The lesson of a Jewish cemetery

mcleans.ca ^ | 6/17/10 | MARK STEYN

[Nachum]

Thanks to the wonders of globalization, I’m writing this in a fairly decrepit salon de thé off the rue de la Liberté in Tangiers, enjoying a coffee and a stale croissant grilled and flattened into a panini. What could be more authentically Moroccan? For some reason, the napkins are emblazoned with “Gracias por su visita.”

Through a blizzard of flies, I can just about make out the plasma TV up in the corner on which Jimmy Carter, dubbed into Arabic, is denouncing Israel. Al Jazeera doesn’t so much cover the Zionist Entity as feast on it, hour after hour, without end. So here, at the western frontier of the Muslim world (if you don’t include Yorkshire), the only news that matters is from a tiny strip of land barely wider at its narrowest point than a rural Canadian township way down the other end of the Mediterranean.

Notwithstanding saturation coverage of the “Massacre In The Med” (as the front page headline in Britain’s Daily Mirror put it), there are other Jewish stories in the news. This one caught my eye in Canada’s Shalom Life: “No danger to the Jewish cemeteries in Tangiers.” Apparently, the old Jewish hospital in this ancient port city was torn down a couple of months back, and the Moroccan Jewish diaspora back in Toronto worried that their graveyards might be next on the list. Not to worry, Abraham Azancot assured Shalom Life readers. The Jewish cemetery on the rue du Portugal is perfectly safe. “Its sanctity has consistently been respected by the local government that is actually providing the community with resources to assist in its current grooming.”

[Nachum]

In 1936, during the Cable Street riots, the British Union of Fascists jeered at London Jews, “Go back to Palestine!”, “Palestine” being in those days the designation for the Jewish homeland. Last week, Helen Thomas, the doyenne of the White House press corps, jeered at today’s Jews, “Get the hell out of Palestine,”

[GraceG]

“In 1936, during the Cable Street riots, the British Union of Fascists jeered at London Jews, “Go back to Palestine!”, “Palestine” being in those days the designation for the Jewish homeland. Last week, Helen Thomas, the doyenne of the White House press corps, jeered at today’s Jews, “Get the hell out of Palestine,” “

If I were jewish I would invest in space colonization technology. That seems the only way in this anti-semite filled world to be safe.

[Tax-chick]

Wherever a Jew is, whatever a Jew is, he should be something else somewhere else. And then he can be hated for that, too.

This is an incredibly great article. Words of praise fail me ... except to say that in the sentence in which he mentioned "Osama," my brain filled in "Obama." Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

[Daveinyork]

“If I were jewish I would invest in space colonization technology. That seems the only way in this anti-semite filled world to be safe.”

I think Mel Brooks touched on that at the end of “History of the World, Part I”

[Tax-chick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_jLnrUXJNM

Mel Brooks’ “Jews in Space” scene.

[FourPeas]

The “Palestinian question” is a land dispute, but not in the sense of a boundary-line argument between two Ontario farmers. Rather, it represents the coming together of two psychoses. Islam is a one-way street. Once you’re in the Dar al-Islam, that’s it; there’s no checkout desk. They take land, they hold it, forever.

THIS is the key to so much of what many people overlook when it comes to Muslims.

[eddiespaghetti]

Islam is a one-way street. Once you’re in the Dar al-Islam, that’s it; there’s no checkout desk. They take land, they hold it, forever.

THIS is the key to so much of what many people overlook when it comes to Muslims.

YEAH, AND I WONDER IF ANYONE IN SPAIN IS PAYING ATTENTION.

[FourPeas]

If they’re not now, they soon will be.

[Tax-chick]

Spain kicked them out once. It only took 400 years. What’s 400 years in the grand span of Geologic Time ...