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The Cost of Killing Jews
Barry Farber
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Helping anti-Semites is not my notion of a good deed, but maybe a little heads-up will help them understand their current frustration, resulting in more Jews unharmed.
This is addressed to all those Jew-haters who can't understand why the world doesn't pick up their words and melody and join in with them.
Anti-Semites want everyone to join in smiting those pesky, persistent Jews, who seem to keep on succeeding, strengthening, growing, gaining, winning elections and defending themselves in spite of all the volcanic hatred fire-hosed their way by Islamic haters. And haters abound: neo-Nazis, sophisticated European elites, Aryan Nation folks, skinheads, and unreconstructed bigots of all kinds, the European Union, and the United Nations.
You anti-Semites are remarkable.
You're like a comic-book monster.
No matter how many times you get defeated and destroyed, there you are back again, reborn in full color on the front cover of the next edition. You score an "F" in civilization, morality, decency, compassion, and intelligence. But you get straight "A's" in comeback – only to be trashed and destroyed yet again.
The failure of the anti-Semite was most vivid in 1973, during the Yom Kippur War when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel and appeared to come as close as any Arab force ever came to winning, only to be thrown back and defeated by Gen. Ariel Sharon.
Ariel Sharon's brilliant crossing of the Suez Canal and driving a wedge between the Egyptian Third Army from their First Army, both in danger of dying of thirst in the Sinai Desert if Israel hadn't agreed to let them go.
For flare and excitement, Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War stole the show. But any military scientist will tell you Israel's protracted but thorough victory in that Yom Kippur War was the more spectacular military feat.
Look at the picture at the start of that war. The Arabs, in effect, said to the anti-Semites: "We are going to cut off America's oil. And this time, no ambiguity. We're going to blame it squarely on the Jews. There will be skyrocketing gasoline prices in America. There will be long lines at gas pumps. There will be fistfights and even shootouts in those lines. And we'll make sure the Jews will be portrayed as the cause of it all. You've got all the time you need and all the budget you need. So get out there now and mass-produce American anti-Semites the way North Carolina manufactures cigarettes!"
And what did they get for it? A few bumper stickers in places like Arkansas that said "We Need Oil, Not Jews!"
What is it that protects the Jews from your false accusations, invidious lies, and murderous designs? Some say God Almighty Himself. Some read history as a booming stained-glass voice from above saying, "Whosoever smiteth the Jews shall himself be smitten, but good!" Without denying that, allow me to offer an alternative explanation – two, in fact.
Growing up Jewish in North Carolina offered an education no college catalogue ever could. At about the same time Hitler was killing all the Jews he could, with either the eager assistance or ungrudging cooperation of so many others in Europe, Jews in North Carolina were experiencing a curious but welcome kind of "pro-Semitism." June Eisenburg of Burlington, North Carolina, was named Miss Daughter of the American Revolution by the Christian hierarchy of Alamance County, North Carolina. She was also head cheerleader of Burlington High School. (Forgive, please, an unnecessary time-out, but do you get the full power of that era and area? Burlington, North Carolina! 1940s!)
Meanwhile, over in Randleman, North Carolina, Mr. Sutker, a Russian Jewish immigrant with a Yiddish accent you could cut with a rusty machete, moved to town to open a store and was horrified to see a sign at the city limits alerting all who entered that this is "Randleman; Ku Klux Klan Country!" Mr. Sutker charged into the next meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and stood up and said, "Take down that sign or you'll always be a backwater community and you'll always amount to nothing."
Tell that to any Southern novelist and ask him what happens next. The guesses will range from lynching to attempted lynching. Wrong. The rulers of Randelman took down the sign.
Anti-Semitism simply become "low class" even in redneck country. Not that the majority populace suddenly come to love Jews. They just began to hate low-classness more than they ever hated Jews!
In those years, over in Durham, North Carolina, a standup Jew named Mutt Evans was mayor for as long as he wanted to be. His opponents brazenly made his "Jewishness" a campaign issue, but he won handily anyhow. The Democratic leadership of North Carolina wanted to run Mutt for governor. He, not the voters, kiboshed that notion.
The one big change in the world that anti-Semites can't seem to get used to is, in a strange sense, economic. When I was a boy, a pack of cigarettes cost 15 cents. In New York today, that same pack will cost you SEVEN AND A HALF DOLLARS! When I got my first driver's license, the cost of a gallon of gasoline was 25 cents! Let me limit pain by ending this paragraph right now.
What you anti-Semites haven't yet figured out and what bedevils you beyond your ability to stand it is simply that costs rise. Costs go up for everything, or almost everything.
