Two Jews

Anne Lieberman
American Thinker
(Originally published)
27 September 09
H/T to Henry L.

Two Jews stand like bookends, with nearly a hundred years and six million murdered relatives in between.

At one end, it's 1911 and Zev Jabotinsky is writing an essay he calls, "Instead of Excessive Apology."

The neighbors live and are not ashamed....

Do our neighbors blush for the Christians in Kishinyov who hammered nails into Jewish babies' eyes?

We immediately understand from his question that they did not... blush.

"Not in the least,-- they walk with head raised high and look everybody in the face; they are absolutely right, and this is how it must be, as the persona of a people is royal, and not responsible and is not obliged to apologize..."

In the face of this extraordinary depravity for which no shame is evident, Jabotinsky concludes that we, the Jewish people, "do not have to account to anybody" -- especially, I would guess, not to those who hammer nails into babies' eyes. Our babies.

"We are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves..."

Furthermore, he demands that we apologize "only in rare, unique and extremely important moments, when we are completely confident that the Areopagus in front of us really has just intentions and proper competence."

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