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This is a 2-For: Caroline Glick from the last post

History, Uncommon Sense

Just so I had it blogged before Caroline posts hopefully the 8th comment to her “Opportunities… ” story of the prior blog.

This is big people… The reconciliation of Catholics with the Jews is a glorious thing… difficult and detailed in its view of what history did. There is no other time, no better time than now to do a full and expanded view of the two histories….. being of both Catholic, Protestant, Jewish (but I think hidden), and very early Jewish, Celtic, and early DNA traces, Yippeee… Ben Franklin, as a Deist, who saw in every religion a perspective, like a facet of a grand jewel …. of a greater truth than most are prepared to accept … and so broken down, they are palatible. As long as they accept the existence of eachother, there is no need to choose one over the other. One is not better, but emphasizes different priorities.

Well, if you need something to work on, here it is….

the comment after the 7th left in honor of Caroline Glick: with the last sentence added here. (Water-over-the-dam indicates serious trouble ….. water-under-the-bridge is everyday…. I needed to say both.)

I recently found from my dad’s papers and collections of war letters, an article, published by the Vineyard Gazette, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., not dated, but in late spring or early summer, 1945.

His perspective is that of a medical doctor, serving as a Major in the Army, studying disease and non-combatant death. He had traveled from Africa to Italy into France and now Germany, doing research on diseases in order to get a handle on what was coming home after WWII. Perhaps the lessons of WWI and the pandemic of 1918 now in the news and having killed 50 million people validated his and his company’s efforts to find a home where life was still possible.

Judging from the news after WWII, and in large part due to the antibiotics discovered and used during and after the war to fight disease, the end of the war led to a successful return … except for Korea.

Here it is:
‘I visited one of the concentration camps, Dachau, mentioned in the news lately as having been inspected by delegations from several countries including our own Congress. All the reports that you have heard have not been exaggerated - in fact, I think that they have been understated. There were hundreds of emaciated bodies and thousands just alive. The living were worse than the dead in many ways. Infestation and disease was rampant in these pitifully starved beings. It is unbelievable that such deliberate, clever, methodically thorough, neatly organized cruelty could be possible in a flourishing, richly cultivated, modern country like Germany in 1945. I never would have believed it if I hadn’t seen it.

The sharp contrast to the luxurious way in which the attendants lived with their hardwood furniture, paneled, tapestried walls, and the thick layers of fat over their bellies was even more shocking - shocking also in contrast to the well fed, well dressed, stockinged people in the street. I think anyone in government should see these things, regarding them academically, not vengefully, as the cruelest atrocity associated with modern total war. It is further evidence that war has become too rough to handle and we must develop powers of observation and anticipation to prevent repetition.’ by Major Ernest Robbins Kimball, Jr., MD

In another letter, written to his parents, and published by the Vineyard Gazette was earlier when he was in Alsace, France where he was hopeful about the peace he felt was near. … ‘Any flicker of light thrown ahead into the darkness of all tasks is precious to me for the sake of my child and my child’s child.’

Major Kimball had never held his daughter, born in 1943; she had survived a hurricane in Florida with a broken arm, and the uncertainty of not knowing a dad, and her mom not knowing if a husband would return.

Back to Egypt and Syria: looking into the abyss of the mindset that would deny this evil and finding common ground is the work of champions. Feeding this mindset under the guise that it is a humanitarian thing to do is so dangerous, as adding fuel to a fire where it is burning under your home. The USA has spent foolish millions if not billions on Egypt thanks to Jimmy Carter and those who see money as an answer, but now there are just more well fed haters who can only beg for more with ever more reason to hate.

Compare the situation here in the US, where more was allowed to be borrowed against a home(or any other asset) than it is now worth. Many homes are threatened (including my parents’ home). Is not that what in many places in the Mideast exists now and even then, after WWII, when Israel given back to its rightful owners. Ruled by Great Britain, the Mideast was a shambles, and until oil was brought up, there was nothing of value there.

So just as in most free countries, if you do not manage your real estate well, you will lose it. That we seem to allow or fund or support Arab countries who imprison persons who sell their land freely to a Jewish person because this is their law. It is a law against humanity and should be rejected with laws set up within the framework of ‘powers of observation and anticipation to prevent repetition’.

It is equally against humanity to evict a homeowner from his property if he is obeying all laws and benefits the community and his family by being there, so shame on Israel for abusing her own people, and for whom, a Gazan Hamas who has been shown to use children as shields, schools and homes to store weapons as well as mosques.

