HARRY BELAFONTE HAS SOME CRAZY IDEAS ABOUT JEWS
After making a statement in a recent interview with Cybercast News Service that there were "a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of (Adolf Hitler's) Third Reich, the man who brought 'Day-O' (the tally-me bananas song) to the world changed his position and admitted "Jews weren't high up" but that "Jews did have a role, some did, in the demise and brutal treatment of the Jewish people.
"Was it rampant? Absolutely not," said Harry Belafonte. "But, these things happen and people are not exempt from their behavior." He added, "Let's not be dishonest about all of us. The more we know the truth, the better we'll be [at] improving humanity."
It shouldn't come as such a surprise, since the initial Nazi comparison was made as an analogy to attack black officials in the Bush administration.
"The point was not to attack Jews," Belafonte said of his controversial comment in a subsequent interview with The Jerusalem Post. But, he said, "I can understand why Jewish leaders would be prone to protect the image of George Bush and his administration." He continued that the administration fully supports Israel "even when there are questions of the humanitarian, the moral, and the political [motivation] of things that are done to Palestinians. "Detaining suspects without charges, creating an atmosphere of fear" are "very much similar to the things that were done when Hitler was on the rise".
"Was it rampant? Absolutely not," said Harry Belafonte. "But, these things happen and people are not exempt from their behavior." He added, "Let's not be dishonest about all of us. The more we know the truth, the better we'll be [at] improving humanity."
It shouldn't come as such a surprise, since the initial Nazi comparison was made as an analogy to attack black officials in the Bush administration.
"The point was not to attack Jews," Belafonte said of his controversial comment in a subsequent interview with The Jerusalem Post. But, he said, "I can understand why Jewish leaders would be prone to protect the image of George Bush and his administration." He continued that the administration fully supports Israel "even when there are questions of the humanitarian, the moral, and the political [motivation] of things that are done to Palestinians. "Detaining suspects without charges, creating an atmosphere of fear" are "very much similar to the things that were done when Hitler was on the rise".
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