There is no comparison between the two groups in this respect. Ther is no justification for preaching to Jews about forgetting The Holocaust. This is still living memory my friend. Consult your Grandfather on the issue.
You can forget it all you want, except when it is convenient for use in a debate, but don't tell Jews to.Take a look at my last qoted posted .
As for Israel, your target I assume, always remember the problem they live with. If the great Arab nation stops firing- the war ends. If Israel stops firing - Israel ends.
I am sure America has shown that it knows that, whereas the rest think they can solve all their global problems by sacrificing Israel; after all, they are only Jews. The problem would not go away, it would still come for you and yours given time. And Israel is not kneeling for another holocaust. For some goddarn reason, they are not talking chosen, and not pleading poor me.
Funny that - difficult swines, ain't they.
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I truly wish I could talk to my Grandfather but I can't, he's dead now, and so are most other survivors of WWII. Thats exactly my point, most of those that keep reminding us about Holocaust today didn't actually experience it. They are 2 or 3 generations later. Can you imagine modern Christians continually asking for people to remember those who got fed to the lions in the Roman Arena?
As I told you before, I remember history, I don't dwell on it. I refuse to live my life around on a event that I was in no way responsible for, and that ended 30 years before I was even born. The memories of WWII was my grandparents burden, not mine. I don't think they would want it to be mine either.
If you read what I said I said "certain people (not all)". I cannot speak for Israelis as I have never been to Israel (I am not Jewish), I was referring to certain Jewish communities within the US. There are more Jews in NYC then there are Jerusalem, and the subject of the holocaust is brought up too often by people who were not actually there. If they real survivors it would be a different story...
Nor does every Jew agrees with this. I have listened to Jewish militant groups like the JDL (Jewish Defense League) on TV say that those that keep talking the holocaust are the Jews too weak and cowardly to defend themselves. -I personally think thats going too far, but I see their point.
A Conservative Jewish friend of mine told me he found it demeaning to be always portrayed as a victim. He wasn't at Auschwitz, so he didn't want the sympathy that he was. I completely understand that. My Grandfather was a French POW who was interned at a German camp, I don't want peoples sympathy for that either.
My point is this: The past must be put in the past. That goes for the Arabs like the Palestineans as well. 1948 was unfair to them, but they are never going to get the 1948 land of Israel back. That was their grandparents and great-parents burden. What they need to do is focus on the here and now.