Sunday, December 19, 2004
I guess it takes a level of nuanced thinking Nobel laureates don't possess to process the idea that Israel's nuclear weapons are meant to prevent the construction of any more gas chambers.
Haaretz: Nobel laureate compares Israeli nuclear arms to gas chambers
Maguire, awarded the 1976 prize for her Northern Ireland peace campaign, was at the prison gates to welcome Vanunu when he was released in April after serving an 18-year sentence for disclosing Israel's nuclear secrets.
"When I think about nuclear weapons, I've been to Auschwitz concentration camp," Maguire said during a joint press conference with Vanunu in Jerusalem.
"Nuclear weapons are only gas chambers perfected... and for a people who know what gas chambers are, how can you even think of building perfect gas chambers?"...
Do these European do-gooders and their oh-so-clever Holocaust comparisons really think they've thought it out from more angles than the Israelis themselves? "Yeah, gee, we never thought of that before. It IS just like the Holocaust. We feel so ashamed! Thank you SO much." And, of course, if the Israelis refrained from doing everything that some Leftist slogan-chanter thought was "just like the Holocaust," they would have ceased to exist long ago.
And isn't Mordechai Vanunu a little old to be considered an orphan?
"I, as a Christian, am demanding from Israel, let me go and celebrate Christmas with my family and my friends around the world," he said. "They should give me my total freedom, I suffered 18 years in isolation in prison. They should not continue to punish me."
Mordechai Vanunu is walking proof of Israel's functioning, often push-over, democracy. In the nation-state of Solomonia he'd have been locked up and the key melted down for reactor-core lining.
