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Originally posted by [Labret]
True.
I think Israel gets attention from both sides. The Republican Christian Right for the obvious theological implications of Israel, but the left as well as they love to champion the cause of the oppressed. If the Nazis hate ya, the lefties love ya.
Most of the people on this board who have responsed to me and called me a nazi for disliking Israel are generally coming from the left. They will be the first ones to call me a klan loving hillbilly neo-nazi. They wont try and argue the politics of it as they cannot. All they know is Israel is where the Jews live, and they do so because everyone wants to kill them, so anyone who doesnt like Israel doesnt like Jews. So you must be a nazi. And those are trademarks of the left. Someone from the right will "generally" try and argue the politics of the region, like Serge. Not just lash out blindly.
I dont know if that made any sense, Im operating off very little sleep.
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I totally understand what you're saying..
but i'd hesitate to call those people "lefties" more "I've seen schindler's list and not liking israel sounds like anti-jewishness which is bad on tv sitcoms" naive type.. that only get's an inferred lefty stance because of the blanket "left=pro-minority right=anti-minority" thing.. I wouldn't grant such people the gravitas of a political leaning.. any "lefty" with knowledge of the situation would very much tend to be pro-palestinian.. with your noam chompskys and john pilgers leading the way.
i find that the right also has it's contingent of these people in the one liner "nuke all the towel-heads" department and don't really have a better grasp of the politics.. it's just easier for the knee-jerk left seeming guys to seem politicised for the anti-semetic accusations whereas the "nuke em all's" tend to just get ignored because of the baseness of it and being a non-accusational remark.