Re: Jewish Democracy

"neptune3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "We Have Ways of Shutting You Up!"
>
> James Thurgood on characteristically one-sided democracy
>
> "Reading the Jewish Chronicle (JC) is always instructive. Obtaining my
> copy in my local newsagents is slightly embarrassing: people of 'the
> faith' are numerous in my neighbourhood and when I step up to the
> counter to pay there are often one or two of them queuing for the same
> purpose. As they observe what I am buying, and then examine my person,
> I can just imagine them muttering to themselves: "He doesn't look like
> one of us!" One gentleman with a rather rabbinical appearance once
> made so bold as to ask, with doubt in his eyes: "Are you Jewish?" I
> replied negatively, of course.
    For all that man knew, Thurgood Marshall could have been the descendant
of Ethiopian Jews. For that matter Marshall's skin color was lighter than
that of many whites. There must have been millions of Jews with lighter skin
than his.
It then occurred to me to add,
> mischievously: "I just believe in keeping an eye on them."
> I could see the man's face crease into a frown, so thinking "In for a
> penny, in for a pound," I went on to say: "You know, this is where you
> get a lot of the real news - the sort you don't read in the ordinary
> press."
> I recalled that remark last month when wondering how the fraternity in
> question were going to react to the rise of Jeorg Haider in Austria.
> Actually,... Haider has been making a number of apologies lately - for
> instance for daring once to say something complimentary about Hitler's
> employment policies. Well, what's wrong with that?... the fact is that
> he did put 6 million jobless Germans back to work in very quick time.
    I don't know whether to believe that. If it's true, it falls into the
same category as saying that Mussolini made the trains run on time.
> I believe anyway that politicians are almost always wrong to
> apologise, and Herr Haider did not go up in my estimation on that
> account.
> But of course, it is always the perception of what a politician is,
> rather than the reality, that determines attitudes towards him. Haider
> is perceived, rightly or wrongly, as some kind of neo-nazi monster.
    He's not a Neonazi, but in principle there's very little to
differentiate his political goals from those of the Neonazis. Haider's a
socialist, a racist, and a radical antisemite who wanted to exterminate
Austria's immigrant population.