PRESCIENT WORDS from Eric Hoffer -a non-Jewish, like yours truly- who back in 1968 wrote:

The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab.

Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.

Don't miss the rest, since it firmly puts a nail in the head of the most over-used meme now, during the war between Israel and Hezbollah and the alleged brutality of the former: criticizing Israel is not being anti-Semitic, we're told by whoever want to appear as objective an evenhanded. As a principle, it isn't, that's true. But it becomes anti-Semitic when you criticize Israel for things that you fogive all other countries when they do. It's the double standard what makes the criticism -and Israel shouldn't be shielded from criticism- anti-Semitic.


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