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Thirty-three percent of Israeli Jews support the idea of putting Palestinians in internment camps if a war breaks out, said the results of an opinion poll conducted by the Israel Democratic Institute released on Tuesday, The Christian Science Monitor reported.
The poll also revealed that almost half of Jewish Israelis would be bothered by having a Palestinian neighbor.
More than 1,203 people were surveyed by six researchers, who compiled the required answers from public opinion polls.
Israeli Jews support the idea of putting Palestinians in internment camps if a war breaks out
WWII when they built the Japanese, Italian and German interment camps.
Originally posted by mistafaz
reply to post by oozyism
Interment camps built out of fear resulting from an attack with the intent to keep separated from society to deter attacks is different than building concentration camps built to exert cheap labor and kill them off when done because they're lower lifeforms. None of the people interned in the US camps were thought on paper as lower human beings just ask any vet that had to fight them overseas. They were the people that the government felt, at the time, were singular threats to national security and yes did go over the top by doing so with women and children. Big difference. My uncle didn't spend the war in a camp because he was on vacation. (Actually it was because he was an Italian communist who couldn't keep his mouth shut.. After the war was over they shipped him back to Italy. He came back. )edit on 12/5/2010 by mistafaz because: y oh y..
Originally posted by oozyism
Go research about the actual reasons behind concentration camps.
People watch movies and think that they are automatically Historians.
The camps were built out of fear also, remember "Jewish" terror attacks in Nazi Germany? Some call it false flag like 9/11, but that is a whole different topic, or is it?
Originally posted by junglejake
So we have a hypothetical. A nation goes to war with another. Within the borders of one of those nations are citizens of their new enemy state who are open about their hatred and desire to see that nation fall. It is racist to intern those people for the duration of a war? Really?
Someone earlier mentioned the Japanese in World War II in the US. The difference in that situation is that the Japanese were guilty of being Japanese, and, in many cases, nothing more. There was a fear of spies, primarily, in that case. In Israel, the majority of Palestinians are openly hostile towards Israel and Jews, as well as open about their desire to see the nation pushed into the sea. The hometown population has often demonstrated a willingness to target and kill civilians. Ask yourself this -- if you were in charge of a war effort against a far better equipped and armed nation, but had a large number of militant sympathizers within its borders, would you attack on the front lines, or seek to enlist the help of those within the nation's borders? I'd go for the latter, because I'd want to win the war, personally, and fighting on their terms would not go in my favor.
Now, if you were the more powerful nation with an Achilles heel as large as a barn... Would you want to do something about that, or decide it wouldn't be nice and just let your enemy defeat you? Again, if it were me, I'd want to win the war, not get slaughtered.
I think it's disturbing only 33% feel this way. It means the other 66% don't believe the threat is real, are more concerned with appearing politically correct than smart, or really think that, despite what they've been saying, folks will change their tune based on a border if any hostilities break out.
Originally posted by junglejake
So we have a hypothetical. A nation goes to war with another. Within the borders of one of those nations are citizens of their new enemy state who are open about their hatred and desire to see that nation fall. It is racist to intern those people for the duration of a war? Really?
Someone earlier mentioned the Japanese in World War II in the US. The difference in that situation is that the Japanese were guilty of being Japanese, and, in many cases, nothing more. There was a fear of spies, primarily, in that case. In Israel, the majority of Palestinians are openly hostile towards Israel and Jews, as well as open about their desire to see the nation pushed into the sea. The hometown population has often demonstrated a willingness to target and kill civilians. Ask yourself this -- if you were in charge of a war effort against a far better equipped and armed nation, but had a large number of militant sympathizers within its borders, would you attack on the front lines, or seek to enlist the help of those within the nation's borders? I'd go for the latter, because I'd want to win the war, personally, and fighting on their terms would not go in my favor.
Now, if you were the more powerful nation with an Achilles heel as large as a barn... Would you want to do something about that, or decide it wouldn't be nice and just let your enemy defeat you? Again, if it were me, I'd want to win the war, not get slaughtered.
I think it's disturbing only 33% feel this way. It means the other 66% don't believe the threat is real, are more concerned with appearing politically correct than smart, or really think that, despite what they've been saying, folks will change their tune based on a border if any hostilities break out.
Actually, no, no they weren't. They were built out of a desire for control. Hitler had made the Jews a scapegoat. In the public, the camps were said to be for the protection of the Jews because the people hated them so much.
Originally posted by oozyism
By the way, I find it odd that you didn't mention at all why the Palestinians are openly hostile to the Zionist government of the stolen land.
Originally posted by junglejake
Actually, no, no they weren't. They were built out of a desire for control. Hitler had made the Jews a scapegoat. In the public, the camps were said to be for the protection of the Jews because the people hated them so much. This was how the Jews were brought into them, how their neighbors were willing to let them go (not everyone in Germany hated Jews, and, just like folks today, even if you did hate the Jews, the ones they knew weren't like the others), and how the German public was capable of embracing the policy.
Many thought they were being sent to a new Israel being set up in Madagascar. Instead, they were being slaughtered by the millions. Yet was a closely guarded secret, even in Germany. The concentration camps weren't built out of fear. It was a cost effective solution to a problem Hitler created so as to rise and get a stranglehold on power.