Regulatory Capture wrote:Africa is a mess, primarily due to western hands,.
Yes that's right, Africa was fine till Europe showed up and started the international slave trade and kicked out all the Muslims humanitarian aid workers.
Some Jews collaborated with the Nazis. so what? A huge out amount of western business did business with Nazi Germany. Those that helped Jews to leave Nazi Germany are to be praised. Lets face it no one was going to invade Germany for the sake of the Jews. They had to look after themselves.
Of course the great protector of Jews in Eastern Europe was the Soviet Union, but by the time they liberated Auschwitz in 1945 it was too late. I wish people would take a little more effort to understand the period. The Nazis while vile and unpleasant definitely but they did not seem like the bad guys when they took power in 1933. Remember when the Nazis came to power the Soviet Union had already completed two holocausts, Auschwitz wasn't even a gleam in Heydrich's eye. Jews dominated the international Communist movement, and probably still do today. Even anti-Zionism relies heavily on Jewish intellectuals. The Lenin Trotsky government was in name one and a quarter Jewish. But even Lenin who was three quarters non Jewish thought that anything good in Russia had been created by the Jews. Imagine if an Israeli politician said that about the Middle East today. But Lenin's allowed to because he was leftie. For a while after Lenin's death four figures vied for power Trotsky, Kamanev, Zinoviev and Stalin. Most observers were very surprised when the non Jew of the four emerged as leader. Trotsky had advised that it wouldn't look good to have a Jew running the Checka although Lenin offered him the job. Although American fantasy world now tries to portray Stalin as anti Jewish, he was first to put a Jew Yagoda in charge the Checka's successor organisation. Stalin only hated the Jews as he hated the rest of humanity. I say this not to argue some ridiculous collective responsibility nonsense, but to puncture this notion that some how Jew's have just been innocent victims in the pre 1945 world conflicts.
Wanting their own homeland was totally reasonable at the time, even from an internationalist perspective. Jews needed a country of their own where they could live with dignity. Ironically just as the Jews were setting up their ethnic national state, the Europeans were just beginning the destruction of theirs. And not out of some noble international multiculturalism, but out of a desire for cheap labour. So Israel is judged by the standards of the other Western democracies, but exists in a situation where such standards are a pipe dream.