Never heard of the Irgun until I got a history lesson on CNN's GPS "Global Public Square" show just now. So I looked them up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun
Again, this isn't in any sense meant to promote a new holocaust, so any Israelis or Jews need to understand, this is about our species tribalism and needless defense of "chosen people".
Any right wing group of any religion that uses the word "freedom" and at the same time the mentality of "the ends justifies the means" and hides behind religious entitlement of land or political power, is wrong.
It is wrong when Islam or Christianity does it.
This group proves that religion is the cause and no religion is immune to getting to this point. The pogroms of humanity, from genocide of Native Americans and slavery of blacks to the Holocaust to the terrorism of Islam today, all stem from our species self centered tribalism.
Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech is what far too much of humanity is ignoring, that our labels and boarders do not change that humans are not the center of the planet or the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun
Again, this isn't in any sense meant to promote a new holocaust, so any Israelis or Jews need to understand, this is about our species tribalism and needless defense of "chosen people".
Any right wing group of any religion that uses the word "freedom" and at the same time the mentality of "the ends justifies the means" and hides behind religious entitlement of land or political power, is wrong.
It is wrong when Islam or Christianity does it.
This group proves that religion is the cause and no religion is immune to getting to this point. The pogroms of humanity, from genocide of Native Americans and slavery of blacks to the Holocaust to the terrorism of Islam today, all stem from our species self centered tribalism.
Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech is what far too much of humanity is ignoring, that our labels and boarders do not change that humans are not the center of the planet or the universe.
