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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:04:38 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On 18 Oct 2024 04:52:57 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> The truth is nobody wanted a boatload of Jews.
> 
> Even after the persecution of them over so many centuries as “Christ 
> killers” culminated in the Nazi Holocaust, the lesson still wasn’t 
> learned: instead of saying “why not just accept Jews as fellow Europeans 
> and Americans”, it was “let’s give them a ‘homeland’ somewhere out of our 
> sight and make them somebody else’s problem -- preferably somebody in no 
> position to say no”.
> 

After what happened to the Jews, they weren’t willing to trust other
countries’ good intentions. I thought that was silly in democracies like
the US … until recently.

-- 
Pete