Comments on: Vienna is Different http://blog.z-word.com/2010/06/vienna-is-different/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 24 May 2012 03:45:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: „Wenn wir als Märtyrer sterben“ « Der Lindwurm http://blog.z-word.com/2010/06/vienna-is-different/#comment-12951 „Wenn wir als Märtyrer sterben“ « Der Lindwurm Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:00:08 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1645#comment-12951 [...] Was geht in den Köpfen von Henning Mankel Mankell, deutschen Linkspolitikern oder auch den Mitgliedern des Wiener Gemeinderates vor sich? Wie sehr muss man Juden hassen, um sich auf die Seite von Unmenschen zu stellen, für die [...] […] Was geht in den Köpfen von Henning Mankel Mankell, deutschen Linkspolitikern oder auch den Mitgliedern des Wiener Gemeinderates vor sich? Wie sehr muss man Juden hassen, um sich auf die Seite von Unmenschen zu stellen, für die […]

]]> By: Noga http://blog.z-word.com/2010/06/vienna-is-different/#comment-12762 Noga Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:47:07 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1645#comment-12762 I sent the following email: Dear Mr. Schuster: Thanks to the vigilance of Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna, I got to read about the fruit of the latest anti Israel activism yielded by your city Council. I will not expand upon the suspect nature and motivation behind such a resolution. I will only provide you with two quotes which I hope you will read with some reflection. The first, by Andre Glucksmann: “…On the scales of world opinion, some Muslim corpses are light as a feather, and others weigh tonnes. Two measures, two weights…. why do the 200,000 slaughtered Muslims of Darfur not arouse even half a quarter of the fury caused by 200-times fewer dead in Lebanon? Must we deduce that Muslims killed by other Muslims don’t count? This conclusion has its weak spots, because if the Russian Army - Christian, and blessed by their popes - razes the capital of Chechnian Muslims… killing tens of thousands of children in the process, this doesn’t count either. The Security Council does not hold meeting after meeting, and the Organization of Islamic States piously averts its eyes. From that we may conclude that the world is appalled only when Israelis kill a Muslim. Should we thus presume that the public at large implicitly endorses the ideas that Ahmadinedjad shouts at the top of his lungs? And yet so many of those sceptics who display consternation over bombings in Lebanon seem shocked if you suspect them of anti-Semitism. I want to trust them. We don’t want to imagine that the entire planet is mired in anti-Jewish paranoia! But then the matter becomes even more puzzling. What is the source of this hemiplegia? Why is the world frightened by Israeli bombs alone?” http://www.signandsight.com/features/894.html The second by the now deceased Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish: "Do you know why we Palestinians are famous? Because you are our enemy. The interest in us stems from the interest in the Jewish issue. The interest is in you, not in me. So we have the misfortune of having Israel as an enemy, because it enjoys unlimited support. And we have the good fortune of having Israel as our enemy, because the Jews are the center of attention. You’ve brought us defeat and renown.” http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/11/mahmoud_darwish_poet_laureate_of_the You can draw your own conclusions about the meaning concealed of this confession. Respectfully, I sent the following email:

Dear Mr. Schuster:

Thanks to the vigilance of Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna, I got to read about the fruit of the latest anti Israel activism yielded by your city Council.

I will not expand upon the suspect nature and motivation behind such a resolution. I will only provide you with two quotes which I hope you will read with some reflection.

The first, by Andre Glucksmann:

“…On the scales of world opinion, some Muslim corpses are light as a feather, and others weigh tonnes. Two measures, two weights…. why do the 200,000 slaughtered Muslims of Darfur not arouse even half a quarter of the fury caused by 200-times fewer dead in Lebanon? Must we deduce that Muslims killed by other Muslims don’t count? This conclusion has its weak spots, because if the Russian Army - Christian, and blessed by their popes - razes the capital of Chechnian Muslims… killing tens of thousands of children in the process, this doesn’t count either. The Security Council does not hold meeting after meeting, and the Organization of Islamic States piously averts its eyes. From that we may conclude that the world is appalled only when Israelis kill a Muslim.

Should we thus presume that the public at large implicitly endorses the ideas that Ahmadinedjad shouts at the top of his lungs? And yet so many of those sceptics who display consternation over bombings in Lebanon seem shocked if you suspect them of anti-Semitism. I want to trust them. We don’t want to imagine that the entire planet is mired in anti-Jewish paranoia! But then the matter becomes even more puzzling. What is the source of this hemiplegia? Why is the world frightened by Israeli bombs alone?”

http://www.signandsight.com/features/894.html

The second by the now deceased Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish:

“Do you know why we Palestinians are famous? Because you are our enemy. The interest in us stems from the interest in the Jewish issue. The interest is in you, not in me. So we have the misfortune of having Israel as an enemy, because it enjoys unlimited support. And we have the good fortune of having Israel as our enemy, because the Jews are the center of attention. You’ve brought us defeat and renown.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/11/mahmoud_darwish_poet_laureate_of_the

You can draw your own conclusions about the meaning concealed of this confession.

Respectfully,

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