saxitoxin wrote:In this clip, Ron Paul tells Iranian TV that Israel is perpetrating "an atrocious massacre" on the Palestinians and calls Gaza "a concentration camp." Is Ron Paul an Anti-Semite, too?
Sort of, but for completely different reasons. Remember isolationist libertarians also wanted to hide from the German Holocaust as well.
If Ron Paul really wants to throw stones at the actions of Israel, he needs to recall when the US in WWII Bombed
Dresden and
TokyoThe Bombing of Dresden was a military attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. The resulting firestorm destroyed fifteen square miles (39 square kilometres) of the city centre and caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties.
The figure of roughly 100,000 deaths, provided by Japanese and American authorities, both of whom may have had reasons of their own for minimizing the death toll, seems to me arguably low in light of population density, wind conditions, and survivors' accounts. With an average of 103,000 inhabitants per square mile (396 people per hectare) and peak levels as high as 135,000 per square mile (521 people per hectare), the highest density of any industrial city in the world, and with firefighting measures ludicrously inadequate to the task, 15.8 square miles (41 km2) of Tokyo were destroyed on a night when fierce winds whipped the flames and walls of fire blocked tens of thousands fleeing for their lives. An estimated 1.5 million people lived in the burned out areas.
If Israel wanted to, it could easily destroy the entire population of the Gaza, all without a single loss of life from their military. Instead they go to great lengths to avoid casualties even to the point of dropping warning leafleats to the civilian population warning them of attacks. The tactics of Hammas, to use their own population as human shields, deliberately placing their weapon launching facilities near schools, hospitals and religious buildings would generally be considered a major war crime against their own people if it wasn't for the fact that anti-semitism has so crept into the thinking at the United Nations.