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Yesterday, a picture of a Nazi flag hanging over an Arab village (next to a Mosque) was making its way around social media.  I became enraged at the mere site of the flag waving, nevermind that it was flying high, above an Arab village in the Palestinian Authority.

I think what enraged me even more was the deafening silence from the mass media and the entire international community.  Just last week, Bibi Netanyahu made some comments connecting the Mufti of Jerusalem (circa WWII) to Hitler’s Final Solution and the world went nuts.  It made the front page of every major news outlet.  John Kerry even called on Bibi to tone down his rhetoric.  Where is the world now to condemn this heinous act?

The Nazi flag is a symbol of hate, murder, racism and genocide.  There is no other way to interpret the symbol, what it stands for and what it represented during the Holocaust.  The mere site of it brings chills down my spine.

The Holocaust was so severe and so horrible that one can’t compare it to anything else in history.  Jews were rounded up en masse (for being Jewish), sent to ghettos and concentration camps, and were then systematically murdered by any means possible.  The purpose was to eradicate every Jew that existed in the world.

The Arabs could have easily chosen any number of flags to raise to claim their territory or to show their pride, but sadly, they chose a Nazi flag.

By raising the Nazi flag over their village, the Arabs have sent a clear message. They do not want peace.  They do not want a two-state solution.  They want to eradicate every Jew from Israel (and eventually the world).  There is no other way to interpret the message being displayed in the form of  a Nazi flag.

2 thoughts on “SYMBOLS

  1. Your analysis is faulty, biased, and needs a good dose of reality on what constitutes newsworthy events and what doesn’t. Netanyahu is the Israeli leader; what he says has weight and should be ridiculed as it so often happens.

    On the other hand, you chose one village raising the nazi flag, a heinous flag, and then went on to generalize how, by doing so, the arabs are refusing peace, and the ‘international community’ is siding with them for not exposing the truth. If you don’t see the lack of logic in your words, then I’m not sure anything would convince you. It’s as if I would look at one church raising the confederate flag in Lynchburg, Virginia, and decide that all Southern people are racists and the world media is giving racists a break for not reporting such an event.

    So let me reiterate. One flag over one mosque: awful, but it doesn’t represent all palestinians.
    Successive anti-Arab statements by the Israeli PM: Very significant.

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    1. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to leave me a comment. Although I don’t fully agree with your critique of my blog post, you certainly brought up several interesting points for me to examine further.

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