[quote]Wreckless wrote:
Sifu wrote:
Actually God gave the Jews that land it’s in the bible.
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They made a movie about this called Voyage of the damned.
It must be true then.
My God didn’t give me anything. He told me to behave like a human being and treat other people like I wanted to be treated. That’s it. None of that “choosen” crap. Perhaps I got the short end of the stick?
But their God gave them land and told them they could kill the people that live there? How convenient.
Is that the same God that said: “you shall not kill”, “you shall not steal”, “you shall not lust for your neighbours wife, his belongings or his land”? Perhaps he changed his mind.
Some gods told their people they should cut the harts out of their ennemies, and enslave them.
There are movies about it, so it must be true.[/quote]
No…it’s true because it’s true.
“The St. Louis sailed out of Hamburg into the Atlantic Ocean in May 1939 carrying one non-Jewish and 936 (mainly German) Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution just before World War II.[1][2]
The ship arrived in Cuba seeking asylum. The boat was kept waiting offshore while the Cuban government under Federico Laredo Brú disagreed on how much they could charge the passengers to come ashore. A small boat armada formed to keep people from jumping off and swimming ashore, and searchlights guarded it at night. The ship was then refused asylum, prompting a near mutiny. Two people attempted suicide and dozens more threatened to do the same. However, 28 of the refugees were able to disembark at Havana.[3]
On 4 June 1939, the St. Louis was also refused permission to unload on orders of President Roosevelt as the ship waited in the Caribbean Sea between Florida and Cuba. Initially, Roosevelt showed limited willingness to take in some of those on board despite the Immigration Act of 1924, but vehement opposition came from Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, and from Southern Democrats �?? some of whom went so far as to threaten to withhold their support of Roosevelt in the 1940 Presidential election if this occurred.
The St. Louis then tried to enter Canada but was denied as well.
The ship sailed for Europe, first stopping in England, where 288 of the passengers disembarked and were thus spared from the Holocaust. The remaining 619 passengers disembarked at Antwerp. 224 were accepted into France, 214 into Belgium and 181 into Holland, safe from Hitler’s persecution until the German invasions of these countries. [4][5] The ship without the passengers eventually sailed back to Hamburg, Germany. By using the survival rates for Jews in these countries, Thomas and Morgan-Witts estimate that 180 of the St. Louis refugees in France, along with 152 of those in Belgium and 60 of those in Holland survived the Holocaust, giving a total of 709 estimated survivors and 227 killed of the original 936 Jewish refugees.[6] [7]”
Now what it striking and sad here, is not that you, Wreckless, do not know this history, but that you do not know the nobler history of your own country, Belgium, or that of its neighbors.
Its much more thrilling for you to spout Euro-tripe. Your next steps in enlightenment will be to shed the anti-semitism, so conveniently conflated with “anti-Zionism.” as we see in your post. Despite Sifu, if Jews could be generalized in their attitudes, they would not be obsessed with “chosen-ness,” it would not be about privileges and “specialness,” or one-sided accusations of “land-stealing.” Your obsession, however, is self-evident.
Yes, Wreckless, you were given the short end of the stick: it is called ignorance and bigotry, thinly disguised as opinion.