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The Spectacle Blog
Just 3 percent of Arabs say they empathize with Jewish Holocaust victims, according to a new poll (PDF) released by the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center, in conjuction with Zogby.
The survey polled 3,976 people in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and UAE.
It asked respondents, “When you watch a movie or a program about the Jewish Holocaust, which of the following is closest to your feelings…”
The most popular response, from 59 percent, was “Resent it as I feel it brings sympathy toward Israel and the Jews at the expense of Palestinians and Arabs.”
Another 29 percent said they had “mixed feelings.
Rounding out the bottom, a mere three percent of Arabs say they “Empathize with the Jews who suffered under the Nazis.”
Jamie Kirchick has more on the rest of the poll, here.
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Mimi| 8.7.10 @ 12:56PM
Sad news, in fact...Pathetic!!! Goes to show you where we're at.... are there no truthful educators, accurate Historians??? That only 3% would have an adversion to such as man's inhumanity to man? Is there NO hope?
Eric Cartman| 8.8.10 @ 6:26PM
I'm surprised it's that many, Mimi.
Alan Brooks| 8.7.10 @ 1:29PM
"Another 29 percent said they had "mixed feelings."
They should have mixed feelings, they ought to feel guilt. The Holocaust virtually created Israel, and the Mideast was filled with Axis sympathizers. But Hitler had no use for Arab untermensch; if Rommel had beaten his way into the region, the residents would have regretted their sympathy.
"Funny" thing is: if Israel's enemies lost Israel as their common denominator foe-- their Other-- they would kill each other more in fighting over whose version of Sharia rules. Israel is the only nation in the region which offers full religious liberty, there are Catholic seminaries in Israel that are as good as any anywhere, many elderly gentiles want to retire in Jerusalem and in other exciting places in the Holy Land.
Tim*| 8.7.10 @ 5:45PM
You might want to read Lenni Brenner's : 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With The Nazis .
victor| 8.8.10 @ 10:47PM
Lenni Brenner?
(Born 1937) is an American Marxist Trotskyist (that'd make him a liar by definition) writer. In the 1960s, Brenner was a prominent civil rights activist and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War.
Someone we should all look up to, eh?
MattSwartz| 8.8.10 @ 11:02PM
Ad Hominem much?
If everyone who disagrees with you is a liar, it must be hard to get new information. Then again, you seem to think that the Civil Rights Movement was no good, and that Vietnam was wonderful, so I guess that explains that.
I loathe Marxism, but sometimes Marxists write books that are worth reading. Although it doesn't look like you go too far beyond Wikipedia...
Tim*| 8.9.10 @ 6:52AM
Facts are facts,Victor .
Let's see you dispute the facts presented in Brenner's Book .
You're up Sport .
Facts are facts .
Tim*| 8.9.10 @ 6:52AM
Facts are facts,Victor .
Let's see you dispute the facts presented in Brenner's Book .
You're up Sport .
Facts are facts .
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 9:33AM
"You might want to read Lenni Brenner's : 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With The Nazis."
It's called prisoner's dilemma: captives have to cooperate with their captors to a certain point. And, yes, I know you mean something other than Jewish inmates collaborating with guards, however they did what they had to do.
And today Israel is the only Mideast nation which treats women other than chattel; Israel is the only nation in the region which is not feudalistic.
btw, Brenner a Trotskyite? do you know how ruthless Trotsky was? he was Lenin's right arm for years, if Trotsky hadn't been exiled by Stalin just a few years after Lenin's death it might have been worse for Europe: Trotsky might have done to Europe what Stalin did to the residents of the Soviet Empire.
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 9:39AM
People to this day think Trotsky was a humanitarian (!) because he came to oppose Stalin; such is like saying a Khmer Rouge was a humanitarian because he eventually opposed Pol Pot for not invading all of Southeast Asia.
However what enrages me is not the criticism of Israeli policies, but that it is motivated by an intererst in maintaining Jews as the world's universal scapegoat.
Margie| 8.9.10 @ 11:01AM
Alan,
In these people, a hatred of the Jews is stronger than an ability to reason.
You've spoken to the larger truth in your posts. Good job.
JmsA| 8.9.10 @ 11:02AM
Good post, Mr. Brooks.
S.L. Toddard| 8.7.10 @ 5:32PM
In other words: Look how evil Arabs are - it is not immoral to exterminate such vermin.
Eric Cartman| 8.8.10 @ 9:21AM
Considering they would have no compunction whatsoever in exterminating or subjugating the rest of the world - us "Infidels!" - and prove it day in, day out, I would have to say "Yeah! That sounds about right!" Putz.
