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...history of the Jews in the Diaspora (in Exile) is a chronicle of suffering, a horror story which reached its climax in the holocaust of World War II. The slaughter of the six million deeply scarred Jewish sensibilities turned all Jews into "survivors", and to a great extent whatever guilt or bad feeling exists in Israel stems from the fact that they, a nation of victims and refugees, have caused suffering to another people, the Arabs, and out of their national hopes engendered hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees. In light of the familiar Nazi refrain, "We were only following...
Peckinpah is honest with his working-men. He even suggests that the final bloodbath would not have come about had they been integrated into a satisfying town-life: When the sheriff is accidentally murdered, triggering off the final slaughter, even the more intelligent of the group feel, well, that's it, we're all goners, accomplices to the drunk who killed the sheriff. Law to them is something incomprehensible, to be avoided at all costs. And they are cut off from any unifying social impulse which would make them answer to something beyond the law of the jungle...
...recruits-if they persist in their interest-will gladly embrace one of the most austere of priestly disciplines: celibacy. ¶ For observant Jews, the term kosher applies not only to what foods may be eaten and when, but to the methods used in the preparation of food and the slaughter of animals. Kashrut (dietary law) dictates that an acceptable animal, such as a cow or lamb, must be conscious and must be quickly slashed across the throat by a sharp instrument held in the steady hand of a specially trained, God-fearing person (often a rabbi) who takes the animal...
...into doubt the Communist program and philosophy. He fails on the second count. Those chapters that reconstruct what happened under Stalin seem measured and secure as a historical record. But in the more theoretical sections, where he attempts to explain how a Communist revolution could give way to wholesale slaughter of a citizenry by its government, Medvedev is in difficulty. While asserting that Stalin's rise to power was not inevitable and that Stalinism was a "disease," he also knows that the disease raged for more than a quarter of a century and that Soviet society is still...
...circulation of statements accusing Herrnstein of uttering "fascist lies" and "racist slander", of attempting "to rationalize the extra oppression of black and other workers," and of reaching conclusions that are "reminiscent" of the theories "promoted in Nazi universities," which ideas "provided the rationale for the slaughter of millions of peoples...