Jack Schwartz Quotes

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• In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
• Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the…
• Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and…
• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted…
• In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the…
• Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most…
• The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of…
• Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
• Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by…
• Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
• The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island,…
• Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
• When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort…
• A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are…
• Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires…
• Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
• Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

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