tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post6574959052786038409..comments2024-03-29T11:39:42.348+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: 'The two refugee situations are incomparable'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-7939027434266581332007-11-29T20:58:00.000+00:002007-11-29T20:58:00.000+00:00As I wrote in response to an earlier post on Point...As I wrote in response to an earlier post on Point of No Return, one of the reasons for failure to raise the issue in the past was "leftist" or pro-Communist sentiment in Israel that wanted to be in step with the international Communist movement by avoiding saying anything unfavorable about Arab countries or govts. or political movements or Arab traditional society, etc.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-89126556687313296912007-11-29T20:46:00.000+00:002007-11-29T20:46:00.000+00:00The failure to raise this issue at Annapolis is ir...The failure to raise this issue at Annapolis is irritating. It is further proof of the incompetence of this present government in Israel, although failure to raise the issue does go back to much earlier Israeli govts. The failure to do so now is worse because of the worsened international environment for Israel --partly because of failure to raise this and other relevant issues-- and because it was a kind of official international forum/conference at which the Arabs were raising the issue of their refugees. <BR/><BR/>Failure to raise the issue also allowed the US sec'y of state to say some very sinister things, albeit in low-key. She implied in a slick way that Israel was equivalent to the jimcrow South of her youth. Jimcrow was the Southern American counterpart of apartheid, although it did not go so far as did the South African system. Nevertheless, Rice was implying what jimmy carter had already said more explicitly, that Israel is an apartheid state. It's noteworthy that carter is a white southerner whose family were KuKluxKlan activists when carter was young. His mother reported that when she was young, her family got the Judeophobic weekly paper put out by one Tom Watson, a notorious American Judeophobe. So calling Israel an apartheid or jimcrow state has very sinister implications. At best it's an attempt to shift the guilt for jimcrow onto the Jews. As applied to Israel, the charge is a lie. But I don't think that that matters to Rice. She made this equation [by implication] at a meeting after the main Annapolis meeting at which Tsipi Livni also spoke. As reported in the JPost this morning, Livni complained at that meeting that Arab delegates were treating her as a "pariah." But Livni did not have the sense to challenge Rice's sinister labelling of Israel as jimcrow. So we have a very incompetent govt representing us at Annapolis. On more than one issue. Of course, the Jewish refugee issue and the jimcrow charge are related issues.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com