Doctor Strangelove says...

Unfortunately, there have been a good number of "ethnic cleansings" in the last 40 years or so -- Rwanda, Bosnia, almost certainly what's going on with the Uighirs . . . and I'm guessing I missed a few. I agree, we've got to call them out and organize to stop them.

Yes, you are right. It was poor of me to not consider that. My post was purely from a perspective of personal experience. You see, I was there.

I carried quite a bitter shoulder for almost two decades for having to learn of my home country all through secondhand sources. I am lamenting the shame and of the parallel of my life, rather than the parallels of my adopted country.

It is dreadful that the US appears to be following in their goosesteps.

It makes me crazy, too. Haven't we SEEN? Shouldn't we KNOW?

-- Sidebar: I got into a discussion with a Christian commenter on the interpretation of John 20:29, "Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed." There should be a corollary: "Cursed are those who have seen, and have not believed."

And this is tendentious, but I am Jewish and Palestine keeps me up at night. I both understand the need for a Jewish state and hate that it's happening at the expense of another nation's rights.

It was a poor solution and I believed it was handled by Anti-Semites at the time. Not unlike the ones who would’ve put them in the Gas Chamber with a smile on their face. Just more insidious and less obvious in design. I always thought Israel was some sort of deathtrap. Like putting deer into the lion’s den. It is a miracle it has lasted this long but at the same time a complete disaster.

Perhaps by people who wanted the Jews and Arabs, both Semitic peoples, to be enemies instead of allies against colonial Europe.

I have said the same thing as a lover of history. That, too, is being rewritten.