Okay article but will be misunderstood by many to the detriment of Israel. Best to avoid being cute, Coach.
I understand the intent but i dislike this style of rhetoric.
Col. (Richard) Kemp, a British officer who served in all the major conflicts between 1977-2006, said of the Israelis, “Based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: during operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in the combat zones than any other army in the history of warfare.”I guess Coach is trying to lure/bait the lefty antisemites into reading?
The Jews are again leading the way to higher ground, making us uncomfortable with our double standards and our odious hypocrisy.
Good article. The title is intriguing as intended, and caused me to read the article which sets up and destroys the usual knee-jerk anti-Israel lines.
The first sentence is all that makes sense to me. The rest is garbled.
The Jews have much to answer for, especially the Jews of Israel – and there’s no letting up.
If I remember right it was England that started the carpet bombing of Europe. Does Dresden come to mind. Did England give up when Hitler attacked with rockets. NO, they destroyed many cities. Most of Gaza is intact. Israel is going after tunnels and rockets not civilians like England did.
Just another rambling mess. People need to learn to write.
Yep.
Jews make stuff.
Arabs blow stuff up...
“Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon”
Benjamin Disraeli
“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvellous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”
Mark Twain
“... during operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in the combat zones than any other army in the history of warfare.”
Which is why the Jews will see some ultimate threat brought to their very threshold...and they will do what they might have done decades ago.
I get it. What the author means is that the Jews have consistently made valuable contributions to a moral society, while the blight of humanity is anti-Semitism.
Excellent connecting up of the in invention of morality on earth and the current war between civilization and savagery in the Middle East.
New York Jews always vote for the people that despise them..
Have always despised them and continue to depises them..
Most Jews are not very smart....
But not all Jews are indeed Jews..
Even some Jews Hate Jews..
Kinda like some people with one white parent calling themselves BLACK..
Ignoreing reality.. acting a part..
First, the original author is a Britisher. By his very national history, he has no clear identification with the word, “Freedom”.
Second, the early British history of Jewry was not a pretty one. They did whatever their king decreed to do to the Jews, since ‘they crucified Christ’.
Third, the author is not aware, that it was another Britisher, named Ben-Gurion, who had the dream of the nation of Israel being a reality.
Lastly, the original author’s attempts to make the case for ‘the jewish bible and the jewish god’, while bemoaning the loss of the British pagan roots, missed the target. Britain was Christianized, not ‘Judaicized’, with the Christian believers in power, turning pagan sacred sites into christian points of holiness, not Jewish synagogues. His references to ‘the jewish god’ fall short, since Christianity is formed around the second person of The Trinity, not Y’h’j’w of the Ta’anach, or Torah.
The Brits, can’t understand half of what they say and the rest is stupid. We kicked there ass twice and than had to pull there bacon out of the fire twice. Been there, bad food worse weather but good beer.
The title of the piece is misleading, but one grasps the intent and point of the author by the end of it.
It's even better than Jon Voit's.
Somebody call?
Good commentary.
This captures the essence of what the Jews mean by saying “Chosen People”. Jews are chosen by God to be a light, an example, to the world, but without any thoughts of superiority or exclusivity. There are other peoples in the world like that, too. For example, the Tibetan Buddhists.
Wyrd bid ful ared.