FOR NONESUCHE DAUGHTER AND ANY OTHERS

[Tylergal]

I remember None saying that her daughter asked the question about Israel, and this was a good response that I found.

   Israel’s Peculiar Position
ISRAEL - Held to Different Standards

By Eric Hoffer

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.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.

There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him. The Swedes, who are ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews.

They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.

The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources.

Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.

I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us.



Eric Hoffer was a Non-Jewish American longshoreman turned into a social philosopher. He was born in 1902 and died in 1983, after writing columns for newspapers, nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic.

Source: LA Times, 26 May 1968, forwarded by Bob & Lisa Cohen.

Edited by IHC staff, www.infoisrael.net

[mrs. red]

Thanks Tyler.... that explains it beautifully....

but also, Israel is the only country where the countries surrounding it have in their charters that they will not rest until every last Israeli is dead and Israel is gone from the map....

what other country stands alone in that manner?  why does our media slant so biased to the terrorists that are only coming for us next?

[LouiseVargas]

Dear Political Monkeys,

Thank you, Tyler for your post and thank you, Mrs. Red. This is the first time in my life that I've met intelligent people who support Israel.

Tyler's article is 38 years old. The Egyptian Nasser is long dead. His successor, Anwar Sadat was assassinated because he made a peace treaty with Israel, with Golda Meir. Now Hosni Mubarak is in power and the peace treaty is still valid.

Regarding the Scandinavian countries, during WWII, the King of Denmark wore a Jewish ID armband to support the Jews and encouraged everyone to do so in protest. Norway had a huge underground resistance movement against the Nazis. Check out the movie, "The Heroes of Telemark." During WWII, the Nazis were close to making nuclear weapons. For making this, they needed heavy water, which they produced in Norway. This film is about the operation where members of the Norwegian resistance attempted to stop the Nazis from getting their heavy water.

As you may know from the Anne Frank story, Holland tried to save many Jews.  Even amongst the Nazis, there was a good man named Oskar Schindler who saved over 1,000 Jews.

After WWII, when Palestine was divided, Israel was created for the Jews and TransJordan for the Arabs. As I mentioned before, the Arabs were so unruly that Jordan threw them out. They had a country and they blew it.

There are a huge amount of Palestinian Arabs who are Israeli citizens, who have full rights and live peacefully within Israel.