubt that these criticism are connected in any way with the Protocols nonsense. Among the vast majority of people the “Protocols” is a by-word for anti-semitic garbage.

PS I have seen ultra orthodox dismiss secular Israeli and Orthodox Jewish criticisms of their bs as ‘anti-semitism’ too.

They are going to lose, and in a big way. One of the main reasons that they will lose is because of the MIT grad who is Prime Minister. The other reason, is that there are strong religious arguments against such anti-enlightenment forces. To understand Israel, you need a microscope, and many analysts prefer a cheap telescope.

I hope you are right but I think you might be engaging in a little wishful thinking. If it was all about reasoned argument, and who has the best of them, we wouldn’t be in this position at all, either in the US or in Israel.