And the cost of killing Jews may be the one item that has gone up the most.
If you wanted to buy New York real estate, you should have been there bidding against Peter Styvesant in the early 1600s when he was bargaining with the Indians over the cost of the island of Manhattan. You could have trumped his offer of $24 with a mere $25 for that parcel worth uncountable trillions today.
If killing Jews is your dream, sorry – you missed it, pal. You should have been there in ancient times when they called Iran Persia and King Ahasuerus' chief adviser, Haman, thought it would be a great policy idea to kill all the Jews. You should have been there during the Spanish Inquisition, when Jews could be killed on the cheap.
Like other investors, you could have dawdled from ancient times clear up to the 1940s, when Hitler was killing Jews at hardly any cost at all to Germany.
Anti-Semites of the world, get used to it. You missed it The great bargain era of Jew-killing ended abruptly with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Before that, Jews had no army, navy, air force or intelligence service. (It was a goodhearted German who warned the Jews of Denmark that they were slated for deportation to concentration camps in Germany on Rosh Hashona, the Jewish New Year, 1943. The good Christian Danes improvised a quick rescue by fishing boats over to neutral Sweden. The score: Gestapo, 600; Freedom, 6,000!)
Few Jews owned firearms or any other means to protect themselves. The cliché scenario was the Jewish boy coming home with his clothes muddy and torn after fighting a bully who called him a dirty Jew and being scolded by his father for fighting back! "Don't you know we are children of the Book?" the irate Jewish father would yell. Now the state of Israel comes along, and the cost of killing Jews escalates to the heavens.
It's maddening to a smoker to have to pay seven and a half dollars for what used to cost 15 cents. And for a motorist it's maddening to pay three dollars for what used to cost a quarter.
It's also maddening to the pogrom- and Holocaust-lovers that, instead of a meek procession into the gas chambers, the state of Israel can answer every slap in the face with a kick in the teeth.
Suck it up! Get a life!
It's the economy, stupid. The cost of killing Jews has gone so high that some of you might want to consider another hobby, another cause, another endeavor.
Sure, I understand your displeasure. Jews used to be cheap and easy prey.
Usually, steep rises in price are regrettable. The sharp rise in the cost of killing Jews is not.
It‘s God‘s Own Inflation.
The Cost of Killing Jews
Barry Farber
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Helping anti-Semites is not my notion of a good deed, but maybe a little heads-up will help them understand their current frustration, resulting in more Jews unharmed.
This is addressed to all those Jew-haters who can't understand why the world doesn't pick up their words and melody and join in with them.
Anti-Semites want everyone to join in smiting those pesky, persistent Jews, who seem to keep on succeeding, strengthening, growing, gaining, winning elections and defending themselves in spite of all the volcanic hatred fire-hosed their way by Islamic haters. And haters abound: neo-Nazis, sophisticated European elites, Aryan Nation folks, skinheads, and unreconstructed bigots of all kinds, the European Union, and the United Nations.
You anti-Semites are remarkable.
You're like a comic-book monster.
No matter how many times you get defeated and destroyed, there you are back again, reborn in full color on the front cover of the next edition. You score an "F" in civilization, morality, decency, compassion, and intelligence. But you get straight "A's" in comeback – only to be trashed and destroyed yet again.
The failure of the anti-Semite was most vivid in 1973, during the Yom Kippur War when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel and appeared to come as close as any Arab force ever came to winning, only to be thrown back and defeated by Gen. Ariel Sharon.
Ariel Sharon's brilliant crossing of the Suez Canal and driving a wedge between the Egyptian Third Army from their First Army, both in danger of dying of thirst in the Sinai Desert if Israel hadn't agreed to let them go.
For flare and excitement, Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War stole the show. But any military scientist will tell you Israel's protracted but thorough victory in that Yom Kippur War was the more spectacular military feat.
Look at the picture at the start of that war. The Arabs, in effect, said to the anti-Semites: "We are going to cut off America's oil. And this time, no ambiguity. We're going to blame it squarely on the Jews. There will be skyrocketing gasoline prices in America. There will be long lines at gas pumps. There will be fistfights and even shootouts in those lines. And we'll make sure the Jews will be portrayed as the cause of it all. You've got all the time you need and all the budget you need. So get out there now and mass-produce American anti-Semites the way North Carolina manufactures cigarettes!"
And what did they get for it? A few bumper stickers in places like Arkansas that said "We Need Oil, Not Jews!"
