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  1. One of the reasons Germany is so into Obama is because I think it allows them to show their superiority to the racist Americans. It drives me nuts.

  2. Hating those they’ve wronged makes redemption impossible. And, it makes their ultimate fate deserved.

    “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” Golda Meir

  3. Landes uses the term “supersessionism” when talking about Israelis being considered the new Nazis and Palestinians the new Jews. I mostly think of it in relation to the claims of Christianity that Christians superseded the Jews in becoming God’s chosen ones.

  4. And here I thought “Europe’s Destructive Holocaust Shame” would be about how Europe’s left-wing Jews have used the Holocaust to guilt trip Europeans into going along with the the immigration policies that are undermining them.

    Turns out it really means the Europeans don’t feel guilty enough. Who knew?

  5. I once read a statement somewhere the ‘Germany would never forgive the Jews for the holocaust’.
    That about sums it up.

  6. I once read a statement somewhere the ‘Germany would never forgive the Jews for the holocaust’.
    That about sums it up.

    That’s all nice and ironic but have the Jews forgiven the Germans for the Holocaust? Will they ever? Because the vast majority of Germans today weren’t even alive when it happened and they’re still required to feel guilty about it.

  7. interesting timing..
    look what happened today…

    1972: During the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists storm the apartment housing Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine hostage. The terrorists demand the release of over 200 Israeli-held Palestinian prisoners, but the Israelis refuse to negotiate. Five terrorists – and all hostages – are killed when German police attempt to ambush the kidnappers

  8. Song For the Deaf, your point doubly applies to the civil war and the rhetoric now as most blacks do not have a lineage to slavery, and most whites have zero connection to the civil war with huge numbers of them coming in the diasporas AFTER the war brought about by the industrial revolution…

  9. Song:
    I am not aware that Germans born after 1945 are required to feel guilty about the Holocaust by any force other than post-1945 German law. Blame the Germans. And why should Israelis be forgiving modern Germany when there is clear evidence of rising anti-Semitism in Germany and the rest of Western Europe?
    Neo:
    You write “the motivation for that commonplace hatred of people we have wronged is a rage at the feeling of guilt and/or shame they engender in us, and a desire to escape from those feelings by blaming the victim.”
    I am not at all sure that is correct unless you invoke the unconscious. A rage of guilt and/or shame should surely be perceptible to those who hate their victims, but I have never seen it divulged. I was quite angry about “having” to divorce my first wife, but felt no guilt/shame whatsoever until, about a year later, I slowly realized I too had been a SOB and thus a major contributor to the marriage’s failure.

  10. Frog,

    Their own culture requires them to feel guilty, and European Jews have a played a huge role in shaping that culture. Just like they played a huge role in shaping pre-WWII culture.

    And why should Israelis be forgiving modern Germany when there is clear evidence of rising anti-Semitism in Germany and the rest of Western Europe?

    Why does this statement of yours elide the fact that the vast majority of anti-semitism in Europe these days comes from the Muslim immigrants that Jews played such a huge role in pushing on the Europeans? Why would Israel hold it against Europe that most of the anti-Semites there are Muslim? Does it even matter to Jews that the anti-Semite there aren’t European?

  11. Artfldgr:

    See this.

    The video is no longer available at YouTube, however (at least, not with the audio).

    One of the things that was so terrible about the Munich terrorist attack was the incredible ineptitude of the Germans in their attempts to deal with the situation, as well as the almost immediate return of the captured terrorists:

    The three surviving Black September gunmen had been arrested after the Fé¼rstenfeldbruck gunfight, and were being held in a Munich prison for trial. On 29 October, Lufthansa Flight 615 was hijacked and threatened to be blown up if the Munich attackers were not released. Safady and the Al-Gasheys were immediately released by West Germany, receiving a tumultuous welcome when they touched down in Libya and (as seen in One Day in September) giving their own firsthand account of their operation at a press conference broadcast worldwide.

    And see this.

  12. Song For the Deaf:

    As far as I’m concerned not a single German alive today need feel guilty about the Holocaust unless that person was a participant in it, or is currently an apologist for it.

    The problem is that, in their eagerness to avoid a repetition, German authorities and educators have made younger Germans feel guilty, too, which causes resentment. One of the ways the older Germans who in fact were Nazis or Nazi supporters (and not all Germans were, by any means) can get any burden of guilt (or shame) off their backs is to champion Palestinians and say the Jews in Israel are the new Nazis. Younger Germans who have been made to feel guilty or to feel shame over the Holocaust even if they had nothing to do with it can attempt to get the guilt or shame off their backs in the same way.

