[lbo-talk] Poll: 43 Percent of Americans Feel Israel Threatens World Peace

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Dec 18 06:54:52 PST 2003



> http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAIIN9YBOD.html

I generally do not read too much into polls, but this one strangely resonates with a thought that I've had for some time that Jews were a better people when Israel lived only in their wishful imagination. There would not be a European civilization as we know it, if Jews were not an integral part of it - in part because Jews could direct their creative energies to art, science, philosophy or literature instead of wasting them on state- and empire building.

What a change: from the first class philosophers, scientists and writers (Spinoza, Marx, Wittgenstein, Einstein, Kafka, or Singer) to the second worst threat to the world peace.

Wojtek



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