On Nov 29, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Chris Doss wrote:
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>> This is why attempts like that of Koestler (his was bogus anyway, I
>> think, since Eastern European Jews, with the possible exception of
>> a few small Turkic groups, are probably not descended from the
>> Khazars) to argue rationally with anti-Semites are totally fruitless.
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> It's worse than that, actually. It's not only that it's pointless
> to argue rationally with an idee fixe. And it's not only that his
> archeology was bad. It's that (a) his argument depended on
> accepting the anti-semites' first premise, namely if Christ was
> killed, some people must be collectively responsible, including unto
> their descendants 2 millenia later; and (b) it threw the Sephardim
> under the bus. He only proved the Ashkenazi didn't do it.
It would seem that neither of these gentlemen has read The Thirteenth Tribe, which is about the history of his people (the Hungarian Jews knew they came, with the Magyars, from the East not the West) and no more a work of archaeology or anti-anti-semitism than The Midwife Toad is a work of anti-anti-Lysenkoism. And it has not a word about the "Christ-Killer" race slander.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos