Comments on: The Gaza Flotilla And The Exodus http://blog.z-word.com/2010/06/the-gaza-flotilla-and-the-exodus/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 24 May 2012 03:32:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Noga http://blog.z-word.com/2010/06/the-gaza-flotilla-and-the-exodus/#comment-11670 Noga Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:13:10 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1600#comment-11670 Linda Grant should stick to writing about cloths, shoes and fashion. I have never sensed any depth or genuine sophistication of thought in her. This analogy that she is making is utterly gratuitous and appears to be another attempt along a line of Jewish-Palestinian analogies intended to create a sort of equivalence between the two histories. I call it Holocaust-envy on the part of the Palestinians and their more obscene advocates. Thus Israel killing 1,200 Gazans in a war to prevent qassam attacks is a Holocaust, Rachel Corrie is Anne Frank, the blockade on the Gaza strip is a Warsaw ghetto or a downright concentration camp, and now, thanks to Linda, the Mavi Marmara is Exodus 47. It hardly matter what rationale she gives for the analogy. The rationale will be dumped and the analogy will remain in perpetuity. Linda Grant should stick to writing about cloths, shoes and fashion. I have never sensed any depth or genuine sophistication of thought in her. This analogy that she is making is utterly gratuitous and appears to be another attempt along a line of Jewish-Palestinian analogies intended to create a sort of equivalence between the two histories. I call it Holocaust-envy on the part of the Palestinians and their more obscene advocates. Thus Israel killing 1,200 Gazans in a war to prevent qassam attacks is a Holocaust, Rachel Corrie is Anne Frank, the blockade on the Gaza strip is a Warsaw ghetto or a downright concentration camp, and now, thanks to Linda, the Mavi Marmara is Exodus 47. It hardly matter what rationale she gives for the analogy. The rationale will be dumped and the analogy will remain in perpetuity.

]]> By: chairwoman http://blog.z-word.com/2010/06/the-gaza-flotilla-and-the-exodus/#comment-11659 chairwoman Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:42:36 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1600#comment-11659 I've never read such utter twaddle as that written by Linda Grant (well, actually I have, quite a lot of it this week), someone whose opinion and writing I previously had some respect for. All that was missing was "As a Jew". I’ve never read such utter twaddle as that written by Linda Grant (well, actually I have, quite a lot of it this week), someone whose opinion and writing I previously had some respect for.

All that was missing was “As a Jew”.

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