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[meanfreepath]

Why does Israel have to be put on the defensive internationally after its commandos use limited force in response to being attacked with potentially deadly weapons? Would anyone be complaining if the men and women of the US Navy were to use lethal force to defend themselves in the course of interdicting Somali pirates?

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[indecisionwins.livejournal.com]

Well, sure...I mean, I don't know if you read about this when I posted on my LJ about this in the fall, but from my trip to Lithuania last summer, I learned about some strange anti-Semitism going on in Lithuania today. And actually, I've now written a 5 page essay about it that I'm trying to get published somewhere (hopefully the LA Jewish Journal...although I'd be interested to hear if you have other suggestions. (I put it online at http://mcohen1.bol.ucla.edu/Holocaust_Obfuscation_essay.pdf .)

But even though the Eastern European countries haven't come to grips with their complicity in the Holocaust, and are doing some disturbing things with that history...they in fact aren't physically threatening the Jews who are there. Maybe it would be different if there were more Jews there, or if Israel didn't exist, I don't know...but there is in fact international pressure today for them to not do things that are too blatant. (On the other hand, maybe some of that pressure comes from Israel... Or at least, at one place where we went, the Ninth Fort in Kovno, the story we were told was that the only reason why the Holocaust-related history of the site was represented in the museum is that a high ranking official from the Knesset visited as some point in the mid-1990's, was appalled that that was left out, and threatened to publicize it internationally unless they made changes.)