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Speaking of strange bedfellows
Jan. 10th, 2011 08:22 pmDear fellow Jews,
If you find yourself siding with and endorsing fascists—and I'm not talking about "I'm a commie so I call everyone to the right of me a fascist," but dyed-in-the-wool, violent, murderous fascists—you should perhaps take a deep breath and, uh, reconsider your stance. These people will have us killed as soon as they get done with the Arabs and Roma.
Case in point:
( the fascist Jewish Defense League is bed with the fascist English Defense League )
...England doesn't need defending. WTF?
On a related note, a representative of Stephen Harper just called me up! She told me that no Prime Minister in the history of Canada had ever stood up for the State of Israel the way Harper had,* and did I consider it important for Canada to maintain its support for Israel.
I replied, "Given the State of Israel's abominable violations of the basic human rights of the Palestinian people, I feel that Canada should economically divest and place economic sanctions on Israel in order to pressure it to comply with international law."
"So your answer is yes?"
"...um, what was the question again?"
She repeated it.
"Quite the opposite."
She then asked if I'd consider voting for Harper in the next election.
I managed to stop laughing long enough to get out, "Not in a million years."
I guess she didn't have any other questions for me.
I also guess that I'm on a list now, if I wasn't before.
ETA: In hindsight, I should have kept her on longer and asked why the Harper government was asking me questions about a country that I'm not from and have never so much as visited, rather than asking me how I felt about its policies in my own country. But it was after Pill Time and I was groggy, and I was also pretty amused that this was the first time anyone from the government had asked me for my opinion.
* Really? Not even Lester B. Pearson, who voted for Partition in 1948?
If you find yourself siding with and endorsing fascists—and I'm not talking about "I'm a commie so I call everyone to the right of me a fascist," but dyed-in-the-wool, violent, murderous fascists—you should perhaps take a deep breath and, uh, reconsider your stance. These people will have us killed as soon as they get done with the Arabs and Roma.
Case in point:
( the fascist Jewish Defense League is bed with the fascist English Defense League )
...England doesn't need defending. WTF?
On a related note, a representative of Stephen Harper just called me up! She told me that no Prime Minister in the history of Canada had ever stood up for the State of Israel the way Harper had,* and did I consider it important for Canada to maintain its support for Israel.
I replied, "Given the State of Israel's abominable violations of the basic human rights of the Palestinian people, I feel that Canada should economically divest and place economic sanctions on Israel in order to pressure it to comply with international law."
"So your answer is yes?"
"...um, what was the question again?"
She repeated it.
"Quite the opposite."
She then asked if I'd consider voting for Harper in the next election.
I managed to stop laughing long enough to get out, "Not in a million years."
I guess she didn't have any other questions for me.
I also guess that I'm on a list now, if I wasn't before.
ETA: In hindsight, I should have kept her on longer and asked why the Harper government was asking me questions about a country that I'm not from and have never so much as visited, rather than asking me how I felt about its policies in my own country. But it was after Pill Time and I was groggy, and I was also pretty amused that this was the first time anyone from the government had asked me for my opinion.
* Really? Not even Lester B. Pearson, who voted for Partition in 1948?
