Soon we shall be celebrating the New Year and fasting for our sins. The nights are cooler and tomorrow is my last class of the summer semester. Everything is quiet in the media, the government is saying nothing to avoid worrying the public. The mood, however, is quietly tense: we are all worried by the savage assault on Israel's Embassy in Cairo; we are worried because of the increasingly bellicose declarations of Turkey's Erdogan; and the Army, the Police, the settler defense associations are all preparing to face the Palestinian mass uprising announced to take place following their Declaration of Independence. Many reserve batallions were called in for service. One morning my daughter phoned from school that she was not coming home: her שכבה (age group) was being bused to the "bakum" (an army base) and conscripted. The bourse is confident that nothing serious is happening and it is moving North.
Update: Our mood is improving. Erdogan seems finished with us and is aiming his bolts against Greek Cyprus, scheduled to be the EU's next President. "I consider it degrading to sit at the same table with the Greek Cypriots ... we will have to see this issue (Cyprus issue) concluded by 2012."
8 comments:
The Achilles Heel of fascists is that they cannot resist fighting with everyone.
In this manner, they open themselves up to manipulation, a fact which can hardly have escaped attention.
Anon.
Fascist leaders are like that. Had Mussolini stopped down after his first period, we would remember him as the man who made Italy's trains run on time (no small feat!). Had Hitler killed himself in 1937, German autobahns would carry his name. Erdogan was an excellent politician up to now, but somehow he cannot stop himself. Now he is menacing the European Union.
Soon we shall be celebrating the New Year. The nights are cooler and tomorrow is my last class of the semester. Last night was Kristallnacht, and we are worried violence will increase.
Update: our mood is improving. Hitler seems finished with us and is aiming his bolts against France and England, which are the strongest countries in Europe.
JC,
History will not repeat itself.
JC,
History will not repeat itself.
J,
Instead of arguing with you, my question is this:
Under what conditions would you change your mind about this?
Kristallnacht was in November, nowhere near the Jewish New Year.
Hitler always made his intentions regarding the Jews utterly clear in black and white to those who would listen, from the day that he wrote Mein Kampf to his last will and testament. Only those who were in denial (this was a lot of people, admittedly) thought otherwise. Although Erdogan is no prize, he is also not Hitler in many different ways.
K
If Turkey conquers Eretz Israel, we shall learn Turkish, a fiendishly difficult language for most. I'd have the advantage of speaking Hungarian, which has many common words with Turkish. Turks and Hungarians consider themselves closely related.
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