Anti-Semites and Deniers

The recent division about Israel is not shocking, as this nation is determined to be divided very clearly along political lines, so if red is for it, blue is against it, and vice versa.  It will truly be interesting to see how GMOs get politically played, yet I digress.  The division and accusation about the current issues in Israel and Gaza came as no surprise, but denial of the holocaust caught me by surprise.  I realize there are deniers, but one happened to be of a Christian denomination.  When one denier trolled my wall, I suggested they Google Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Corrie Ten Boom.  Their response was clearly argumentative.  When I read what people went through, I can't imagine denial less than 70 years later.

What's interesting about the history that we seem to be overlooking and the deniers are claiming, is that much of what took place in Nazi Germany began as "health care" and disease management.
Take note America.  One does not have to dig very far to discover the concentration camps came after an economic collapse and government health care.  Complete Article

National Socialism and the Nation’s Health

No profession in Germany became so numerically attached to National Socialism in both its leadership and membership as was the medical profession. Because of their philosophical orientation toward finding a more scientific basis for medical research and practice, government funding for research, and the practical benefits of acquiring university positions and medical practices from the many banned and exiled German Jewish doctors, many physicians supported Nazi policies. One of the first Nazi laws, passed July 14, 1933, was the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny of Hereditary Disease,” intended to “consolidate” social and health policies in the German population and prohibit the right of reproduction for persons defined as “genetically inferior.” After 1933, the connection between the theory and practice of politicized medicine advocated by many in Weimar Germany became actual in Nazi Germany.

As the trouble in Israel escalates, it is truly dividing the social commentary.  There are folks openly anti-Semitic and even holocaust deniers who will troll posts of those who are pro-Israel.  This week, I did something I've never done before.  I deleted some comments made by another in one of my threads.  I did not do that, however; without first giving 12 hour notice and warning that it would take place.

This is my stand regarding the nation of Israel in these current days.  The present nation of Israel is a democracy, actually Judah; therefore not Biblical Israel, but still descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and this is a big BUT; current democratic Israel has a right to exist in the Middle East and current democratic Israel is defending Jerusalem, which is absolutely Biblical.  Zechariah  12:2-3 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.  And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.  This passage appears to be coming into fulfillment at this time with all nations coming against Jerusalem.  I'm not sure how to interpret Judah's stand in this, but clearly the intent and behavior of the rest of the world is stated.