Anti-Semetic? Really?

So a cartoon has sparked protest. Now relax, it's not the Muslims burning down McDonalds over a cartoon of Mohammed. Here's the cartoon in question:




The Simon Weisenthal Center (whatever that is, why they matter I don't know) says that the cartoon "the cartoon mimics the venomous anti-Semitic propaganda of the Nazi and Soviet eras."

The national director of the Anti-Defamation League (apparently they are the Anti-Semetism police) says "It employs Nazi imagery by portraying Israel as a jack-booted, goose-stepping headless apparition, the implication is of an Israeli policy without a head or a heart. Israel's defensive military operation to protect the lives of its men, women and children who are being continuously bombarded by Hamas rocket attacks has been turned on its head to show the victims as heartless, headless aggressors."

Now let me clearly state my feelings on this. I'm not an anti-semite. I don't have a problem with Jewish people. However I do have a problem with the government of Israel.

If you are a civilian in Gaza and one day, tanks and bulldozers rumble through your neighborhoods, soldiers kick in the door of your house and tell you have minutes to gather your shit and get out, then the bulldozer levels your house. Why? Because you are a Palestinian and someone in Israel suspects that some random Palestinian has fired a rocket into Israel.

Now they don't know WHICH Palestinian fired the rocket, they aren't even sure where in Gaza exactly it came from. But fuck it, your grandma's house is getting bulldozed tomorrow. Oh, and on the site that Granny's house was on, they are going to build an Israeli refugee camp.

Go ahead, give me the "it's for the protection of Israel" bit. It's all crap. Israel has repeatedly invaded the borders of every other sovereign nation in that region and for what? Where's the smoking gun? What have they proven? Muslims hate Jews? Shit, I didn't invade anything and I could have told you that. Meanwhile everyone raises an uproar when Iraq invaded Kuwait or when the USSR invaded Afghanistan. Where's the outrage every time Israel gets pissed off and marches into Lebanon?

There is no outrage because everyone is afraid of the Jewish community. Anti-Semetism is the newest Deadly Sin. Forget gluttony, that's ok as long as you don't bash Jews. Hell 40 years ago you could still get away with stringing up a black man in the South, but no one would take on the Jewish community.

The real kicker? All this time when local governments are struggling to fund programs, we can't keep people employed and we can't provide health care for our poorest Americans, we are still busy pumping millions in foreign aid into the Israeli government. For what? Oil? Nope, they haven't gotten any. Infrastructure? Nope, they are a fully modernized nation. It's guilt money. Nothing but misplaced guilt money.

I don't know about you, but I didn't kill any Jews in World War II or any other time. Neither did my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or children. So why do my kids get shorted on funds for education and health care so that we can pay for 70 year old crimes we didn't commit?