  13. Song For the Deaf:

    And of course, according to you, it’s all the Jews’ fault that Europe is letting in so many Muslims.

    By the way, there is a ton of non-Muslim anti-Semitism in Europe today. You are either ignorant of the fact or purposely lying about it.

  14. Song:

    So it’s the the liberal European Jews who are encouraging the flood of MENA Muslims into Europe? I would have never suspected such perfidy. Were they also working to set up the No Go areas in France, Belgium, and The Netherlands? Not too many European Jews survived the Holocaust in those countries so the must be pretty powerful, i.e., those who survived or their descendants. And of course there are those Nordic countries, Sweden for example, who seem to be having problems with Muslims, sans European Liberal Jews. Must be a power exerted over a distance without an actual presence, how awesome. No it’s just liberal Europeans.

  15. Frog:

    In response to your comment at 9:37 PM—

    Yes, I do invoke the unconscious in some instances. In others, the hatred is a preventative measure—to block any feelings of shame or guilt that might arise.

  16. Why yes, om, as a matter of fact they are encouraging it. It’s called, “A multi-cultural Europe is less of a threat to us Jews, so we’re going to push it on the Europeans even if it’s bad for them.” Of course, they never stopped to consider that Muslims hate them even more than they hate Europeans. They openly talk about it.

    And just to show how ignorant you are: Sweden, for example, “sans European liberal Jews”:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85BKDj_1vVU

    Barbara Spectre’s Paideia organization is one of the prime movers in Sweden pushing for immigration.

  17. neo,

    By the way, there is a ton of non-Muslim anti-Semitism in Europe today. You are either ignorant of the fact or purposely lying about it.

    I’m not ignorant of the fact. But I am aware that most of the European anti-semitism comes from the Left, not conservatives, and the lion’s share of anti-semitic violence -according to the Jewish victims themselves- is perpetrated by Muslims, not Europeans.

  18. Song For the Deaf:

    I agree that the majority of the non-Muslim anti-Semitism (and anti-Israeli sentiment, for that matter) in Europe is the province of the left. It has been for decades.

    Just as in the Iranian Revolution, the left is allied with the Islamicists. The left in Iran thought they could use and control the mullahs. They were sadly mistaken.

  19. neo,

    One of the ways the older Germans who in fact were Nazis or Nazi supporters (and not all Germans were, by any means) can get any burden of guilt (or shame) off their backs is to champion Palestinians and say the Jews in Israel are the new Nazis.

    Post-war Europe has adopted the Left’s fixation on victims and oppression and that fixation is largely a Jewish creation. It’s silly and ignorant to claim that Jews had no cultural power in post-1945 Europe. The Holocaust is a bottomless mine of guilt-based cultural authority for the group that suffered it.

    Unfortunately for the Israelis, Europeans have taken that fixation and applied it to their enemies. The logic is: “You never learned the lesson of the shtetls! You’re oppressing the Palestinians the same way we oppressed you!” Left-wingers say this all the time. Charges of hypocrisy are inevitable.

  20. Song For the Deaf:

    You are making some incorrect and blanket statements about “the Jews” of Europe. I’ll assume, for the moment, that you aren’t doing this through anti-Semitism, but through ignorance.

    Of course there are individual “Jews” (that is, completely secular Jews, for the most part) who are on the left. As with most leftists, they are in favor of Muslim migration. That makes them no different from other leftists. Other than that, it is very difficult to get any facts or figures on Jewish support or non-support for Muslim immigration in Europe compared to the support of non-Jews. I have not been able to find even a single poll that breaks it down by religion. I did find this article claiming that quite a few French Jews supported Le Pen, particularly the relatively large group of Jews who emigrated to France from the Arab world. Not only that, but most of the Jews of France who are religious are Orthodox, and the Orthodox tend to be far more to the right than Reform Jews are. Lastly, a lot of Jews are emigrating from France because of the rise of anti-Semitism. I very much doubt they support the entry of Muslims to France.

    In short, you are making assertions without proof, and those assertions are a favorite trope of anti-Semites on the right.

