I once heard Andrew Breitbart speech about the corruption of the American media and what had to be done about it. I didn’t know anything much about him except that he was one feisty conservative fighter. I later learned, after he died, that he was Jewish.
I seriously doubt that he would have had Bannon as one of his top people in his organization if he were anti-Semitic. If Mort Klein can vouch for Bannon, I’m glad. Klein has more gutsy Jewish balls than the whole Reform Movement in America, and he has never shirked from a fight against Jewish enemies and America’s enemies.
I’d like to be a fly on a matzoh ball when Bannon speaks. No Kvetching, kvelling, no mishigash, no fooling around. I expect a speech that will in intensity, match that of the burning bush Moses encountered in the desert - just as bright, intense and serious.
Some of us Jews weren’t raised in “The Stupid Patch”. Unfortunately my relatives in Austria/Ukraine “The Pale” during the late 30’s and early 40’s were too trusting of the Germans and Ukrainian fascists or too stupid to leave when things started getting really bad.
Their bodies are probably in the execution sandpits on the outskirts of Lvov/Lviv/Lemberg or in the ashes at Belzec and Auschwitz concentration camps.
As for me, I’ll take Kahane’s “Never Again” over the liberals “Wait and See”. That applies to Israel and Iran/Hebollah/Hamas/Fatah as well as to the US and North Korea and Iran.
The book “Strike Zion” applies to all freedom-loving peoples as a warning NOT TO WAIT until the enemy attacks you because they might get lucky and you’ll be dead.
MM- Vietnam/Cambodia journalist 1970.
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Either the media is wrong and Bannon isn't a neonazi, or the ZOA is inviting a neonazi. I'd go with the former, and find arguements to the contrary dishonest, probably libelous.
I'd leave the "alt-right" out of discussion. Leaving aside the phantomlike character of that persuasion, too many bad guys using the name.
I agree with most of what you’ve written, but you should do more homework about the reality of the impossible situation of the Jews in the Ukraine/Pale of Settlement. They didn’t have the opportunity to leave, as did the Germans in the early 1930s. They were stuck, stuck, stuck. The Jewish homeland was blocked by the ever so civil Brits. U.S. closed its doors to almost all immigration about 1924. Ditto for other Western countries. You owe your relatives who were slaughtered in Eastern Europe an apology for smugly claiming that they were too short-sighted to pick up and leave. Just because one part of your family came to the U.S. when it was easy to come many decades earlier doesn’t mean those who didn’t come at that time were stupid. Hindsight is 50/50.