Bret Stephens Believes Himself. Anti-Semitism Creeps Out Of The Sewer. Does/Will Zuckerberg Have Time To Run His Company? DNC Lawsuit.

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No sooner had I completed the memo I sent this morning about our trip and our meeting The Cleveland Berkowitzes I got this from Stuart.

I told him it was an oldie, I had heard it before but would post anyway.

An elderly man in Solon calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to

ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing.

Forty-five years of misery is enough."

"Pop, what are you talking about?" the son screams.

"We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man says.

"We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call

your sister in Chicago and tell her," and he hangs up.

Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone, "Like heck

they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care of this."

She calls her father immediately and screams at the old man, "You are

NOT getting divorced! Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling

my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a

thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?" and hangs up.

The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. "Okay," he

says, "They're coming for Passover and paying their own airfares."

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Bret Stephens claims, when he moved to the New York Times, nothing had changed.  Same message different audience.  I truly believe he believes that.   On the other hand, I believe he is working for a newspaper whose editorial staff's wheels have gone off when it comes to objectivity not only vis a vis Trump, national politics but also towards Israel.

This article was sent to me by a family member and is interesting and validates what anyone with clear vision already knows.  Any Jew tremaining in Europe is a damn fool flirting with their own life.

As more time passes and Israel remains strong the haters will revert back to embracing their true attitudes which were hidden during a period of self-reflection. I do not question the sincerity of some European leaders but their unabated flirtation with allowing mostly undocumented Muslims to flood their country will prove not only a mistake vis a vis their remaining Jewish Citizens but will eventually be their own undoing.

Anti-Semitism has many root causes but insecurity is probably the biggest and when economic times turn difficult haters look for excuses and project their fears on those they believe are the cause.

The genesis of increased anti-Semitism is re-occurring in America. The Democrat Party has swung way to the left and installs the likes of Keith Ellison  at the top of The DNC, campuses are rife with protests against those who want to speak and particularly those who defend Israel, Soros, is funding much of the organized protest groups,  and tolerance of organizations like CAIRE, which use our  tolerance and right to free speech, is simply allowing the fox in the hen house.  But most distressing of all is always the silence, the unwillingness of those to speak out because to challenge the haters is not PC and might reduce one's social standing and/or acceptance.

Another problem is we no longer teach history and/or when we even do it is so" revisioned" it is even more dangerous.

Frankly, I am surprised Face Book allows me to post my memos on their site and it would not surprise me if they shut me down one day. Mark Zuckerberg performed brilliantly when he testified before the Senate Committee recently. If he actually gets back to those Senators whose questions he could not answer he will be spending the rest of his life doing just  that instead of running his company..

Call me cynical if you wish.  History is on my side. (See 1 below.)
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The DNC's law suit has one purpose and one purpose only. It seeks/needs to raise money by firing up their supporters.  Attacking/linking  Russia and Trump as defendants is legal red meat. I suspect the cost of their legal action will not be covered by the contributions raised.

The numbers would suggest Democrats will capture The House but there are some events that might  occur around election time which could disprove that growing conviction.  Time will tell and the odds do favor this tragedy happening because Republicans are generally too meek, select candidates who are not worthy and are incapable of organizing  a clear and catchy message.

The schism within the party is simply another downfall.
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1)  Jewish Power at 70 Years
By Bret Stephens.

Adam Armoush is a 21-year-old Israeli Arab who, on a recent outing in Berlin, donned a yarmulke to test a friend’s contention that it was unsafe to do so in Germany. On Tuesday he was assaulted in broad daylight by a Syrian asylum-seeker who whipped him with a belt for being “yahudi” — Arabic for Jew.

The episode was caught on video and has caused a national uproar. Heiko Maas, the foreign minister, tweeted, “Jews shall never again feel threatened here.”

It’s a vow not likely to be fulfilled. There were nearly 1,000 reported anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin alone last year. A neo-fascist party, Alternative for Germany, has 94 seats in the Bundestag. Last Thursday, a pair of German rappers won a prestigious music award, given largely on the basis of sales, for an album in which they boast of having bodies “more defined than Auschwitz prisoners.” The award ceremony coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day.

To be Jewish — at least visibly Jewish — in Europe is to live on borrowed time. That’s not to doubt the sincerity and good will of Maas or other European leaders who recommit to combating anti-Semitism every time a European Jew is murdered or a Jewish institution attacked. It’s only to doubt their capacity.

There’s a limit to how many armed guards can be deployed indefinitely to protect synagogues or stop Holocaust memorials from being vandalized. There’s a limit, also, to trying to cure bigotry with earnest appeals to tolerance. The German government is mulling a proposal to require recent arrivals in the country to tour Nazi concentration camps as a way of engendering a feeling of empathy for Jews. It doesn’t seem to occur to anyone that, to the virulent anti-Semite, Buchenwald is a source of inspiration, not shame.

All this comes to mind as Israel this week marks (in the Hebrew calendar) the 70th anniversary of its independence. There are many reasons to celebrate the date, many of them lofty: a renaissance for Jewish civilization; the creation of a feisty liberal democracy in a despotic neighborhood; the ecological rescue of a once-barren land; the end of 1,878 years of exile.

But there’s a more basic reason. Jews cannot rely for their safety on the kindness of strangers, least of all French or German politicians. Theodor Herzl saw this with the Dreyfus Affair and founded modern Zionism. Post-Hitler Europe still has far to fall when it comes to its attitudes toward Jews, but the trend is clear. The question is the pace.

Hence Israel: its army, bomb, and robust willingness to use force to defend itself. Israel did not come into existence to serve as another showcase of the victimization of Jews. It exists to end the victimization of Jews.

That’s a point that Israel’s restless critics could stand to learn. On Friday, Palestinians in Gaza returned for the fourth time to the border fence with Israel, in protests promoted by Hamas. The explicit purpose of Hamas leaders is to breach the fence and march on Jerusalem. Israel cannot possibly allow this — doing so would create a precedent that would encourage similar protests, and more death, along all of Israel’s borders — and has repeatedly used deadly force to counter it.

The armchair corporals of Western punditry think this is excessive. It would be helpful if they could suggest alternative military tactics to an Israeli government dealing with an urgent crisis against an adversary sworn to its destruction. They don’t.

It would also be helpful if they could explain how they can insist on Israel’s retreat to the 1967 borders and then scold Israel when it defends those borders. They can’t. If the armchair corporals want to persist in demands for withdrawals that for 25 years have led to more Palestinian violence, not less, the least they can do is be ferocious in defense of Israel’s inarguable sovereignty. Somehow they almost never are.

Israel’s 70th anniversary has occasioned a fresh round of anxious, if not exactly new, commentary about the rifts between Israeli and Diaspora Jewry. Some Diaspora complaints, especially with respect to religion and refugees, are valid and should be heeded by Jerusalem.

But to the extent that the Diaspora’s objections are prompted by the nonchalance of the supposedly nonvulnerable when it comes to Israel’s security choices, then the complaints are worse than feckless. They provide moral sustenance for Hamas in its efforts to win sympathy for its strategy of wanton aggression and reckless endangerment. And they foster the illusion that there’s some easy and morally stainless way by which Jews can exercise the responsibilities of political power.

Though not Jewish, Adam Armoush was once one of the nonchalant when it came to what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century. Presumably no longer. For Jews, it’s a painful, useful reminder that Israel is not their vanity. It’s their safeguard.

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