Posted on 02/09/2020 5:08:16 PM PST by jonascord
Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel stated in 2018 that “when the generation that survived the war is no longer here, we’ll find out whether we have learned from history.” As a Polish Jew born in 1925, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, lost my family in the Holocaust, served in a special operations unit of the Polish underground, the Home Army, and fought in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, I know what it means to be at the sharp end of European history – and I fear that the battle to draw the right lessons from that time is in danger of being lost
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Never give up your guns and ammo.
Why do they vote democrat now?
Quite a bit of wisdom in Mr. Aronson’s testament. Morality, stability, normalcy can fall apart very quickly. Most of us don’t want to face the reality of it until it is too late, and there is a high price for acting too early.
The best I've got is they aren't the ones who've been shot at. I know a highly intelligent, observant Jew, who is a Berniebot, because... F#ck if I know... He's never been shot at?
Beats me too..why? Guess they think it can’t happen here.
When I started reading this I assumed it was just another attempt to instill guilt in a European country, in this case Poland. The author talks about “armchair patriots” seeking to exploit the experiences of his generation. They are “threatening to raise future generations in darkness.” It is a little late for that. Ignorance is the norm. Historians naturally omit atrocities committed by the faction they support and emphasize atrocities by their opponents even if they are not true.
I changed my mind when I read: “No nation has a monopoly on virtue – something that many people, including many of my fellow Israeli citizens, still struggle to understand.” It is natural for people to divide the world into “heroic nations” and “villian nations.” The history of that period is viewed through highly emotional lenses. The heroes were not 100% good and the villains were not 100% evil. The extent of sympathy for the Axis has been minimized. After their defeat no one admitted they had cooperated. Many of the reports about concentration camps come to us from kapos. How reliable are reports from people who cooperated with the Nazis?
His closing advice is; “do not ever imagine that your world cannot collapse, as ours did.” Our system collapse? Impossible! s/
I think Liberal Jewish people want to see America “watered down” in it’s Christianity because they see it as a threat. I once read an article where a Jewish man was quoted as saying “when I hear the word Christian, I see barbed wire”. I don’t remember the article, but if true, it’s quite an insult AND ahistorical, given America’s treatment of Jewish people has been NOTHING like Europe’s.
As I see the US teeter with the school systems overrun by anarchist/socialist/communist ideology , with the rule of law being challenged we need to continue to pray for God’s wisdom , power and courage to confront the militant, godless culture.
It's like the Leftist belief that high speed rail travel in the US is just being stopped by backward mouthbreathers and the car companies, or that imported French grape juice is somehow 200% more valuable that American grape juice. Well traveled Democrats are still stupid.
The Hasidim know better, however, they are a minority in the Jewish community.
The people of Jewish descent who vote democrat are not the same as those who survived Nazi white supremacists
I understand that but there are still a ton of actual survivors and descendants extant. I can’t wrap my brain around the thinking of these people who vote for the party that wants to disarm them. I thought that was one of the cruel lessons of Nazi gun control?
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