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Topic: Trumped-up anti-semitism charges against Chávez
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lagatta
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posted 23 January 2006 09:18 PM
This is very significant about Kristol: quote:
Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service (1/13/06) pointed out the irony of conservative outlets like the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Standard, edited by William Kristol, promoting dubious accusations of anti-Semitism in Latin America:Kristol's father, Irving Kristol, and the Journal's editorial page to which he contributed, led a public campaign to discredit Argentine publisher Jacobo Timerman when he emerged in 1980 from two-and-a-half years of imprisonment in secret prisons in Argentina claiming that Jews like himself had been systematically singled out for the worst treatment and torture by a military regime whose ideology was as close to Nazism as any since World War II.
There were at least 2,000 Jews among the 30.000 disappeared in Argentina, and they were subjected to specifically Nazi and anti-semitic tortures. Alas, I fear Iran is another matter, as there is indeed a rise, or a transfer, of "Western-style" judeophobia to much of the Middle East. A pity, considering the key role Jews played in Iran, Iraq, and throughout the region. 
From: Se non ora, quando? | Registered: Apr 2002
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Rufus Polson
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posted 26 January 2006 02:19 AM
I think it's more a reaction to the status of Israel as the US' unsinkable aircraft carrier than a recreation of the old Western Jews myth.
The Middle East version of the bad Jew doesn't share many characteristics with the old-line European version.
In a way, the two visions between them make up the cold war view of the USSR and Communism. The Middle East looks at Israel somewhat like the US used to view the USSR--a dangerous foe with expansionist ambitions (real or imagined). And just as the US used to dehumanize Russians, and the British used to dehumanize Germans during WW I and II, the middle east dehumanizes Israelis. That in turn blurs into a dehumanization of Jews in general, but I'd say that's a side effect. And I would suspect that the evils attributed to Israelis are similar to those attributed to Russians or Germans by their foes--that they're brutal, militaristic, murderous, thuggish.The old line European attack on Jews was much more like the cold war US attitude to Communists in the US, Reds under the bed. They tended to be portrayed as sly, sneaking, plotting, yadda yadda yadda. It's quite a different caricature.
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