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Every once in a while, the level of crap reaches such heights that it stops being crap altogether and completes a full circle to become distinctly non-crappy.
Take for example, the latest development in Israel's foreign policy towards Turkey. Our government's increasing right wing rhetorics and irresponsible nationalism have been feeding into Turkey's own superiority complex and narrow-mindedness for a while now. Israel would do something stupid, Turkey would do something stupid in return. Israel feels the need to retaliate with its own stupidity, prompting Turkey to go on and find something even stupider to do. And so on and on in an unbroken cycle until...
... This week the Knesset has taken a major step towards acknowledging the Armenian holocaust.
I don't care that they're only doing it to upset the Turks. I don't care, for once, that they couldn't care less about the Armenians, which is something that never fails to infuriate me, because I still somewhere believe that out of all the countries in the world, a country that considers itself a home for Jews is the one place that cannot afford to prefer politics to acknowledging genocide (and I am forever depressed when, time and again, they do make these things into political matters). So I don't care that they're doing it cos they're childish and petty and are looking to annoy the Turks even more. FINALLY they are willing to stop catering to Turkey and its denial of its crimes.
We at least have a world wide recognition of the wrongs that were done to us. The Armenians don't even have that. Everything that brings that much needed recognition is a step in the right direction, even if it comes from that bastion of nationalism, racism, and right-winged stupidity 20 minutes up the hill from me, and from all the wrong reasons.
Take for example, the latest development in Israel's foreign policy towards Turkey. Our government's increasing right wing rhetorics and irresponsible nationalism have been feeding into Turkey's own superiority complex and narrow-mindedness for a while now. Israel would do something stupid, Turkey would do something stupid in return. Israel feels the need to retaliate with its own stupidity, prompting Turkey to go on and find something even stupider to do. And so on and on in an unbroken cycle until...
... This week the Knesset has taken a major step towards acknowledging the Armenian holocaust.
I don't care that they're only doing it to upset the Turks. I don't care, for once, that they couldn't care less about the Armenians, which is something that never fails to infuriate me, because I still somewhere believe that out of all the countries in the world, a country that considers itself a home for Jews is the one place that cannot afford to prefer politics to acknowledging genocide (and I am forever depressed when, time and again, they do make these things into political matters). So I don't care that they're doing it cos they're childish and petty and are looking to annoy the Turks even more. FINALLY they are willing to stop catering to Turkey and its denial of its crimes.
We at least have a world wide recognition of the wrongs that were done to us. The Armenians don't even have that. Everything that brings that much needed recognition is a step in the right direction, even if it comes from that bastion of nationalism, racism, and right-winged stupidity 20 minutes up the hill from me, and from all the wrong reasons.