I wish I could talk like this when trying to verbally bash anti semites.
It is truly a miracle, for all of us.
I was in New York for the 30th anniversary celebration. It was pretty good.
Not Jewish, but I am reflexively anti-antisemtic. Boy-o-boy, have I had fun with people who let slip antisemtic remarks. I am rarely as animated or - may I confess - articulate as when tearing into a closet antisemite. (Invariably a liberal, usually over-schooled and under-educated.) Although fun at the time, it is emotionally exhausting and painful afterwards. I tend to be avuncular and easy-going in person, I like making people feel at ease. It's just one of those things that sets me off.
I almost never hear people make racist comments about almost any other group. People know better than to belittle blacks or call Chinese coolies. Indians (Asian variety) are close to Jews in being acceptable targets for racial stereotyping, but it is rarely as vicious as that targeted at Jews.
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Gee, I guess all those Ethiopian Jews who thrived in isolation for thousands of years just don't count.
With one exception, a miraculous story of redemption and return, after not a century or two, but 2,000 years. Remarkably, that miracle occurred in our time. This week marks its 60th anniversary: the return and restoration of the remaining two tribes of Israel—Judah and Benjamin, later known as the Jews—to their ancient homeland.
The Jews, though defeated, scattered, and exiled, always knew who they were. If their restoration is a miracle, how much more so the regathering of the "lost" tribes of Israel.
Joseph isn't dead. He was sent ahead - to preserve life.
Good article though. Pali/Arab victimhood is self-inflicted.
This is an excellent synopsis of the root cause of the Israel-Palestine problems. The whole article is definitely worth reading, and saving.