Winston
S. Churchill: "Some people like the Jews, and
some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any
question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in
the world.
David
Ben Gurion: "In Israel , in order to
be a realist, you must believe in miracles."
Johann
Wolfgang Von Goethe: "Energy is the basis of
everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive
and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the
earth..."
John
Adams: "I will insist the Hebrews have
[contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist
and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had
ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the
nations... They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth.
The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews."
Leo
Tolstoy: "What is the Jew?...What
kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers of all the nations of the
world have disgraced and crushed and expelled and destroyed; persecuted, burned
and drowned, and who, despite their anger and their fury, continues to live and
to flourish. What is this Jew whom they have never succeeded in enticing with
all the enticements in the world, whose oppressors and persecutors only
suggested that he deny (and disown) his religion and cast aside the
faithfulness of his ancestors?! The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is
the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to
all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He
is the embodiment of eternity."
Eric
Hoffer: "The Jews are a peculiar
people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other
nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee
problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.Turkey threw out a
million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven
knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case
of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists
that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the
displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when
Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the
only real Christians in this world."
Mark
Twain: "...If statistics are
right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a
nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky way. Properly, the
Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of.
He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial
importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His
contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art,
music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion
to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in
all the ages; and had done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain
of himself, and be excused for it.
The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian
rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and
passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they
are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but
it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them
all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no
infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no
dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew;
all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his
immortality?"
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