Troll Watch| 8.8.10 @ 10:18AM
Lets not talk about this. It is getting in the way of your ideology. When you think like that you are not conservative any more.
Dixie Pixie| 8.8.10 @ 1:58PM
To prove the stupidity of such reasoning, S.L. Toddard consider the following.
Since any Muslim which is killed by a Christian or Jew automatically gains Paradise.
Is it not a Sin to deprive a Muslim of Paradise and the 72 Virgins by not killing them.
Try that logic in any US Court and it is certain you be tried and convicted of murder.
But the reverse is not automatically true in a Islamic Sharia Court.
Killing Infidels is considered honorable by the Wahhabi Muslims.
Margie| 8.8.10 @ 8:36PM
Deceit as usual, Toddy. The U.S.A. does not seek to exterminate Arabs, but it does seek to exterminate terrorists. They ARE evil. You are the one who seems to have a problem with discernment.
There are Arabs who are Christians and there are Arabs who despise evil terrorists as well. The sad fact is though, that there are a lot who don't. And what is the difference between someone who happens to be of Arab descent and hates America and one who is an American and hates America? If someone has sympathy for such a one, are they not on the same side then?
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 9:43AM
Toddard wont admit how Israel is the only nation in the region which treats women fairly.
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 9:51AM
"Look how evil Arabs are - it is not immoral to exterminate such vermin."
Not all Arabs, just feudalistic Arabs are evil.
Toddard, as regards extermination, perhaps you are thinking it would not be so bad to exterminate Jews? who can say for sure what is going on in your little mind-- only a polygraph test would reveal what you think.
C Bowen| 8.7.10 @ 6:27PM
"Resent it as I feel it brings sympathy toward Israel and the Jews at the expense of Palestinians and Arabs."
That is fairly reasonable in light of the stupidity of the headline of this blog entry, but never mind that, the fact that this was apparently an option to pick, insures the outcome of the poll, doesn't it?
Troll Watch| 8.8.10 @ 10:49AM
It is only fair to characterize that portion of Arabs. That group can not be considered as empathizing and the headline seems valid. I know that this is hard to take for the "Jews are the problem" crowd. If you wish to be very brave look at the interfaces between Arabs and non Jewish groups. Open this up and look at all Muslims and non Jewish groups. You may begin to see where the real problem is. By the way the real disgrace of the poll is that it was not conducted on the basis of religion. Arab mixes in ill treated religious minorities. They have probably raised the number up to 3%. Sometime if you are really brave you might look into the tv programming of which Muslim children get a good dose. It is not surprising that what has happened to "apes and pigs" isn't anything to trouble yourself over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhbHVEGnYD8
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 10:04AM
"I was ten years old when my home exploded around me, burying me under the rubble and leaving me to drink my blood to survive, as the perpetrators shouted, 'Allah Akbar!' My only crime was that I was a Christian living in a Christian town. At 10 years old, I learned the meaning of the word 'infidel.'
I had a crash course in survival, in a bomb shelter where I lived for seven years in pitch darkness, freezing cold, drinking stale water and eating grass to live. At the age of 13, dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at night, waiting to be slaughtered. By the age of 20, I had buried most of my friends--killed by Muslims. We were not Americans living in New York , or Britons in London . We were Arab Christians living in Lebanon. They murdered Jewish children in Israel , massacred Christians in Lebanon, killed Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Syria, Hindus in India, and expelled almost 900,000 Jews from Muslim lands. Plus the pictures of the irrational eruption of violence in reaction to the cartoons of Mohammed printed by a Danish newspaper. From burning embassies, to calls to butcher those who mock Islam, to warnings that the West be prepared for another Holocaust(Brigitte Gabriel is an expert on the Middle East conflict and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject. She's the former news anchor of World News for Middle East television)"
Margie| 8.9.10 @ 11:13AM
This is why a terrorist sympathizer is just as evil as the terrorist themselves. They share one thing in common and that is a hatred of the Jews.
Margie| 8.9.10 @ 11:14AM
AND a hatred of Christians as well.
QuietPro| 8.8.10 @ 7:45AM
Honestly, is anyone surprised by these results? The Arabs won't be satisfied until Isreal is wiped out. And I'll choose the Jews (who have never wronged me once) over Arabs (who chose to launch rockets, mortars, and bullets in my direction) as my ally ANY day of the week. Take that to the bank.
