(October 30, 2016 at 9:11 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Speaking of Jews, why can't Israel accept some migrants? As far as I know they haven't accepted a single one. Hell even Palestine could take some.
Why are you assuming I am giving Israel a pass? I have a huge problem with their watered down theocracy as much as I do when Christians say "Christian Nation" about America too.
Humans in general have very short term memories. Jews in America are mostly liberal and do not always agree with the politics of Israel especially younger people. I do think Israel as a nation has lost sight in large part of the suffering of the Jews who were victims of Hitler and don't see their own transgressions in responding to their Islamic neighbors. There is plenty of blame for all sides is what I am saying.
RELIGION, is the root cause of the divisions between the big three monotheistic religions. It took the west a long time to drag itself out of that kind of tribalism and I don't think it helps one bit to use fear or sell fear of your fellow human to combat anything rightful and I apply that all religions and even atheists as well. The world is far too small now, and the age of conquests has to give way to an age of cooperation especially when it comes to global resources and climate change.
It is certainly ok and justified to want to protect oneself violence and the desire to want to be free from it. It is not ok in that process to be so paralyzed by fear that you lose sight of the fact that all 7 billion of us are still the same species.
I do not like the way Israel treats Palestine but that does not excuse whom backs them up which are right wing Islam. They don't accept refugees for the same stupid reason humans have used in all conflicts globally in our species history. Evolutionary grouping creates rival groups, but the excuses humans hide behind while producing safety in numbers comes at the cost at reducing the outsider to being less than or "other".
It isn't your natural human desire to want to be free from harm I object to, but blanket solutions of "all or nothing" and all out bans are inhuman and what theocracies and dictatorships like North Korea advocate.
