The proper social response I'm talking about is graciousness and proportionality in a world where the US need not forget what Germany asks of them. I think that's the obvious moral response. What do you do when Germany chooses to remember? Rather than building a great firewall around Germany, my instincts are clear. The right way forward is to accept our humanity in its complexity.

You have left yourself zero room to discuss anything else, because you have spent your entire thread analyzing how someone is inhumane without even getting to know them, like an internet warrior or moral busybody. Every time you pick up the microphone that's the only thing you have to say.

That is what I mean by your sense of moral and conversational clarity.

When you read what he was saying, he meant "Israelis", not "Jews" in General as there are Jews everywhere in the world, but he was talking about Israel's actions.