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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Noami Wolf and Others Who Trivialize Genocide

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Through the course of Israel’s third war in Gaza since it withdrew fully in 2005 I have had to publicly respond to a number of friends and acquaintances who either intentionally or unwittingly committed themselves to the ranks of Israel’s most rabid haters. This is especially true of those who joined the global blood libel chorus falsely and poisonously accusing Israel of genocide. I was fully aware that in doing so I risked losing those relationships. But I responded nonetheless. Not just to defend Israel and the Jewish people against the depraved charge of mass murder, but because I heard the cry of the those who perished in the seven real genocides in the 100 years since the First World War whose anniversary was commemorated this week.

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I guess in Shmuley's world only Jews can be victims of genocide.  Did the tooth fairy massacre the Palestinian civilians, women and children?[/quote]

Here is a link to his entire speech.  He absolutely did not limit it to Jews.  https://www.facebook.com/RabbiShmuleyBoteach/posts/10152316643076089[/quote]

Yeah, so i read the speech.  In essence the argument is that other people do horrible things.  In comparison, we're not so horrible.  We warn you before we bomb you and kill almost 2,000, mostly civilians, over 400 children and wound over 9,000.  That really makes it ok.  I loved this line:

"Only Israel does so, because it is a righteous and just democracy that believes that one holocaust was quite enough."

I suppose if you start from the premise that you are righteous and just in a democracy where you have second class citizens and occupied territories, everyone is always goint to be a hater.

Did you even read the speech with any modicum of critical thinking?

The essence is to throw around the word "genocide" trivializes the cultures and people have have actually suffered that type of horrific tragedy and while the deaths of Gazan civilians are tragic, "genocide" and "Nazi" are not even remotely in the right stratosphere for comparison.
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