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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (274164)	7/12/2002 2:16:57 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 769670

THE JEWISH COSMOLOGY OF VICTIMHOOD "I also tried to avoid becoming uncomfortably hooked on anti-Semitism as the main problem in the world. Many Jews I knew divided the world into Jews and anti-Semites, nothing else. Many Jews I knew recognized no problem anywhere, at any time, but that of anti-Semitism ... Such is the blindness of people that I have known Jews who, having deplored anti-Semitism in unmeasured tones, would, with scarcely a breath in between, get on the subject of African-Americans and promptly begin to sound like a group of petty Hitlers. And when I pointed this out and objected to it strenuously, they turned on me in anger. They simply could not see what they were doing. I once listened to a woman grow eloquent over the terrible way in which Gentiles did nothing to save the Jews of Europe. 'You can't trust Gentiles,' she said. I let some time elapse and then asked suddenly, 'What are you doing to help the blacks in their fight for civil rights?' 'Listen,' she said, 'I have my own troubles.' And I said, 'So did the Gentiles.' But she only stared at me blankly. She didn't get the point at all." Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov. A Memoir, 1994, p. 20, 21