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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

If Only He Were Alive Today...

100 SerAndEz points to whoever can tell me who said this:

"After 2000 years of exile, the Jewish People has emerged traumatized. The source of that trauma has been the constant insecurity and fear that characterized most of the Diaspora, in most parts of the world. It is a product of landlessness, massacres, periodic expulsion and flight, persecution by tyrants and abuse by the Church and Mosque who encouraged antisemitism to satisfy their own insecurities and political desires. …Physical security for the Jews has traditionally been improved in a number of ways: usefulness, mobility, bribery and assimilation. Psychological responses to this insecurity and trauma are well known: self-hatred and blame, identification with and appeasement of abusers, obsessive fantasy of a future paradise on earth. These solutions and responses are so integrated into the Jewish psyche that they have been passed down from generation to generation, displaying themselves even in relatively free societies, even in America and the recently liberated homeland, Israel….Despite its significance to the Jewish Nation, the State of Israel has failed to alleviate most of this trauma, and has not reduced the levels of antisemitism - it has simply allowed antisemites to masquerade themselves under the new banner of "anti-Zionism". We cannot expect antisemitism to disappear - Jewish existence and Jewish philosophy will always be threatening to its children: Christianity, and Islam... The trauma and insecurity, on the other hand, is within our power to diminish - should we decide to do so…And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of Africa and freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is discrimination against Jews, my friend, because they are Jews. In short, it is antisemitism….The antisemite rejoices at any opportunity to vent his malice. The times have made it unpopular, in the West, to proclaim openly a hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the antisemite must constantly seek new forms and forums for his poison. How he must revel in the new masquerade! He does not hate the Jews, he is just 'anti-Zionist'!..."

15 comments:

  1. No clue, but what the heck is with the SerandEz points!? Do I have to honor them? Who can give them out?

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  2. MLK had the vision :-) Wish civil rights ldrs today were 1/10000000 of what he was

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  3. The author was MordyS. It says so on the post. :)

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  4. It was the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and DAG is correct for 100 SerAndEz points. Now, I honestly didn't even know if I was authorized to give out SerAndEz points (and I certainly have no idea what they're good for). But how 'bout we discuss this tomorrow...

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  5. but what the heck is with the SerandEz points!? Do I have to honor them? Who can give them out?

    Ofcourse you have to honor them. As we discussed on my post. Whoever gets 100 Ezzie points automattically gets invited to your house for Shabbat. Sheesh.

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  6. I thought you could spend them in a supermarket, whereupon the owner is reimbursed for just 97.

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  7. Eem - Hey, if I get the 3%, that's fine with me...

    HH - So now I have to have DAG over? But he's a Bulls fan! This is just wrong.

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  8. Whoever gets 100 Ezzie points automattically gets invited to your house for Shabbat.

    Uh, I got invited without earning any of the points. So if I get points, do I get extra dessert or something? ;-)

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  9. I might've guessed Ben-Gurion; y'know kind of a throwback to old-school unapologetics that the secularists had in the world before Post-Zionism.

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  10. Bulls..Bears Cubs and hawks..the best of the best..one thing i like about ny, btw is there is a hockey every night

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