Comments on: Passover briefs https://www.yourish.com/2011/04/19/14076 Cutting straight to the point Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:45:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Herschel https://www.yourish.com/2011/04/19/14076/comment-page-1#comment-43694 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:45:17 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=14076#comment-43694 After participating in the Passover seder service last night it dawned on me that after thousands of years, nothing has really changed, the service delineates it clearly in two areas.
First, “in every generation some have arisen against us to annihilate us, but the most holy blessed be he, always delivered us out of their hands.”
And secondly, the “wicked son,” we always will have the Chomskys and Norm Finkelsteins amongst us, ready to attempt to destroy us from within with their self loathing neorotic contempt for their ancestry.
Sadly, hundreds of years from now, the seder words will still be relevent as new generations of anti-Semites, and “wicked son” capos come, and go.

]]> By: Alex Bensky https://www.yourish.com/2011/04/19/14076/comment-page-1#comment-43691 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:17:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=14076#comment-43691 Golly, Meryl, I’m confused. The Arabs insisted from the signing of the Rhodes agreement in 1949 that the area of Israel was not delineated by borders; the area merely marked cease-fire lines which for the moment the Arabs had agreed to observe, but when the time came to wipe out the Zionist entity they would be crossed and Israel extirpated.

They maintained this consistently…no borders, the Zionist regime would not be recognized within any borders…the 1949 lines would be crossed when the time was right. And the Arabs adamantly insisted on this policy right up until something happened in 1967. But even after that the Arabs insisted they would not recognize any borders by and large. Egypt did agree to the borders with Sinai but I wait to see how that survies the next Egyptian government.

Nor did the western powers say otherwise and the 1949 lines only became sacrosanct when it looked like Israel might go beyond them. Anybody else in the world, of course, you launch a few wars and lose them, you have to expect that you’re going to suffer some losses. But as usual, what you call “the Exception Clause” and I modestly maintain should be called “the Bensky Corollary to Everything” operates, so if you lose wars you suffer penalties except for Jews.

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