Comments on: Can Israel supply a Grecian formula?

By: david foster

david foster — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:16:43 +0000

By: Soccerdad

Soccerdad — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:00:20 +0000

Alex, I don’t know the details of most of my ancestors, but I do know that my greatgrandfather left his pregnant wife and toddler for 3 1/2 years until he could bring them over. So I guess the Russians really scared him to the States.

Alan, after I wrote this it occurred to me that Israel’s national unity government in the mid to late 80’s accomplished an incredible task. And I bet if you go back to the reporting of that time you’ll find lots of articles about how the government was too weak or fractious to make peace with the Paletinians.

By: Alan Furman

Alan Furman — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:31:55 +0000

Israel's success in gaining membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a big deal. Read 'em and weep, divestment-mongers.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:07:31 +0000

Ah, yes, historically speaking a country doesn’t do well by tossing out (or killing off) its Jews. Sometimes the country is aware of this but hate for Jews is one of those things that tends to trump anything else.+

As to Russia, my father’s parents came from Lithuania when it was part of the Russian Empire and my mother was born in what is now Poland but was then also Russia. And as far as I’m concerned, the only good thing Russia ever did was to scare my grandparents so much that they didn’t stop running until they got to Rochester, NY and, of all places, Omaha.

After centuries of persecuting Jews I’d bet Russia is happy to be rid of us; we’re happy to be out of there so that’s nice, everyone’s happy.