I WAS WALKING HOME LAST NIGHT....

I was walking home from the train last night and passed a pizza parlor filled with customers. People were crowded around tables, hunched over pizzas and stuffing their mouths. On the walls were several giant flat screen television sets tuned to a news station. Perhaps it was CNN or MSNBC. Yesterday being the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the station was airing black and white footage of what the soldiers found upon entering the camp: living skeletons staggering about, piles of corpses.... Meanwhile, people in the restaurant went on stuffing their faces and laughing amongst themselves.

It struck me that if you had told one of the camp survivors 60 years ago that in the future, films of what they had suffered would be splashed as large as life on the walls of restaurants while people ate, he or she would have been puzzled, disgusted, incredulous.

Oh, by the way, while the Shoah pictures where being broadcast, text was scrolling across the bottom of the screen with unfair criticism of Israel for defending itself against Palestinian murderers.

If it was CNN, it wouldn't surprise me. CNN which regularly implies that Israelis are Nazis. Yesterday, Ted Turner compared Fox News and the Bush administration to Nazis. This follows similar comments he made about Fox's Rupert Murdoch several years ago. He sees Nazis everywhere, except of course among the Islamofascists who are hell-bent on murdering every Jew they can get their hands on. They are "freedom fighters" or "militants."

Ariel Sharon had some choice words for those that compare Israel to the Nazis:

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon assailed as anti-Semites Wednesday critics of Israel who liken its crackdowns on a Palestinian revolt to Nazi-style acts of aggression.

"This phenomenon, of Jews protecting themselves and fighting back, is deemed outrageous by the new anti-Semites," he told Israel's parliament a day before world leaders gather in Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz death camp.

"The legitimate self-defense measures which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror -- measures any sovereign state would be obliged to take in order to safeguard its residents -- are presented by sundry anti-Semites as Nazi-style acts of aggression," the right-wing former army general said.