ThatJoeGuy| 8.8.10 @ 9:51AM
Um, they needed a poll to tell them that? Did someone pay them for this poll?
Gee, I'm in the wrong business. Gotta get into polling.
Oldefarte| 8.8.10 @ 11:29AM
When are people going to wake up to the fact that ALL ARABS [or at least those that fervently practice their Muslim religion] are anti-Jewish and anti-American? Quit being a bunch of POLITICALLY CORRECT DUMBARSRES! This mosque that they want to build at ground zero is intentially an IN YOUR FACE finger to America, no matter how liberals and Arab political organizations want to spin their BS. They've tried twice to bring down the [former] twin towers, and having now succeeded, want to erect a monument to their victory. With EL CHOSEN ONE now in control of this country, the Arab community [in the middle east, Europe and the US] want to continue their conquest by establishing a NYC billboard declaring their domination. WAKE UP, AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MattSwartz| 8.8.10 @ 11:17PM
Do you include Christian Arabs (there are still millions of them, although the Iraq invasion has killed quite a few) in your analysis?
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 9:54AM
And who killed Christians in Lebanon? Not Israelis.
Oldefarte| 8.9.10 @ 10:12AM
READ [if possible] the first sentence of my above comment for your answer!!!!!!
MattSwartz| 8.9.10 @ 6:25PM
Point taken. This was my bad. Although it's worth pointing out that everything we do to Arab Muslims hits Arab Christians, too.
Nate| 8.8.10 @ 9:19PM
That's right. Arabs are evil. Arab suffering isn't real. Arabs are scary. Arabs deserve everything they get. Arabs feel differently about things than we do. Arabs are our enemies.
Margie| 8.8.10 @ 10:40PM
Liberal Reader,
Professional obfuscator is thy name.
Nate| 8.9.10 @ 12:11AM
These towel heads are subhuman. They don't even "empathize" with Jewish victims of Nazis! That's because THEY'RE Nazis. We call them "islamofascists" for a reason, just like we call Democrats "fascists" for a reason. In fact, we call EVERYONE fascists except ourselves, who have found the Truth that has evaded everyone else.
Towel heads are wicked, ignorant, vile, greedy, slothful, tricky, deceptive, hard-hearted and vindictive terrorists, every last one. Palestinians are the worst: a bunch of missile-firing, bomb throwing, Christ-denying hoodlum thugs.
If you disagree with me, you're my ENEMY and I'm going to start fucking dropping BOMBS on you until you learn to be a good Jesus-loving American!
Kill the Arabs! Kill the illegal aliens! Kill the gays! Round them off and send them off to camps!
That'll teach them how to empathize with the Jews!
Troll Watch| 8.9.10 @ 7:51AM
Yikes. He thinks he is being clever but it is really some weird kind of projection. Faced with a poll that is not flattering to one of his allies he starts the above. Nate is one sick individual.
NavyBrat | 8.9.10 @ 10:58AM
Don't you have a suicide bomber to go hug, Nate?
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 12:59PM
"We call them "islamofascists" for a reason"
You can't deny the entire region is feudalistic. Would you live there? It is the last region I'd live in because someday a WMD war is going to occur
-- or at least the probability is high. It is more likely the Mideast will experience a nuke war than India and Pakistan will.
Don't you know we would accept Islamics if merely the two following suggestions were accepted:
1) women weren't property to them (go to a mosque near you; you'll see that women's rights are like the right to eat meat with the Hare Krishnas).
2) admit that if so many Islamics blame the founding generation of Israelis, then we can hold culpable not only the older generation of Germans, but also the older generation of Arabs who were involved.
And if we can't call jihadists Islamofascists, then what should we call them? Grateful Dead fans from Berkeley?
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 1:13PM
"Kill the Arabs! Kill the illegal aliens! Kill the gays! Round them off and send them off to camps!"
Gays and illegal aliens don't live very good lives in Islamic nations. Or say N. Korea. Two women step a few feet into N. Korean territory, they are chased down, beaten, and eventually sentenced to hard labor; being released because Clinton had his photo taken with Cum Ill Dung, or whatever his name is. We treat treat illegal aliens much better than just about any Asian nation does-- incl. the Mideast, which is West Asia. So America is a wicked nation, the others are worse.
You sure pick bad causes.
DAVID RHIND| 8.14.10 @ 1:50PM
LOOK AT WHAT IS GOING ON NOW OFF CANADA COAST .C.B.C. WBSITE THERE ARE LESS THAN 2% HAVE ANY COMPASSION. WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN