Agency Drops Helen Thomas after Anti-Jewish Remarks!: , page 5

Intelligent American Jews supporting Helen Thomas.

Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
reply to post by vox2442

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Every one is either European, or a colonial outpost, or a puppet state defendant on the USA.

I guess that the old Soviet Union, WHICH VOTED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT of Israel, was a puppet state of the USA then? Either that, or you are ignoring the fact that the old USSR spanned ASIA as well as Europe, and the last I checked, it was not a colonial outpost.

You need to bone up on your geography and geopolitics!

More to the point PE, Stalin and the old Soviet Union had little use for the Jews and were pleased as punch to send many of them on their way. "Vote for a Jewish homeland? Beats disposing of their bodies or sending them to Siberia. We vote Да!"


This from Wiki on "Antisemitism and Joseph Stalin":

Those who knew Stalin, such as Khrushchev, suggest that Stalin had long harbored negative sentiments toward Jews that had manifested themselves before the 1917 Revolution. As early as 1907, Stalin wrote a letter differentiating between a "Jewish faction" and a "true Russian faction" in Bolshevism. Stalin's secretary Boris Bazhanov stated that Stalin made crude anti-Semitic outbursts even before Lenin's death. According to Stalin's biographer Robert Tucker "Stalin despised anything weak and small, and pre-Revolution Russian Jews were just so for him". According to Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov Stalin's antisemitism was "pragmatic rather than zoological", and he was willing to tolerate Jews as long as they were useful to him.

And so Stalin on Jews? Not a big fan. Not to mention the Soviets were controlled by the same bankers as the other "yes" voting nations.

reply to post by Hemisphere

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More to the point PE, Stalin and the old Soviet Union had little use for the Jews and were pleased as punch to send many of them on their way. "Vote for a Jewish homeland? Beats disposing of their bodies or sending them to Siberia. We vote Да!"

I don't dispute that. My post merely corrected the erroneous statement that all of those that voted for the establishment of the state of Israel, were either European, puppets of the US, or colonial outposts.

To further refine your reason for their "Da" vote, the Soviet Union realized that establishment of Israel would create a flash point in the Middle East, from which they could assert themselves with the Arab countries, in the hopes of obtaining Middle East oil. In fact, that turned out to be quite correct, as the USSR managed to acquire several Middle Eastern "clients", who not only provided them with oil, but became quite valuable arms clients.

reply to post by ProfEmeritus

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Gotcha Professor E! Many people do mentally lump Russia with Europe. More so after the fall of communism (Or at least after what we perceived as the fall of communism).

reply to post by Benevolent Heretic

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Benevolent, I agree wholeheartedly--I couldn't have said it better. It's been a long time...how have you been?

I see that you still stand behind your very own opinions...good!

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