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 Michael Medved

Blurring Distinctions in 'Crimes Against Humanity'

March 7, 2013 @ 4:02 pm (Updated: 4:03 pm - 3/7/13 )

Secretary of State John Kerry appropriately criticized Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan for characterizing Zionism as "a crime against humanity."

The original comments listed Zionism as one such crime along with fascism, anti-Semitism and... "Islamophobia."

Fear of Muslim fanaticism may be appropriate or inappropriate, but grouping such concern with fascism and anti-Semitism, with their millions of murdered victims, is a ridiculous distortion.

Meanwhile, dictionary definitions of "Zionism" specify "a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for the Jews." In other words, the leader of the most powerful of all 50 Muslim states slams any desire for a single Jewish state as inherently criminal. Turkish nationalism may be obnoxious, but no one would call such pride a "crime against humanity"—even after genocide in 1915 that slaughtered nearly two million Armenian Christians and represses Turkey's Kurdish minority to this day.

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  • cigarfan wrote...
    Zionism 1949.....and now
    March 7, 2013 4:31 pm
    It's one thing to agree to the British mandate and the Oslo accords...regarding borders. It's quite another what Israel's government is doing when it destroys equal rights and institutes colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing in the West bank, East Jerusalem and enforces a SIEGE/BLOCKADE around the Gaza strip. Zionism affects more than Palestine, Israel is occupying Shebaa farms (Lebanon) and the Golan Heights (Syria). The problem is not Judaism...the problem is Zionism.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Speaking of 1915........................
    March 7, 2013 5:02 pm
    In the Great War, Arabs fought for liberation from the Turks. And the Brits promised them an independent Palestine. .. Problem was, the Brits ALSO promised Jews the same ;land for an independent Israel. ... Now, aside that after that war, the Brits simply split the Near East with the French rather than allowing anyone an independent state, the problem is in the duplicitous British promises that left two peoples to fight over one piece of land. ..... Of course the Brits knew a thing or two about genocide. Look at Ireland even until recently.

    The Brits never even admitted wrong - and neither have the Turks. ... As Hither famously said instituting his genocide against Jews, Gypsies and Slavs, "Who remembers the Armenians?"

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