>Excellent. I was familiar with the history. Patton's attitude was a good example of antisemitism that was really common in the America of the 1940s (and later). Henry Ford and Joseph Kennedy were famous antisemites.

Ever read "Gentlemen's Agreement"? The movie's decent (hard to go wrong with Gregory Peck <s>), but the book is better. It gives a really good feel for the insidious anti-Semitism of the post-war era.

Tamar

>Poland was on the list of countries I originally had in my post as those that should have been given to the Jews as reparations in 1945 - but ending up under Stalin's control would have hardly been a better fate than the hand they had previously been dealt.
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>A pogrom based on allegations of ritual murder ... sometimes I really hope - though I don't believe it for a minute - that there really is a just, anthropormorphic God and a Day of Judgment.
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>>>Helen Thomas is probably a little senile but her ability to be an apologist for a thug like Arafat predates any senility.
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>>>Of course a real argument could be made that in 1945 real justice would have involved giving the Jews all of Germany and let the Europeans figure out what to do with the Germans.
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>>Richard Cohen pointed out in his last column why the creation of Israel was necessary:
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>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060702583.html
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>>Tamar