tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5196447065691555971.post7811601196124582919..comments2023-10-31T09:17:16.502-07:00Comments on Philosemitism: Spain : a pacifist country but ... an arms exporterPhilosemitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738171878498147967noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5196447065691555971.post-13949625700447920982009-01-27T15:12:00.000-08:002009-01-27T15:12:00.000-08:00As a Dutch Hispanist (and Jewish of sefardi/ashken...As a Dutch Hispanist (and Jewish of sefardi/ashkenaze origin with a heavy Holocaust toll paid by my family) I want to express my indignation about the dogmatic insinuation that anti-zionism equals anti-semitism. Societies evolve; your vision does not. <BR/>In the article about the Spanish Armed Forces, the author mentions the frigate Alvaro de Bazan. Could he be so kind as to identify which Alvaro de Bazan?<BR/>Audaz? Osado? Meteoro? Rayo? Furor? Ariete? Temerario? Intrépido? Relampago? Almirante Juan de Borbon?<BR/>Alvaro de Bazan is a class of Spanish frigates, not the name of an individual vessel.<BR/>When you cry wolf, you should better first know a little about the species.<BR/>I lived in Spain for 8 years and did not heard more negative remarks about Jews than at my current station, Brussels. Your prolific quoting of Belgian ex-PM Yves Leterme is sickening: the man will have to appear for a parliamentary committee about an unprecedented violation of the separation of powers in a scandal that has evaporated the savings of tens of thousands of Belgian families. His declaration about mounting anti-semitism was probably scribbled down to think of something else than the ordeal that awaits him.<BR/>Furthermore, I'd like to remind Philosemitism of the fact that Gen. Franco saved more than 100,000 Jews during WWII (to pester Hitler and to kowtow to the Americans) while he shot ± 250,000 left-wing Spaniards. The Spanish Republican Army in exile fought on during WWII from France to Stalingrad and lost 25,000 men for your freedom (which is more dead than suffered by the Dutch, Belgian & French armies combined). Zapatero's grandfather, a republican officer, was executed by Franco. I think a little less cynicism is required. Ten-thousand Spanish republicans died at Mauthausen. It is alarming to see how semitophilia & zionophilia have taken a right-wing turn, ignoring childishly the suffering of other people than Jews. If one of my relatives had not died in the exhaust-fumes of Nazi-captured Soviet tanks at Sobibor, he'd tell you about the men & boys in Sevilla's San Julian barrio, castrated alive in 1936 by Franco's troops, to be shot alongside 90,000 other civilians, on the orders of the same men whose diplomats saved Jews. My grand-uncle felt it his duty, as a Jew, to fight in Spain, like so many other Dutch Jews. In fact, they were almost the only Dutchmen to take the risk.<BR/>Your website is embarrassing. Because it's selfish, short-sighted, and thus, utterly provincial and reactionary.<BR/>Geert R. A. Kliphuis, Brussels.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01293173934129916626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5196447065691555971.post-41675590305412188912008-11-03T12:39:00.000-08:002008-11-03T12:39:00.000-08:00\of course Cuba is a pacifist country, of course i...\of course Cuba is a pacifist country, of course it has never sent troops to Angola or any African country, of course it has never sent help to any revolutionary movement in South America. Of course too the term right wing is always pejorative, whereas left-wing (such as with Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and other benefactors of mankind) is always a term of approbation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5196447065691555971.post-56018843816196686832008-11-02T23:39:00.000-08:002008-11-02T23:39:00.000-08:00Perhaps, if you did your research, you would reali...Perhaps, if you did your research, you would realize that Hugo Chavez is a democratically elected president not a dictator - his elections weren't trumped elections either. <BR/><BR/>In fact, Chavez, has been congressionally defeated in some reforms he has tried to push through - aren't dictators supposed to have total control? <BR/><BR/>Just because you and others continuously call him a dictator, doesn't make it so. I suppose Evo Morales is a dictator too, no? This kind of right-wing absurdity is only matched by the idiocy it takes to write it. <BR/><BR/>Another interesting question would be how Venezuala is "decidedly non-pascifistic"? The same question could be asked for Cuba? What was the last war they participated in? Yes Cuba, unlike Venezuala, is a dictatorship...but that doesn't mean they are about to invade any countries or participate in any wars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5196447065691555971.post-73407451531101926562008-11-02T09:09:00.000-08:002008-11-02T09:09:00.000-08:00Perhaps the fact that Spain exports to countries w...Perhaps the fact that Spain exports to countries which are against the existence of Israel as such is not unconnected with it being the country with the highest level of anti-semitism in Europe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com