"Yes."
"It's important for me to emphasize that I never said that the Jews are the root of evil. I said they are at the root of evil."
-Mikis Theodorakis
Er...right...they aren't at the base, but kinda hovering like, near the root?
Years later, before I became a communist, I was a member of a fascist youth movement. [...] We walked up and down the streets in uniform and heiled all the time. It was a bit like the Hitler Youth but comical.This guy is a piece of work.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote a follow-up piece based on the Haaretz article...
"He said he doesn't hate Jews, but rather Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's policies regarding the Palestinians, which he described as Nazi-like. Sharon - and other Jews in influential positions - persuaded U.S. President George W. Bush to go to war against Iraq, he added."I just love when Israelis are compared to Nazis. The analogy just makes so much sense.
"The composer - who wrote the Palestinian national anthem - also said there is no anti-Semitism in Europe, despite a recent wave of anti-Jewish attacks."First of all, the Palestinian national what?
And nah, there's no Zeropean anti-Semitism in Europe...
This was by far my favorite part:
"He called Jewish claims of anti-Semitism a 'masochistic reaction' by a people who like to be 'the victim.'"...