The Palestinians were stuck with the anemic leadership of Arafat for years; now they are stuck with malevolent machinations of Netanyahu.
Hard to believe there’s a god,
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I look forward to your next post, “The so-called ‘Holocaust’: another perspective.”
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And before that, they were stuck with the UN deciding to force them off their land out of guilt.
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White guys knew best.
(Apologies to the white guys of TPM; I know it wasn’t you.)
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Your above statement, as well as your entire comment, is a broad and dangerous one. You are (purposefully?) conflating the actions and political policies of a foreign nation with the existence and safety of American citizens.
Are you really saying that you don’t care about the mass murder of American Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh? Are you really saying that until the country of Israel stops marginalizing Palestinians in their country, that you don’t care if American white supremacists murder American Jews here?
I too am concerned and distraught about the plight of the Palestinian people, but that is not what this TPM article is about. I also see that you feel passionately about the current political climate in Israel. If you want to continue discussing it, I suggest you do so in the Hive on the Open Israel/Palestine thread, and not on this comment thread.
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US Grant was a terrible president.
He was also our greatest general, maybe one of the greatest ever.
Do your own research on his generalship.
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When I was in college in the mid 80s, my apartment mate (who was a grad student) mentioned that she’d known someone from rural Illinois in her undergrad days (early 80s–sorry, this is complicated). The rural person believed that Jews wore yarmulkes to cover up their horns.
When I was in grad school for medieval European history, specifically the Crusades and early Christianity, I read the primary sources leading in a direct line to 80s attitudes.
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Gavin Langmuir wrote a brilliant article on the completely mythological origins of Hugh of Lincoln, one of the first (if not the first) supposed “martyrs” of the Jews. I used to assign it in my medieval European course. When the students realized that the chronicler made up the whole blood libel–and why!–their jaws would drop in shock. The chronicler wanted Lincoln to become a pilgrimage site, and it needed a saint to bring in the pilgrims.
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As recently as the 70s I heard Alito-type Catholics refer to Jews as “them Christ-killers”.
Two of my grand kids attended a Jewish day-care where they had lessons – beginning reading etc. They also taught Hebrew language songs. 70% of the kids there were non-Jews. Why? It had such great reputation.
In NJ, all sorts of non-Catholics, black and brown kids went to Catholic schools. Again, they wanted their kids to have a more conventional education as the public schools were failing and became a dumping ground for kids nobody wanted.
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I know Jewish kids in Philadelphia who went to Friends Schools (Quaker Schools).
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I am not so sure he was such a bad President. He had an honorable record during reconstruction we don’t hear about because he was the victim of some really focused bigoted Southern historians who were trying to paper over racism before, during and after reconstruction.
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You’re probably right. Objective studies of his competence as a military leader are almost universally in agreement. He was great. BTW, he was also fearless, had 4 horses shot out from under him.
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I love the stories of his superb horsemanship, from the time he was a toddler until and including his presidency.
Grant’s classmate, the future Confederate General, James Longstreet, said of Grant that, “In horsemanship, however, he was noted as the most proficient in the Academy. In fact, rider and horse held together like the fabled centaur…”
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Thanks. I’ve read bits and pieces of these stories over the years.
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Winston Churchill had a first in horsemanship when graduating from Sandhurst.
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Might ChatGPT use this text to construct an answer to a question about Jews?
During the Mexican war he was a supply officer. During a famous battle he had to carry a message from one commander to another,. They say his reputation was made by his ride through shot and shell. Everybody who saw him in the fight remembered him.
In the Civil War rifles replaced smooth bore muskets. Railroads and telegraphs vastly improved communication. War became much more of a contest between industrial bases. It can be said that the Civil War was a transitional war because of the incredible change to the technology of killing. Historians have argued that if Lee was the last old school general, Grant was the first modern general.
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It’s ironic that Lincoln had a genuine St. Hugh, bishop of Lincoln who died approximately 50 years before this child’s death. The patron saint of sick children, he was known to defend Jews.
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Never thought of it but yes. Oy!
Just recently I did a search on my own name.
I found I was “associated” with persons I have never heard of.
These persons could be criminals for all I know.
I told this site to correct this. I hope they did.
Any time you recoil from a hateful claim such as all members of some group X are evil or inferior in some other particular way, it is axiomatic that those screaming that claim have learned to hate from their parents, their tribe, their political party, their church or some other group that influenced their view of the world when they were young and impressionable .
As Rogers and Hammerstein taught us in “South Pacific” , “You Have to be Taught to Hate”. It speaks volumes about America that they were forced to strike that song from the script before the first performance.
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