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Entry: A Nation of Anti-Semites? Fech! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_nation_of_anti_semites_really#10463 Post contents: THE FOLLOWING IS THE COLUMN BY JONAH GOLDBERG THAT PAUL GOTTFRIED REFERS TO ABOVE. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING IS FROM JONAH GOLDBERG’S COLUMN, THEY ARE HIS WORDS ALONE. Jonah Goldberg (archive) (printer-friendly version) http://web.archive.org/web/20040606075844/www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20010820.shtml August 20, 2001 Americans wouldn’t tolerate terrorism at home A Mexican suicide bomber walked into a pizza restaurant in a Santa Fe, N.M., mall this morning, killing at least 15 people, mostly children. Up to a hundred others were wounded. The bodies of two young boys who had been playing hooky from school were found in a cave outside of Phoenix. They had been beaten to death, and their bodies mutilated. Authorities are looking for Navajo separatists they believe are responsible. Militia in Tijuana, Mexico, fired rocket grenades into downtown San Diego, killing 20, wounding 50 and, once again, snarling morning traffic. It’s more than a little uncomfortable ascribing such barbarous crimes to completely innocent folk. Still, imagine if such things happened here instead of in Israel on an almost daily basis. How do you think the United States would respond? Indeed, the comparison is less outlandish than you might think. After all, the United States took land from American Indians. It took land from Mexicans. In a sense, “we” even took land from the British. And, no matter how you slice it, America’s claim to Texas and the Southwest is certainly far less morally compelling than Israel’s is to its land. When the European Jews not already living in Palestine arrived there after World War II, the area was largely empty. What is today called Jordan was the historic home of many “Palestinians.” And, after all, even the most militant Muslim must concede that the Bible places the land as the historic home of the Jews. Meanwhile, when European colonists came to North America, they had no historical claim to the land whatsoever and, besides, it was occupied. Sent at: 2008 05 11