    By the way, I am sick and tired of people such as, for example, George Soros standing in for the generic “the Jews.” What George Soros does is not what “the Jews” do. He is one person, born nominally Jewish but not religious at all and raised as an anti-Semite, by his own admission:

    As a Jew in Hungary in 1944 [he was about 14 at the time], Soros was in serious danger of deportation. To avoid Soros’ apprehension by the Nazis, his father had him spend the summer of 1944 living with a non-Jewish Ministry of Agriculture employee, posing as his godson. George Soros later said that he “grew up in a Jewish, anti-Semitic home,” and that his parents were “uncomfortable with their religious roots.” They even changed their name from Shwartz to Soros in 1936 to disassociate themselves from the Jewish community.

    Soros is not “the Jews.” Leftists in Europe are not “the Jews.” And “the Jews” are not responsible for what leftists in Europe do.

  21. Song;

    “The Holocaust is a bottomless mine of guilt-based cultural authority for the group that suffered it.”

    Astounding. Fantastic. (look up the word, genius). Loathsome.

  22. om:

    By the way, there are anti-Semites who believe the Holocaust didn’t kill that many Jews, and the ones who were killed were killed at the behest of the Jewish community.

    I kid you not. Here’s how it goes:

    “The Jews are criminals,” the [Palestinian refugee] camp leader continued in a rising voice. “Murderers! They are the worst criminals in the whole world.”

    Had he ever heard of Hitler?

    He banged his table and said, “Hitler was far better than the Jews!”

    “Far better murderer? He killed six million Jews as a start,” I observed.

    “Oh, that is all exaggerated. He did not. Besides, the Jews bluffed Hitler. They arranged in secret that he should kill a few of them—old ones, weak ones—to make the others emigrate to Palestine.”

    “Thirty-six thousand of them,” said the Secret Service man, proving the point, “came here, before the war, from Central Europe.”

    “It’s amazing,” I said. “I have never before heard anywhere that the Jews arranged with Hitler for him to kill them.”

    “It was a secret!” the camp leader shouted. “The documents have been found. Everyone knows. It was published. The Jews arranged it all with Hitler.”

    Most foul and pernicious. But anti-Semitism is full of that sort of thing.

    Our little guest, “Song For the Deaf,” is an anti-Semite on the right. But he’s not nearly as creative as most anti-Semites.

  23. neo,

    In short, you are making assertions without proof, and those assertions are a favorite trope of anti-Semites on the right.

    You haven’t asked me for proof.

    You’re making the same argument that people like Abe Foxman and the ADL like to make: “Hollywood isn’t run by Jews, it’s run by people who happen to be Jewish.”

    Well, that doesn’t really work if those people share the same cultural background, the same historical narratives, the same tribal concerns, etc. I never posited any sort of cabal on European Jews’ part, nor do I need to. The only thing needed is for me to point out that the policies Jewish organizations and individuals (80% of whom happen to be left-wing) push for are aimed at defending Jewish interests at the expense of gentiles’. No conspiracy was stated or implied.

  24. neo,

    Our little guest, “Song For the Deaf,” is an anti-Semite on the right. But he’s not nearly as creative as most anti-Semites.

    I stick to the facts and most of my sources are Jewish. Unlike Muslims.

    I don’t see why you guys are so het up about this. There’s nothing wrong with pointing out Jewish power, Jewish hostility to whites or the fact that Jews perceive their interests as conflicting with white people’s is there?

    Who’s up for some sources?

  25. Song For the Deaf:

    Among other things, you have yet to give a link for anything you say. Your defense is that I haven’t asked you for proof? How stupid do you think people are? As though no one gives sources unless they are invited to?

    And your feigned innocence isn’t fooling a single person here. Or probably anywhere else.

  26. “the Muslim immigrants that Jews played such a huge role in pushing on the Europeans?”

    What is your evidence for this? And if Jews have such great influence over European politics why haven’t they been able to get European governments and the EU to be more pro-Israel?

  27. ♥ neo-neocon‼

    Shame an ignorant troll is trying to spoil these comments.

    What everyone used to know about “the Jews” was ‘their’ intention to “forgive, but never forget”. Israel has held fast to that.

    My old avatar that’s popped up was the Iranian air force.

  28. neo-neocon Says:
    September 6th, 2017 at 10:13 pm
    Song For the Deaf:

    As far as I’m concerned not a single German alive today need feel guilty about the Holocaust unless that person was a participant in it, or is currently an apologist for it.
    ***
    Can we extend that to the negative aspects of American history and the Crusades (actual or alleged) — with the additional proviso that any complainant has to accurately define the “it” that triggered the complaint.

