tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post7582265094502356925..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: The Decade of Ethnic CleansingYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-45847173847504634562008-11-09T17:31:00.000+02:002008-11-09T17:31:00.000+02:00Two comments: 1) Poland was ethnically cleansed to...Two comments: 1) Poland was ethnically cleansed too. Not many people realize that in 1939 Poland was only 60% Polish, the remainder being Jews, Ukrainians, and Germans. Today, Poland is over 90% Polish.<BR/>2) My father was a partisan during the War. His unit entered a village in Galicia where all the Polish inhabitants had been slaughtered like animals, with their throats and other body parts cut open. He saw then how the Ukrainian hatred was not directed at just us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-10766396949536101862008-11-09T16:03:00.000+02:002008-11-09T16:03:00.000+02:00FROM CAROL HERMANDoes the Holocaust Museum DIVORCE...FROM CAROL HERMAN<BR/><BR/>Does the Holocaust Museum DIVORCE JEWS from the other deaths that occurred during WW2? There was quite a civilian toll. And, quite a bit of "retaliation," too.<BR/><BR/>As to the Ukraine, isn't that what was called "Beyond the Pale?" For a very long period of time, actually, the Polish governments allowed Jews to thrive within their borders. It may be why the Ultra Orthodox gentlemen, from Polish stock, took to dressing as 14th Century Polish noblemen. <BR/><BR/>History does tell its tales, though. And, if you really want to go back, you could read FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS even today. Talk about a masterwork that was saved. And, not trashed. That tells the story of the destruction of the Temple. And, how an extremist group of Jews in Judea thought they'd take on Rome.<BR/><BR/>Basically (and this is before rabbis come on the scene), the religious nutters believed that God was prepared to battle the Romans.<BR/><BR/>Now, in a sense, this is true. Rome bites the dust. But not in Jerusalem. When the Second Temple is destroyed.<BR/><BR/>If you read Josephus you'd learn that the Jews, pretty sure God was their general, took the fighting inside the temple grounds! Set up fires, to trap Romans. Only to find, when the winds shifted, that it all burnt down to the ground.<BR/><BR/>Of course, Josephus' writings, which were in Greek. And, were for a Jewish audience that was thriving in Eygpt at the time ... GOT SAVED. By the young church. Which wasn't at first, Christian. <BR/><BR/>At the time of Jesus' birth, it seemed there were 14 other "magicians" claiming they "were the One." And, everyone of them could do magic tricks of miracles. All 15 were slaughtered. It's a tough profession.<BR/><BR/>But the writings of Josephus were saved. And, if you need to ask, by Jews. Because for two full generations they were the only ones venerating this Son of God. Who wrote nothing down.<BR/><BR/>What if, instead of the focus on the horrors of WW2, we taught about the destruction of the Second Temple. And, how radicals brought this about. Jews in the Gallili were not beset with the same woes.<BR/><BR/>But of course, to "set a course of action," sometimes you need "Just One." For Germany, it was hitler. And, for Russia it was stalin.<BR/><BR/>Throw into this mix that Stalin found power, as a thug, by embracing Marx. And, you're more than halway to understanding how bad ideas take hold.<BR/><BR/>Can't erase them!<BR/><BR/>Peace. And, accommodation. Are by far better than extremists who only seem to know one path, at best. And, that one leads to destruction.<BR/><BR/>Of course, when the smoke cleared, Rome's candle was gonna get extinquished. We know that now.<BR/><BR/>History repeats if you don't understand its capacity to teach lessons.<BR/><BR/>As to what the Palestinians were doing "around 1947" ... They were shrinking their hopes.<BR/><BR/>This is probably still true.<BR/><BR/>Doesn't mean you're gonna get to a Third Temple, either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com