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Jack Schwartz
Category: Scientist

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

   

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

   

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

   

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

   

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

   

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

   

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

   

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

   

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

   

Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

   

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

   

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

   

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

   

The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

   

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

   

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

   

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.

   

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

   

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

   

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

   

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