Demonstrations In New York Make Several Things Clear

[thucythucy]

180. "I see it as more akin to holding a Pearl Harbor commemoration in the still burning ruins of Hiroshima."

I'm trying to unpack that analogy.

Holding a commemoration for the victims of October 7 in New York City is like commemorating Pearl Harbor in Hiroshima just after the atomic bomb was dropped? Seriously?

So in this analogy New York City is Hiroshima is Gaza? And Palestinians are Japanese circa 1945?

So you're saying that holding a commemoration for the victims of October 7 in New York City is somehow an affront to civilians suffering in Gaza? And that the proper response to such a commemoration is to hold a rally in the space immediately outside, waving the flags used by the killers and rapists?

"Yes, the Pearl Harbor victims deserve commemoration, but there is a time and place."

So commemorating the victims of October 7 by New Yorkers, some of whom are related to or know or knew personally those victims, should wait until a better "time and place?" Such as where and when?

I would suggest that it was this pro-Palestinian demonstration that might instead have been held "at a better time and place." Like, for instance, practically anywhere else in New York City out of the sight and earshot of the people commemorating their losses.

Here's an analogy for your consideration: holding this demonstration at this particular place and time was akin to the religious wackos who demonstrate at the funerals of AIDS victims. Not a perfect analogy, I grant you, but I think it's more apropos than yours.

I do somewhat agree when you say, "You and I can't put ourselves in the shoes of a besieged and tormented people to assess right and wrong from their perspective." But wouldn't that also apply to Jews in Israel and elsewhere, who have also been besieged and tormented?