Posted on 02/20/2006 10:53:50 PM PST by goldstategop
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There is some shaky logic in this article, and this is among the shakiest.
The photo shows why Dennis Prager's involved explanation is really superfluous. A generation after the Holocaust there are people yes, who still want to erase Jews completely from the earth.
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Let's hope so.
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Some Jews assimilated to avoid persecution.
I am not as knowledgeable about other parts of the world, but in Spain when Ferdinand and Isabela (around 1492) finally drove the Moors out of Spain, they insisted the Jews had to convert to Catholicism or also be expelled from the country. Both Moors and Jews left in large quantities which seriously hampered Spains intellectual development. Jews who stayed were labeled Conversos and not trusted. This was the time of the Spanish Inquisition, when large numbers of "heretics" were tried and burned at the stake.
On this day, I feel you are incorrect. Jews are the ultimate pc people. It is easy to be pc when nobody is trying to nuke you, as in white America in general. It is another matter, as in the Jews who know that islam wants to nuke them, yet the majority seem unable to formulate a correct response, so they go pc. This not facing reality will indeed lay the foundation for another situation that I think we all would rather not see happen to the Jewish people. If Jews are targeted again, they can really thank their leftist American brethern. Thats how I see it.
Sampson option. There won't be much left of the mideast.
Some people ask "If Christianity were a crime, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" I wonder: if Judaism had been a crime in the sense that one got a trial for it, how many victims of the Holocaust could have been convicted? To name one, Anne Frank could not, at least on the evidence of her diary.
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"Let's try this --> And that's why I expect any Israeli preemptive strike to be spectacular, massive, and deadly."
I'm hoping for that too. Israel should take the attitude of,"We'll get them before they can get us".
"but in Spain when Ferdinand and Isabela (around 1492) finally drove the Moors out of Spain, they insisted the Jews had to convert to Catholicism or also be expelled from the country."
Later, in Portugal, it was convert or die.
I understand the feeling (I grew up in Brooklyn), but I don't believe it.
The Jews of Israel are in mortal danger. Gathering millions of Jews together in a small space, surrounded by bloodthirsty enemies, with technology capable of killing most of them in minutes abroad in the world is amazingly risky.
Whaat stands in the way of another Holocaust is the existence of the United States and the relocation of a large fraction of the surviving Ashkenazi population to it.
Making aliyah is admirable from a faith perspective, but it's also a little nutty.
And, BTW, many people I knew in Brooklyn were always looking for the next Hitler in Nixon, or Ford, or Reagan. A lot of them, I gather, are still spinning the gragger at the mention of Bush and Cheney.
Talk about stuck on stupid!
> Only Israel stands in the way of another Holocaust, which is why the vast majority of Jews identify with and are so protective of the Jewish State.
I question this statement. It seems to me that a large percentage of American Jews vote for people who want to destroy Israel (or at least turn the other way while others destroy Israel). I have not figured out why this is so.
I used to think they were primarily communists since a large percentage of them came from Russia, but most of those came here before communism was established (the number of German Jews who came here -- or were allowed to come here -- is small compared to the number of Russian Jews). Now I think their religion is "liberal" rather than Jewish. I just don't know why. Many of my relatives are east coast Jews and I just don't understand them.
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