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In reply to the discussion: "My Head Exploded When Obama Sanctimoniously Said, 'We Tortured Some Folks'" [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)With endless cookies and ad ware trackers. Often going there ends up paralyzing my machine.
In any case, the impeccable logic of the many decent authors of "The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code" have forced me to examine our "modern society" in light of what the Nazis did, and what the response to them has been. Every civilized nation found the Nazis deplorable. Again and again, during the 1950's and 1960's, students across the globe were taught that basic human values are important, and that when those values are tossed aside, then tragedy results.
Israelis believe themselves to be so special that they can deny the reality of their occupying, by force, the land inhabited by Palestinians. And for decades, the Israeli people have refused to accept that maybe a people that has been shoved aside, and had to watch their property seized, their relatives killed, and their way of governance wrenched away from them, and until finally they have endured enough injustices that the piper must be paid. Unfortunately for the Palestinians, when they do act out, they have the equivalent of fire crackers against tons of TNT.