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Kobus's avatar

Hoewel die artikel voorgee om ’n historiese perspektief te bied, verval dit in ’n gevaarlik simplistiese en eensydige narratief wat die kompleksiteit van die konflik ignoreer en ook maar net soos ou antisemitisme lyk.

Stellings soos “elke probleem [...] kan teruggevoer word na die aankoms van daardie inkommer Jode.". Ek kon net sowel Mein Kampf lees.

En dit alles omhul in ’n paternalistiese fantasie van ’n sogenaamde voor-koloniale harmonie wat die Palestyne tot ‘n soort edele, passiewe slagoffers reduseer (of ophef).

Israel is beslis nie sondeloos nie maar genade, hierdie artikel is ongetwyfeld partydig en eensydig.

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Thank you for this response Elma. While I am in agreement with almost all your points I do not understand the point you are trying to make about Genryk Yagodah. The implementation of the Gulags under Stalin and the famine of the 1930s all happened after the pogroms under the Tsarist regime. I am unaware of pogroms carried out wholesale against Jewish Soviet citizens under the Stalinist regime, although there was a manufactured Jewish Doctors plot that resulted in one of the numerous show trials under that totalitarian system. The subsequent mass killings of Jews at Babi Yar, Ukraine (in the early 1940s during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR), by the Wehrmacht was justified as a collective punishment for the booby-trapped killing of Wehrmacht soldiers (traps left by the retreating Red Army) and was surely driven by National Socialist race ideology, and the support for this by Stefan Bandera's Organisation of Ukrainean Nationalists was also justified by a race ideology that saw Jews, Slavs and Poles as 'untermenschen - OUN operatives brutally murdered 100 000 Poles in Galicia. Regards, Paul Hendler

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