Posted on 04/22/2002 11:00:35 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
The obvious answer is that the Moslems are not the targets of violence, but rather the perpetrators. They do not need protection; Jews do.
That's the funniest line I've heard all day.
The problem with that is that an observant Jew would never carry such a device himself. It might leak and contaminate him. There would also be the problem of loading it, and storing the "ammo". Not practical, I'm afraid.
On the other hand, I think that would be a great idea for the gentiles.
"Dead silence --- not a sound to be heard in town. The lamps in the street, the lights in the shops and in the houses are out. It is 3:30 a.m.. All of a sudden noises in the street break into my sleep, a wild medley of shouts and shrieks. I listen, frightened and alarmed, until I distinguish words: Get out, Jews! Death to the Jews."
Survivor Norman Bentwich, quoted in Eisenberg, Azriel, Witness to the Holocaust. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1981, page 84 "…hurriedly we went out into the street…. The object of the mob's hate was a hospital for sick Jewish children, many of them cripples or consumptives. In minutes the windows had been smashed and the doors forced. When we arrived the swine were driving the wee mites out over the broken glass, bare-footed and wearing nothing but their nightshirts. The nurses, doctors and attendants were being kicked and beaten by the mob leaders, most of whom were women."
English reporter Michael Bruce, quoted in Baker, Leonard. Days of Sorrow and Pain. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978, page 231
only resting.
This crap with France and Germany is perfectly timed with the Muslim scourge slowly rising up world-wide: Without a strong, highly militarized Jewish nation, Jews have no guarantee anywhere.
I didn't mean to give offense to any Hasidim or Orthodox about the sidelocks, etc., my apologies. I agree totally with you point about Israel.
I had almost the same experience in Berlin in 1991, only the mob I saw were skinhead, combat-boot wearing wannabe Nazis (I guess). But later that day, I found a funny bumper sticker in a street kiosk that I had to buy. It showed a little barbarian, with horned helmet, sword and shield. It said "Nix versthein, Ich Deuchser"...which means, I think, "you don't understand...I'm German". :)
At least some of them have a sense of humor.
"Nix verstehen" is "Gastarbeiterdeutsch," the broken German spoken by many foreign guest workers from Turkey, Italy, Greece, the former Yugoslavia and Spain, and by some xenophobic and neo-Nazi Germans to all foreigners. It means, "I don't understand."
I lived in then West Germany for five years (1980-85). Most guest workers I worked with, spoke broken German. But some of the Germans I worked with, insisted on speaking Gastarbeiterdetsch with me, even though they'd known me for years, and had never heard anything but fluent German out of my mouth. (They spoke proper German to their German buddies.) These guys were all born at the end of the war, or later, but they were tight with an old Nazi.
To make a short story long, the meaning of the bumper sticker is ambiguous to me. The language sounds anti-immigrant, but the image suggests someone mocking the Gerries as primitive.
Well, my German was (and is) strictly Berlitz phrasebook. But "I don't understand...I'm German" may be a message to foreigners, with a bit of self-mockery.
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