This comment is for my brother-in-law. And you know who you are! :-)

This is of course relating to the Palestinian man who was shown to be playing a violin at an Israeli checkpoint, apparently at the request of the soldiers. The words used in most of the articles I've seen is "forced to play" although I have yet to see any proof that there was any physical or verbal confrontation before the playing began.

Wildly inaccurate, not to say glib, historical comparisons like the one made by the befuddled Horit are evidence of something worse than liberal stupidity. Horit’s analogy is morally perverse. Asserting moral equivalence between Israeli border guards, under the fear of attack, with German Nazi officers, ordering Jews to their death at their leisure, reveals a one-sided analysis of the conflict that infects the thinking of Western liberals.

Just in case some of you have forgotten your history, before you compare a stupid one-off violin playing incident, or any other checkpoint inconvenience to the Holocaust, or Israelis to Nazis in general, let's remember all the things the Israelis are NOT doing to the Palestinians, a people whose ELECTED leaders have openly called for Israel's destruction and support the idea of blowing up innocent civilians solely for political gain.











Remember, this is why the Jews are in Israel in the first place - cut them some slack! It's certain that all Israelis aren't saints, but they sure as hell aren't all neo-Nazis.