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Israel's Netanyahu says non-Jews 'untrustworthy' in Holocaust commemoration speech
2024-05-07
[NEWARAB] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has implied that non-Jews are "untrustworthy" in a video statement issued on Sunday, ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Sounds harsh. Could there possibly be context?
In his message, Netanyahu said that a Holocaust survivor told him "gentiles who make promises are not to be trusted," without comment.
Oh — so it was someone else who actually said it. Someone who has actual life experience about the price for trusting certain gentiles.
He added that "Israel is the one and only refuge for the Jewish people", and if Israel "doesn’t "protect itself, no one else will".
As Hillel said, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” It is not clear to me why Israel should not stand up for herself, when other countries get to.
Six million Jews were killed by Nazi German across German-occupied Europe during World War II.

"These heroic [Holocaust] survivors are right. In the terrible Holocaust, there were great leaders in the world who stood by, so the first lesson of the Holocaust is this: If we don’t protect ourselves, no one will protect us. And if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone," Netanyahu said.

Israeli political analyst Yonatan Touval described Netanyahu’s words as "giving the middle finger to Israel’s closest allies who rushed to its rescue" following the events of October 7, which saw Hamas launch an unprecedent attack in the south of the country which killed an estimated 1,160 Israelis.
If by Israel’s closest allies Mr. Touval means the Biden administration, that Israeli middle finger would be just recompense for the entire row of American knives they’ve been stabbing in Israel’s back. Not to mention the Western countries that have been taking Hamas’s side at every stage of this thing.
Israel has been waging a deadly in Gaza for almost seven months, killing at least 34,735 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring over 78,000 more.
Hamas’s statistically unlikely imaginary statistics.
The United States, has provided billions of dollars in financial and military aid over the decades, and has offered constant backing to Israel despite the atrocities it has committed against Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
What atrocities? Give examples.
European countries have also proclaimed their backing for Israel in its war on Gaza.
Posted by:Fred

#18  Good points, Grom and Besoeker. Circling back to the original article, the Soviet Union (atheist gentiles) subsequently turned against Israel, a position Putin’s Russia has continued despite all the sentimental talk about and by Israel’s Russian and former Soviet citizens.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-05-07 22:40  

#17  /\ Yes, perhaps our job here is finished.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-05-07 16:32  

#16  Maybe the Lord created the USA to be the force that founded Israel and it's been all downhill for us since that mission was accomplished.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-05-07 16:23  

#15  Thank you B, enjoyed.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103   2024-05-07 16:13  

#14  Interesting follow-up to #11. Interesting to some possibly.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-05-07 15:29  

#13  #4 For the ones that "know", it's a type of false fantasy implanted by decades of Marxist feminism.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2024-05-07 13:40  

#12  I often find these dirty-jew-hating-type authors on twitter and troll them asking what is the difference between their Journalism and Propagandist. More pointedly ask if they would ever lie thru omission about Hamas or PLO. And suggest the should actually wear uniforms.

In context,

A Holocausts survivor lit a commemorative candle and commented about Israel being a Jewish state whereas Netanyahu replied “gentiles who make promises are not to be trusted... Israel is the one and only refuge for the Jewish people, and if Israel doesn’t protect itself, no one else will.

But gentiles are untrustworthy. *drops mic*
Posted by: mossomo   2024-05-07 12:36  

#11  #8 Where would Israel be without weapons provided by Soviet Union (ostensibly Czechoslovakia) in 1948.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-07 11:16  

#10  Another way to think about it is that people have friendships; nations have interests, and clearly interests change.

But Al Monitor is trying to stir up feeling in its readers against the hated Zionist entity.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-05-07 09:47  

#9  That was then, Xyz. And long after, too — although admittedly as much a Cold War thing as an American moral imperative.

Since the end of the Cold War, though, Democratic American governments, while continuing pro-Israel rhetoric to this day, have acted increasingly to hobble Israel’s self-defense.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-05-07 09:28  

#8  I wonder where Israel would be with out American support 5/14/48?
Posted by: Xyz   2024-05-07 07:18  

#7  Ah, yes.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-05-07 06:33  

#6  The United States, has provided billions of dollars in financial and military aid over the decades

USA spend 8 trillion (thousand billions) to:
(a) Turn Iraq (Iran's only natural enemy) into Iranian province.
(b) Keep Taliban in power in Afghanistan - without American invasion they'd be long gone.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-07 04:38  

#5  The AWFLs/Karens don't think, they emote.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2024-05-07 04:28  

#4  ^^^* What do the dumb bitches think will happen to them once white men (as distinct from males) are gone?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-07 00:58  

#3  ^^And the fact that many whites - especially women* - cooperate, shows how dumb they are.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-07 00:57  

#2  ^IMO, the teaching about Holocaust, including in Israel, is totally perverted. It wasn't something exceptional in human history. There are genocides going on in Africa even as we speak*.

The exceptional part is Jews faced "final solution" several times yet managed to survive. And now, with modern WMDs, nobody can threaten Israel's destruction by brute force. Thus, the Peace Process.

*In fact, IMO, the anti-white public ideology dominating USA now is a form of slow genocide.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-07 00:47  

#1  European countries have also proclaimed their backing for Israel in its war on Gaza.

As long as it doesn't, you know, harms any Arabs!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-07 00:40  

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