Yes, those Germans were doing exactly the same thing. I grew up with many Germans - they did not think they were responsible for what happened in Germany at all.
Nor did the vast majority of white people in South Africa feel that they were responsible for apartheid. It wsa all the government's fault. But who puts the government in power?
What I am doing is showing you the fallacy of your arguments - that just because you want to ignore what is happening politically and get on with your life does not make you less responsible for what is happening. At some level, we are all responsible collectively for the world we live in.
Do you know what the real objection to my article was? It wasn't that it was anti-Israel. It wasn't. It was factual. What some, like you, have objected to is that it wasn't biased towards Israel.
I am fully aware that there is blame on both sides. However, any people will be hardpushed not to fight back when their land is taken from them, and too many Israelis counter that with, "But God gave it to us" or "Well, we Jews need a homeland."
Firstly, as a hardcore atheist, I don't believe any God gave Palestine to the Jews, and secondly, while I fully understand the need for a Jewish homeland, especially in the light of 2000 years of unjustified persecution, the Jews should have stuck to the partiioning that the United Nations gave them . There would probably still have been wars, but not to the extent that there is now. and perhaps something could have been worked out.
While I've never been able to source it, I read somewhere many years ago, that Ben Gurion said that there would never be peace in Israel because they had taken the Palestinians' land.
What I find disingenuous about your argument (and there is a great deal of self-righteousness about it), is that you fail to even acknowledge that Israel has taken Palestinian land, and it continues to do so.
I think you can start that education of your child by telling him or her that a good part of the land that Israel is built on belongs to Palestinine. Otherwise you're just continuing the fundamentally dishonest rhetoric of Israel.
I'm not digging into the past. I am providing an explaination for the millions of people around the world why Jews have been so hated (the murder of God), and how antisemitism arose. The article has been very well received by all people, except a handful of Israeli apologists.
Can you truly tell me that you're teaching your child all the facts?
