Joey Tartakovsky

Anybody needing a little pick-me-up after all the recent Israel bashing and arafat fantasizing should check out an amazing essay written by Joey Tartakovsky which is appearing on the VDH Private Papers website. This is highly recommened reading.

A quick snapshot of the essay...

The Holocaust destroyed forever the universe of European Jewry from which Einstein, Freud and Marx emerged,its culture, language, and two-thirds of its lives. But one of the most curious aspects of this narrative is that the survivors did not allow themselves to drown in a black ocean of loss and pity, or pledge eternal revenge against Germany. Instead, they set about to rebuild, painfully, but inspirited by a deep sense of faith and dignity. This moral character explains why Israel has never produced a suicide bomber, and why Palestine has never produced a real Nobel laureate. History is made not by unseen social forces but by men, and it matters dearly in the determination of a nations fate whether its Founding Fathers are men like David Ben-Gurion, Chaim Weizmann and Abba Eban and whether they are men like Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Yasir Arafat.

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posted by Avi G @ 19:37