One of the great ironies of history: The mass persecutions, ethnic cleanings and genocides of Jews over the past few centuries are what made Israel the powerhouse it is today. Jew haters like Piker are too stupid to understand that they continue to make the case for a strong Jewish state better than any Zionist ever could.
We will have to let anthropologists , group psychologists and evolution experts have the last word, if they can ever agree on one.
They will have to explain the survival secrets of the Jewish People as well as its strength. As Mark Twain famously said, "All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" .
It may come as an unpleasant conclusion to the experts, but they might come to realize that the unmitigated and constantly perpetrated brutality of the hatred against the Jews, as far in history as the Egyptians, contributed majorly to forge their perceived supernatural strength.
The more they hate us, the stronger we become. If the Jew-haters only understood that, and if they left us alone, the true test of our alleged immortality would be how we live and thrive in spite of our own divisions, without the outside hostility.
Mark Twain was not a partisan and he was a sceptic. He would not have resorted to the " immortality" image unless he was truly amazed. A mystic could imagine the saga of the Jewish People as " the laboratory of God", or even a rationalist could see Job in the Jewish story. Job suffers unspeakably, but never forsakes his God, and thrives.
In a way you could say they took advantage of that when they worked with the nazis and got funding from them for the zionist cause and Germany still to this day funded Israel.
This is a repugnant and hateful comment. The Zionists did deal with the Nazis to try to extricate the Jews from Nazi Germany when no other country in the world would accept them: not the US, not Canada, not the UK and not Australia. Sometimes you have to deal with the enemy. But you know that and are just trying to paint the Jews with a Nazi brush, aren't you?
Thank you for this. If Israel were suddenly gone, nothing would stop anti Semitism, the excuses would just be different.
Piker is DARVO incarnate.
One of the great ironies of history: The mass persecutions, ethnic cleanings and genocides of Jews over the past few centuries are what made Israel the powerhouse it is today. Jew haters like Piker are too stupid to understand that they continue to make the case for a strong Jewish state better than any Zionist ever could.
Brilliant!
Jew-haters in every generation always make up yet another reason to despise the Jewish and, as the article says, this hatred long predates 1948.
This is So True !!!
This is so True!!!!!!
Great article.
We will have to let anthropologists , group psychologists and evolution experts have the last word, if they can ever agree on one.
They will have to explain the survival secrets of the Jewish People as well as its strength. As Mark Twain famously said, "All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" .
It may come as an unpleasant conclusion to the experts, but they might come to realize that the unmitigated and constantly perpetrated brutality of the hatred against the Jews, as far in history as the Egyptians, contributed majorly to forge their perceived supernatural strength.
The more they hate us, the stronger we become. If the Jew-haters only understood that, and if they left us alone, the true test of our alleged immortality would be how we live and thrive in spite of our own divisions, without the outside hostility.
Mark Twain was not a partisan and he was a sceptic. He would not have resorted to the " immortality" image unless he was truly amazed. A mystic could imagine the saga of the Jewish People as " the laboratory of God", or even a rationalist could see Job in the Jewish story. Job suffers unspeakably, but never forsakes his God, and thrives.
One of your BEST yet, Hen! Thank you for this and all you do for Israel 🇮🇱 and the worldwide Jewish community 💙 🩵
In a way you could say they took advantage of that when they worked with the nazis and got funding from them for the zionist cause and Germany still to this day funded Israel.
This is a repugnant and hateful comment. The Zionists did deal with the Nazis to try to extricate the Jews from Nazi Germany when no other country in the world would accept them: not the US, not Canada, not the UK and not Australia. Sometimes you have to deal with the enemy. But you know that and are just trying to paint the Jews with a Nazi brush, aren't you?