  29. Well, part of the problem is that Barbara Spectre has done no one any favors. I’ve addressed this before by watching her entire interview at length, and noting a somewhat different thrust to her remarks than were apparent in some widely promoted videos.

    Nonetheless, what she says is problematical since in viewing the bare propositions , even with some context, she claims in effect, to be acting not as a leftist who happens to have a Jewish background, but as someone who is consciously and programmatically working as a Jew toward implementing what she apparently views as an intrinsically left-communitarian social order implicit in Judaism. I don’t know how you get to be an official Jew and spokesman for their destiny, but apparently she sees herself as having achieved it.

    Thus, she implies she is acting on behalf of the Jew and in furtherance of some world-historical role and authority she believes they possess; and she seems to be glorying in what she sees as a historically confirmed moral privilege to shape the lives of others granted her by her understanding of the “role” of ‘Jews’ on the earth.

    This role of course cannot be so much the instruction found in the Torah as Christians might understand the Torah; as it is a 19th century secularized Talmudism: a kind of Jewish socialist version of manifest destiny. It cracks me up: it is a type of socialist cultural imperialism seen as authorized by God, and promoted by persons who don’t anymore believe in their God who chose them … but still figure that the conclusion somehow follows from the discarded premiss.

  30. I backed out a possessive form ” ‘s” on editing and did not reinsert it before submitting.

    Read as,

    “Thus, she implies she is acting on behalf of the Jews …”

    An temporary edit function would be helpful for those times you see a misfired edit sail off as you press the button.

  31. thanks neo…

    [i thought it was important to remember, now if the jews would only help remember others too… but hey, half rememberance is better than leftist liberal stalinist erasure]

  32. John Jay Ray on BOOT
    [boot wrote horrid piece… funny, but the quickets retort to that piece would be “you complain? this is your bed, we have to lie in it, stop making more of a mess pretending otherwise”]

    Max Boot has some record as a conservative but his writing below shows him as a typical Leftist. As a NY Jew that is no surprise. American Jews voted overwhelmingly for Obama. Again as a Leftist, he has no respect for the truth at all. He does the typical Leftist trick of misrepresentation by omission. It would be tedious to fisk his whole outpouring but let me mention a few of his misrepresentations.

    He mentions that he received some antisemitic abuse recently and probably hopes to persuade us that antisemitism is now common in America and that it comes from conservatives. He offers no proof of either of those things. It is true that in the last decade or two there has been a gradual upwelling of antisemitism in America — from the Left. Many Leftists joyously particpate in the BDS movement, for instance, which aims at eradicating the State of Israel. No matter what spin they put on it, it’s essentially modern-day Nazism. Max mentions none of that.

    He says: “Trump came to office vilifying Mexicans and Muslims”. He did no such thing. He advocated more control of illegal immigration and immigration from terrorist infested nations. Most Muslim nations were NOT subject to his restrictions. Max is quite simply lying — deliberately ascribing motivations to certain actions without any evidence that such motivations were in play.

    Max says that Trump praised the Charlottesville protesters. He did not. He said of both the marchers and their attackers that they included good people on both sides. He gave no blankret approval to anyone.

    Max criticizes the pardoning of Sheriff Joe, without mentioning that Sheriff Joe was simply doing his job despite obstacles to immigration control created by Obama. Obama was by far the real lawless actor in the matter.

    But what seems to have set Max off is the withdrawal by Trump of the DACA regulations promulgated by Obama with no legislative authority. That Trump is simply reasserting the rule of law that Obama undermined he does not mention.

    Max could well mislead less informed people by his lies so we conservatives do need to combat them but it is a weary task. Lies just seem to flow of of every pore of Leftists. Lies are essentially all they’ve got.

    if its covered otherwise or i missed it, just move this to the right thread… sorry

  33. FOAF:

    He has no evidence for it.

    It’s an old lie pushed mostly by the white supremacist wing of the right.

  34. It’s interesting to me that anyone who is of Jewish ancestry is a Jew, whether they practice the religion or not, but the same standard is not applied to Christianity or any other religion to the same extent.

    Jews are certainly not a race. Judaism is a religion just like any other religion, but a bit older than most. At one time one might have said that they were an ethnic group, but even there, since the diaspora, the variations have become so great that it hardly holds water. Even Jews who have converted to Christianity often call themselves Messianic or Christian Jews.

