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светлана туровец, 01-03-2011 23:28 (ссылка)

Senator John McCain's brother on the Jews & Israel.

Excellent article

Senator John McCain's brother on the Jews & Israel.

There is a lot of worry popping up in the
media just now -- 'Can Israel Survive?' Don't worry about it. It
relates to something that Palestinians, the Arabs, and perhaps most
Americans don't realize -- the Jews are NEVER going quietly again.
NEVER. And if the world doesn't come to understand that, then MILLIONS
OF ARABS ARE GOING TO DIE. It's as simple as that.

Throughout the history of the world, the
most abused, kicked-around race of people have been the Jews. Not just
during the holocaust of World War II, but for THOUSANDS of years.
They have truly been 'The Chosen People' in a terrible and tragic
sense.

The Bible story of Egypt 's enslavement of
the Jews is not just a story, IT IS HISTORY, if festooned with
theological legend and heroic epics. In 70 A.D. the Romans, which had
for a long time tolerated the Jews -- even admired them as 'superior'
to other vassals -- tired of their truculent demands for independence
and decided on an early 'Solution' to the Jewish problem Jerusalem was
sacked and reduced to near rubble, Jewish resistance was pursued and
crushed by the implacable Roman War Machine -- see 'Masada'.
And thus began The Diaspora, the DISPERSAL
OF JEWS throughout the rest f the world..

Their homeland destroyed, their culture
crushed, they looked desperately for the few niches in a hostile world
where they could be safe. That safety was fragile, and often subject
to the whims of moody hosts. The words 'pogrom', 'ghetto', and
'anti-Semitism' come from this treatment of the first mono-theistic
people. Throughout Europe , changing times meant sometimes tolerance,
sometimes even warmth for the Jews, but eventually it meant hostility,
then malevolence. There is not a country in Europe or Western Asia
that at one time or another has not decided to lash out against the
children of Moses, sometimes by whim, sometimes by manipulation.

Winston Churchill calls Edward I one of
England 's very greatest kings. It was under his rule in the late
1200's that Wales and Cornwall were hammered into the British crown,
and Scotland and Ireland were invaded and occupied.
He was also the first European monarch to
set up a really effective administrative bureaucracy, surveyed and
censused his kingdom, established laws and political divisions. But he
also embraced the Jews.

Actually Edward didn't embrace Jews so much
as he embraced their money. For the English Jews had acquired wealth
-- understandable, because these people that could not own land or
office, could not join most of the trades and professions, soon found
out that money was a very good thing to accumulate. Much harder to
take away than land or a store, was a hidden sock of gold and silver
coins. Ever resourceful, Edward found a way -- he borrowed money from
the Jews to finance imperial ambitions in Europe, especially France .
The loans were almost certainly not made gladly, but how do you refuse
your King? Especially when he is 'Edward the Hammer'. Then, rather
than pay back the debt, Edward simply expelled the Jews. Edward was
especially inventive-- he did this twice. After a time, he invited the
Jews back to their English homeland, borrowed more money, then
expelled them again.

Most people do not know that Spain was one
of the early entrants into The Renaissance. People from all over the
world came to Spain in the late medieval period. All were welcome --
Arabs, Jews, other Europeans. The University of Salamanca was one of
the great centers of learning in the world -- scholars of all nations,
all fields came to Salamanca to share their knowledge and their ideas.
But in 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella, having driven the last of Moors
from the Spanish Shield, were persuaded by the righteous
fundamentalists of the time to announce 'The Act of Purification'.
A series of steps were taken in which all
Jews and Arabs and other non-Christians were expelled from the
country, or would face the tools and the torches of The Inquisition.
From this 'cleansing' come the Sephardic Jews -- as opposed to the
Ashkenazis of Eastern Europe . In Eastern Europe , the sporadic
violence and brutality against Jews are common knowledge.
'Fiddler' without the music and the folksy
humor. At times of fury, no accommodation by the Jew was good enough,
no profile low enough, no village poor enough or distant enough.

>From these come the near-steady flow of
Jews to the United States . And despite the disdain of the Jews by
most 'American' Americans, they came to grab the American Dream with
both hands, and contributed everything from new ideas of enterprise in
retail and entertainment to becoming some of our finest physicians and
lawyers. The modern United States , in spite of itself, IS The United
States in part because of its Jewish blood.

Then the Nazi Holocaust -- the corralling,
sorting, orderly eradication of millions of the people of Moses. Not
something that other realms in other times didn't try to do, by the
way, the Germans were just more organized and had better murder
technology..

I stood in the center of Dachau for an
entire day, about 15 years ago, trying to comprehend how this could
have happened. I had gone there on a side trip from Munich , vaguely
curious about this Dachau . I soon became engulfed in the enormity of
what had occurred there nestled in this middle and working class
neighborhood.

How could human beings do this to other
human beings, hear their cries, their pleas, their terror, their pain,
and continue without apparently even wincing? I no longer wonder. At
some times, some places, ANY sect of the human race is capable of
horrors against their fellow man, whether a member of the Waffen SS, a
Serbian sniper, a Turkish policeman in 1920's Armenia, a Mississippi
Klansman. Because even in the United States not all was a Rose Garden.
For a long time Jews had quotas in our universities and graduate
schools. Only so many Jews could be in a medical or law school at one
time.
Jews were disparaged widely. I remember as
a kid Jewish jokes told without a wince - 'Why do Jews have such big
noses?'

Well, now the Jews have a homeland again. A
place that is theirs. And that's the point. It doesn't matter how many
times the United States and European powers try to rein in Israel, if
it comes down to survival of its nation, its people, they will fight
like no lioness has ever fought to save her cubs. They will fight with
a ferocity, a determination, and a skill, that will astound us.

And many will die, mostly their attackers,
I believe. If there were a macabre historical betting parlor, my money
would be on the Israelis to be standing at the end. As we killed the
kamikazes and the Wehrmacht soldaten of World War II, so will the
Israelis kill their suicidal attackers, until there are not enough to
torment them.

The irony goes unnoticed -- while we are
hammering away to punish those who brought the horrors of last
September here, we restrain the Israelis from the same retaliation.
Not the same thing, of course -- We are We, They are They. While we
mourn and see the at September 11th, we don't notice that Israel has a
September 11th sometimes every day.

We may not notice, but it doesn't make any
difference. And it doesn't make any difference whether you are
pro-Israeli or you think Israel is the bully of the Middle East . If
it comes to where a new holocaust looms -- with or without the
concurrence of the United States and Europe -- Israel will lash out
without pause or restraint at those who would try to annihilate their
country.

The Jews will not go quietly again.

Joe McCain