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Mark Twain, Bibi and Barack

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By Jason Paz (about the author)
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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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DISTORTED VIEW AND FACTS by Sharlene Z. on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 10:34:11 AM

Belive what you want, but don't expect me to... by Jason Paz on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 11:25:48 AM