    There are at least 3 major and several minor branches of Judaism just in the U.S. and the differences between them are so vast that it’s hard to call them the same name. One major branch of Judaism in the U.S., Reform Jews, are not even considered Jewish for many purposes in Israel.

    So when I’m told that Jews in America, or anywhere else, do one thing or another, or feel one way or another, I take it with a grain of salt. Usually it’s people picking and choosing from that group of “Jews” that makes their point.

    We would be a lot better off if we quit putting labels on people and started judging them solely by their actions. I’m pretty sure that if the government quit dividing people up by races and ethnic groups there would be a lot less racial and ethnic strife. After all, the number of people of pure racial or ethnic lines is so small that they hardly qualify as a group.

    I have not answered questions about race or ethnicity on government forms, including census forms, for many years and I know a lot of others who do the same. Now that’s a movement I could get behind.

    (Sorry I wandered a bit on this but I was a teacher well known to my students for birdwalking.)

  35. Irv — no, Jews are not just a religion. That is why, as you said, “anyone who is of Jewish ancestry is a Jew, whether they practice the religion or not, but the same is not applied to Christianity or to any other religion to the same extent. ‘

    Judaism is a religion, Jews are a people. This is not that unusual — anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. is a U.S. citizen, whether they believe in the principles of the Constitution or not.

    However, you are quite right that Jews believe all sorts of things, and that one cannot say “the Jews” do any particular thing.

  36. Richard – I’m not sure what you mean by a ‘people’. What does that term entail? What other groups do you apply it to? How does a group go about becoming a people and when do they no longer qualify for that label? I know about religions, ethnicities, countries, groupings by physical characteristics and such but I’m not sure what qualifies a group as a ‘people’. It appears to me that it is an arbitrary term with an indefinite meaning, easily abused.

  37. As to Jews being a distinct ethnic group, from Wikipedia:

    A study published by the National Academy of Sciences stated that “The results support the hypothesis that the paternal gene pools of Jewish communities from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population, and suggest that most Jewish communities have remained relatively isolated from neighboring non-Jewish communities during and after the Diaspora.”[12] Researchers expressed surprise at the remarkable genetic uniformity they found among modern Jews, no matter where the diaspora has become dispersed around the world.[12]

    Moreover, DNA tests have demonstrated substantially less inter-marriage in most of the various Jewish ethnic divisions over the last 3,000 years than in other populations.

    Something Song for the Deaf said intrigued me.

    The only thing needed is for me to point out that the policies Jewish organizations and individuals (80% of whom happen to be left-wing) push for are aimed at defending Jewish interests at the expense of gentiles’.

    Usually that would be phrased “at the expense of America.”

    Later you relate it to interests of whites.

    But assuming you meant gentiles, what is so strange about that? Isn’t that universal among ethnic groups? My ancestry is English, and I have a natural affinity to England.

    I can both be interested in the well being of America and England.

    White supremacists make that seem so conspiratorial.

  38. BrianE:

    Just what exactly are “Jewish interests.” And how do they differ from political, social, or economic interests? Are there “Catholic,” “Pentacostal,” “Eastern Orthodox,” “Greek Orthodox,” “LDS,” “Buddist,” “Hindu,” interests? “Wiccan” interests? Just curious how one group seems to be of interest to singers of songs and other Sierenes.

  39. OM,
    I was quoting Song for the Deaf.

    “The only thing needed is for me to point out that the policies Jewish organizations and individuals (80% of whom happen to be left-wing) push for are aimed at defending Jewish interests at the expense of gentiles’.” – Song for the Deaf

    A Jew is a member of an ethnic group, in addition to being a religion.

  40. FOAF Says:
    September 7th, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    “part of the problem is that Barbara Spectre has done no one any favors”

    Who?”

    Follow the link to YouTube video provided by Song of …

    There you will see excerpts of her speaking, taken from a longer interview originally included as part of a documentary on the migrant crisis in Europe.

    I cannot recall at the moment where the full documentary was originally featured or broadcast.

    Many of her remarks when excerpted and taken as categorical statements, seem to project an incredibly self-satisfied, tone deaf, and patronizing attitude which is even conceivably hostile to Europeans and to European culture and values.

    I don’t think that the original documentary conveyed exactly that impression.

    However, the link which “Song of …” has provided has supplemented the more negative impression provided by the excerpts with additional screen shots from what looks to be her twitter site.

