Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00006)

Frank Reitemeyer wrote:
> 
> >Explain these acts.
> 
> Bart, I try. You say that the slaughter of the family was not a crime as
> Israel considered it to be an act of war.

I said nothing of the sort. All I said is that there is disagreement as
to whether it should be classified as a crime or an act of war, and
Israel considered it to be an act of war. At no point did I say what I
considered it to be. Therefore, you are starting off from a false
premise. 

> My question is: Is the same standard of judging applicable to a similar case
> (if it be), when the Jews were the victims in the Third Reich? And if not,
> where is the difference in both cases from a theosophical, ethical point of
> view?

And I am asking what is this "similar case"? Can you show me what
documents or claims there are by Jews in Germany stating that their goal
was the destruction of Germany and the destruction of the German people,
as there were in the Jordanian and Palestinian communities?

> This is a serious question to me. Very often one can see that equal things
> which happen in human history are judged different, depending of the
> belonging to an ideology, to a creed, to a race and it is not judged from
> the unity of life which makes not such discrimination.

Pushing an old lady out of the way of a moving car is not the same
thing as a pushing an old lady into the path of a moving car, in spite
of the claims of the advocates of "moral equivalency".

Bart Lidofsky