In 1963, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and five months before his assassination, John F. Kennedy went to West Berlin, Germany to say something in response to the recent erection of the Berlin Wall. The wall severed Berlin’s access to the West with barbed wire, machine gun mounted watch towers and guards under orders to shoot anybody who tried to cross the new border. Many died trying to flee to freedom. We faced off against Communists on every continent amid a threat of nuclear war. Kennedy’s objective was to tell the residents of West Berlin and the world that the US stood in solidarity with them and against Soviet oppression.
I find the protection and acceptance of Jews in Egypt during WWII as compared to the Palestinian Muftis begging Hitler to exterminate Jews in Palestine, or as compared to the Arab revolt in '48 to be remarkable. Even my mother's cousins were baffled by the rising hatred because the local people in Palestine were exceptionally kind and helpful to the Zionists in the 1930's - at least the ones with whom they interacted.
Dr. Tema Weißbrot, the wife of my mother's uncle, was a Russian born medical doctor who escaped being blown up in 1948 on a busload of other hospital workers, blown to bits by Arab terrorists.
As a convert to Protestant Christianity and a historian at heart, I take the broadest views possible of any historical record and the hatred of Jews has a mysterious quality. It is hard to imagine that the human genome carries hatred and jealousy forward from Isaac and Ishmael, or to comprehend the virulence of the anti-semitism in America from people who have not lifted a finger to protest anything since the U.S. flew out of Saigon in 1975. Even the 1960's /70's Black Power Movement's claims that Jewish shop owners in Harlem were the cause of the plight of African Americans would be hilarious if the stupidity and ignorance were not tragic.
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I find the protection and acceptance of Jews in Egypt during WWII as compared to the Palestinian Muftis begging Hitler to exterminate Jews in Palestine, or as compared to the Arab revolt in '48 to be remarkable. Even my mother's cousins were baffled by the rising hatred because the local people in Palestine were exceptionally kind and helpful to the Zionists in the 1930's - at least the ones with whom they interacted.
Dr. Tema Weißbrot, the wife of my mother's uncle, was a Russian born medical doctor who escaped being blown up in 1948 on a busload of other hospital workers, blown to bits by Arab terrorists.
As a convert to Protestant Christianity and a historian at heart, I take the broadest views possible of any historical record and the hatred of Jews has a mysterious quality. It is hard to imagine that the human genome carries hatred and jealousy forward from Isaac and Ishmael, or to comprehend the virulence of the anti-semitism in America from people who have not lifted a finger to protest anything since the U.S. flew out of Saigon in 1975. Even the 1960's /70's Black Power Movement's claims that Jewish shop owners in Harlem were the cause of the plight of African Americans would be hilarious if the stupidity and ignorance were not tragic.