News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

You probably wouldn't have "defended" a mother willing to slay an SS-officer who'd all but attempted to wrench her child away from her, and yet, as you well know, life/history's just filled with justifiable homicides.

Killing for pure pleasure, personal gain or sport (the Nazis and their followers) cannot philosophically or morally stand comparison with killing in order to simply stay alive and protect one's family, can it?

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Admitted, yet it cuts both ways too, you know.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

We're going off every which way, people!

@kaprys, the Judenraete were an attempt by Germany's Jewish minority to appease Hitler, this is true and can be documented. As a history teacher, I'd be a fool if I were to say any different.

The fact is, as jon admirably seconded, that during times of struggle, even victims are forced to make most unenviable choices, among those, the choice between deciding who should live and who should die. Usually, it's the wrong choice.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

My point is once again, and for the umpteenth time, that while certain Jews revealed the nadir of humanity amongst them, certain Poles did as well.

Yes, Dirkdiggler, I DO believe that Jews who loaded corpses onto wagons did so out of survival! Why, if it somehow turned out the Jews

murdered their own out of the same murderous reasons as their Christian nemeses, this would throw the very concept of good vs. evil forever out of kilter, no?

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

The Nazis' chief ideologue, Alfred Rosenberg was an ARYAN Balt who spoke German with a noticable foreign accent and was about as Jewish as Pope FrancisLOL

Numerous German gentiles are named Rosenberg, Rosenfeld, Goldberg etc.

@Wielki Polak,

Jewish capos are a ludicrous example to throw up to me, as they did what they did out of sheer survival; mistreat or be mistreated. Nobody ever accused us of being saints! What were the Poles' excuse for collaborating with various members of Hitler's henchmen?

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

@G (undercover)

It's the old story of The Emperor Has No Clothes! So the Poles were "perfect" and never once complied with Hitler's anti-Semitic policies, being just like the Swedes and the Danes, is that the particular fiction du jour we're propagating today, are we?? It was ALL Germany's "fault", is that it??! If life were only that simple.

@Ironside,

"Jewish war criminals"? Hardly a comparable scenario now, is it!

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

@Wielki Polak, I don't think the issue is that Jews en masse take some sort of sadistic pleasure in demonizing Poles or Poland, rather, that they don't wish to see her claim that Poles were blameless either, much as was the case in Austria regarding their role in the Anschluss.

Perhaps not until as late as the late '80's and the Waldheim Debacle, Austria claimed that they were victims of Nazi annexation, instead of willing participants.

Again, the critical difference here is that pointing out Austrian complicity wasn't a punishable offense.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

Oh, but I completely agree, Slavictor. I was hardly expressing my opinion, merelyt parroting that others:-)

Polonia / Which country is better SPAIN or POLAND [118]

Meant Puig of Barcelonal, sorry:-)Y'all couldn't have missed the former logo on their cologne bottles of some svelt senorita with castanets and a flower in her hair, more Andalusian flamenco than CatalanLOL

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

I was mocking you, but you didn't even get it.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

As there is Celtic influence in parts of Poland, Krakow, for example, every pub in that city should hang a sign "NIECH ZYJE IRLANDIA!!"

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

Brate Crow, honestly you talk like drunkard! What is all Slavs but brathers together, all Slavics unite under banner of Russia...
LOL

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

Russia has joined the company of those nations who continue to see themselves as superior to Poland. Russia boasts her size, being the largest country or land area in the world, along with her rich natural resources and plentiful supply of foodstuffs, especially grain.

Poland can hold her head up as high, being the country which Westernized for completely, both in terms of alphabet as well as religion!

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

G_d Save The Queen, St Patrick was an Englishman!!
:-)

Polonia / Which country is better SPAIN or POLAND [118]

No country is instrinsically "better" than another, of course, it depends entirely on what one is looking for, that's all:-)

Regarding a country which seems to value her culture and celebrates her historical identity, Poland's the place for you (in a toss up between Spain vs. Poland, naturally).

Regarding up-to-date job prospects, an international environment, delicious, varied, and healthy food, world-class fashion (Zara, Balencia etc.), multi-lingual, well-traveled citizens, particularly the youth, [post-Franco Era] Spain wins hands down!!

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Sounds a bit dodgy to me, almost revisionist. Some atheist a number of years back tried (unsuccessfully) to propagate "The Greatest Story Ever Sold", in which he attempted to debunk the entire notion of the Bible!

Cute idea, but hardly acceptable.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

Being Polish yourself, plus you being there and I here, I'd scarcely think so.
Nice try:-)

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

I still say that facial or bone structure's usually a dead giveaway:-)

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Got the right rabbi, but wrong first name. It's actually Joshua Hammerman and the article is instead "Right boycott, wrong country", same differenceLOL

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Interesting piece in the current >Jewish Week< written by a Rabbi Michael Hammerman, "Wrong Country, Right Boycott", in which Rabbi Hammerman insists that it is flat wrong to penalize Poles, many of whom were valiant in their struggles against Nazi oppression in their country!

Furthermore, he claims that if any country should be boycotted, specifically by Jewish tourists, it should be Russia, not Poland.

Worth a read, I'd say.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

You've confirmed my assertion to the T, kaprys!
Thank,
:-)

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

No argument there! However, all the groups whom you mention are WHITE:-)
And, as Jimmy Durante used to say, there's the rub.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

Your half right here. I meant to say that, compared with Paris, London or Berlin, for years Budapest had fewer non-Hungarians living and working in the capital in contrast with post-globalization.

More to the point, when I was in the Hungarian capital, I noticed relatively few if any black, yellow or brown faces anywhere I visited, except only for some US tourists. I found the same in Poland. I didn't find this to be the case in Berlin.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

Ahemm, maf, tell that to President Orban and he'll spit right in your eye, after charging you for the eyewash!

Ethnics minorities such as Banaten-Schwaben, Transylvanians, Romanians, and Szeklers, nonetheless comprise only a slightly larger percentage of the total population of Hungary than do the Sinti-Roma.

Nope, the Hungarians see themselves as an ethnically Uralic island amid a Slavic neighborhood.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Some day, Poland will be an old democracy. We all want to see her make it before she does herself in from within:-)

History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]

I'm not showing off, as you put it, at least I'M talking sense.

History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]

Heck, I can only repeat that Guenter Grass was half-Kaszub on his father's, half-German on his mother's side and native to Danzig aka Gdansk!

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]

@Tacitus,
Like Trump, Berlusconi is more of what we here in the States might term instead a successful "monkey-businessman" aka someone with many fingers in several different pots simultaneously, engaging in risky, questionable ventures:-)

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

A point well taken, dolno.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

While I have to agree in principle, this indeed changes the very nature of the concept "freedom of speech" then, doesn't it.