I hate being the one who has to initiate this thread, but...
THE NEWS
2 high powered remote controlled bombs, in automobiles, exploded at about 09:30, Saturday 15/11/2003 in front of 2 of Constantinople's most central synagogues. The facade of one of the buildings collapsed because of the blast. To the moment the death toll is 23 dead and 100 wounded.
MY COMMENT
In contrast to the many accusations of antisemitism that Israeli politicians lightly throw around the world, against people that criticize Israel's policies, the horrendous act that happened today IS THE ESSENCE OF ANTISEMITISM.
Whoever placed those bombs, were not targetting Sharon, or Israel, or the United States, they were targetting innocent Jews in their place of worship. This bomb may be technically similar to the one that killed 19 Italian soldiers in Nassirijah, but politically it is leagues away from it, since the one was an act of resistance to an illegal occupation, the other is a blind hate crime.
How is this bombing different to one of the bus bombings in Israel, you may ask? Well, a bus bombing in Israel still remains a blind hate crime, but it has a target that unforunately is not neutral to the conflict; as long as the IDF helicopters have no problem to kill Palestinian civilians with bombs, then an Islamist militant has no problem to kill Israeli civilians too. However exporting terrorism to a neutral target (such as Turkish Jews) shows lack of political criterion and, what else, the deepest ANTISEMITISM.
How do you deal with the problem? How will such acts, which as we see are escalating in barbarity, be stopped? Surely, not by bombing another country. If the west wants to be called civilized, perhaps it should start exporting it's political civilization to the Middle East, and not just bombs.
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So said the ancients.
THE NEWS
2 high powered remote controlled bombs, in automobiles, exploded at about 09:30, Saturday 15/11/2003 in front of 2 of Constantinople's most central synagogues. The facade of one of the buildings collapsed because of the blast. To the moment the death toll is 23 dead and 100 wounded.
MY COMMENT
In contrast to the many accusations of antisemitism that Israeli politicians lightly throw around the world, against people that criticize Israel's policies, the horrendous act that happened today IS THE ESSENCE OF ANTISEMITISM.
Whoever placed those bombs, were not targetting Sharon, or Israel, or the United States, they were targetting innocent Jews in their place of worship. This bomb may be technically similar to the one that killed 19 Italian soldiers in Nassirijah, but politically it is leagues away from it, since the one was an act of resistance to an illegal occupation, the other is a blind hate crime.
How is this bombing different to one of the bus bombings in Israel, you may ask? Well, a bus bombing in Israel still remains a blind hate crime, but it has a target that unforunately is not neutral to the conflict; as long as the IDF helicopters have no problem to kill Palestinian civilians with bombs, then an Islamist militant has no problem to kill Israeli civilians too. However exporting terrorism to a neutral target (such as Turkish Jews) shows lack of political criterion and, what else, the deepest ANTISEMITISM.
How do you deal with the problem? How will such acts, which as we see are escalating in barbarity, be stopped? Surely, not by bombing another country. If the west wants to be called civilized, perhaps it should start exporting it's political civilization to the Middle East, and not just bombs.
ÌÁ×ÁÉÑÁÍ ÅÄÙÓÅÓ, ÌÁ×ÁÉÑÁÍ ÈÁ ËÁÂÅÉÓ
So said the ancients.
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