A Jewish Nazi? The Adam Shapiro Story

A Different Drummer ^ | 13 April 2002 | Nicholas Stix

[LarryLied]

Here's a nice, easy question for you: what do you call someone who supports Nazis?

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[mrustow]

Thanks for the background. To be honest with you, there were so many extreme charges on both sides, and so many miles coming between me and the truth, that I've never been able to formulate a judgment on the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Heck, I can't even keep the borders and names straight. (The media used to say "Bosnia-Herzegovina," but you never hear "Herzegovina" anymore.)

The only thing that is starting to crystallize for me, is that there is some kind of international connection between Moslem fighters and terrorists in Eastern Europe, and the Mideast.

[mrustow]

Thanks for the link, though I was thinking of a different answer.

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[MarkWar]

>A Jewish Nazi?

The only thing more complicated than reality is the human psyche. People can come to believe just about anything...

Toward the end of the incredible play "The Man in the Glass Booth," the judge observes that the guy is an anti-semitic Jew. Then asks, "Doesn't he have that right?" And the prosecutor says something like, "No. After all the Jews have been through, he doesn't..."

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[MeekOneGOP]

Gee, I could say that the Palestinian suicide bombers aren't people but are more like wild animals,
but that would be a high insult to animals everywhere...........

Chairman Arafat
Mark Steyn Link Excerpt:

Just as revealing was the reaction from the European media. In the American press, you read things like: "An observer to the bomb-blast scene described a dead young girl, perhaps 10 or 12, lying on the ground with her eyes open, looking as if she was surprised." For Europe, on the other hand, the main significance of this development was that it was "unhelpful" to the "peace process". Before I'm accused of being more upset about dead Jewish than dead Muslim kids, let me say that I take people at their own estimation: in the Palestinian Authority schools, they teach their children about the glories of martyrdom; indeed, the careers guidance counsellor appears to have little information on alternative employment prospects; at social events, the moppets are dressed up as junior jihadi, with toy detonators and play bombs. It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do. So does Saddam Hussein, whose government (the subject of an admiring article in this week's Spectator) gives $25,000 to the family of each Palestinian suicide bomber. So does the Arab League, which at last year's summit passed a resolution hailing the "spirit of sacrifice" of the Palestinian "martyrs" and thus licensed Wednesday's massacre. As for the "peace process", those Europeans who, just a few months ago, were urging the Americans to cease operations for Ramadan evidently feel no compunction to demand from Chairman Arafat and his dark subsidiaries any similar "bombing pause" for Passover.

In the days after September 11, we were told that Muslims had great respect for their fellow "people of the book" - ie, Jews and Christians. This ought to be so: after all, the dramatis personae of the Koran include Abraham, Moses, David, John the Baptist, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. It's one thing to believe that the Israelis are occupiers and oppressors and that the Zionist state should not exist. But no Muslim with any understanding of his shared heritage could in good conscience blow up a Passover Seder. It marks a new low in the Palestinians' descent into nihilism - though, as usual, the silence of the imams is deafening. As for the nonchalance of the Europeans, that too should not surprise us: in my experience, the Continent's Christians, practising and nominal, find the ceremonies of Jewish life faintly creepy, notwithstanding that these were also the rituals by which their own Saviour lived.

But this year, when the Christians' solar calendar and the Jews' lunar calendar have coincided and Easter and Passover fall together, it's a safe bet that George W Bush will make the connection. The first time I ever heard him speak, he spoke openly about his faith and about Christ in a way that would be unimaginable for a British politician. He will know all the details - "the baby tried to crawl away, but it died, too".......................