May 23, 2009 at 23:27:54

Mark Twain, Bibi and Barack

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Ambassador-designate Oren wrote with extreme caution that in his essay, Twain "nearly defeated his purpose by mentioning the Jews' alleged love of money and their reluctance to serve in their country in war."

If his book was deemed an appropriate gift from Netanyahu to Obama, it must have been because, according to Oren, Twain "later apologized for these slurs - [and] redeemed himself by praising the Jewish intellect." He wrote: "It is a marvelous race - by long odds the most marvelous the world has produced, I suppose."

Twain was a satirist, so it is to be hoped that Obama will take another Twain statement - that Jews should not be permitted to assemble in a country of their own - in this spirit. "It will not be well to let that race find out its strength," Twain wrote. "If the horses knew theirs, we should not ride anymore."

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Born a month before Pearl Harbor, I attended world events from an early age. My first words included Mussolini, Patton, Sahara and Patton. At age three I was a regular listener to Lowell Thomas. My mom was an industrial nurse a member of the (more...)

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