A truth about Israel, and a truth about anti-Semites

Carl Simpson writes:

I just saw your letter to Ruth King. I think the situation in Israel proves two things:

1. Israel is truly part of the West, and suffers from the same self-destructive disease you described so well in your exchange with Paul Gottfried.

2. Pat Buchanan and his followers are dead wrong. They’re like the mobs in 14th century Europe at the height of the Black Death who claimed it was caused by Jews poisoning wells. When the Pope pointed out that the Jews were dying of the plague also, they just kept on screaming “The Jews poisoned the wells!”

The prescription for this disease is the same in Israel as it is here: truth, repeated.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 07, 2005 06:58 PM | Send