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I just hate. I spew pure, vitriolic hatred everywhere I go. I don't give a fuck who you are or what you believe, I just hate blindly and malevolently. My Achilles' heel is a pile of fluffy kittens. Then I just melt. You give me a pile of fluffy, sweet smelling kittens, I'll love you forever.
Last edited by Hard Bop Hank (2015-01-21 08:04:47)
Fluffy kittens are the worst of all. I'd kill the lot of em if I had half a chance.
I've not seen his photo but his books I like a lot.
Oh dear. I was bored and strayed over here and I wish I hadn't but I can't stop myself from chipping in. I love Hank, the ultimate Ivy archivist with a fresh and provocative take on most issues. But on this I think he's way off beam. The wildly varying expressions of Jewishness, this vast and far-flung diaspora, cannot be conflated with the state of Israel. Hank seems to suggest the opposite - attacks on Israel are an attack on Jews. The creation of the Israeli state has now to be viewed as a gross historical folly, perhaps the ultimate example of the devastating consequences of Western remodelling of the middle east. What Israel has evolved in to is deeply problematic and unsustainable. I fear the situation will only resolve after it has got much much worse. The powerful influence of Hassidic fundamentalism on the instincts of the Israeli government and military is pushing an ideology based on racial superiority that is completely and utterly at odds with the direction of most Zionist thought up to recent times. There sits a rogue state cheek by jowl with other rogue states who despise its very existence. To state this is nothing to do with loathing Jews. The cry of antisemitism in this context is not only inaccurate but deeply inflammatory.
Last edited by Hard Bop Hank (2015-03-01 05:30:16)
A few interesting links:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/faq/pages/faq_attack_israeli_values.aspx
http://www.redaktion-bahamas.org/aktuell/pagina.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-krinsky/8-reasons-leftists-should_b_653432.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexm49025d60e/how-the-media-gets-it-totally-wrong-about-israel-1avx6
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/the-jewish-thinker/.premium-1.569853
http://www.timesofisrael.com/footage-shows-gunman-shooting-hostages-at-paris-kosher-supermarket/
http://forward.com/articles/203808/a-left-wing-argument-for-supporting-israels-war/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/anti-israel-divestment-push-gains-traction-us-colleges-29295169
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4631809,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Germans_(political_current)
http://www.ca-ira.net/isf/beitraege/bruhn-who.are.the.anti-germans.html
http://www.cafecritique.priv.at/pdf/interviewIN.pdf
http://www.cafecritique.priv.at/pdf/vicious.pdf
https://axis-of-goodness.com/2014/01/29/deconstructing-israel/