Comments on: Germany to come in on Israel’s side at the ICJ https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:54:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718104 Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:54:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718104 One of our boys brought this to our attention recently.

It was written in 1970, the summer after I graduated from HS.
Our family did not take the NYT, or the WaPo, New Republic, or even National Review; if it wasn’t in the local paper, I didn’t know about it, and I seldom read even that. We had 3 TV networks, which it seems now were allied in their presentation of the news they wanted us to know; there was no social media because there was no internet; and the counter-culture liberals of my ensuing college years was apparently in thrall to Soviet propaganda, even if many of them didn’t realize that at the time.

The only thing that has changed in 53 years is that some things have gotten worse.
And there is no way the Times would print this today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/12/archives/intellectuals-as-an-ethnic-group-intellectuals-as-an-ethnic-group.html
Intellectuals As an ‘Ethnic Group’
By Andrew M. Greeley July 12, 1970

It’s long, but RTWT.
Father Greeley was not a conservative, per the Wiki article, but he knew what he was talking about here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Greeley

]]> By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718078 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 23:55:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718078 I’ve been rereading Hara (Japanese Destroyer Captain), Orita (I boat Captain) and Sakai (Samurai!). Amongst others. Also King Rat. What do you do when you’re ordered by lesser men to surrender

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718073 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 22:32:51 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718073 the Pontiff has dissappointed in the recent past, see how tactful I can be, what job does he think he has, spreading the gospel doesn’t seem to really enter into it,

]]> By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718072 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 22:28:59 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718072 I sincerely doubt if my analogies stemming from straining myself earlier and this moment would pass muster. After all, NEO must have standards. But I was having amongst other things an epiphany.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718053 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:01:25 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718053 dejavu

https://spinstrangenesscharm.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/richard-goldstone-retracts-israel-genocide-accusation-after-damage-done/

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718052 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:00:02 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718052 Cicero:

I’ve written many many posts on why the left is anti-Semitic. I’ve also written several posts that deal the fact that progressive “Jews” are almost all ethnic Jews who are not religious and may not know much about Judaism at all. The more religious the Jew, the more likely to vote on the right, with Orthodox Jews being strongly on the right (percentages in the 80s).

The Pope, by the way, seems to want a ceasefire, which means Hamas lives to attack again and again.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718049 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 20:42:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718049 the oppresssor/oppressor framework, yes it doesn’t make sense,

]]> By: Cicero https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718048 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 20:33:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718048 Why are progressives/socialists anti-semitic? Why are so many American Jews of the same progressive persuasion? Is it ethnicity over religion?
When one willfully refuses to acknowledge EVIL, as in Hamas, one is lost. I am not happy to share the USA with those types. I am Catholic, and that Church emphasizes and teaches the difference between Good and Evil.

]]> By: JFM https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718038 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:00:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718038 I’m very happy that Germany has done this. To me it shows very strongly that Germany, as a nation, is still feeling the guilt and sorrow of the Holocaust. As for Canada, I think most Canadians would be aghast if Trudeau didn’t say they stood by Israel. Many, many good people in Canada.

]]> By: Ben David https://thenewneo.com/2024/01/13/germany-to-come-in-on-israels-side-at-the-icj/#comment-2718025 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:21:11 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=131654#comment-2718025 Without in any way diminishing the significance of Germany’s stance… it comes as northern Europe – and especially Scandinavia – breaks its silence about Muslim immigration and its problems.

Any Europeans who condemn Israel are placing their own hands in shackles when it comes to dealing with their own Muslim population… of course I may be assuming more intellectual and moral consistency than the Left has demonstrated… and hamstringing Europe’s response may be exactly what Leftists want.

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