    I have not confirmed that these are real. If they are, it does not bode well for the brighter take.

    Of course even liberal web news organizations or feature providers have added fuel for the fire. Vice (or was it an individual?) famously, or notoriously, featured an American interviewer who was Jewish himself investigating a belief supposedly held by some Jews, that Gentiles exist or are destined to “serve the Jews”.

    He was stupefied and shocked by the response he got from some fringe types in Israel; which amounted to, “Yes, the statement is in the “Oral Torah” but is misunderstood, because it means something good, not bad.”

    The “Oral Torah”, a term I was unfamiliar with, despite studying Jewish intellectual history in a class taught by a famous rabbi, is apparently some part of the Talmud, and not what most of us would recognize as the putative “word of God” found in the Pentateuch/Torah.

    Finding the original will be tedious as it has been all but buried under videos made by Neo-pagan and Nazi race conflict peddlers who stole excerpts from it and the breathlessly flogged them as click bait

  41. BrianE

    So is a ethnic Jew (by virtue of DNA) who is an atheist still a member of the Jewish religion?

  42. om,
    I think you’re asking the wrong question.

    Does God still have a plan for his chosen people? The Old Testament is a history of rebellion, repentance and redemption. That part hasn’t changed.

    As a Christian, I understand that the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament was revealed in the person of Jesus. Many Jews rejected him and continue to reject him today.

    At some point in the future that will change. In the meantime God’s plan includes gentiles.

  43. BrianE

    We agree that the Jews are His Chosen People. God is faithfull, unchanging, and keeps his covenants.

    Anti-semitic screeds from the left or right are loathesome, not “interesting” to me.

  44. DNW, still I ask “who”. I never heard of her. Is she even as significant as say, David Duke, whose minimal significance is greatly exaggerated by the left for political purposes?

  45. FOAF Says:
    September 8th, 2017 at 1:27 am

    DNW, still I ask “who”. I never heard of her. “

    Neither had I as far as I recall … though her name probably came up in a tangential context when I was researching the Swedish Parliament’s decision [made decades ago] to transform Sweden into an officially poly-ethnic and pluricultural state.

    I am pretty sure it was part of a discussion here. Perhaps 18 months or so ago.

    “Is she even as significant as say, David Duke, whose minimal significance is greatly exaggerated by the left for political purposes?”

    She lives in Europe and her Paideia institute is located in Stockholm, so I cannot say what her significance is generally apart from her – what appear to be officially recognized – activities touching on the government there.

    I would guess however, that her influence is considerably more significant than Duke’s in the polities in which she dwells, and that her views and aims have considerably more programmatic governmental sanction.

    However, as I initially stated, her remarks when taken in their fullness, seemed not to justify the hysterical reactions of the torchlight parade crowds as they viewed excerpts.

    Apparently this furor has been going on for some years now in areas we, or I at least, do not frequent.

    Here are some links. Form your own opinion.

    I cannot tell at this point if she has an active twitter account or not … there’s so much noise surrounding her name that a search becomes a real trial of patience.

    https://twitter.com/paideiausa

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lerner_Spectre

  46. ” … you are quite right that Jews believe all sorts of things, and that one cannot say “the Jews” do any particular thing.”

    ” … I’m not sure what you mean by a ‘people’. What does that term entail? What other groups do you apply it to? How does a group go about becoming a people and when do they no longer qualify for that label?”

    Corey Gil-Shuster on YouTube has some interviews which are quite striking. There is one video especially in which he inquires of Israelis as to their ethnicity. One fellow somewhat, wearily, it may be, remarks that it is only in Israel that he can stop being a “Jew”, (or constantly wearing “Jewish” as a social identity I think he means) and just be himself. It’s a rather affecting statement.

  47. Neo
    As far as I’m concerned not a single German alive today need feel guilty about the Holocaust unless that person was a participant in it, or is currently an apologist for it.

    Its not only Germain who done the horrible things, but most of Europe were treated Jews in very inhuman way for decade.

    The fact is Israelis, even they have case to secure and protect themselves lariles

  48. These are the final words of the last of the founding generation of Israeli leaders. But indefatigable dreamer that Mr. Peres was, his book also delivers a pointed, if veiled, message from the grave about the apparent dearth of vision in the present, and it looks to the future.

    Shimon Peres, in Memoir, Takes On Israel Past and Future

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