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My review of David Laskin’s latest: The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War is available at Amazon.com here.
Considering the context of the current immigration debate it becomes timely while reminding people of a war all but forgotten.
…in a well meaning post defending pro life women from this nonsense from Gloria Steinem. But her post that contains this whopper:
Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now.
This link contains the answer to this canard that is treated as history, but if you don’t want to bother here are a list of a few names that should be familiar if you know any history:
Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Pearl S. Buck, Dorothy Day, Alice Stokes Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Wollstonecraft. If those names aren’t enough, feminists for life have plenty more.
It should be possible to defend pro-life feminism without re-writing history doing it, but that doesn’t get you a gig on CNN.
and no amount of prejudice is going to rewrite what it is:
One may disagree on fences and rights of return. There have been handshakes, summits, accords, cease-fires, negotiations and boycotts. It’s all been on the table, under the table or sometimes tabled. But the connection between the Jew and Israel is valid, historical, ancient, modern, spiritual and eternal. The relationship is beyond the state of Israel. It is a unique relationship of a religion to a land. The Jews are “bnai yisroel,” the children of Israel. Even when they are away, they are connected. Even during exiles and diasporas, they are connected. Even during inquisitions, pogroms and a Holocaust, they are connected.
My grandmother used to kibitz, “Friends you choose; family you’re stuck with.” The Jew is stuck with Israel. There is no ungluing the connection. It is beyond the ambiguous term “chosen people”; they are “the people who have no choice.” It is more than a religious belief; it is a value and a moral barometer of the Earth. History, truth, integrity and the foundation of our world are not negotiable
If the people of Israel were anything other than what they are we would not be having this debate because the Arabs would have been exterminated more than half a century ago. Instead they have to ask the eternal question:
Tevye: I know, I know. We are Your chosen people. But, once in a while, can’t You choose someone else?
Considering that the Rabbi in question was a liberal Don Surber hits the nail on the head:
They say a conservative is a liberal whose been mugged.
Helen Thomas mugged every Jew in the world.
Bingo!
…that fits the “If you start from the idea…” meme to a T:
Students are directed to chant “I am an Obama scholar.”
do the people who run the school system over there have any memory of history? A commentator there nails it perfectly:
Quick quiz: name five countries, past or present, where the youths were required to chant praises to their omnipotent ruler? Any five. Then add together the number of innocent people those regimes slaughtered for political expediency.
Repeat after me: “If you start with the idea…”
