Free Republic

Christians are Jews' best friends Toronto Sun Sat, August 12, 2006 By MICHAEL COREN One of the most difficult things about spending time in Israel is returning home, as I did two weeks ago. As dangerous as life might be in the Jewish state at the moment, daily existence is layered in significance. Then it's back to North America, where the trivial is made to seem profound. I refer to Mel Gibson's drunken stupidity when he made various repugnant comments about Jewish people. As a Roman Catholic with three Jewish grandparents, and someone who worries every day about the...

Muslim, Christian holidays in Israel nothing more than campaign opportunity for politicians Jews usually mix-up Ramadan with Id al-Fitr. They think of Ramadan as a month-long holiday of happy fasting and dancing in the streets, whereas Id al-Fitr is some sort of undefined vagary that must represent an Islamic slaughter sometime in history. Would it really matter if Jews learned to differentiate between three happy days of this festival and the exhausting month that precedes it? Nah, don't worry about it. The Muslims will drink Coke and slaughter a sheep, just as long as they continue celebrating these strange days...