The premise of charity has to be based on the faith that the money will do good, but our image of good is warped into that model that allows hatred to flourish and funds those who hate Jews and who would create an even worse Aparteid system than existed and in some respects still exists in Europe, i.e. Jews are to be merchants and lenders only. It is plausible that the strength of Israel defeats that notion of Christian stupidity, and Muslim advantage to ally itself with those who would ‘tolerate’ Jews, if they only knew their place. Many in the American Christian community, including catholics and protestants, still hold this view. I must confess, that I was tempted to accept this view for a short while when our Jewish pediatrician sent my son into the NICU (neonatal Intensive Care Unit) when he was evaluated nearly perfect when born and all signs were improving (but we had insurance), and against the recommendation of my retired dad, who was 300 miles away. The point being, he after hearing my arguments said,”But I never made any money on your daughter, she was so healthy…” he stopped. I said, “What are you telling me?” He hung up. Only a doctor can take someone admitted out of an NICU. My son did survive the gentamycin sulfate overdoses (to protect him from the diseases from the NICU and the molds coming from the gypsum surrounding the moist dew point tempered AC coming from the vents) and the seizure induced by the bacterial infested ‘free’ formula provided. This is American Medicine, under a for-profit subcontractor to a little hospital in Florida. I really expected better from that pediatrician, but really got no worse than from anyone else in the system. I did win my lawsuit, having refused to pay for all services…. Florida repealed a law that SANCTIONED over 40,000 bacteria per mililiter in infant formula, including e-coli on July 1, 1994. Thank you governor, Lawton Chiles. My son was born in 1993.

But here is the point, somewhat disputable: my jewish pediatrician had deep seated cultural and perhaps ‘phenomes’ that made him consider the profit to himself as equally important or even more important than the medical situation. No direct liability existed in his referral, and he must have received a goodly sum for the nod. But this is a conjecture that can be captured by Jew-hating people who would use this to argue for the continued subjegation of Jews, not an individual who made a self-serving decision, like so many doctors in this country.

So back to the story: Are we just paying what the ‘poor downtrodden Palestinians demand? As always the victim… awwwwhhhhh, we must help them, right?
Why else would Obama approve large sums of money to a terror supporting group who have ambitions to subdue Jews into compliance within the inferior position of merchant class, as Europe has done for centuries. It is not hard to ‘anticipate’ where the $900 million that the US has pledged to Gaza will be spent and the idiot media which will advantage themselves to Islam’s photo ops. Are our powers of ‘observation’ so clouded by publicity and the ignorant or evil or both media and others who would continue to kill and starve and abuse Jews and other protesters just as in Dachau? When the money from Uncle Sam runs out …. or like Germany, a wheelbarrow full will by a loaf of bread, what then?

I hope that with your help, Caroline, and the wisdom of B. Netanyahu you can ‘academically’ solve these issues, even if that requires a dramatic lesson in civics and ethics, not a threat but a exercise in life that such cruelty will not be tolerated. There is a discipline necessary to maintain an academic authority, credibility and humanity. That is this: All Arab governments who seek aid, must recognize and accept Israel individuals and country as sovereign within their territory. Laws that impugn that indirectly, like selling land to a Jew, are to be repealed, so it is DEEDS NOT WORDS.

I really hope the pope can listen to his heart, and in case he wants to make the case that all popes are infallible, have him consider Alexander IV and Adrian IV. If infallibility is only used in the context as the Greeks gods were infallible, as in ‘you-do-what-I-tell-you, kapish?’, then the alliance with the Vatican is really strategically not important. However, if you look at the scripture that validates ‘infallibility’, it is more of a responsibility of power, than a carte blanche. If the pope messes things up, like Alexander VI and Adrian IV, then there are big consequences …. reverbs into heaven, if you will. And dark and evil forces are that much more dangerous, as they have a entrance into your ‘infallibility’.

As a catholic, I would hope that Benedict XVI, might be able to address this to Israel, at least privately … perhaps a confession, and present it so it can no longer empower enemies of civilization itself. Thousands at the time and perhaps even millions since have been adversely affected by the actions of Alex VI and Adrian IV.
The latter caused the Irish-Brtiish hatred, and Alex VI, caused the split with Rome by Luther, Henry VIII, Templars, and probably contributed to the terror of the Inquistion, and arrogance of the conquest of the Americas. It’s not really ‘water-over-the-dam’ yet, people. Nor is it ‘water-under-the-bridge’.