What is it that protects the Jews from your false accusations, invidious lies, and murderous designs? Some say God Almighty Himself. Some read history as a booming stained-glass voice from above saying, "Whosoever smiteth the Jews shall himself be smitten, but good!" Without denying that, allow me to offer an alternative explanation – two, in fact.
Growing up Jewish in North Carolina offered an education no college catalogue ever could. At about the same time Hitler was killing all the Jews he could, with either the eager assistance or ungrudging cooperation of so many others in Europe, Jews in North Carolina were experiencing a curious but welcome kind of "pro-Semitism." June Eisenburg of Burlington, North Carolina, was named Miss Daughter of the American Revolution by the Christian hierarchy of Alamance County, North Carolina. She was also head cheerleader of Burlington High School. (Forgive, please, an unnecessary time-out, but do you get the full power of that era and area? Burlington, North Carolina! 1940s!)
Meanwhile, over in Randleman, North Carolina, Mr. Sutker, a Russian Jewish immigrant with a Yiddish accent you could cut with a rusty machete, moved to town to open a store and was horrified to see a sign at the city limits alerting all who entered that this is "Randleman; Ku Klux Klan Country!" Mr. Sutker charged into the next meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and stood up and said, "Take down that sign or you'll always be a backwater community and you'll always amount to nothing."
Tell that to any Southern novelist and ask him what happens next. The guesses will range from lynching to attempted lynching. Wrong. The rulers of Randelman took down the sign.
Anti-Semitism simply become "low class" even in redneck country. Not that the majority populace suddenly come to love Jews. They just began to hate low-classness more than they ever hated Jews!
In those years, over in Durham, North Carolina, a standup Jew named Mutt Evans was mayor for as long as he wanted to be. His opponents brazenly made his "Jewishness" a campaign issue, but he won handily anyhow. The Democratic leadership of North Carolina wanted to run Mutt for governor. He, not the voters, kiboshed that notion.
The one big change in the world that anti-Semites can't seem to get used to is, in a strange sense, economic. When I was a boy, a pack of cigarettes cost 15 cents. In New York today, that same pack will cost you SEVEN AND A HALF DOLLARS! When I got my first driver's license, the cost of a gallon of gasoline was 25 cents! Let me limit pain by ending this paragraph right now.
What you anti-Semites haven't yet figured out and what bedevils you beyond your ability to stand it is simply that costs rise. Costs go up for everything, or almost everything.
And the cost of killing Jews may be the one item that has gone up the most.
If you wanted to buy New York real estate, you should have been there bidding against Peter Styvesant in the early 1600s when he was bargaining with the Indians over the cost of the island of Manhattan. You could have trumped his offer of $24 with a mere $25 for that parcel worth uncountable trillions today.
If killing Jews is your dream, sorry – you missed it, pal. You should have been there in ancient times when they called Iran Persia and King Ahasuerus' chief adviser, Haman, thought it would be a great policy idea to kill all the Jews. You should have been there during the Spanish Inquisition, when Jews could be killed on the cheap.
Like other investors, you could have dawdled from ancient times clear up to the 1940s, when Hitler was killing Jews at hardly any cost at all to Germany.
Anti-Semites of the world, get used to it. You missed it The great bargain era of Jew-killing ended abruptly with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Before that, Jews had no army, navy, air force or intelligence service. (It was a goodhearted German who warned the Jews of Denmark that they were slated for deportation to concentration camps in Germany on Rosh Hashona, the Jewish New Year, 1943. The good Christian Danes improvised a quick rescue by fishing boats over to neutral Sweden. The score: Gestapo, 600; Freedom, 6,000!)
Few Jews owned firearms or any other means to protect themselves. The cliché scenario was the Jewish boy coming home with his clothes muddy and torn after fighting a bully who called him a dirty Jew and being scolded by his father for fighting back! "Don't you know we are children of the Book?" the irate Jewish father would yell. Now the state of Israel comes along, and the cost of killing Jews escalates to the heavens.
It's maddening to a smoker to have to pay seven and a half dollars for what used to cost 15 cents. And for a motorist it's maddening to pay three dollars for what used to cost a quarter.
It's also maddening to the pogrom- and Holocaust-lovers that, instead of a meek procession into the gas chambers, the state of Israel can answer every slap in the face with a kick in the teeth.
Suck it up! Get a life!
It's the economy, stupid. The cost of killing Jews has gone so high that some of you might want to consider another hobby, another cause, another endeavor.
Sure, I understand your displeasure. Jews used to be cheap and easy prey.
Usually, steep rises in price are regrettable. The sharp rise in the cost of killing Jews is not.
It‘s God‘s Own Inflation.