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And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong indigenous Communist forces in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, but in Hungary and Poland the Communists were a small minority and knew it, were dependent on the Red Army and aware of the fact, and were disproportionately Jewish and widely detested for that reason. Many of the penal labor camps constructed by the Nazis were later used as holding pens for German deportees by the Communists, and some of those who ran these grim places were Jewish. Nobody from Israel or the diaspora who goes to the East of Europe on a family-history fishing-trip should be unaware of the chance that they will find out both much less and much more than the package-tour had promised them. It's easy to say, with Albert Camus, 'neither victims nor executioners.' But real history is more pitiless even than you had been told it was.


Christopher Hitchens


#camus #communism #czechoslovakia #david-szmulevski #east-germany

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.


Shaukat Aziz


#any #consultation #decision #due #interests

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.


Pope Benedict XVI


#certainly #christ #christian #christians #conviction

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.


Theodore Bikel


#israel #mind #obstacle #peace #serious

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.


John Boehner


#commitment #democracy #freedom #israel #just

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.


John Boehner


#against #aggressive #clear #destruction #hamas

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.


John Boehner


#each #every #every day #existence #israel

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.


John Boehner


#aggression #both #captured #cities #decisive

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.


Oriana Fallaci


#exist #exterminated #i #israel #right

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.


Shmuel Y. Agnon


#did #elsewhere #find #half #hands






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